As a truck driver myself, I don't drive without my dashcam rolling. It has saved me in 2 accidents that was out of my control. I feel for the driver in the video. Even tho he wasn't hurt or at fault, he will be scared from this.
I find it ironic that an ER doctor can lecture us on how fatigue deteriorates performance while ERs across the country force medical interns to work insane hours which put all the patients at risk of that same lack of judgment and deteriorated performance.
Not just interns. All ER and on call medical professionals work insane hours with minimal sleep, and are truly not payed enough. It’s not okay and needs to change. My mom is an RN and has worked in ERs for 25 years, her longest shift was 96hrs on call, she got about 7hrs of sleep total in those 4 days. She was payed $14/hr.
The one with the truck driver is quite scary. My husband is a truck driver and I rode with him for several years. We’ve seen some really bad wrecks involving semis. Everyday I pray that my husband makes it home safe every week. He’s been driving for 21 years and counting.
My boyfriend is a driver. Never have been so scared as when a uhaul with a car dolly started fishtailing, and he made the decision to take out the dilinear markers. Another car was not so lucky, and got involved. Uhaul, car involved, and dollied car all rolled down interstate. If he hadn't swerved when the uhauls dolly started fishtailing, it could have been us involved, and have more fatalities.
Just imagine driving you car and all of a sudden the steering wheel pops off the steering column while going 70 on the highway, that's what that truck driver felt
Killed his own sister and another person due to drinking/driving/speeding - and only gets 8 years in prison. The laws just do not make sense sometimes.
That accident still bothers me 46 years later. One never forgets such a tragedy,yet God let us live! I thank God we all survived,with no one thrown from my car. We are blessed. I thank God everyday and my children learned from me. It s better to be safe than sorry.
Thats why in UK and Europe they have originally mechanical and now electronic tachograpghs. They are like an aircraft crash recorder. All the info is there and you can't interfere with it. It would show any changes in speed or revs. With a bit ofwork you can even work out a good idea of the route a vehicle has taken.
It boggles my mind how many people will not take the extra 2 seconds to put on a seat belt. Not having one turns even minor 25mph fender benders into a possible life altering injury. I remember as a kid driving a tractor into a curb at about 5mph. The force was enough to send me flying forward, only to be stopped by my gut impacting the steering wheel. I still remember the the magnitude of force I experienced. I was in pain for weeks. I can only how painful a relatively minor parking lot crash would be considering it would factor my accident by a multiple of 5.
My father drove a truck for 40 years, he was in 2 accidents; one was black ice on a mountain road with a curve, he was driving a conventional with 2 trailers; the other a teenager backed into him. This was before dashcams.
And some people make fun of me because I will buckle up to drive across a parking lot. I know of two instances where seat belts would have killed passengers out of the many thousands I have read/watched/heard about. The first was a T-bone, the second was a drunk driver hitting a car so hard from behind that the passenger in the back seat right side would have died if her seat belt hadn't malfunctioned- she would have been crushed between the back seat and the seat in front of her. Both times, the person in question was pushed to the side, avoiding death. ONLY two out of thousands! Buckle up, people! I don't care what you think about the law, just do it so you can survive!
one of my good friends that i grew up with fell asleep at the wheel and her car rolled and she died leaving behind her sweet little girl :( i miss her she was such a sweet woman and a good mom.
Im sorry two hear that one of my friemds died in a crash two they were driving and this car came speeding through a red light and smashed in two his car at 100mph killing him on impact the guy driving was drunk and he got 5 years in prison for a homiside so i know what you went throughit's rough i hope you have a great life don't think negative
I know somebody that fell asleep. They hit the only power pole that didn't have power lines running to it, right next to a corn field. Dude got luuuuucky.
I saw this trucker on my street right and it was simler. To your's but hit the powerpole it had powerlines the powerpole. Fell on someone roof and they are luuuuucky to survive cause they truck was completely messed up and they. People in the house were shocked the street was full of cops my street went out of power for hour's and the truck was on fire the guy was lucky to survive there were fire trucks police and abulance there tow trucks have a good day 👍 sorry if my spelling is a bit trash
as a mechanic myself that last one is really scary, there is no way to inspect that from a driver's prospective. similar thing happened to one of my drivers in the past, in this case it was the center link breaking almost in half and the driver was on a gravel road leading to a farm and not going fast, the only damage was the front bumper and the fence he knocked down right next to the road...
Not sure how trucks are tested in the US but I believe an experienced mechanic would have picked this up with a "soundness" check with a hammer . That drop link would have "rung" due yo the crack in the shaft . A first timer wouldn't hear it but an experienced ear would recognise the difference in tone. Watch a vid of Guy Martin the TT racer working on a truck in the uk , if he's carrying out a 6 week check or preparing one for its annual test by VOSA he's always got a hammer and he's tapping everything constantly. I swear by soundness testing .
My sister and I are alive today thanks to a seatbelt. I was a passenger in my sister's car when a speeding drunk driver rear-ended us. My right shoulder and my sister's left shoulder and chest were sore for a very very long time. But the unbelted drunk driver who hit us was thrown out of his car and killed on impact. God bless the inventor of the seat belt.
Watch This Time, yeah kill someone while your drunk is just a get out of trouble excuse, they need executed for that crap, and anyone busted on a 3rd DUI needs locked up for life or death penalty, too many people and especially children have been killed by drunks/druggies driving when they know better.
It can vary by state. Here in IL, you can get almost 20 years now due to a crash almost 2 decades ago. Guy drove the wrong way down a busy road and struck a family of five. Him and the dad were the only survivors, and the entire county was out for the guy's blood with how he acted after the crash.
People's tolerance to alcohol is different so calling them drunk would not be correct. Over the legal limit - would be. Some people get drunk under the limit and these are the women I date - cheap night out.
Driving drowsy is no joke. If you have a medical condition (or just life choices) that are affecting your sleep that seriously, you NEED to get help for it. I shudder to think about the times I got behind the wheel tired, before I got my anxiety treated.
