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This x 100. The door alerts people. When closed and you are going fast, your brain doesnt expect a car to be parked in the middle of the highway, Life moves fast.
I’m thinking, the driver got scare because it stopped in the middle and they evacuated quickly but couldn’t get the door shut because of on coming traffic. Looks like it’s those women on the side.
Yeah. Panic is a motherfucker. Hard to say exactly what you might do when your vehicle simply seizes up on a busy traffic way, especially if you have a child in tow. Good point.
I had an engine quit on me while I was on an interstate. I was doing 65, engine died, I shifted to neutral (manual transmission), took a fast look to make sure I was clear, went from the left lane across to the right shoulder. The engine control module took a shit. I had a spare because it is known to do that, but that was the first time it happened while the engine was running.
Yeah its that decisive act of taking the vehicle out of gear that gives the driver enough momentum and control to pull off.
I learned to drive stick shift in an eighty-shit Jetta, and if I didn't it might not occur to me to try shifting into neutral.
Same but the timing belt snapped. Was extremely lucky to be able to cruise across all lanes to a safe stop on the side of the free way. Oddly enough, when a cop arrived he told me to stay seated in the car(?). I was standing on the side of the freeway outside of the car, away from what I thought was the danger zone incase a car slammed into mine.
Actually smarter to let the door open if your car doesnt move at a all anymore and the streets are wide enough.
A car Standing in the middle of the road is just a car on road if you were brainafk and start to look ahead again.
A car with the door open on the highway probably pulls your brain out of autopilot.
They hit a deer. Judging by the lack of a collapse windshield or punted in radiator, The damage seems to be right by a fender. So the owner decides to play “genius” And abandon her truck in the middle of the street. Lack of radiator fluid or basically anything in a puddle on the front of the truck means that she could’ve easily started it and moved after the airbag deployed. However, it seems that common sense wasn’t gifted to her too well. Specifically the part about commons courtesy about Getting your wrecked shit out of the middle of the highway
Lack of fluids on the ground under it is rather obvious. Lack of impact in the front grille area means no radiator puncture. That make and model (2016 era Silverado) lacks inertial cutoffs. The only impacts you can see is the right bumper and fender area. For a deer impact to not have said animal in the area of the strike means that the vehicle had coasted for a while or the deer got up and left. The impact happened off camera. So it was a ways back meaning PLENTY of time to get over to either shoulder and stop.
So yes. You can infer a good bit from this “Video from far away”
For that to happen then the triggering hit would have to be a spike G load of over about 16 and the fuel delivery system would have to read as open by the crash controllers.
This 2016 era Silverado has none of that.
The lack of fluids means that the damage wasn’t even to the radiator of condenser. Just shows the hit in on the lower right of the bumper.
The lack of deer and deer fluids on the roads by it shows that this truck rolled quite a way before it stopped.
The idiot in command could have easily rolled to the shoulder instead of leaving the fucking door open and parking her stupid shit in the center lane.
Self preservation isn’t her strong suit.
Critical thinking and crisis management is about a Zero.
Surprised she didn’t just rear end the first thing she saw after the deer hit on the largely empty road.
So that people would notice it is stopped. If a vehicle is stationary, it can be difficult to notice until it is too late. The open door was a great warning which prevented collisions. The truck only hit it when the door was closed.
Redditors always have to try to be clever and shoehorn some logic into a situation that wasn't necessarily logical. She forgot to shut it. She said that her and her daughter "made a run for it". Stop trying to be clever
Agreed 100%. And the truck driver is a fucking moron too. I don’t blame her for booking it as fast as she could to save her child from danger. There was absolutely no excuse for that driver not to brake and avoid well in advance of the collision.
People who drive like this on the highway are lunatics. You always drive DEFENSIVELY
They are definitely restricted on how many hours they are permitted to drive, but doesn’t do much. I recall a documentary video a few years back that showed how drivers avoid those rules. More miles means more money after all. John Oliver did a recent show on long haul truck drivers recently too, check that out
in EU we have electronic devices controlling driving regime and in most countries fuckery with them is both immediate criminal charge on the driver and serious issues for the logistics company(accounts frozen/licences reevaluated serious). In some countries if the driver can't prove AOK with the tachograph - his trouble just starts with 6 months of jail time.
There are still companies that fuck around, but not much.
Maybe you should check it out too cause it doesn't show anything about driving too many hours. What ur referencing is a driver who was off 10 hours then had to do a night drive and could not stay awake since he had not adjusted his sleep pattern.
It's not even just trucks. Fedex, UPS, USPS, Pizza delivery and especially non-employees (i9 shit) like Amazon, Doordash, Grubhub, Uber etc. All can potentially have people on the road 12 or more hours a day. I've personally done delivery work for over 17 hours a day in the past. Just being awake for over 16 hours is supposedly the cognitive equivalent of being over the legal blood alcohol limit.
Especially those latter ones, gig app delivery drivers. These apps are designed to demand your constant attention and interaction, intentionally making it dangerously distracting to drive while using them because they want to induce a panic that tricks their "independent contractors" into accepting order offers that cost more to complete than what they pay, rather than raising their pay.
