Car vs. DOT truck, Extensive details in description
Video is courtesy @dude_scruffy (Twitter handle)
***This video is being presented for educational and safety purposes only. Portions of the video have been cut to help protect the privacy of those involved.***
The video indicates possible contributing factors including (1) slick road surfaces from rain earlier in the evening, (2) a possible overcorrection or loss of traction on the vehicle, (3) an abrupt move into the lane by another driver who continued to drive on (4) velocity of the vehicle faster than the cars around it (5) lack of attenuation at the sound wall barrier, though wall is significant set back from roadway (6) potential for “underride” when striking the rear of the DOT vehicle. (7) The Nissan Versa was tested for small overlap front crash protection starting in 2014; in that model year, it received a poor rating on that crash test. (8) The velocity and sharp angle at which it struck the truck and sound barrier.
Per State Patrol: “DOT trucks were doing debris clean up southbound 35W at 50th St. DOT had emergency lights illuminated, and were on the right shoulder. Traffic was slowing, and merging left. The Nissan Versa overcorrects due to slowing traffic, loses control. Nissan goes back across slowed traffic. making impact with the DOT truck, and then the concrete sound wall. Injury type: Fatal”
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You know what pisses me off? All of those cars (even the dump truck) driving in the lane right next to that fire truck, some not even slowing down. Every single one of them deserves a big ass ticket.
It was my mom's friend's son that lost his life in the crash so sad.
The victim was going way too fast for conditions, making quick lane changes instead of being slow and methodical. Could have been distracted based on the slow reaction to the CRV’s lane change. Personally l feel like this would all have been avoided if that driver would have just slowed down. I do 140k plus miles a year out here and this is the same story I see every single day. People in way too big of a hurry to go nowhere. Is that extra 10 seconds you gain really worth the risk to your life? I guess in this instance it was.
person that changed lanes is at fault…
Nobody in this video knows how to drive
Feel bad and shows how quick life can end 🙏 That poor soul at least went quick and didn’t feel a thing.
Very sad for loss of life.
Those gas saving cars have literally no weight on the rear and are very unstable when driving. Partly the car's fault.
A lot of contributing factors and lets start with road design, an on ramp and off ramp within yards of one another. Is there a speed reduction at this congested area.
The soft tail truck.
The guy/gal who has always to be in front.
The driver who wont's to cut in and exit, when they should have filtered down a lane at a time from way back.
An accident is a series of mistakes that build into a very serous one and this one starts at the road designer as they often do. Just to save some instant money, but then cost peoples lives in the long run.
At first I thought some idiot was just driving too fast, second angle you actually realize the crv pulled out in front of the hatchback. Lucky it was the only car involved and the truck it hit was a small dump bed. However, dump bed at face height equals something no airbag can protect you from.
Good lord it was so quick! And then to read it was fatal?? Heartbreaking 💔
My condolences to the victims family & friends.
Lanes beside the firetruck should have been blocked. Cars are speeding by right beside the truck.
Rest In Peace. May God have mercy on your soul.
Thank you MN Safety for showing this. We all need to know why it is important to be alert and drive safely every single time.
Looks like a hit and run!
All the warning lights and nobody knows how to slow down, even if its just 10mph….it makes a difference.
What a sad senseless loss of life because someone wanted to change 2 lanes of traffic in one fell swoop. The CRV owner is CLEARLY at fault and cost someone their life….. that's manslaughter
Person that cut em off just drives away and continues on their day like nothing happened after killing someone. Hope they find that Honda CR-V driver and ruin their life.
Great work 1st responders!
Sad to hear the driver died.
IDK what MNDOT could've done to make this any safer. The Versa driver was in a hurry, not driving safely for road conditions. Looks like a lot of factors all came together for just wrong place – wrong time. Was the driver killed? Report says "fatal" but there's a woman (not a MNDOT worker) standing behind the wrecked car. Retired Indiana DOT here, have lost co-workers to careless drivers. RIP.
"Injury type: Fatal"
. stop the texts , stop the wrecks
. Stop the texts , stop the wrecks