It was 1970 and I was about to graduate, my class was sent to one of the science labs where we were subjected to a horrible documentary movie showing actual footage of crash victims who were dead or dying screaming in agony begging for help while the camera was rolling. I'm sixty seven now but those images will stay with me until the day I die. Kids were passing out, vomiting and peeing their pants from the shocking movie that we were subjected to. What were the teachers thinking, it didn't stop us from taking risks on the roads just marked us for life ?
My seat belt saved my life.My accident was in the winter on a rural " black iced paved road. I wad traveling West about to go over a bridge. My 3 children were in the car. My baby was in his car seat and the other 2 were in their seat belts. A gas truck was coming toward me from the East,that s when hr went into a skid heading for me. I had lightning speed to decide what to do.Should I hit the ditch or try to avoid hitting the truck and killing all of us? I chose to go down into the ditch. We all survived the crash. My baby in his car seat suffered a minor injury. His head on impact hit the dash and the children I had yelled get down on the floor behind me. I had hot 2 trees snd my Ford Sedan landed over the creek. I was knocked out and when the trucker saw me he pulled us out the car and shook me. I swoke to see all was fine. He took us home about 1 mile from the scene of the accident. My husband was came home to ask whete the car was. He didn t care if we were alivethen asked where the car was. He left to find the car and got help to pull it out of the ditch.We found the car was within $10.00 of being totaled so our insurance paid to get it back to normal. I found our lives weren t important ,so I dovorced him after my car was fixed.
This is so close to what my mum used to do as a job for the insurance companies, remember back in the 80's (as a teenager on school holidays) going with her to crash scenes to measure skid marks and debris! I remember it was my job to roll the wheelie thing (distance marker) whilst she took photos and video.
Clearly the crack in the steering box output shaft (rocker shaft) had been there for some time due to either a previous accident or a flaw in the shaft, to discount manufacturing error is premature and it should have been reported to the supplier of the steering boxes IMHO.
The one with the two fighting and arguing is a sad story. He didn't cause the wreck and i hope that his daughter is with him. She still needs her parent. Hopefully the grandparents didn't take her
The last case is indeed, very rare. Imagine experienced driver and well maintained truck still can cause an accident because of very rare failure that cannot be seen from outside so no one can check that failure. So sad
This is why in England the police don't call them RTA (road traffic accidents) they call them RTC (road traffic collisions) because there is never anything accidental there is always an underlying reason
44:58 you can see the pitman arm and draglink laying there and they say it draglink problem, that is the pitman arm which transfers the steering box action to the draglinks to control the steering gear.
I believe a good experienced mechanic would have picked this up on a "soundness" test with a hammer . Not sure what your inspections are like on goods vehicles but in the UK they are pretty thorough . A good example is Guy Martin the TT racer , he's a passionate truck mechanic and he's always got a hammer in his hand before he sends a truck for its annual test with VOSA or if he's carrying out a 6 week check . I swear by soundness testing, and I believe that drop link (uk term) would have "rung" due to the cracked shaft and an experienced ear would be listening for it .
What this investigator don't tell you, is that you can also die by wearing your seatbelt. A friend of mine missed the curve ...end up in the river ...and because he could not unbuckle his seatbelt , he drowned. Myself too got lucky too survive an accident . After my car flipped over few time after losing control. I end up on the side of the road stock upside down in my car with a stocked seatbelt that a could not unbuckle ....my car caught on fire .lucky me someone came with a knife to cut it. So seat belt or no seat belt ?
My kids father punched thru my window when I tried pulling out the driveway reached his hand In and shut the jeep off... sonits possible... and hardlynmuch damage to the hand
My staff won't move the car without me putting on my seatbelt.... makes me so sad. ALL new cars should have the ability to not move without ALL seat belts ON....
Putting a picture of a semi with a crushed car in front of it was sure to get views. Most people think truck drivers cause accidents and kill the poor victims. It does, but in the majority of cases, the car is responsible or as in this case a mechanical failure. Even a well maintained tire could be compromised by something unseen on the road and cause a blowout. Please don't drive beside a big truck-so many things could happen.
It’s weird seeing these say like go slow on these roads yet I know a road where I live where there’s sharp turns and you’re supposed to keep going 50 mph
I love shows like this. They have PSA that appear. In this case, wear seatbelts! When I was 4, my mom and grandmother were involved in nasty collision. My grandmother was in passenger seat and passed. The impact was to her car door. My mom was driving and suffered a broken neck. She was not wearing a seatbelt. She broke her neck hitting the roof of her car...in the middle spot. She feels had she remained in the driver's seat, death would have occurred. This conclusion is based on the backseat up against the dash. I think she has merit in that believe. As such, she refused to wear a seatbelt. You follow your parents, so I did not wear a seatbelt. Something like 12 years old I was in the passenger seat. Next thing I know I am hanging (thankfully) by the door handle. I do not question how both my hand caught the door as I am falling out. After that, I wore my seatbelt. Mom continued without one. Fast forward some 20 years and I became an adjuster for auto accidents. One day I had a simple conversation with her. Told her I wear a seatbelt for tinier collisions. The nasty collision like hers is flip a coin, but I would prefer to die wearing a seatbelt. She immediately put on her seatbelt. That continued.
Yup - saying "Speed kills, should have slowed down" she most likely had fear that he will run her off the road - so faster. I put the blame on him still. If he would have just let her go, she would still be here.
People do stupid things behind the wheel. Especially when they're angry. As much as I empathize with her family I don't think it's right to blame the boyfriend. He didn't force her to get behind the wheel, he didn't force her to not wear her seatbelt and according to the investigation he wasn't close enough to her to have forced her off the road. No disrespect to the dead here but this one's unfortunately on her.
@@forevercomputing blame him but he ain’t charged bc he never bumped into her car she would be alive if she hade her seatbelt on so ether way its her fault
He says you can't break a window just by punching it or throwing an elbow at it, but I've seen with my own eyes a window break from a punch. and it was a newer car as well.