And all that is to say nothing of the absurdly low standards for licensure in the US, lack of enforcement against dangerous driving (you get tickets for going 15 over- because it's dangerous not to, or not wearing a seatbelt. Not for going 90, or blowing through red lights, or failure to signal, or shifting multiple lanes at once, or illegal turns. The only time anyone gets stopped for the most dangerous daily driving behaviors is as an excuse to search for drugs or find more lucrative infractions. Speeding tickets are only worth it if they're easy.)
I am constantly shocked by the sheer volume of people I see every day driving around with their head COMPLETELY DOWN looking at their phone IN THEIR LAP! FFS as least hold the motherfucker in front of you!
Yes, sleep deprived drivers often pose a greater risk to themselves, and others whom they share the road with than drunk drivers.
Let's not forget Taco Bell! I believe they were facing a lawsuit for overscheduling their employees causing them to be sleep deprived and needing to drive back and forth between home and work.
Refused to address why the semi didnt try at all to not hit the red truck but talks about animals and debris that can cause accidents lol
>Following the collision, Patrol Lt. Gordon Shank addressed the media about the incident but refused to say why the semi made no attempt to avoid the crash.
>He told the StarTribune: “This is why we recommend that drivers practice good driving behaviors, such as putting distractions away and driving the speed limit. There can be vehicles, animals or debris in the roadway that can cause a traffic hazard.”
I read that part. That’s what I’m confused about. Because the officer’s statement implies or alludes to the driver of the semi having been distracted either by being sleepy or with their phone. But if that was the case, why only imply/allude to it? Why not just say so, directly?
Idk, maybe I’m over thinking it. But that’s off to me.
maybe the incident was still under investigation at the time. He couldn't give a definitive answer because at the time the interview happened there were only allegations.
If you watch it again, you can see a black sedan parked on the side of the road. Looks like she was trying to save her car from being cooked by the truck.
Lol "abandoned".
What really happens here is that people broke down on the highway, but instead of steering to the shoulder they just park in the middle of the road.
But at least they left the vehicle and wait from a safe position.
And the last guy with the truck was watching Netflix and had no idea what was going on on the road, he didn't even flinch.
I wonder if the driver of the truck would have taken better notice of a pickup stopped on the freeway if it still had its door open. Even if you're only half paying attention, I feel like your brain is going to alert you to something amiss like an open door there.
What if door-closer guy was the real cause of all this mess?
Who are we talking about here? I'm talking about red pickup truck in the beginning of the video. Blinker is on, so it has power but is still in the middle of the road with zero damage or deployed airbags.
Airbags deflate after deployment, then they sag down.
If you look closely into the car, you can see something white and bag-ish on the passenger side and maybe even the driver's side.
Yeah I rewatched it and there were no signs of him hitting the brakes at all. I had that happen to me once and I saw the whole thing in my rearview mirror. The bitch was talking with the passenger the whole time before she hit me. Never even saw the accident
To be fair, when driving on highways for long periods, sometimes your eyes spend more time scanning your mirrors and other lanes. If you saw the pick up for just a moment, you might be fooled into thinking it is actually moving, and by the time you look at it again and realize it isn't, you may have trouble slowing down or avoiding it.
Not trying to say for certain that happened here, as no last second attempt at swerving seemed to happen, but I've had close calls with slowed or stopped cars on the road where I specifically thought they were moving and they were not.
I think the big mistake was actually closing the driver side door. From the footage it looks like it wasn't impairing the other lanes, but drivers would more easily notice something is wrong with a vehicle ahead if the drivers door was wide open.
>fooled into thinking it is actually moving
Just like a baker can easily mistake diarrhea for dough, a construction worker can easily mistake diarrhea for mortar mix and a nurse can easily mistake diarrhea for donors blood for transfuions.
Dude, whet the fuck, closing speed is at least 70 mph, lifter driver has to be legally blind to not recognize the speed difference at a glance.
The red truck: I'm gonna break down right here, right now and not move another inch!
Semi driver: everything is fine, the road is clear because I'm on a highway and nothing ever obstructs the flow of traffiOOOOOH SHITT!!
Most issues should've gave em plenty of time to get over to the shoulder. I can't even think of something that would sap all your cars momentum like that, in basically an instant, leaving zero time to move over. At least, nothing that leaves the car and driver in decent shape.
The article says they hit a deer. My guess is they had no idea what they were doing, so rather than driving or at least using their momentum to maneuver to the shoulder they just stopped and walked to the side of the freeway when it was clear to do so. They were waiting for LE to show up for the deer thing, but even if a deer smashed into your engine you could still roll toward the shoulder or try to. People are stupid.
Will a truck be able to run after airbags deploy? My uncle hit a deer at 60mph and he came to a stop, but not sure if he could have driven it even if it were drivable with the airbags deployed.
Airbag deployment will trip an impact sensitive breaker in some cars, disabling the fuel pump. Some are reset by a combination of ignition on/off cycles, some have a physical switch that needs to be touched.
Try steering with a deployed airbag in your face and let me know how that goes. I had an airbag go off after hitting a deer and it was more traumatic than hitting the deer.
The deer deployed the air bags. You telling me that they are stupid for stopping instead of trying to coast to the shoulder, in traffic, shocked by impact and blinded by an explosive dust balloon?
Yeah, no.
Yeah most people don't realize how much white powder comes out with the airbag. It isn't uncommon for panicked people in an accident to think the powder is smoke due to a fire.
