hohenwald48 wrote:
A little different from the rest of the posts in this thread but I read the article referenced early on. I noticed that the investigating officers testified there were no indications of hard braking ie: skid marks from the RV.
It seems I see and hear that a lot when an accident occurs. Isn't the whole point of anti-lock brakes to prevent skid marks? If so then it seems there would never be skid marks due to hard braking at the accident scene. Am I missing something?
There is a video available, created by a dash cam of a car waiting to pull in to traffic, at the time of impact, and a few hundred feet downstream of the collision. The video shows that the motorhome was moving shockingly fast AFTER the impact, MUCH faster than the flow of other vehicles, and certainly wasn't following any directives to slow for construction, or paying attention to any first responders, lane closures, flashing lights, etc.....
I'm surprised by the slap in the wrist punishment, and have no issues with the driver ending up essentially destitute, having taken a life needlessly, and ending up with what is, in reality, a joke of a sentence.