The pickup truck hitting the red car is what will happen with any car-pickup crash. The pickups today are up so high, I don’t see how the driver of the car could live through it. The pickup in this video went right through the frame on the car, so the force would be fully on the car’s driver. I worry about this all the time. With pickups being jacked up even higher, they will be killers.
That was a fluke accident with the truck. I drove trucks for 40 years and only had that happen twice on me. Both times it was late at night and I was basically on the road alone. Also luckily I managed to get them stopped before I left the road. Once on 70 in Kansas and the other time on US278 in Alabama. It wasnt that I was a good driver because once it happened, I had no control over where they went (other than with the brake pedal) but because the Man upstairs was definitely looking out for me and everybody else that wasnt there when it happened.
For my safety and others I slow down and flash my brights twice to let the driver of an eighteen wheeler know it is safe to go from left lane into the right lane which I am traveling. Hopefully this tip is helpful. Be safe. Drive safe and be alert for other drivers. God BLess
People like you both are appreciated, from myself and the drivers I know, it is def something truckers don't get enough common courtesy. God Bless the courteous!
I saw two wreckers each carrying a car completely covered and tied down, One person was on a closed ramp.which took that car into the path of oncoming traffic. The speed was probably 55-60 mph.
There is fault, The manufacturer of the steering box, they should be hung for this. They are supposed to ultrasound steering parts for internal cracks. The rust on the inside of the shaft tells me it's been cracked since day one.
Cracks are not always the same length the entire time. Your comment here tells me you are completely ignorant to how the real world works. They do scan for cracks, but some cracks are small enough that they fall within deviation. Especially when dealing with simple motor vehicles. Standards are different. So the vehicle standard would be way too low for the aviation standard. For welding, any crack less than 1/16” occurring no less than once every 4” passes 99% of inspections. So hanging the company for this would be completely misguided. Source: graduated welding college and dealt with this for 2.5 years.
I remember driving down the highway to visit my Grandma in Louisiana and I found myself nodding off for a half sec and immediately realizing where I was and what happened, thankfully me and my dad were taking turns driving so he drove for a couple hours while I rested
I sure wish I could share this video that the 25mph speed limit sign with the people that live in my neighborhood. A LOT of the people in my neighborhood absolutely refuse to obey the speed limits. They actually get impatient and go into the oncoming lane to get around my car because I do follow the speed limit signs. We have an elementary school and some neighbors have children who love to ride their bicycles through the neighborhood. We also have wildlife in our area. It really makes me angry and I also put a dash camera in my car. Does my dash camera make any difference?! No!! The neighbors don’t care at all. Anyone have any ideas about something else I could do now since nothing thus far has made my neighbors obey our speed limits?!
Unfortunately it's only when a child is killed by a speeding neighbour that a community takes any notice & drive more sensibly at or below the speed-limit, or traffic-lights & pedestrian-crossings placed at dangerous locations! Road-safety investigators refer to those deaths as 'sacrificial-victims'.
Have those high speed tables put in, where they're going into the oncoming lane, to get around you. Or those higher speed bump's or stop stick's like the law put's out. Have the neighbor's that will agree you & feel the same as you, to watch for those people & turn their tag number's in.
Roll/wad up a child's blanket, and leave it in random places out in the street in the neighborhood. Won't actually hurt anyone, but will sure get drivers' attention.
The UK have approx 500 per month but that number is both injured and killed. But then we do drive on the other side of the road. Hence road injuries are still high despite cars becoming safer.
I've had my steering column snap on me in my car... Luckily I was going very slowly, turning a corner. It must have been terrifying for this lorry driver. It's was scary enough when it happened to me at slow speed...
The seatbelt theory is true, I genuinely feel naked without my seatbelt. Fortunately I have an alarm that goes off if my seatbelt is not on. I am a theatre nurse, I know what I see. Please wear your seatbelt.
If the log book looks good, it doesn't rule out tiredness. But if his logbook shows he drove too long, then it would confirm he was. This driver had a previous 20 years with nothing on his record as well, which helped them assume he was operating properly. If he had multiple previous incidents, they may have tried to take a closer look at the driver being at fault
"DB is going to be late for work..". "Why?". "Well, actually, he is sitting in his new car, the one he got two days ago, and it is right outside the gate...". "So he is here and not coming in?". "Well, he IS sitting in his new car. But he is sitting in it and the car is upside down in the ditch, along with three other cars in varying states of damage...". "Oh...... I guess that will be an excused absence then.....". It happened to me when a drunk got three other vehicles, mine included.......... And it happened FAST.... But my seat belt was fastened and the barrel roll down the road was, in fact, very interesting. But I DID have to be extracted from the car. Injuries? Yes, well, I had a separated shoulder and the stitches from the surgery three days before had ripped out leaving a terrible scar. But the seat belt and air bag were a real blessing.....
Always wear seatbelt, insist all your passengers to each wear one too. Don’t drive angry. Wait a bit longer after you get a green light to make sure everyone has stopped in the traffic. Avoid driving behind or to the side of 18 wheeler trucks, if you have no choice keep a plenty of distance from them. Got it.....
i have experienced micro-sleep, and let me tell you the panic and despair knowing i had another hour of driving was immeasurable, and i was in a car not a semi.
Eight years! Eight lossy years for ending the lives of two innocent people! Then to top it off he was drunk, invented a fake driver and he was drunk! People get far more punishment than that for far less crimes than that. Why? Because it was a car instead of a gun? Because it was a drunk driver? A car is just as deadly as a gun. Drunk driving should never be any kind of defense or excuse. He knew what he did was wrong or he wouldn't have run away and invented such a lie.
So you are fighting with whom you are dating? Then (in separate cars) you get into an accident with one another? I would not believe his story for 50 million dollars!
