Accident consequences
Recently there have been a couple of topics concerning how fast you drive your rig or how you handle a blowout, etc. Last year there was an accident in Nashville where the driver of the Class A killed...
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This incident has been heavily reported in the Nashville press, as you can imagine. Recently an article reported that there was video of the the traffic preceeding the accident; it shows that traffic was moving slowly but smoothly in the 2 open lanes. All 4 lanes were not at a standstill, as the RV driver claimed.
There are NO blind curves in that area. You can see traffic for at least 1/2 mile ahead at that point; I've driven it many times.
Of course if you are doing 70 mph, 1/2 mile is less than 30 seconds, which is NOT long enough to stop a RV at that speed.
The RV driver was going too fast and not paying attention to the traffic around him.
Video evidence found
There are NO blind curves in that area. You can see traffic for at least 1/2 mile ahead at that point; I've driven it many times.
Of course if you are doing 70 mph, 1/2 mile is less than 30 seconds, which is NOT long enough to stop a RV at that speed.
The RV driver was going too fast and not paying attention to the traffic around him.
Video evidence found