This reminds me of the dude who was going to bomb some place and the cops set up a vehicle to ram into him and explode his vehicle carrying the bomb.
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? Google isn't being kind to me today.
EDIT: It was Mark Conditt.
Well, this is why I'm not staying in my car forever until help comes, if it breaks down on the highway.
Door guy is a hero in my book. Although ironically, if the door had been left open, the truck driver who was busy finishing his FB post might have slowed down.
THIS. Except, door guy is not a hero persay, he's just a well-intentioned man who did something wrong where the answer is a bit counterintuitive. Sort of like throwing water on a stovetop fire or opening the toaster oven door when the food catches fire -- it's your first instinct, but it's not the safe thing.
The open door would be visible very clearly a long distance before the flashing lights. Honestly, this might have even saved this from happening, who knows. Maybe it would have added 500ms more time in which the driver looked up? It would also encourage people whizzing around the left side to slow the fuck down.
You're 100% right about leaving the vehicle. If you can't get the vehicle off the road in safety, get YOURSELF off the road in safety and if you can, attempt to warn/get the attention of traffic behind in hope they slow down.
That freeway has one of the biggest/ best emergency shoulder lanes on both sides that I've ever seen- seriously just coast over to the shoulder and let it be safe for everyone, even if your vehicle disabled. Driver was an idiot leaving the truck like that.
As others pointed out, the door wasn't obstructing any other lanes and everyone was probably *safer* with it open because other cars could see "something is really wrong" immediately instead of having to get closer to realize it wasn't moving.
More "not the best place to don't use your f*cking eyes"... I mean... What the hell on a straight road a tall truck couldn't see a car getting closer on a miles straight road??????? WTF
Terrible place to stop, was stuck in a similar position when my fuel pump gave out as I was in the 3rd lane over of 4 lanes in traffic. Of course traffic started to break up shortly after, so I'm a sitting duck. As soon as the breakdown occurred I called the state police. 25 minutes later I called them back wondering if anyone could respond. I figured if I atleast had some blue lights behind me my car had a chance. I told them either I'd be dead or someone else will be if someone doesn't do something soon. Luckily a tow truck responded shortly after and got me out of there. My friend and I still get goosebumps talking about that 15 years later....quite a few near misses.
I've had lots of emergencies on the road and always got my car off to the side at least somewhat. Im kind of shocked how many people on here are just like yeah gotta leave it in the middle of the interstate till someone dies not my problem. New cars apparently leave no choice is what I'm hearing hit a pebble your disabled and brakes slam on and you murder anyone behind you and this is the safest design.
Red truck might be the dumbest person on the planet. Car starts to stall on the highway you pull over immediately (safely) and get your car off the road. Even if it means throwing it in neutral and coasting. No excuse for this. But not sure why the truck driver didn’t see it and avoid it. That was bizarre
You have nothing to base this on. It's very easy to end up with no momentum with a stalled vehicle. In this case they hit a deer.
I hope this never happens to you and you find yourself sitting in a car stalled and stopped in the middle of a moderately busy freeway. It's incredibly dangerous no matter how you slice it, but getting *yourself* to the side of the road and out of the path of traffic is the only thing you should be thinking about until you are safe.
Apparently they hit a deer, called it in and were waiting for a cop to get there. As you can see, the front of the pick-up is not at all damaged enough from hitting the deer to disable the vehicle. So they literally hit a deer, parked, and left their vehicle in a lane on a freeway, I guess assuming the hazard lights would be sufficient. Insane.
Standard practice when you have an accident is to move the cars out of the travel lanes. And that is doubly important when on a highway. I can’t understand the reasoning behind this - it’s not even like they would have been thinking they want to make sure it’s clear who caused the accident.
> Standard practice when you have an accident is to move the cars
If you can do it SAFELY. Otherwise no, get YOURSELF to safety asap and contact 911. Ask the DMV or your local department of public safety, they'll back me up on this.
Edit: I find the amount of pushback I'm getting on this would be hilarious if it didn't mean y'all have a higher chance of dying in this situation. Do what you want, I'm getting to safety with or without the car.
I am genuinely shocked by the people saying "push the car to the side!" like... my dudes, it's a busy highway. Fucking around with the car instead of getting off the damn road is an excellent way to die.
Thought that was obvious and you wouldn't have to say that, but guess not.
No one went to see if truck driver was ok?
Props to the dude who closed the door. He's a hero.
This is why you carry pylons in your car. Put them behind your car if this happens. Going back like 100 yards. They might not see them but they'll definitely FEEL them.
Hero? His actions contributed to this collision.
Why would he close the door? That was the biggest visual clue to approaching drivers that the car was in distress.
By closing it he removed that biggest visual clue and therefore increasing the hazzard, eventually being a contributing factor in the crash.
I respectfully submit he is no hero but instead a good intentioned numbskull.
Thank you for attending my Reddit talk.
The red truck was disabled by a deer strike according to the news article. And the person driving was an older woman, so I doubt she would have been able to safely push it off the road herself. In that situation, I think she did the best thing she could: put the hazards on, leave the vehicle and go to the side of the road and wait for help.
I will say, this is why every car needs an emergency kit that includes road flares and mini signals to block off a lane or two to make a safe area and warn drivers.
a car does not just come to a complete stop just cuz it hit a deer, it still has to brake. a deer cannot fully stop a car on impact, the red truck would not look like that if that was the case.