Just 8 years for killing people DUI style... Sorry man needs put to death as with anyone that kills someone while DUI. Really sad about that young immature couple couldn't get along better than that.... Right when your that upset and especially a woman that upset you really shouldn't get on the road driving in an emotional fit. I was guilty of falling asleep while driving a school bus.... BUT I bought it for personal use, I don't work as a bus driver, just had bought it to convert it to an RV and had a long trip and it was comfortable to drive, I use to do this all the time on road trips, thank God I've never had an incident, I sleep with my eyes open and you wouldn't know I was asleep unless you tried to talk to me that I still keep on driving about like normal other than I weave just a little according to my Wife who has been riding with me for 18 years and seen me do it hundreds of times. I just call it "auto pilot".
I work in insurance - they are all accidents, regardless of fault. If they were not called accidents, they would be called 'on purpose'. There, investigate that!
Some British police forces in Britain don't use the word accident anymore, they call them incidents or collisions. Accident sounds like it was unavoidable.
In terms of there being NO accidents, I disagree. Sometimes accidents actually do happen because neither person in car crashes intended to crash. Just because it was irresponsibility or human error doesn't mean that it was intentional. In some cases tho it is intentional.
When I was driving I wouldn't even start the car before my seat belt was on and if I had a passenger I would let them know to put on they're seat belt or we go nowhere. No if I'm a front seat passenger I always buckle up cause rather yall know it or not,the passengers always ends up either dead or hurt bad so please buckle up.
Having driven myself ,,ok There is point oftail gating big rigs to concerve fuel,,,, but cars do not under stand 1 Priniple in doing that, its called a vacuum effect,if you get to close it will suck you right into the rear of the rig,,, alsoif a rig touches its brakes it can pull you in,,,or foot from gas ok
the truck drivers case is the one thatalmost killed us whan the draglink just quits and breaks but that disaster could be avoided just hit the gas and gradually use the engine brake together with the trailer brake put your hazards on ,until you stop but REMEMBER NO FOOT BRAKE
The left turn driver is at fault usually The sister goes under airbag and hits dash? But she Is not driving , would make more sense to find out that the car was hit while in the intersection after the brother went for help How do they explain the driver is the guy who is not in the car
I honestly believe is a 42-year truck driver the government should make everybody on the road have some sort of acknowledgment of trucks of how long it takes them to stop where they're blind spots are no just a simple things if nothing else. And I do not believe that it's right because I did not believe it's safe on the highway especially the interstates where they have a 70 or 75 minor speed limit and trucks are going down to 63 or 65 which causes anxiety from drivers behind them they get impatient and usually that causes an accident or the driver of the truck it's stressed out from holding up traffic that he makes a bad decision. but I believe everybody on the road should have acknowledgment of semi trucks because there are so many on the road these days.. oh yeah and PS stop going to the left shoulder when you have a flat tire go to the right shoulder that's why it's designed the way it is and it's wider for you to get off the road.
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As a truck driver myself, I don't drive without my dashcam rolling. It has saved me in 2 accidents that was out of my control. I feel for the driver in the video. Even tho he wasn't hurt or at fault, he will be scared from this.
I'm sure this accident pr- dates GoPro camera s etc, otherwise he would have had E log's
I find it ironic that an ER doctor can lecture us on how fatigue deteriorates performance while ERs across the country force medical interns to work insane hours which put all the patients at risk of that same lack of judgment and deteriorated performance.
I totally agree as they literally hold lives in their hands.
So true
Absolutely
Not just interns. All ER and on call medical professionals work insane hours with minimal sleep, and are truly not payed enough. It’s not okay and needs to change. My mom is an RN and has worked in ERs for 25 years, her longest shift was 96hrs on call, she got about 7hrs of sleep total in those 4 days. She was payed $14/hr.
The one with the truck driver is quite scary. My husband is a truck driver and I rode with him for several years. We’ve seen some really bad wrecks involving semis. Everyday I pray that my husband makes it home safe every week. He’s been driving for 21 years and counting.
My boyfriend is a driver. Never have been so scared as when a uhaul with a car dolly started fishtailing, and he made the decision to take out the dilinear markers. Another car was not so lucky, and got involved. Uhaul, car involved, and dollied car all rolled down interstate. If he hadn't swerved when the uhauls dolly started fishtailing, it could have been us involved, and have more fatalities.
Just imagine driving you car and all of a sudden the steering wheel pops off the steering column while going 70 on the highway, that's what that truck driver felt
Killed his own sister and another person due to drinking/driving/speeding - and only gets 8 years in prison. The laws just do not make sense sometimes.
it’s because it Maryland. I’m from Maryland and most charges that are serious are mainly around 5 years to 21 years of prison time
Yea, but the real punishment is living out the rest of his life knowing he killed his sis and another person because of a stupid decision.
That accident still bothers me 46 years later. One never forgets such a tragedy,yet God let us live! I thank God we all survived,with no one thrown from my car. We are blessed. I thank God everyday and my children learned from me. It s better to be safe than sorry.
Hey let people believe what they want. It’s like saying atheists are idiots who believe in the devil.
The poor trucker has to carry those deaths in his memory and soul for something he couldn't have prevented.
The same thing happens to locomotive engineers. Most have been involved in some kind of collision with a vehicle or pedestrian.
@@bananabuttons6637 You didn’t watch till the end. It was a very rare mechanical failure.
Thats why in UK and Europe they have originally mechanical and now electronic tachograpghs. They are like an aircraft crash recorder. All the info is there and you can't interfere with it. It would show any changes in speed or revs. With a bit ofwork you can even work out a good idea of the route a vehicle has taken.
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Feel sorry for the trucker, wasn't really his fault, he was the victim of circumstance cause by a mechanical failure in the truck.
It boggles my mind how many people will not take the extra 2 seconds to put on a seat belt. Not having one turns even minor 25mph fender benders into a possible life altering injury.
I remember as a kid driving a tractor into a curb at about 5mph. The force was enough to send me flying forward, only to be stopped by my gut impacting the steering wheel. I still remember the the magnitude of force I experienced. I was in pain for weeks. I can only how painful a relatively minor parking lot crash would be considering it would factor my accident by a multiple of 5.
