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Not suicide loads,its in how they are loaded.
Coils loaded that if they break loose and can roll towards the cab,that means it was loaded suicide,if load can roll to either side of the trailer,that is called regular.Eitther way,hauling coils can be very dangerous if your not carefull chaining them down
It's a preventable accident - period.
The driver should lose everything and serve jail time for his failure to do his job and killing these people.
I don't feel sorry for the guy a bit, I do for the people who have to deal with the loss of their love ones.
If files are not charged, then what does it take to have them filed. It is too obvious that the driver was neglectful.
Honestly from what I was told there was less problems with this when criss-crossing the chains on them was the norm, but now the D.O.T. frowns on that for whatever reason. No one has ever really been able to explain it to me.
How long after he was hard on the brakes did he notice the feel was not right? Do we know how far that was? Was he in the process of looking for a safe place to pull over? Even the Authorities have yet to file charges, but a couple of you who I doubt were there have decided he should rot in jail for his gross negligence. I'm sure some here will say that you had some private (secret) conversation with people on the scene and they told you all that you needed to know.The truck driver, 33-year-old Israel Rankin, of Paoli, Ind., told police he was forced to slam on his brakes a few minutes prior to the crash. Rankin said after that his load didn't feel right.
Rankin said after that his load didn't feel right.
That is a primary key. As mentioned, it may have been just moments and the driver was looking for a safe place to stop to check and re-secure the load. It may have also been quite some time and he figured he'd look at it when he stopped for fuel/food/toilet/whatever. He may deserve nothing but sympathy and he may deserve a conviction. None of us can know.
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