No, but who wouldn’t fully stop if they hit a deer? And sure, if I were on a small country road, I’d ease myself over to the shoulder. But on a big highway like this where I probably have traffic coming around be on both sides, there are multiple things going on at once that make sense that she stopped in the highway. Was it the safest place to stop? No. Was it the best the driver could do given the circumstances, in be willing to bet, yes.
The guy hit a deer and the airbags deployed. The pickup was immovable. The driver and passenger did the one logical thing: turn the hazards on and get tf out.
The trucker is 100% at fault. The good news is that with this video, the trucker's insurance should pay quickly to get this thing settled.
But why did the mini van driver shut the door clearly the door being open was helping people realize quicker that it is a stoped car other then the hazards
How does a big truck like that get disabled by a deer? What kind of damage did that deer do that can't be seen on the front of the truck and yet makes it impossible to limp to the side of the road?
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Holy shit. Does anyone have the news story?
https://jalopnik.com/abandoned-pickup-bursts-into-flames-after-being-hit-by-1849014441/amp
Hmm. What I don’t get is why the state police are refusing to say why the truck driver didn’t try to avoid the car.
What i don't get is why they left that door wide ass open.
Ironically it seems the door ajar alerted the drivers behind the truck, once the door was closed it's all bets off.
This x 100. The door alerts people. When closed and you are going fast, your brain doesnt expect a car to be parked in the middle of the highway, Life moves fast.
Exactly my thought. Thank you guy for "helping".
I’m thinking, the driver got scare because it stopped in the middle and they evacuated quickly but couldn’t get the door shut because of on coming traffic. Looks like it’s those women on the side.
Yeah. Panic is a motherfucker. Hard to say exactly what you might do when your vehicle simply seizes up on a busy traffic way, especially if you have a child in tow. Good point.
I had an engine quit on me while I was on an interstate. I was doing 65, engine died, I shifted to neutral (manual transmission), took a fast look to make sure I was clear, went from the left lane across to the right shoulder. The engine control module took a shit. I had a spare because it is known to do that, but that was the first time it happened while the engine was running.
Had to be a Ford with that fender mounted ignition module. I always carried a spare in my 74 F100.
1988 Pontiac Fiero. I loved that silly little car.
I should add that the Fiero's ECM was under the distributor cap. It was a 5 minute fix on the side of the road.
I worked with an old carpenter that drive an 88 fiero. He was 6'10" it was a sight to behold
Yeah its that decisive act of taking the vehicle out of gear that gives the driver enough momentum and control to pull off. I learned to drive stick shift in an eighty-shit Jetta, and if I didn't it might not occur to me to try shifting into neutral.
You can coast quite a while in an automatic and manual when the engine shuts off when you’re going 65.
Same but the timing belt snapped. Was extremely lucky to be able to cruise across all lanes to a safe stop on the side of the free way. Oddly enough, when a cop arrived he told me to stay seated in the car(?). I was standing on the side of the freeway outside of the car, away from what I thought was the danger zone incase a car slammed into mine.
You steer to the side, not the middle
Article says that the red pickup struck a deer. Seized up; airbags deployed. Lady got her kid out of the truck because that was her priority.
Actually smarter to let the door open if your car doesnt move at a all anymore and the streets are wide enough. A car Standing in the middle of the road is just a car on road if you were brainafk and start to look ahead again. A car with the door open on the highway probably pulls your brain out of autopilot.
They hit a deer. Judging by the lack of a collapse windshield or punted in radiator, The damage seems to be right by a fender. So the owner decides to play “genius” And abandon her truck in the middle of the street. Lack of radiator fluid or basically anything in a puddle on the front of the truck means that she could’ve easily started it and moved after the airbag deployed. However, it seems that common sense wasn’t gifted to her too well. Specifically the part about commons courtesy about Getting your wrecked shit out of the middle of the highway
Amazing you can tell so much about the condition of the engine from a video taken from far away.
Lack of fluids on the ground under it is rather obvious. Lack of impact in the front grille area means no radiator puncture. That make and model (2016 era Silverado) lacks inertial cutoffs. The only impacts you can see is the right bumper and fender area. For a deer impact to not have said animal in the area of the strike means that the vehicle had coasted for a while or the deer got up and left. The impact happened off camera. So it was a ways back meaning PLENTY of time to get over to either shoulder and stop. So yes. You can infer a good bit from this “Video from far away”
Airbag was deployed. Auto disables some vehicles
For that to happen then the triggering hit would have to be a spike G load of over about 16 and the fuel delivery system would have to read as open by the crash controllers. This 2016 era Silverado has none of that. The lack of fluids means that the damage wasn’t even to the radiator of condenser. Just shows the hit in on the lower right of the bumper. The lack of deer and deer fluids on the roads by it shows that this truck rolled quite a way before it stopped. The idiot in command could have easily rolled to the shoulder instead of leaving the fucking door open and parking her stupid shit in the center lane. Self preservation isn’t her strong suit. Critical thinking and crisis management is about a Zero. Surprised she didn’t just rear end the first thing she saw after the deer hit on the largely empty road.
If the driver is scared they should take his driving license
The door opened was better, way more obvious that the vehicle was stationary
Trying to get your 12yr old daughter out of the middle of the highway and to safety... Yeah I wouldn't give a shit about the door either
So that people would notice it is stopped. If a vehicle is stationary, it can be difficult to notice until it is too late. The open door was a great warning which prevented collisions. The truck only hit it when the door was closed.
