Your neighbor DESERVED THE SAFETY AWARD since it's 15+1 OVER!!My neighbor is now on 90 day CDL suspension for 61 mph on a 45 construction zone. Be careful out there.
Eating while Driving is one of the MANY DISTRACTIONS and as such is easily seen as Dangerous Driving and it was OBVIOUS in his case.This could happen. Even if he was eating and choked, i dont see it as irresponsible but rather a bodily function. Horrible that someone died but i hope Indiana doesnt go out of their way to Fry this driver.
Sad, to have a bad cough do that, & no doubt its possible.
From time to time throughout my life I've had attacks of sneezing fits, some are quite bad, thankfully I never had a bad one while driving. If I had it would not have been a good thing for me or anyone around me.
I'm no longer on the big road, but I drive on interstate occasionally, I don't understand the truck drives nor 4 wheelers drivers that refuse to slow down to the SPEED LIMIT in posted construction zones. Not long back I was going through a construction zone, I slowed down to the posted speed limit, an 18 wheeler run up behind me & it seemed he wanted to push me to the speed he wanted to go, for he got right on my bumper. Some drivers seem to go out of their way to get a ticket & or to cause or be involved in a bad wreck.
Road construction statistics show it is a good idea to obey road construction signs.
My opinion as a former UPS Freight safety trainer,it is better to have paid a fine for disobeying the law.
Then it is to suffer regret from injuring,or taking the life of someone because of ones error in judgment.
Road Construction Accident Statistics
I'm not trying to make excuses but if you run the construction speed limit (usually 40-45) you will get run over. I generally run about 5 over.
And then the car in front of you starts to run 5 over because you are creeping up on him, and then the guy in front of him runs 5 over. Next thing you know, everyone is piled up on the ass of one guy who decided to go the speed limit. In all honesty, what does 5 over get you besides a chance at a ticket? You're still going to have the genius going 90 in his SUV with a cup of coffee and a cellphone flashing his brights from 3 ft. off your bumper.
I leave a football field of space in front of me in construction zones. That's my out. I do the speed limit.
BubbaSkinner said:And you call yourself a road driver!
I've seen some of our road drivers run 68 (when we could still run 68) through 45mph construction zones. Idiots.