It appears that this Class C driver paid a big price for their impatience!Seems all five people in the Class C were taken to the hospital. If you watch closely you will see what appears to be a lady crawl out of the wreckage and start looking for others.Bad Class c crash

First, at least (according to the news anchor) no one was seriously injured. Second, what in the world was the driver thinking?! To me, that looks like a kid that comes out immediately afterwards. Just incredible. Check your mirrors everyone! And please, don't drive like that, especially with children on board!

The only thing different between what I see almost daily and this vid is the moron was driving a class C and not a passenger vehicle. I see doofus's every day in 6AM bumper to bumper traffic moving at 40-50 mph driving like its the last lap at Daytona. Today you need to have eyes in the back of your head with the amount of idiots on the roads. When the light turns green, you had better look both ways before moving because chances are good 3 morons will be running the light.I feel bad for the trucker, the Class C driver not so much.

Driver most likely forgot he was not in the family's sedan.No excuse for dangerous driving no matter what.

Just saw that on another website. Either he didn't check his mirror or has no idea how long his unit is. Or, as stated above, was just impatient. He did come screaming up behind the other truck. I also feel bad for the trucker. What amazed me most was the truck moved very little and the driver kept it under control. See this every day on so many different roads. Just yesterday we were stopped at a light that had a left hand turn lane. Light turned green, my husband started to go but checked the side mirror as he always does. Some jerk came flying up the turn lane, cut us off, almost hit the front of our vehicle and then went screaming down the road.

Poor driving. Impatience. Lack of awareness. Driving angry. You pick. Its just a bad choice any way you look at it.

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JRscooby
Explorer II
Jun 02, 2023
cptqueeg wrote:
bpounds wrote:
Dukes of Hazard IIRC.

Yeah, I think everyone agrees the RV driver was 100 plus at fault.

What I think some of us question is whether the truck driver did all that he could to avoid an accident. Maybe I'm just old school, but I believe we all have an obligation to do all we can to avoid an accident and probable loss of life. And while none of us can say for sure from just a short clip, it does not look to me like the truck driver made any attempt to slow down prior to being forced into the median. My guess is it would not have made much difference if he had tried, but trying would count for something.

Old school was a good school!

When I was learning to drive, was taught the right-o-way was one thing that if the other guy didn't give to you, you didn't have it.
If you have a chance to avoid a accident, don't take it, you are in the wrong.
OTOH, if you see unexpected danger in front of your car, how long does it take you to get to brake pedal? I know everybody reading this is better than average driver, but IIRC, average is close to 2 seconds. Now look at video. Think about all the threads where RVers are wanting to know how to stop their snot from bobbling when truck passes. Spend time in truck, side to side movement of RV is expected. Now how long is it from time RV starts to change lanes until impact?
cptqueeg
Explorer II
Jun 02, 2023
bpounds wrote:
Dukes of Hazard IIRC.

Yeah, I think everyone agrees the RV driver was 100 plus at fault.

What I think some of us question is whether the truck driver did all that he could to avoid an accident. Maybe I'm just old school, but I believe we all have an obligation to do all we can to avoid an accident and probable loss of life. And while none of us can say for sure from just a short clip, it does not look to me like the truck driver made any attempt to slow down prior to being forced into the median. My guess is it would not have made much difference if he had tried, but trying would count for something.

Old school was a good school!
fj12ryder
Explorer III
Jun 02, 2023
bpounds wrote:
Dukes of Hazard IIRC.

Yeah, I think everyone agrees the RV driver was 100 plus at fault.

What I think some of us question is whether the truck driver did all that he could to avoid an accident. Maybe I'm just old school, but I believe we all have an obligation to do all we can to avoid an accident and probable loss of life. And while none of us can say for sure from just a short clip, it does not look to me like the truck driver made any attempt to slow down prior to being forced into the median. My guess is it would not have made much difference if he had tried, but trying would count for something.
Honestly, I think if the truck had slowed down when seeing the RV coming up pretty quickly, the incident, definitely not an accident, could have been avoided. But I doubt that I would have done anything any different. Drivers who do things and expect other drivers to keep them from crashing just rub me the wrong way. And sometimes stupid hurts.
AllegroD
Nomad
Jun 02, 2023
This!

I can hear Waylon now. “Just a good old boys. Never meanin' no harm”
dedmiston
Moderator
Jun 02, 2023
fj12ryder wrote:
wa8yxm wrote:
Did you folks see the video of the woman doing a Rosco P Coltrain on a tow truck (That's what I call it when a "Dukes of Hazzard" Jump goes.... Bad)

She had to be texting.

Not sure who "Roscoe P. Coltrain" is. I presume he is the star of the TV show.
bpounds
Nomad
Jun 02, 2023
Dukes of Hazard IIRC.

Yeah, I think everyone agrees the RV driver was 100 plus at fault.

What I think some of us question is whether the truck driver did all that he could to avoid an accident. Maybe I'm just old school, but I believe we all have an obligation to do all we can to avoid an accident and probable loss of life. And while none of us can say for sure from just a short clip, it does not look to me like the truck driver made any attempt to slow down prior to being forced into the median. My guess is it would not have made much difference if he had tried, but trying would count for something.
fj12ryder
Explorer III
Jun 02, 2023
wa8yxm wrote:
Did you folks see the video of the woman doing a Rosco P Coltrain on a tow truck (That's what I call it when a "Dukes of Hazzard" Jump goes.... Bad)

She had to be texting.

Not sure who "Roscoe P. Coltrain" is. I presume he is the star of the TV show.
cptqueeg
Explorer II
Jun 02, 2023
JIMNLIN wrote:
its always amazing how many folks see the same vid and make completely different observations.

RV driver just messed up big time. Probably shouldn't be driving period making a dumb move like that.
Glad no other drivers nearby were hurt .

I don't think those in this thread have said anything other than the MH was 100% at fault as I have repeatedly.

It just strikes me that the MH was desperate to get by that truck. Why? What caused the MH driver to make such a huge miscalculation w his wife and 3 kids aboard?

We can call the MH driver stupid or a novice, and we have only 30 seconds of video, no speeds or deltas, to make that determination. So yeah no matter what happened before those 30 seconds we've seen is irrelevant the MH is still 100% at fault.
JIMNLIN
Explorer III
Jun 02, 2023
its always amazing how many folks see the same vid and make completely different observations.

RV driver just messed up big time. Probably shouldn't be driving period making a dumb move like that.
Glad no other drivers nearby were hurt .
cptqueeg
Explorer II
Jun 02, 2023
wa8yxm wrote:
Did you folks see the video of the woman doing a Rosco P Coltrain on a tow truck (That's what I call it when a "Dukes of Hazzard" Jump goes.... Bad)

She had to be texting.

Yup, pretty crazy.

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