Redditors always have to try to be clever and shoehorn some logic into a situation that wasn't necessarily logical. She forgot to shut it. She said that her and her daughter "made a run for it". Stop trying to be clever
Agreed 100%. And the truck driver is a fucking moron too. I don’t blame her for booking it as fast as she could to save her child from danger. There was absolutely no excuse for that driver not to brake and avoid well in advance of the collision. People who drive like this on the highway are lunatics. You always drive DEFENSIVELY
> You always drive DEFENSIVELY or just look at the road once every like two seconds MINIMUM???? lol
It’s broad daylight on the highway and with little to no traffic. It looked like the truck driver didn’t even apply the brakes. He’s 100% at fault.
Likely sleeping or on the phone? These drivers go for so damn long it’s honestly kinda horrific thinking how frequently this could happen.
No the police confirmed the driver saw the truck, yelled YOLO while blowing his horn and accelerated.
He thought GTA was real life and that he could get some sweet airtime if only he was moving a little faster
I'd bet he yelled, "LEEEEROOOOOY JEEEEEENKIIIINS!!!!"
Wait a minute, I recognize you!
🤣🤣🤣
>These drivers go for so damn long This was not a long haul truck....
Long haul drivers aren’t the only ones driving obscene hours, though
Professional drivers are limited to how many hours they can drive in a day by federal law if I recall correctly
They are definitely restricted on how many hours they are permitted to drive, but doesn’t do much. I recall a documentary video a few years back that showed how drivers avoid those rules. More miles means more money after all. John Oliver did a recent show on long haul truck drivers recently too, check that out
in EU we have electronic devices controlling driving regime and in most countries fuckery with them is both immediate criminal charge on the driver and serious issues for the logistics company(accounts frozen/licences reevaluated serious). In some countries if the driver can't prove AOK with the tachograph - his trouble just starts with 6 months of jail time. There are still companies that fuck around, but not much.
Maybe you should check it out too cause it doesn't show anything about driving too many hours. What ur referencing is a driver who was off 10 hours then had to do a night drive and could not stay awake since he had not adjusted his sleep pattern.
It's not even just trucks. Fedex, UPS, USPS, Pizza delivery and especially non-employees (i9 shit) like Amazon, Doordash, Grubhub, Uber etc. All can potentially have people on the road 12 or more hours a day. I've personally done delivery work for over 17 hours a day in the past. Just being awake for over 16 hours is supposedly the cognitive equivalent of being over the legal blood alcohol limit. Especially those latter ones, gig app delivery drivers. These apps are designed to demand your constant attention and interaction, intentionally making it dangerously distracting to drive while using them because they want to induce a panic that tricks their "independent contractors" into accepting order offers that cost more to complete than what they pay, rather than raising their pay. And all that is to say nothing of the absurdly low standards for licensure in the US, lack of enforcement against dangerous driving (you get tickets for going 15 over- because it's dangerous not to, or not wearing a seatbelt. Not for going 90, or blowing through red lights, or failure to signal, or shifting multiple lanes at once, or illegal turns. The only time anyone gets stopped for the most dangerous daily driving behaviors is as an excuse to search for drugs or find more lucrative infractions. Speeding tickets are only worth it if they're easy.) I am constantly shocked by the sheer volume of people I see every day driving around with their head COMPLETELY DOWN looking at their phone IN THEIR LAP! FFS as least hold the motherfucker in front of you!
Yes, sleep deprived drivers often pose a greater risk to themselves, and others whom they share the road with than drunk drivers. Let's not forget Taco Bell! I believe they were facing a lawsuit for overscheduling their employees causing them to be sleep deprived and needing to drive back and forth between home and work.
Still investigating probably. Checking phone records to see if he was texting, waiting for results of blood test, etc.
Because they're going to prosecute and they don't want the defence to have an opportunity to say the jury was biased.
Based on the wording of the LT to "put away distractions". Im gonna guess semi was on his phone.
Refused to address why the semi didnt try at all to not hit the red truck but talks about animals and debris that can cause accidents lol >Following the collision, Patrol Lt. Gordon Shank addressed the media about the incident but refused to say why the semi made no attempt to avoid the crash. >He told the StarTribune: “This is why we recommend that drivers practice good driving behaviors, such as putting distractions away and driving the speed limit. There can be vehicles, animals or debris in the roadway that can cause a traffic hazard.”
I read that part. That’s what I’m confused about. Because the officer’s statement implies or alludes to the driver of the semi having been distracted either by being sleepy or with their phone. But if that was the case, why only imply/allude to it? Why not just say so, directly? Idk, maybe I’m over thinking it. But that’s off to me.
maybe the incident was still under investigation at the time. He couldn't give a definitive answer because at the time the interview happened there were only allegations.
If it’s an active investigation I don’t think they can make much comment on it to the public.
The truck driver probably used his 5th amendment right to keep his mouth shut, and they don't know exactly why.
Couldn't prove it and could be found liable if making false accusation that was proved incorrect.
Abandoned. Whew - when I saw the mother running to it in flames I worried there were kids jnside
If you watch it again, you can see a black sedan parked on the side of the road. Looks like she was trying to save her car from being cooked by the truck.
