SAD, SAD, News today

J-Rooster wrote:

bigdogger wrote:

down home wrote:
I'm not going to cast blame. Unfortunate and tragic is all I'll say.
Have to wait until there is an investigation completed.
Intent is criminal accident is an accident maybe negligence.
Sounds like the blind curve and officer in a bad place and a heavy motorhome, not able to maneauver any faster than a semi.
Prayers for all involved.

Agreed. There is no way to judge this incident on the information provided. The officer may have been the first on the scene and just exited his vehicle. The officer had no control over where the truck overturned, so he might have been stuck with a bunch of bad options. He had to place his patrol vehicle between the overturned vehicle and the flow of traffic or there most likely would have been many more collisions. If the accident had just happened, there may not have been a backup of traffic and traffic on the other side of the blind curve would have no reason to suspect the need to slow down. While the advice to slow down to a speed you can stop before you reach anything you see in the road sounds nice, it is impossible and dangerous in many situations. Maybe the blind corner only had less than 100 feet of forward visibility, in that case you would need to be traveling extremely slow and therefore become a traffic hazard to all the traffic behind you. Slow moving vehicles on high speed highways are just as dangerous as vehicles traveling at excessive speeds. Hence minimum speed limits. To me this sounds like people and vehicles were unfortunately at the wrong place at the wrong time and there is no way any of them could have had the foresight to do anything about it. Sometimes an unfortunate accident is exactly that.

I totally disagree with not casting blame look at the pictures! A Incident Response Team Emergency Vehicle with overhead lights on, a Emergency Police Cruiser with overhead lights on! And the motorhome driver is squeezing in between the Incident Response vehicle and the Police Cruiser? What I see is a Wrongful Death Lawsuit!