SAD, SAD, News today
I was stuck in traffic for 5 hours Saturday trying to get to CW of Nashville for some service on my MH. When I got back home last night learned what had happened, and why Interstate 65 was shut do...
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traveylin wrote:
The link to street view is interesting. If you look at the left side barrier at the accident location, it looks remarkably beat up by vehicles bouncing into it. Thats the direction the RV would have to go to move over the multiple lanes.
Pops
Oh yeah, any time you get a curve in a freeway like that it becomes a point for accidents. Modern freeway design is a huge science. If they could tear out all the freeways and install completely new ones right now, you would see a whole lot of things done differently that would prevent a lot of accidents. But they can't do that so we have to live with freeways designed back in the 50's and 60's and maybe even before that because a lot of our freeways were put on existing roads which could have been originally used by covered wagons.
If you look at this curve you do have a couple of issues. One you have the curve, but then you also have that elevated onramp to the right and it does limit the vision of the far end of the curve. So I'm sure that will be listed as a contributing factor to the collision, but most of the blame will still fall to the RV driver.
Also this is one of those accidents that we talk about on here when people discuss how overweight they are or how long they are. I can assure you as part of this investigation the State Troopers measured that RV, weighed that RV, and completely inspected the brakes on the RV and the brake system on that trailer, and checked everything else for mechanical operation too.