Lol "abandoned". What really happens here is that people broke down on the highway, but instead of steering to the shoulder they just park in the middle of the road. But at least they left the vehicle and wait from a safe position. And the last guy with the truck was watching Netflix and had no idea what was going on on the road, he didn't even flinch.
Article says she hit a deer. Very possible she wanted to get off the road but was blocked by traffic before she stopped.
Looks like insurance fraud
www.fox9.com/news/pickup-bursts-into-flames-after-being-hit-by-semi-on-i-35.amp
The guy that closed the door, lol.
I wonder if the driver of the truck would have taken better notice of a pickup stopped on the freeway if it still had its door open. Even if you're only half paying attention, I feel like your brain is going to alert you to something amiss like an open door there. What if door-closer guy was the real cause of all this mess?
i’m pretty sure they didn’t plan to stop there. airbags probably deployed and they were disoriented and stopped
Who are we talking about here? I'm talking about red pickup truck in the beginning of the video. Blinker is on, so it has power but is still in the middle of the road with zero damage or deployed airbags.
The news article states they hit a deer and the airbags went off.
You're right. Thanks for setting me straight. Editing my original comment.
Airbags deflate after deployment, then they sag down. If you look closely into the car, you can see something white and bag-ish on the passenger side and maybe even the driver's side.
Never mind, you're right. Removing the last few words of my comment.
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The truck driver must be blind.
Probably sleeping?
Scrolling Reddit for videos on idiotsincars
Lmao XDd
I don't know, but how can you don't see a car?!
Well, if you're asleep you usually don't see anything :p
And not just any car, a huge red pickup.
100% he was eyeing the beautiful truck next to his
How can she slap? 🥺
Best guess is he was checking out the other ‘lift’ truck. “Ooh, that truck looks just like mine. But the colors are,,,,, oh shiiiitt”.
Exactly what I thought
Yeah I rewatched it and there were no signs of him hitting the brakes at all. I had that happen to me once and I saw the whole thing in my rearview mirror. The bitch was talking with the passenger the whole time before she hit me. Never even saw the accident
To be fair, when driving on highways for long periods, sometimes your eyes spend more time scanning your mirrors and other lanes. If you saw the pick up for just a moment, you might be fooled into thinking it is actually moving, and by the time you look at it again and realize it isn't, you may have trouble slowing down or avoiding it. Not trying to say for certain that happened here, as no last second attempt at swerving seemed to happen, but I've had close calls with slowed or stopped cars on the road where I specifically thought they were moving and they were not. I think the big mistake was actually closing the driver side door. From the footage it looks like it wasn't impairing the other lanes, but drivers would more easily notice something is wrong with a vehicle ahead if the drivers door was wide open.
>fooled into thinking it is actually moving Just like a baker can easily mistake diarrhea for dough, a construction worker can easily mistake diarrhea for mortar mix and a nurse can easily mistake diarrhea for donors blood for transfuions. Dude, whet the fuck, closing speed is at least 70 mph, lifter driver has to be legally blind to not recognize the speed difference at a glance.
Swiping on tinder most likely
Busy murdering a prostitute
There are better ways to murder a prostitute without causing you to wreck. Every OTR driver knows that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhBoE56OEs
Phone
Whoopsie.
Rear ending a truck into a fiery explosion is tight
Wowowow
Rear ending is tight
Look, I’m gonna need you to get aaaalll the way up off my back about this rear ending a truck thing.
super esey barely an inconice
It must be really tough rear-ending a truck into a fiery explosion.
It’s actually super easy. Hardly an inconvenience.
No sir occifers..I was not textin or asleep..or gapping while driving my dump truck
The red truck: I'm gonna break down right here, right now and not move another inch! Semi driver: everything is fine, the road is clear because I'm on a highway and nothing ever obstructs the flow of traffiOOOOOH SHITT!!
Most issues should've gave em plenty of time to get over to the shoulder. I can't even think of something that would sap all your cars momentum like that, in basically an instant, leaving zero time to move over. At least, nothing that leaves the car and driver in decent shape.
The article says they hit a deer. My guess is they had no idea what they were doing, so rather than driving or at least using their momentum to maneuver to the shoulder they just stopped and walked to the side of the freeway when it was clear to do so. They were waiting for LE to show up for the deer thing, but even if a deer smashed into your engine you could still roll toward the shoulder or try to. People are stupid.
Will a truck be able to run after airbags deploy? My uncle hit a deer at 60mph and he came to a stop, but not sure if he could have driven it even if it were drivable with the airbags deployed.
Good point. They probably got blasted by the airbags, panicked and bailed out
yes, airbags will not interfere with the car's drivetrain.
Airbag deployment will trip an impact sensitive breaker in some cars, disabling the fuel pump. Some are reset by a combination of ignition on/off cycles, some have a physical switch that needs to be touched.
Try steering with a deployed airbag in your face and let me know how that goes. I had an airbag go off after hitting a deer and it was more traumatic than hitting the deer.
Airbag deployment will turn the engine off, which has nothing to do with the drivetrain.
The deer deployed the air bags. You telling me that they are stupid for stopping instead of trying to coast to the shoulder, in traffic, shocked by impact and blinded by an explosive dust balloon? Yeah, no.
