Class A Tire Blow and Roll-over
I am sure this is old and has been posted before but made me wonder.... How much did the driver's actions play into the final outcome? Link to YouTube video
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rgatijnet1 wrote:
In Florida they used to have a catch all violation that they used with some accidents. It was "driving too fast for conditions". They would use this violation even if you weren't exceeding the speed limit but the current conditions made whatever speed you were traveling unsafe. To them it was obviously unsafe because you had an accident. Maybe they were right and that would be difficult to argue in court. In any case, it would apply to this situation since the coach was going too fast to be controlled in case of a tire failure.
A tire failure was not one of the issues normally considered when citing someone for "too fast for conditions." The conditions normally considered were traffic, weather such as rain, wind, snow. Also construction areas, curves in the roadway and other things that a driver can see and vary his/her speed to drive prudently. Something unanticipated like a blown tire, rear axle falling off or other things of this nature. So in this case that charge would not be written by cop that knows what he/she was doing.
