[s-cars] Audi TT accident

[LL - NY]

I made that point earlier. Just not sure why the rig swerved in the first
place,
but once he began to swerve, there was no chance on him controlling it. I
posted this on the saab9-2X.com site and one of the posters there said he
used be a long haul trucker. He said, even when everything met regs, a
fully loaded rig (or bus) can stop reasonably (but by no means in car like
stopping distances, he said roughly 5X a car's stopping distance, in
proportion
to speed, which as we know for cars increases with the square of the speed)
in a straight line. Period. He said, "emergency manuvers" is not even in the

vocabulary. His complaint is how many people in cars and SUVs (used to)
fill in his braking cushion. His advice, respect a big rigs space, cuz then
need
it. He feared those overloaded trucks as much as we should, and he said
theres a lot more of them out on the roads than we'd realize. And our
current
administration wants to open up our highways to even less regulated trucks
from South of the Border?

LL - NY

On 3/20/06, Alex Kowalski <hypereutectic1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the guy is about as lucky as human beings get.  The Audi was
> squashed in just the right way to save him.
>
> But what I find a little strange about this conversation is that people
> are
> picking apart the qualities and survivability of the car, but not picking
> apart the fact that the truck driver on the Long Island Expressway was
> 16,000 pounds overweight.  That guy, from the reports I've read, has a few
> tickets and citations to deal with, but he wasn't the person driven into
> the
> barrier and then got hammered absolutely flat by a bus!!!!  Don't you
> think
> it's a little macabre to be talking about the survivability of the
> *victim*
> of the accident?
>
> This idiot in the frigging truck caused the accident, he was overweight
> and
> he knew it, and yet somehow it seems we're dissecting whether or not the
> guy
> in the Audi should have survived?  He shouldn't have survived, because
> that
> as**ole in the truck was driving an illegal rig.
>
> It could happen to you, and I don't care if you're in a Maybach, you'll
> still be lucky to survive.
>
> Let's put the blame and the suspicion where it should be, for Pete's sake.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> '87 5KCSTQ (not crushed under an overweight big rig)
> '86 5KCSTQ (not pushed under the big rig by a careening bus)
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