Swift4me, I had same thing happen about 10 years ago and I was lucky I didn't pull out as soon as green light came on for me

Tactical20... that is exactly what happened to me. I still see it in my head at night.

Pete

Very sorry to hear about this and I pray for the accident victims quick recovery.

But, there are way to many people driving that are in a great hurry, not really paying attention to what they are doing and just plain dangerous.

Slow down, be careful out there and some common courtesy to other drivers would not hurt. I see lots of people who just want to be ahead of as many folks as possible. Like its some kind of race...it gets worse every year.

Maybe I never noticed it when I was younger but it seems like a lot more people blow through stop signs from township gravel roads where they intersect with a highway. I know there are people who are just crossing the highway and continuing on the township gravel or a county paved road that don't like having to stop but there's a reason for the sign placement (usually). Another thing I see is people who stop but do so by rapid braking at the end instead of just slowing down. If no one is behind me on the through highway, I'll often slow a bit or at least cover the brake when I see someone approaching a stop sign at a good speed. I don't know why people want to wear on their brakes so much...

Prayers sent!

Hate to hear that.

Had a rear brake line blow out of my truck two years ago going to up the convention coming upto a 4 way stop. Probably one of the sickest feelings I ever had as I went through the stop.

They brought him out of the coma yesterday to see how he's doing, they say he moved arms n legs, be on respirator for a week because of collapsed lungs
It was a county blacktop -hyway intersection, some have rumble strips, some don't

Broken pelvis, skull fracture, man he's gonna be recovering a long time, they will wake him up again on tues

Sent withprayer

Sorry to read that.

One of the best guys I've ever known (and his wife) were killed by running through a stop sign (on a motorcycle). Hit a corn wagon in the intersection! What a lose. He was so safety orientated, USA induro cart (go cart) champion at or near the time!

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30 some years ago, last farmer I worked for he blew a stop sign, killed his wife and a newlywed couple on their way to the honeymoon

I hope your friend recovers quickly and the trucker can recover and accept it wasn't his fault and get back to driving soon and that his employer also realizes it wasn't his fault.


we came very close to getting smoked this last summer. my 15 year old daughter with learners permit had been driving but we had switched when she got tired about 30 minutes earlier , she was crying when it was over it was very real to her that she probably would not have seen the truck before it went behind the building at the corner and to known it was moving far to fast to stop in the distance it had left while towing a goose neck trailer of culvert pipe.

we were on the state highway and the truck was on a county and had a stop sign , he never even slowed down.

lots of bad stuff out there on the roads , everyone needs to do there part your not just driving for you sometimes you have to drive for them also

drivers ed was saying make sure your watching ditch line to ditch line , I say further , try and watch as wide as you can to reasonably see deer still in the field about to bolt , cars not going to stop at intersections , watch for brake lights out in front of you an make sure to keep your following distance generous.

Curt is in surgery right now to fix his ribs and collar bone, man he sure got hit hard

I hope he comes out of this OK. But I still think he should get a ticket or do time for that stupid stunt. That's how people get killed.

Failure to stop I would expect, he's not a football fan packer guy, anybody can screw up

What does being a Packer fan got to do with blowing a stop sign?

I know that but that dosen't lessen the severity of what happened. It could have been some ones loved ones that could have been killed. We all do stupid things but that dosen't give you a free pass.
How many times did he blow a stop sign with out any consequences?
I hope he comes out of this Ok.

Yep they can. But most screwups don't have the potential to cost someone else their life. Glad it was a truck and not an older subcompact car like kids often drive.

Good to hear all involved will recover.

I doubt he runs stop signs on purpose, he was combining a work trip with a trip to state wrestling tournaments, not a drinker.
I could see a drinker getting charged with jail time for blowing a stop sign, if he was on his phone he surely would be charged for that during investigation of accident

My boss in NY ran more red lights than he stopped for, I wouldn't feel bad if an idiot like that got hit, I hated being in his vehicle

They bone grafted and plated his collar bone, flexible titanium plates for the ribs they could get to, now to try to remove old blood n stuff from his lungs, they said his oxygen in blood level came up right away after working on his ribs