mowermech wrote:
(1) 25 feet for passenger motor vehicles, except buses and pioneer vehicles;
(2) 40 feet for buses, trucks, and tractor trucks;
(3) 45 feet for motor vehicles registered or qualified to be registered as pioneer vehicles under 61-3-411(2)(a) when equipped with two-wheel brakes or 25 feet when equipped with four-wheel brakes;
(4) 40 feet for all combinations of vehicles; and
(5) 30 feet for motorcycles, quadricycles, and motor-driven cycles.
One of the more interesting discussions I have had on this issue was with a Driver's training instructor who was a retired police officer, RVer and an accident investigator, His training in these matters went way beyond mine or the average cop on the road's.
I ask him: When you are using skid marks to estimate the speed of a vehicle.. Does it make a difference if it's a car or a semi truck (NOTE on a semi all wheels brake) and his answer was "NO"
Yet in the law, it makes a difference.
CLEARLY if the formulas used by the police, I might add around the WORLD, say the skid marks are the same for all vehicles with all-wheel braking, no matter what the size...
And the government feels the need to give me more room to stop my House than my Car.... I got to have brakes on the towed to make it stop faster.
Note. I have a number of friends who unlike the Driver's Training Insstructor (AEON RV safe Driving course) are STILL active accident investigators and LEO's.... I've had this discussion about skid marks with a number of them.
