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Eclipse wreck.

big tee

big tee

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This was the accident in Omaha on I-80 during the eclipse traffic that we got caught in. Sad a student from Minn. was killed.---Tee
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I had some work done on car that day and the women at cash counter said her husband ran for one of the large freight carriers and in the area of the eclipse he was in they were told not to run.
 
Traffic was nuts that day. You would drive like hell to keep up and then all of a sudden people would be slamming on their brakes and it would start all over again. Makes me glad I live in the middle of no ware.---Tee
 
That everyday driving here. Went to sale barn yesterday and would be cruising at 75 then all of a sudden down to 55. Don't get me started on trucks passing and taking 10 miles to do it!
 
If people can't handle something minor as it being dark for a few minutes you gotta wonder what in the World they'd do if something really major happened.Gets dark every night but
let it get dark at a different time and they go nuts doesn't make any sense to me.
 
Why do you need to post pictures like that! That is somebody's son or daughter. Would you want that picture posted if it was one of your kids?
I am sure the truck driver will never be the same and doesn't need people making comments who nothing about the situation.
Martin
 
"I am sure the truck driver will never be the same and doesn't need people making comments who nothing about the situation." Like you maybe?
 
Was on I-20 Eastbound in Jackson, MS. yesterday bring wife home from back injections and a "deadheading" 18 wheeler flatbed was less than four feet from my back bumper. Doing 65 in a 60 MPH zone and he suddenly moved to right lane that goes to 49 south and passed me. If I had to stop suddenly my car would have looked like the one in picture. Now you know why I have no respect for MOST truck drivers.
 
So far 10 people have died on I70 on a 5 mile stretch, construction zone. Semis and cars tangled. Drivers in cars were killed. Only one time 3 semis tangled, no cars. One dead semi driver.

I look at semis differently and give them more space. Today I anticipated semi was going to cut me off, so I hit my brakes, gave him
.

Crazy to think you'll win if a semi tins over you.

Thanks for posting the danger of getting in an accident with a semi.
 
It wouldn't take 10 miles to pass if some idiot in management had not been brainwashed into thinking that having their trucks set to where they cannot run the speed limit: much less stay with traffic flow: is good "PR". just wait until the U.S. follows Ontario, Canada and requires all trucks to be set at 65mph or less. Then you'll see what a real traffic nightmare will be
 

My sister in law's family when to Hopkinsville to see the eclipse, only a two hour drive, when it was over it took them 7 hours to get home.

Hard to say what caused the accident by looking at just one photo, sad no matter what the cause and peoples lives will be changed forever, driver, victims family.

Driving semi's is a tuff job with lots of stress, for every one bad truck driver there's dozens of bad car-pickup drivers.

For those that are always downing truckers, if you've never driven a big rig in a major city during rush hour you have no idea what your talking about.

Yes I'm a retired trucker, thirty years and 2.5 million miles, yes I was involved in a couple of accidents, one bad, not my fault but it doesn't change how it makes you feel, how you sleep at night, the thousands of different scenarios that go through you head questioning the outcome if you had done something just a little different.
In the end you just have to live with it the best you can.
 
I also drove a few miles in a big truck over the last 25 years or so. One of my pet peeves when I was on the road was seeing another big truck tailgating a 4-wheeler. When I had a CB radio in, I would tell the driver to back off or I would call the police. When I did not have a CB in the truck, I would just call the posted number for reporting bad drivers. I have very little tolerance for those that follow too closely. As a matter of fact, I have gotten downright nasty about it in my retirement.
And, once again, here is another thing that really gets my goat: Advertisement on the radio saying first that truck drivers make over $45.000 a year, and that they will get you on the road making that money in 30 days. HA!! There is NO WAY that a novice can be taught all that needs to be taught to be a safe driver in 30 days. No way.
 
One trucker said wide loads and special loads were banned from running on I-80 in Wyoming for two days surrounding Eclipse day.
 
