You don't have to be close to have a problem. Back in July, on my way
to Jon's, I saw something in the road quite a ways ahead. Thought it
was nothing, just a shadow, maybe an animal crowwing the road. By the
time I got close enough to see what it was, it was damn near too late.
A truck had shredded a tire there and left a HUGE chunk of tread in the
middle of the road. Luckily I was able to avoid it by hitting the
shoulder (almost no traffic, thank God!).
HOP wrote:
>
> A few months back here in Houston a lady was in a neon on the feeder road
> and a chunk of leaf spring flew off a overpass and went through her driver
> side window and hit her in the face. Bum luck... But they did find the 18
> wheeler it came off of down the road. They put the blame on the driver of
> the truck, for not properly maintaining his vehicle. " Dak content" Watch
> for road debris while driving your Dak, And don't ride so close to the car
> in front of you. To possibly avoid being hit by what ever gets kicked up by
> the car in front of you.......I.E. Firestones...
> Hop.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@texas.net>
> To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 7:37 AM
> Subject: DML: RE: Man killed in Ft. Worth
>
> >
> > I feel for the man who was killed (and his family as well)...but they
> should
> > NOT hold the him responsible for something that was left in the road.
> They
> > have signs up in FL (and most other states) telling you that it's illegal
> to
> > litter...yet, people still do it.
> >
> > So this driver is going to be punished for someone else's junk?!?
> >
> > They use "Science" to track down a killer with just a piece of hair,
> > clothing, a shoe print, or the make/model of a bullet (and find the gun it
> > came from) so the law should apply the same to the angle iron that was
> > laying in the road. (I'll bet ya it was from a state road workers truck
> > though)...and if it was, they'd get off totally free...not put in jail.
> > (Don't ya love our system?)
> >
> > - Bernd
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > Subject: DML: Man killed in Ft. Worth
> >
> > Hey gang, I apologize for this post being kind of gruesome. I heard on
> the
> > radio this morning that a man was killed in Ft. Worth on loop 820. A
> truck
> > in front of him ran over a piece of angle iron in the road, it flew into
> the
> > air, went through his windshield, and killed him. The police are holding
> > the truck driver liable for the man's death.
> >
> > I feel sorry for the man that was killed (and his family). I think the law
> > says you are responsible for avoiding road debris, and that's why the
> truck
> > driver is being held responsible. But geez, I drive a lot in Dallas/Ft.
> > Worth and I see all kinds of stuff on the roads all the time. Traffic
> moves
> > so fast and is so dense here, 5 people may run over the same piece of junk
> > in the road before anyone even notices it.
> >
> > I'm no lawyer, so I'm wondering what I would do if I were the truck driver
> > being held liable. Don Mallet... anyone else... thoughts/ideas?
> >
> > Brett Forehand
> > '94 Dakota CC Sport
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