Truck slams into RV on I-75 Florida

rockhillmanor wrote:
MICANOPY — "One person was killed and six others injured Friday afternoon when a tractor-trailer veered off Interstate 75 and struck a band’s RV, which had pulled off the highway with a flat tire."

"The FHP was still investigating Friday evening. So far, troopers believe that the RV and the van, which was pulling the enclosed trailer, had pulled off southbound I-75 onto the west shoulder. The van and the RV were traveling together. The RV had a flat tire, so both vehicles pulled off the highway.

The truck driver, for unknown reasons, veered off I-75 and struck the RV, which caught fire, the patrol said."

Witness interviewed said the carnage was too horrible to describe. Debris and blood all over. The pictures show nothing left of the RV.
http://www.gainesville.com/news/20170714/truck-slams-into-adrenaline-mobs-rv-on-i-75

IMHO, and I see it all the time on the road with my MH, those darn semi's are always smoking down I-75 over the speed limit. And the cops never stop them. Maybe now they will start. There should have been no reason for him to hit that RV if he was doing the speed limit and slowing down for a vehicle pulled on the shoulder. Just saying but I see it everyday I get on the interstates. Of course the truck driver survived and... "The truck driver declined comment to a reporter."
:(

Did you ever think that maybe the tucker had some sort of a medical emergency, yes it stated that the driver had no comment as the reported was asking questions, even if I was in a car an hit someone do you think you or even I would answer questions to a reporter. As was stated the FHP is still looking at happened ... People put blame on the trucker, without any indication of what actually happened to cause the truck to veer off the road. Again and again more one-sided, blame it on the truck first, reporting and publishing.

BTW the trucking industry is more regulated than the airline industry, an as far as log books (cheat sheets as someone called them) now days most of the bigger companies all have electric log books in them so it's harder and harder to cheat on your logs ... This is not the old days of smokey and the bandit, more scales, more DOT cops, more of everything checking the trucking industry and truck drivers ...

What I'd like to see is license testing for anyone buying a DP's, dealers sell the darn thing without knowing if the people who buy them can even drive them of the lot, if you have the money you can buy one without blinking an eye... More than once I have seen a DP pass me well over the speed limit, if you going to be far, ticket everyone not just semi's