That doesn't alter the fact that I've seen truck drivers do incredibly stupid stuff. One time I was coming into Denver from the west on I-70, planning on making a left turn on to the ramp to head north on I-76. Just as I was beginning the left curve onto I-76, and eighteen wheeler passed me on the LEFT SHOULDER and went straight ahead.

Try to defend that idiot!

I've been run off into the median on the Interstate by trucks swapping lanes into me more times than I can recall. Once a couple of weeks ago, it had to have been road rage on the part of the truck driver.
 
Goose,
I'm not a trucker. I Road Motorcycles for 50 years. I would love to ride again, but my back won't allow it. You can't fix stupid. There are stupid people on both sides here, cars, pickups, and semis.

50 years on a motorcycle and no accidents means you have to be a defensive driver, anticipate what ALL the stupid people around you will do and avoid the accident. Again there are stupid people behind every wheel, not just semis. Good chance if you are in an accident with a semi, the semi driver will walk away and you may get carried away.
 
We were watching the eclipse at home and then the sand mine had a blast during it, it was a good size blast that raddled the windows in the house! My 8 year old daughter asked if the moon collided into the sun. We told her no just the mine blasting.

Her grandfather comes back up to this farm and asked her if she heard the moon hit the sun?

She goes, thats what I thought happened! LOL
 
The economy is very good and suddenly there are a lot more semi's on the road. A lot more semi's means a lot of "new" drivers. Some of them prove that they are novices when you drive near them.
 
It would be interesting to know the story behind the wreck. I would assume the driver of the eclipse passed the truck, cut him off and immediately slammed on the brakes. They all think a truck can stop as fast as they can. I've had them come up from behind me, pass me and immediately stop to make a right turn instead of waiting five seconds.
 
Yea- I said eclipse traffic. This is the traffic between Omaha and Lincoln once we got back on I-80 about 11 AM---Tee
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Got that right! My last truck was limited at 65. I decided to pass a car that was running about 60, I was at 65. I get next to him, and he decided to speed up to about 64.5 as my front bumper got to about even with his rear bumper. Now I'm not making good progress on him anymore, and because the speed limit for cars is 75, and most of those idiots are running 80 mph, they fly up behind me and are coming up on the guy next to me so fast they stack up behind him, tailgating him, and I know there's at least 2 cars right behind me where I can't see them in my mirrors even. I'm committed now, it only takes about 20-30 seconds for this stuff to happen with a truck limited at 65, and the truck speed limit at 65 as well. I finally passed him about 3/4 of a mile later, by no fault of my own. I admit some truck drivers do stupid stuff, but far less than car and pickup drivers, of which MOST do stupid stuff. I wish these guys that think trucks drive like a car and have never driven one, would hook 160,000 lbs and 60' of doubles behind a tractor with a sleeper and drive it through Grand Rapids or Flint. I'm glad the truck I have now will run 73 mph if I need it to.
 

From my reading of the article, BOTH occupants of the blue car survived. It was a passenger in another car the truck hit who died.

From the article:

After colliding with the Prius, the semitruck collided with the rear-end of a blue 2008 Chrysler Sebring convertible, eventually coming to rest on top of it.

The release continued: The collision forced the front-end of the Sebring into the rear-end of a "roll-off" trailer, which was being pulled by a 2017 Freightliner semitruck.


Both occupants of the Sebring were pinned underneath the Peterbilt semitruck until Arrow Towing could hoist it off and they could be extricated. The two occupants of the Sebring and all four occupants of the Prius -- all Creighton University students -- were taken to nearby hospitals, police said. The drivers of the Freightliner and the Peterbilt semitrucks were uninjured, police said.

Joan R. Ocampo-Yambing, 19, the left-rear seat passenger of the Prius, was pronounced dead at Nebraska Medicine.
 

I used to commute over a 100 miles a day, almost all expressway. One thing that drove me nuts were folks, usually guys, who drove slow, but would speed up so you couldn't pass them. Guys would be doing 65 in a 70 zone, got to pass, they'd run me up over 85 to pass them? :evil: If I dropped back behind them, they would slow back down! :evil:

Glad I no longer commute!!! :D
 
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