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LT419 · 09-01-2011, 03:15 PM

Tractor trailers are even scarier when their drivers are asleep...

I made a trip down to SC in July, and had I left a minute earlier, I'd probably be dead. A dual-trailer FedEx truck whose driver had dozed off plowed through the eastbound I-84 guardrail, cleared the 15 foot grass median, then broke through the westbound guardrail and struck a pickup, sending it flying down the nearby embankment and killing its driver.

I was maybe the 20th car to show up. Couldn't go anywhere since the truck was jackknifed across all three lanes. Sat there for 2-3 hours before they funneled us the wrong way down the nearby on-ramp (only to run into an hour's worth of stop-and-go traffic). Fun times.

09-01-2011, 03:15 PM	#9 (permalink)
LT419 Base Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Connecticut Posts: 76 Drives: 11 370Z GM 6MT SP Rep Power: 14	Tractor trailers are even scarier when their drivers are asleep... I made a trip down to SC in July, and had I left a minute earlier, I'd probably be dead. A dual-trailer FedEx truck whose driver had dozed off plowed through the eastbound I-84 guardrail, cleared the 15 foot grass median, then broke through the westbound guardrail and struck a pickup, sending it flying down the nearby embankment and killing its driver. I was maybe the 20th car to show up. Couldn't go anywhere since the truck was jackknifed across all three lanes. Sat there for 2-3 hours before they funneled us the wrong way down the nearby on-ramp (only to run into an hour's worth of stop-and-go traffic). Fun times. __________________ 2011 Gun Metallic 370Z Base 6MT + Sport Pkg. "...Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"