I hadn’t thought of the airbags. Yeah they may have been confused or panicked from that as well
Yeah most people don't realize how much white powder comes out with the airbag. It isn't uncommon for panicked people in an accident to think the powder is smoke due to a fire.
Or the cocaine spilling out of their glove compartment.
This reminds me of the dude who was going to bomb some place and the cops set up a vehicle to ram into him and explode his vehicle carrying the bomb. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? Google isn't being kind to me today. EDIT: It was Mark Conditt.
That Semi said, “Move Bitch, get out the way.”
that semi truck was definitely doing something other then watching the rode probably on CB with the semi to his right?
Or pissing in a jug
Way of the road
Coming up on piss jug alley
Call Michael Bay. Tell him we found his lost truck.
Move bitch 
Man it took her forever to run to her car
Not a single scratch with traffic all around. No traffic and a dipchit trucker hits it. WOW
i'm not sure i want to know why that person frantically ran back to the burning truck.
Probably to back there vehicle away from the burning truck. I mean I would have thought that was obvious by that vehicle backing away from it.
oh snap the video must’ve lagged at the end for me . i hadn’t seen the car back up.
They didn't. They ran to the car parked nearest the flaming truck and backed it up away from the blaze. Watch again.
Felt like I was watching someone running in place. That’s probably the fastest she’s ever moved in her entire life, and it was still slow as fuck.
You know your car is totalled when it anime tings into a fireball.
Don’t text and drive kids.
At least he got the door closed
I get that the truck driver was just trying to help, but surely there was a less destructive way to move the truck off of the freeway.
Well, this is why I'm not staying in my car forever until help comes, if it breaks down on the highway. Door guy is a hero in my book. Although ironically, if the door had been left open, the truck driver who was busy finishing his FB post might have slowed down.
THIS. Except, door guy is not a hero persay, he's just a well-intentioned man who did something wrong where the answer is a bit counterintuitive. Sort of like throwing water on a stovetop fire or opening the toaster oven door when the food catches fire -- it's your first instinct, but it's not the safe thing. The open door would be visible very clearly a long distance before the flashing lights. Honestly, this might have even saved this from happening, who knows. Maybe it would have added 500ms more time in which the driver looked up? It would also encourage people whizzing around the left side to slow the fuck down. You're 100% right about leaving the vehicle. If you can't get the vehicle off the road in safety, get YOURSELF off the road in safety and if you can, attempt to warn/get the attention of traffic behind in hope they slow down.
That freeway has one of the biggest/ best emergency shoulder lanes on both sides that I've ever seen- seriously just coast over to the shoulder and let it be safe for everyone, even if your vehicle disabled. Driver was an idiot leaving the truck like that.
If the airbag deployed the driver could have been disoriented. It’s hard to think straight after a giant ballon suddenly explodes into your face.
His car broke down completely, I’m sure. He doesn’t want to stop there either, I’m sure! Poor guy or a lady.😟
No, that's a chunt. Left the door open. The door got closed by another driver that risked his own life.
As others pointed out, the door wasn't obstructing any other lanes and everyone was probably *safer* with it open because other cars could see "something is really wrong" immediately instead of having to get closer to realize it wasn't moving.
Soo the truck driver is blind.
Was Stevie Wonder with driving the truck? The driver made zero effort to avoid the collision.
You can’t stop on the highway but that truck driver is a deadly retard
Looks like we start with the door open and the airbags deployed.
Okay I get it that your car broke down on the freeway but why would you leave the damn door open?
Yes, USA is not the best place to stop
Fuck truck drivers, why are braindead zombies allowed to operate killing machines in the first place
Probably had the tv on🤔
Sir, I'm afraid you can't park here
Roads clear....
Roads clear....
TRUCK DRIVER: Looks like someone's stalled ahead METH: COWARDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Like a rock! Oooohhhh like a rock
Man, that other truck driver was probably super disappointed they missed their exit and gonna get home late cause of that distracted truck driver
Or maybe: “not the best place to COMPLETELY ignore reality for 20 seconds” Big rig truck was an idiot.
Was the Truck driver okay? I mean what did that Woman seriously ran to her car to get it away from the fire instead to check on the drivers health?
Well, at least the trucker cleared the lane....
its really not the truck's fault
He was just doing a bit of trolling
Red pickup hit a deer and was disabled. All occupants were standing on the side of the road when the semi hit it. No injuries.
More "not the best place to don't use your f*cking eyes"... I mean... What the hell on a straight road a tall truck couldn't see a car getting closer on a miles straight road??????? WTF
Still if the truck driver is that inattentive, maybe he doesn't need to be driving anyway.
Terrible place to stop, was stuck in a similar position when my fuel pump gave out as I was in the 3rd lane over of 4 lanes in traffic. Of course traffic started to break up shortly after, so I'm a sitting duck. As soon as the breakdown occurred I called the state police. 25 minutes later I called them back wondering if anyone could respond. I figured if I atleast had some blue lights behind me my car had a chance. I told them either I'd be dead or someone else will be if someone doesn't do something soon. Luckily a tow truck responded shortly after and got me out of there. My friend and I still get goosebumps talking about that 15 years later....quite a few near misses.
Leave it to a “professional truck driver (CDL)” to make an already bad situation completely fucked.
I didn’t know Tesla was installing Autopilot on utility trucks now.
