Big Rig Takes Off Trooper’s Door
Posted on January 21, 2008
Filed Under GENERAL
On January 12, 2008, on I-75 in Tennesee, a tractor-trailer side-swiped a state trooper’s car, nearly knocking the driver’s side door clean off. Video footage from trooper’s car here.
Police have now located the driver and his truck in Ohio, where he will undoubted be charged with a number of crimes. From viewing the video, it appears the truck in question, operated by Western Express out of Nashville was in the right hand lane. The trooper is in the righthand breakdown lane, with his blue flashers on. His driver side door is open, probably protruding slightly into the righthand traffic lane of I-75. To the left of Western Express appears to be another truck in the left lane. Making a guess, Western Express probably boxed himself in, and by the time he realized he couldn’t move left, too late, and whammo!
This sort of accident is totally preventable. Western Express should have immediately slowed down when he saw the flashing blue lights on the shoulder, and started looking for an opening to move to the left. Drivers who aren’t looking 10-15 seconds down the road will occasionally box themselves into these type of situations. Naturally, he made it much worse by fleeing the accident scene.
And, for you movie fans….. the great scene from ‘Smokey and the Bandit’. Ah, there’s nothing like the Great One, Jackie Gleason.
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