Trucker's worst nightmare that last one.
Nothing can bring back this young mother but it's a relief her boyfriend did not kill her.
My father drove a truck for 40 years, he was in 2 accidents; one was black ice on a mountain road with a curve, he was driving a conventional with 2 trailers; the other a teenager backed into him. This was before dashcams.
And some people make fun of me because I will buckle up to drive across a parking lot. I know of two instances where seat belts would have killed passengers out of the many thousands I have read/watched/heard about. The first was a T-bone, the second was a drunk driver hitting a car so hard from behind that the passenger in the back seat right side would have died if her seat belt hadn't malfunctioned- she would have been crushed between the back seat and the seat in front of her. Both times, the person in question was pushed to the side, avoiding death. ONLY two out of thousands! Buckle up, people! I don't care what you think about the law, just do it so you can survive!
Most serious accidents happen close to home and at low speeds.
one of my good friends that i grew up with fell asleep at the wheel and her car rolled and she died leaving behind her sweet little girl :( i miss her she was such a sweet woman and a good mom.
Im sorry two hear that one of my friemds died in a crash two they were driving and this car came speeding through a red light and smashed in two his car at 100mph killing him on impact the guy driving was drunk and he got 5 years in prison for a homiside so i know what you went throughit's rough i hope you have a great life don't think negative
I know somebody that fell asleep. They hit the only power pole that didn't have power lines running to it, right next to a corn field. Dude got luuuuucky.
I saw this trucker on my street right and it was simler. To your's but hit the powerpole it had powerlines the powerpole. Fell on someone roof and they are luuuuucky to survive cause they truck was completely messed up and they. People in the house were shocked the street was full of cops my street went out of power for hour's and the truck was on fire the guy was lucky to survive there were fire trucks police and abulance there tow trucks have a good day 👍 sorry if my spelling is a bit trash
as a mechanic myself that last one is really scary, there is no way to inspect that from a driver's prospective. similar thing happened to one of my drivers in the past, in this case it was the center link breaking almost in half and the driver was on a gravel road leading to a farm and not going fast, the only damage was the front bumper and the fence he knocked down right next to the road...
Not sure how trucks are tested in the US but I believe an experienced mechanic would have picked this up with a "soundness" check with a hammer . That drop link would have "rung" due yo the crack in the shaft . A first timer wouldn't hear it but an experienced ear would recognise the difference in tone. Watch a vid of Guy Martin the TT racer working on a truck in the uk , if he's carrying out a 6 week check or preparing one for its annual test by VOSA he's always got a hammer and he's tapping everything constantly. I swear by soundness testing .
My sister and I are alive today thanks to a seatbelt. I was a passenger in my sister's car when a speeding drunk driver rear-ended us. My right shoulder and my sister's left shoulder and chest were sore for a very very long time. But the unbelted drunk driver who hit us was thrown out of his car and killed on impact. God bless the inventor of the seat belt.
You can thank Volvo Cars for that as it was them who invented the three-point seat belt for cars
He only got eight years for killing two people due to his drinking‼️‼️😨😨🤯🤯
That's how screwed up our justice system is - as bad as our Government and the way they work.
You gotta be kidding me he only got 8 years after killing people..... Drunk driving at that...
Judgment of God be upon him.
Watch This Time, yeah kill someone while your drunk is just a get out of trouble excuse, they need executed for that crap, and anyone busted on a 3rd DUI needs locked up for life or death penalty, too many people and especially children have been killed by drunks/druggies driving when they know better.
It can vary by state. Here in IL, you can get almost 20 years now due to a crash almost 2 decades ago. Guy drove the wrong way down a busy road and struck a family of five. Him and the dad were the only survivors, and the entire county was out for the guy's blood with how he acted after the crash.
People's tolerance to alcohol is different so calling them drunk would not be correct. Over the legal limit - would be. Some people get drunk under the limit and these are the women I date - cheap night out.
@@forevercomputing I'm sorry you can't get a woman to like you unless they are drunk.
I feel like I'm naked without a seatbelt on lol
My answer to these incessant interrupting ads is to NEVER buy any of their shit.
Car drivers are the primary cause of accidents that involve commercial vehicles.
Driving drowsy is no joke. If you have a medical condition (or just life choices) that are affecting your sleep that seriously, you NEED to get help for it. I shudder to think about the times I got behind the wheel tired, before I got my anxiety treated.
It was 1970 and I was about to graduate, my class was sent to one of the science labs where we were subjected to a horrible documentary movie showing actual footage of crash victims who were dead or dying screaming in agony begging for help while the camera was rolling. I'm sixty seven now but those images will stay with me until the day I die. Kids were passing out, vomiting and peeing their pants from the shocking movie that we were subjected to. What were the teachers thinking, it didn't stop us from taking risks on the roads just marked us for life ?
what was the move calld
How traumatic..Good question! What was their reasoning...?
I remember them showing a similar movie around prom time
@@59Alaskanit was meant to encourage safe driving and discourage impaired driving
My seat belt saved my life.My accident was in the winter on a rural " black iced paved road. I wad traveling West about to go over a bridge. My 3 children were in the car. My baby was in his car seat and the other 2 were in their seat belts. A gas truck was coming toward me from the East,that s when hr went into a skid heading for me. I had lightning speed to decide what to do.Should I hit the ditch or try to avoid hitting the truck and killing all of us? I chose to go down into the ditch. We all survived the crash. My baby in his car seat suffered a minor injury. His head on impact hit the dash and the children I had yelled get down on the floor behind me. I had hot 2 trees snd my Ford Sedan landed over the creek. I was knocked out and when the trucker saw me he pulled us out the car and shook me. I swoke to see all was fine. He took us home about 1 mile from the scene of the accident. My husband was came home to ask whete the car was. He didn t care if we were alivethen asked where the car was. He left to find the car and got help to pull it out of the ditch.We found the car was within $10.00 of being totaled so our insurance paid to get it back to normal. I found our lives weren t important ,so I dovorced him after my car was fixed.