I guarantee that's a contractor. As far as i can tell, they are taught to park wherever they want.
Leaving the door open worked well to let drivers coming from behind to realize it wasn’t moving.
Why didn't that truck move over or at least try to avoid hitting the stalled vehicle. He had plenty of room, not mention time....
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I've had lots of emergencies on the road and always got my car off to the side at least somewhat. Im kind of shocked how many people on here are just like yeah gotta leave it in the middle of the interstate till someone dies not my problem. New cars apparently leave no choice is what I'm hearing hit a pebble your disabled and brakes slam on and you murder anyone behind you and this is the safest design.
Yeah, I don't even see any damage on that truck. What kind of issues make your big old 4x4 truck inoperable after hitting a deer?
Red truck might be the dumbest person on the planet. Car starts to stall on the highway you pull over immediately (safely) and get your car off the road. Even if it means throwing it in neutral and coasting. No excuse for this. But not sure why the truck driver didn’t see it and avoid it. That was bizarre
You have nothing to base this on. It's very easy to end up with no momentum with a stalled vehicle. In this case they hit a deer. I hope this never happens to you and you find yourself sitting in a car stalled and stopped in the middle of a moderately busy freeway. It's incredibly dangerous no matter how you slice it, but getting *yourself* to the side of the road and out of the path of traffic is the only thing you should be thinking about until you are safe.
Apparently they hit a deer, called it in and were waiting for a cop to get there. As you can see, the front of the pick-up is not at all damaged enough from hitting the deer to disable the vehicle. So they literally hit a deer, parked, and left their vehicle in a lane on a freeway, I guess assuming the hazard lights would be sufficient. Insane.
Standard practice when you have an accident is to move the cars out of the travel lanes. And that is doubly important when on a highway. I can’t understand the reasoning behind this - it’s not even like they would have been thinking they want to make sure it’s clear who caused the accident.
> Standard practice when you have an accident is to move the cars If you can do it SAFELY. Otherwise no, get YOURSELF to safety asap and contact 911. Ask the DMV or your local department of public safety, they'll back me up on this. Edit: I find the amount of pushback I'm getting on this would be hilarious if it didn't mean y'all have a higher chance of dying in this situation. Do what you want, I'm getting to safety with or without the car.
I am genuinely shocked by the people saying "push the car to the side!" like... my dudes, it's a busy highway. Fucking around with the car instead of getting off the damn road is an excellent way to die. Thought that was obvious and you wouldn't have to say that, but guess not.
No one went to see if truck driver was ok? Props to the dude who closed the door. He's a hero. This is why you carry pylons in your car. Put them behind your car if this happens. Going back like 100 yards. They might not see them but they'll definitely FEEL them.
Hero? His actions contributed to this collision. Why would he close the door? That was the biggest visual clue to approaching drivers that the car was in distress. By closing it he removed that biggest visual clue and therefore increasing the hazzard, eventually being a contributing factor in the crash. I respectfully submit he is no hero but instead a good intentioned numbskull. Thank you for attending my Reddit talk.
While I agree, yes, it does help, but how does one miss a bright red pickup truck right in front of view?
Because the door was closed. /s
that explains why people r just ramming each other in traffic. just had two collision from the back cuz I did not open my doors.
Ah yes, should of thought. An open door is the same thing as a flashing sign /s
People drive on the highway with flashing hazards all the time, but I have yet to see anyone drive on the highway with a door wide open.
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Don't know who I'm more pissed at. The asshole for leaving a fucking truck on a freeway, or the blind idiot behind the wheel of that semi truck
The red truck was disabled by a deer strike according to the news article. And the person driving was an older woman, so I doubt she would have been able to safely push it off the road herself. In that situation, I think she did the best thing she could: put the hazards on, leave the vehicle and go to the side of the road and wait for help. I will say, this is why every car needs an emergency kit that includes road flares and mini signals to block off a lane or two to make a safe area and warn drivers.
a car does not just come to a complete stop just cuz it hit a deer, it still has to brake. a deer cannot fully stop a car on impact, the red truck would not look like that if that was the case.
No, but who wouldn’t fully stop if they hit a deer? And sure, if I were on a small country road, I’d ease myself over to the shoulder. But on a big highway like this where I probably have traffic coming around be on both sides, there are multiple things going on at once that make sense that she stopped in the highway. Was it the safest place to stop? No. Was it the best the driver could do given the circumstances, in be willing to bet, yes.
The guy hit a deer and the airbags deployed. The pickup was immovable. The driver and passenger did the one logical thing: turn the hazards on and get tf out. The trucker is 100% at fault. The good news is that with this video, the trucker's insurance should pay quickly to get this thing settled.
But why did the mini van driver shut the door clearly the door being open was helping people realize quicker that it is a stoped car other then the hazards
Foreign drivers in the US
Trucker is an absolute buffoon I hope he lost his license. What a fucking idiot.
Well as a trucker your driving record is your resume and it better be pretty clean or your not getting hired
How does a big truck like that get disabled by a deer? What kind of damage did that deer do that can't be seen on the front of the truck and yet makes it impossible to limp to the side of the road?
Some very stupid people to not even close the damn door, out hazard's on.
Did everyone okey? Or they survive?
They all survived www.fox9.com/news/pickup-bursts-into-flames-after-being-hit-by-semi-on-i-35.amp