This is so close to what my mum used to do as a job for the insurance companies, remember back in the 80's (as a teenager on school holidays) going with her to crash scenes to measure skid marks and debris! I remember it was my job to roll the wheelie thing (distance marker) whilst she took photos and video.
20:27 wow, warp drive! I wonder what it looks like, when you see the light from your headlights bend backwards around you.
Clearly the crack in the steering box output shaft (rocker shaft) had been there for some time due to either a previous accident or a flaw in the shaft, to discount manufacturing error is premature and it should have been reported to the supplier of the steering boxes IMHO.
I agree. Half the shaft was bright metal & half was rusty. Suggests there was a flaw or crack previous to the accident.
The one with the two fighting and arguing is a sad story. He didn't cause the wreck and i hope that his daughter is with him. She still needs her parent. Hopefully the grandparents didn't take her
The last case is indeed, very rare. Imagine experienced driver and well maintained truck still can cause an accident because of very rare failure that cannot be seen from outside so no one can check that failure. So sad
I WANT TO SEE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE, I LOVE WATCHING VIDEOS LIKE THIS
Not a truck driver, but have witnessed trucks driving through Ohio winters, barrelling down those highways at a considerable speed and that scares me.
Yes Jason survived due to seatbelt. BUT his occupying the driver's seat also helped.
Glad he got at least 8 years.
This is why in England the police don't call them RTA (road traffic accidents) they call them RTC (road traffic collisions) because there is never anything accidental there is always an underlying reason
A lot of drivers are uncomfortable behind a semi? If one is behind me too (in heavy traffic), or being beside one sure, not behind.
8yrs???!!! Are justice system is whacked!!!!
44:58 you can see the pitman arm and draglink laying there and they say it draglink problem, that is the pitman arm which transfers the steering box action to the draglinks to control the steering gear.
I believe a good experienced mechanic would have picked this up on a "soundness" test with a hammer . Not sure what your inspections are like on goods vehicles but in the UK they are pretty thorough . A good example is Guy Martin the TT racer , he's a passionate truck mechanic and he's always got a hammer in his hand before he sends a truck for its annual test with VOSA or if he's carrying out a 6 week check . I swear by soundness testing, and I believe that drop link (uk term) would have "rung" due to the cracked shaft and an experienced ear would be listening for it .
I honestly don't understand how you can get into a car and not put on your seatbelt. To me, it's like breathing. I don't think about it, I just do it.
OK fat cow no one asked for your opinion
Absolutely, it's second nature to me to put that seat belt on.
By the way ignore the rude as hell guy here!!! Obviously he needs help!!!
Do what the government says
@@charlesli6751 and none asked for u to comment
What this investigator don't tell you, is that you can also die by wearing your seatbelt.
A friend of mine missed the curve ...end up in the river ...and because he could not unbuckle his seatbelt , he drowned.
Myself too got lucky too survive an accident .
After my car flipped over few time after losing control. I end up on the side of the road stock upside down in my car with a stocked seatbelt that a could not unbuckle ....my car caught on fire .lucky me someone came with a knife to cut it.
So seat belt or no seat belt ?
Seatbelt + window breaker attached to the rearview mirror.
I punched through a car window years back, I was wearing motorcycle gloves but one hit and it shattered.
Without a glove, it looks way worse than his hand did.
Well the muscle strength of arms,shape of the vicheal and if anything on hand will change the chances of breakeing.
My kids father punched thru my window when I tried pulling out the driveway reached his hand In and shut the jeep off... sonits possible... and hardlynmuch damage to the hand
My staff won't move the car without me putting on my seatbelt.... makes me so sad. ALL new cars should have the ability to not move without ALL seat belts ON....
I always wore a seat belt andtold my children to buckle up before I started the car or before.wr left.
Putting a picture of a semi with a crushed car in front of it was sure to get views. Most people think truck drivers cause accidents and kill the poor victims. It does, but in the majority of cases, the car is responsible or as in this case a mechanical failure. Even a well maintained tire could be compromised by something unseen on the road and cause a blowout. Please don't drive beside a big truck-so many things could happen.
It’s weird seeing these say like go slow on these roads yet I know a road where I live where there’s sharp turns and you’re supposed to keep going 50 mph
Damn
I love Rusty is legitimately crashing cars all the time with no protective gear
32:46 as a truck driver this scared me what a sad and freak accident
I love shows like this. They have PSA that appear. In this case, wear seatbelts!
When I was 4, my mom and grandmother were involved in nasty collision.
My grandmother was in passenger seat and passed. The impact was to her car door.
My mom was driving and suffered a broken neck. She was not wearing a seatbelt. She broke her neck hitting the roof of her car...in the middle spot.
She feels had she remained in the driver's seat, death would have occurred. This conclusion is based on the backseat up against the dash. I think she has merit in that believe.
As such, she refused to wear a seatbelt. You follow your parents, so I did not wear a seatbelt.
Something like 12 years old I was in the passenger seat. Next thing I know I am hanging (thankfully) by the door handle. I do not question how both my hand caught the door as I am falling out.
After that, I wore my seatbelt. Mom continued without one.
Fast forward some 20 years and I became an adjuster for auto accidents.
One day I had a simple conversation with her. Told her I wear a seatbelt for tinier collisions. The nasty collision like hers is flip a coin, but I would prefer to die wearing a seatbelt. She immediately put on her seatbelt. That continued.
I’ve no sympathy for anyone who doesn’t put their seatbelt on. And anyone else that is in my car also has to do the same, or I’m not moving!
Agreed :)
There will never be anything in my life too important, too scary, too anything to not have my seatbelt on.
Amen, I totally agree.
How come on the bend of a road, instead of having a safety guard rail, there is a tree, it's almost like they want someone to crash into it and die...
and perhaps she wouldnt have driven fast if her boyfriend who was also angry hadnt been chasing after her in his car!!!!
Yup - saying "Speed kills, should have slowed down" she most likely had fear that he will run her off the road - so faster. I put the blame on him still. If he would have just let her go, she would still be here.
People do stupid things behind the wheel. Especially when they're angry. As much as I empathize with her family I don't think it's right to blame the boyfriend. He didn't force her to get behind the wheel, he didn't force her to not wear her seatbelt and according to the investigation he wasn't close enough to her to have forced her off the road. No disrespect to the dead here but this one's unfortunately on her.
@@forevercomputing blame him but he ain’t charged bc he never bumped into her car she would be alive if she hade her seatbelt on so ether way its her fault
He says you can't break a window just by punching it or throwing an elbow at it, but I've seen with my own eyes a window break from a punch. and it was a newer car as well.
The pickup truck hitting the red car is what will happen with any car-pickup crash. The pickups today are up so high, I don’t see how the driver of the car could live through it. The pickup in this video went right through the frame on the car, so the force would be fully on the car’s driver. I worry about this all the time. With pickups being jacked up even higher, they will be killers.
That was a fluke accident with the truck. I drove trucks for 40 years and only had that happen twice on me. Both times it was late at night and I was basically on the road alone. Also luckily I managed to get them stopped before I left the road. Once on 70 in Kansas and the other time on US278 in Alabama. It wasnt that I was a good driver because once it happened, I had no control over where they went (other than with the brake pedal) but because the Man upstairs was definitely looking out for me and everybody else that wasnt there when it happened.
For my safety and others I slow down and flash my brights twice to let the driver of an eighteen wheeler know it is safe to go from left lane into the right lane which I am traveling. Hopefully this tip is helpful. Be safe. Drive safe and be alert for other drivers. God BLess
I do the same thing, only I have mostly flash mine once. But I'm going to start flashing my brights twice.
People like you both are appreciated, from myself and the drivers I know, it is def something truckers don't get enough common courtesy. God Bless the courteous!
I saw two wreckers each carrying a car completely covered and tied down, One person was on a closed ramp.which took that car into the path of oncoming traffic. The speed was probably 55-60 mph.
18:43 Good to see that despite what happened in reality, in the re-enactments drivers do wear their seat-belts as they should!
Because trucker's truck was doomed to imminent catastrophic failure, trucker couldn't have averted the crash. That's really trucked up. Cheers!
There is fault, The manufacturer of the steering box, they should be hung for this. They are supposed to ultrasound steering parts for internal cracks. The rust on the inside of the shaft tells me it's been cracked since day one.
Exactly the way I see it!
Cracks are not always the same length the entire time. Your comment here tells me you are completely ignorant to how the real world works. They do scan for cracks, but some cracks are small enough that they fall within deviation. Especially when dealing with simple motor vehicles. Standards are different. So the vehicle standard would be way too low for the aviation standard. For welding, any crack less than 1/16” occurring no less than once every 4” passes 99% of inspections. So hanging the company for this would be completely misguided. Source: graduated welding college and dealt with this for 2.5 years.
May be she was looking in her rear view mirror, and not watching the road, and come up on a corner and lost control.
I remember driving down the highway to visit my Grandma in Louisiana and I found myself nodding off for a half sec and immediately realizing where I was and what happened, thankfully me and my dad were taking turns driving so he drove for a couple hours while I rested
I sure wish I could share this video that the 25mph speed limit sign with the people that live in my neighborhood. A LOT of the people in my neighborhood absolutely refuse to obey the speed limits. They actually get impatient and go into the oncoming lane to get around my car because I do follow the speed limit signs. We have an elementary school and some neighbors have children who love to ride their bicycles through the neighborhood. We also have wildlife in our area. It really makes me angry and I also put a dash camera in my car. Does my dash camera make any difference?! No!! The neighbors don’t care at all. Anyone have any ideas about something else I could do now since nothing thus far has made my neighbors obey our speed limits?!
Unfortunately it's only when a child is killed by a speeding neighbour that a community takes any notice & drive more sensibly at or below the speed-limit, or traffic-lights & pedestrian-crossings placed at dangerous locations!
Road-safety investigators refer to those deaths as 'sacrificial-victims'.
Have those high speed tables put in, where they're going into the oncoming lane, to get around you. Or those higher speed bump's or stop stick's like the law put's out. Have the neighbor's that will agree you & feel the same as you, to watch for those people & turn their tag number's in.
Roll/wad up a child's blanket, and leave it in random places out in the street in the neighborhood. Won't actually hurt anyone, but will sure get drivers' attention.
It’s her fault for speeding and not wearing her seat belt she was going too fast
The UK have approx 500 per month but that number is both injured and killed. But then we do drive on the other side of the road. Hence road injuries are still high despite cars becoming safer.
I've had my steering column snap on me in my car... Luckily I was going very slowly, turning a corner. It must have been terrifying for this lorry driver. It's was scary enough when it happened to me at slow speed...
Excellent advice, great educator
What, a fluke? That’s amazing.
What's the cost for the training to be a investigater
You go to school for some type of criminal justice degree and then when you get that you go through training.
It's a tragedy either person had died. The woman was going to fast for the curve it's hard to blame him. It was an accident in both cases.
The seatbelt theory is true, I genuinely feel naked without my seatbelt. Fortunately I have an alarm that goes off if my seatbelt is not on. I am a theatre nurse, I know what I see. Please wear your seatbelt.
How does the way his logbook looked rule out tiredness? He could still have slept bad the last night when he hadn't been working for days.
It doesn't - but the cause was ruled the drag link failure, not a driving error.
If the log book looks good, it doesn't rule out tiredness. But if his logbook shows he drove too long, then it would confirm he was. This driver had a previous 20 years with nothing on his record as well, which helped them assume he was operating properly. If he had multiple previous incidents, they may have tried to take a closer look at the driver being at fault
Howcould a traffic investigator so keen on lecturing about safety, drive in a death trap convertible? Now, investigate that.
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Doesn't matter who's at fault, trucking insurance will have to pay. News media makes sure they focus on the trucks too.
"DB is going to be late for work..".
"Why?".
"Well, actually, he is sitting in his new car, the one he got two days ago, and it is right outside the gate...".
"So he is here and not coming in?".
"Well, he IS sitting in his new car. But he is sitting in it and the car is upside down in the ditch, along with three other cars in varying states of damage...".
"Oh...... I guess that will be an excused absence then.....".
It happened to me when a drunk got three other vehicles, mine included.......... And it happened FAST.... But my seat belt was fastened and the barrel roll down the road was, in fact, very interesting. But I DID have to be extracted from the car. Injuries? Yes, well, I had a separated shoulder and the stitches from the surgery three days before had ripped out leaving a terrible scar. But the seat belt and air bag were a real blessing.....
1 in 4? I find that number highly suspicious.
Always wear seatbelt, insist all your passengers to each wear one too. Don’t drive angry. Wait a bit longer after you get a green light to make sure everyone has stopped in the traffic. Avoid driving behind or to the side of 18 wheeler trucks, if you have no choice keep a plenty of distance from them. Got it.....
i have experienced micro-sleep, and let me tell you the panic and despair knowing i had another hour of driving was immeasurable, and i was in a car not a semi.
I was wondering the same thing.
My school friend died after a trucker hit him the trucker walked away unharmed but my school friend lost his life
This was a very fascinating video.
Eight years! Eight lossy years for ending the lives of two innocent people! Then to top it off he was drunk, invented a fake driver and he was drunk!
People get far more punishment than that for far less crimes than that. Why? Because it was a car instead of a gun? Because it was a drunk driver? A car is just as deadly as a gun. Drunk driving should never be any kind of defense or excuse. He knew what he did was wrong or he wouldn't have run away and invented such a lie.
So you are fighting with whom you are dating? Then (in separate cars) you get into an accident with one another?
I would not believe his story for 50 million dollars!
Poor manufacturing of a vehicle can also play a roll in a crash
Just 8 years for killing people DUI style... Sorry man needs put to death as with anyone that kills someone while DUI.
Really sad about that young immature couple couldn't get along better than that.... Right when your that upset and especially a woman that upset you really shouldn't get on the road driving in an emotional fit.
I was guilty of falling asleep while driving a school bus.... BUT I bought it for personal use, I don't work as a bus driver, just had bought it to convert it to an RV and had a long trip and it was comfortable to drive, I use to do this all the time on road trips, thank God I've never had an incident, I sleep with my eyes open and you wouldn't know I was asleep unless you tried to talk to me that I still keep on driving about like normal other than I weave just a little according to my Wife who has been riding with me for 18 years and seen me do it hundreds of times. I just call it "auto pilot".
Auto pilot nice one 😎
Women have fewer accident...Not more.
@Miso, thank you. The point of not driving mad is a good point. Saying "especially a woman" makes people think less of your statement than they should
I didn't think i'd actually like this show but it's actually really cool
I work in insurance - they are all accidents, regardless of fault. If they were not called accidents, they would be called 'on purpose'. There, investigate that!
Some British police forces in Britain don't use the word accident anymore, they call them incidents or collisions. Accident sounds like it was unavoidable.
@@oldbatwit5102 RTC or road traffic collisions
My son was killed even wearing his seat belt and so was his fiancee so no they don't always save lives
An accident investigator wearing a pistol. Perfect. What's he gonna do? Kill someone, or force the evidence to comply? Typical cop logic.
You never know. There might be something lurking behind one of those safety cones.
In terms of there being NO accidents, I disagree. Sometimes accidents actually do happen because neither person in car crashes intended to crash. Just because it was irresponsibility or human error doesn't mean that it was intentional. In some cases tho it is intentional.
I didn't know Steven Spielberg drove big rigs
Dashcams will put this show out of business muy pronto.
When I was driving I wouldn't even start the car before my seat belt was on and if I had a passenger I would let them know to put on they're seat belt or we go nowhere. No if I'm a front seat passenger I always buckle up cause rather yall know it or not,the passengers always ends up either dead or hurt bad so please buckle up.
This is why you need to wear a seatbelt
Yes
Having driven myself ,,ok
There is point oftail gating big rigs to concerve fuel,,,, but cars do not under stand 1
Priniple in doing that, its called a vacuum effect,if you get to close it will suck you right into the rear of the rig,,, alsoif a rig touches its brakes it can pull you in,,,or foot from gas ok
the truck drivers case is the one thatalmost killed us whan the draglink just quits and breaks but that disaster could be avoided just hit the gas and gradually use the engine brake together with the trailer brake put your hazards on ,until you stop but REMEMBER NO FOOT BRAKE
In the first storey only eight years behind bars he killed two people
All these rapid cuts and superfast delivery of dialogue really gave me a headache.
The left turn driver is at fault usually
The sister goes under airbag and hits dash?
But she Is not driving , would make more sense to find out that the car was hit while in the intersection after the brother went for help
How do they explain the driver is the guy who is not in the car
All cars need front and rear cameras.
RULE NUMBER 1 ALWAYS PUT ON YOUR SEATBELT PEOPLE T^T
I honestly believe is a 42-year truck driver the government should make everybody on the road have some sort of acknowledgment of trucks of how long it takes them to stop where they're blind spots are no just a simple things if nothing else. And I do not believe that it's right because I did not believe it's safe on the highway especially the interstates where they have a 70 or 75 minor speed limit and trucks are going down to 63 or 65 which causes anxiety from drivers behind them they get impatient and usually that causes an accident or the driver of the truck it's stressed out from holding up traffic that he makes a bad decision. but I believe everybody on the road should have acknowledgment of semi trucks because there are so many on the road these days.. oh yeah and PS stop going to the left shoulder when you have a flat tire go to the right shoulder that's why it's designed the way it is and it's wider for you to get off the road.
So he brought two eggs to a deadly crash site?