Rural car wreck

[goeduck]

Furthermore it puts pressure on everybody from the vendor downstream to produce at once... without gettineg compensated accordingly. It's really simple to sit at a desk and punch in optimum transit times, but nothing is optimum in the real world.

Personally I think next day delivery should cost way, way more than it does to discourage the practice. So much of it is not run with the regular freight where they can pickup and drop off with the same truck. At work my company does not flow down the cost of next day shipping, but I refuse to do it anyway. I would rather plan ahead than get into to panic mode so many seem to think is normal.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
To paraphrase an old adage; "An oversight on my part shouldn't create an emergency on your end." Then again may we just don't get it, and this is the way of the future. Perhaps we should be talking about this over in the "You know you're getting old when..." thread.

 

[robbyr]

Well I found the young man's Facebook page. He was 26. Apparently the child only suffered a fractured arm and some kind of lung injury. There's something to be said for car seats.

 

[two_bit_score]

Personally I think next day delivery should cost way, way more than it does to discourage the practice. So much of it is not run with the regular freight where they can pickup and drop off with the same truck. At work my company does not flow down the cost of next day shipping, but I refuse to do it anyway. I would rather plan ahead than get into to panic mode so many seem to think is normal.

Do you recall when “just in time” inventory practices started?

 

[CobyRupert]

I am afraid you are right. I ordered a set of stainless measuring cups for the kitchen a week or two ago. We got tired of the plastic ones getting flipped around in the dishwasher and not drying off by themselves. I was in my shop sharpening my saw chains on a Sunday and someone pulls up in an unmarked, nearly empty Transit, asked me if I lived there and hands me the measuring cups. I did not pay anymore than standard ground freight (I always select the lowest cost freight) and someone along the line thinks I need them special delivery on a Sunday. This concept of instant satisfaction perpetuates waste in transport which drives unneeded traffic on our roads. Crazy.

uhm.....so does ordering new measuring cups because "We got tired of the plastic ones getting flipped around in the dishwasher and not drying off by themselves." Noooo! The horror!!

 

[MossRoad]

Well I found the young man's Facebook page. He was 26. Apparently the child only suffered a fractured arm and some kind of lung injury. There's something to be said for car seats.

Yep. Car seats, when properly used, work really well.

 

[ovrszd]

Well I found the young man's Facebook page. He was 26. Apparently the child only suffered a fractured arm and some kind of lung injury. There's something to be said for car seats.

Thanks for the update. More closure.

 

[dmccarty]

I'm fine. A classmate of mine retired from EMS a year or two ago but is a volunteer fireman so was at the scene. He was telling me some of the things he's seen. The worst was in the past year where a motorcyclist was hit by someone passing in a no passing zone and flipping him into an 18 wheeler. It takes a special kind of person to be a first responder.

Yep.

I drive a 20ish mile stretch of rural highway that is a 55mph and MOSTLY straight. However, there are a few slight turns here and there. There are some houses right near the road where the slight turns are located. I have seen several high speed accidents in that location where people have drive right off the road and into a tree in front of a house. I remember one where the FD had to cut the doors and roof of the car to get out the victim(s). I never heard if the victim(s) lived but I can't believe they did.

A few years ago, on the same road but in a long straight section there was a head on collision. One driver was killed. I saw a young volunteer firefighter walking away from the scene being comforted by an older firefighter. Not a good scene at all.

Most of the accidents on this road are at a major intersection that is just flat out dangerous. The intersection has too much going on and not enough space. I see, or see evidence of, an accident at least every week or so.

Last week was the worse I have ever seen on that road. Complete carnage in less than 24 hours. Driving home from work, I saw a car down in a deep ditch. Two women in side and I think they just drove off the road and slid down into the ditch. A short distance later was a major accident where one car crossed the double yellow line and hit another car. Thankfully they just hit the front driver side fender and it was a glancing blow instead of a head on collision. As it was, both cars went off the road but I don't think anyone was seriously hurt. Then I got down to the major intersection and another ugly accident was being clean up. Never seen that many accidents on the road in all of these years.

But it was not over.

The next morning was another accident. This one with three cars. It looked like one car was turning off the road and a car came up behind them at a high rate of speed and just hit them. Both cars were totaled for sure. I think the victims had already been transported to the ER. BUT, it was still not over because some guy was not paying attention and bumped the car in front of him in a backed up traffic. So it was five accidents in less than 24 hours.

The VFD was really busy.

I have lost count of the number of accidents but I would guess I have seen 20+ on that road at this point. Most of them are people just driving off the road. I don't know if they fall asleep or get distracted with the radio or the phone....

Later,
Dan

 

[turnkey4099]

Thing is, they are not certain what happend to the truck driver and why he crossed into the other two lanes. Anyway you cut it, 81 is pretty much separated with a median of some sort between north and south bound (2 lanes each). For the guy to go into opposing traffic, can't imagine what happened to him. When I first read about the story, I figured it was late at night. It was only 2PM.

All ssorts of things happen to drivers. My neighbor is heavy equip operator for the Department of Transportation. A few years ago, plowing the state route through town he left the road and plowed over a coffee stand. Uncontrollable coughing spell. Fortunately only property damage.

 

[turnkey4099]

Yep.

I drive a 20ish mile stretch of rural highway that is a 55mph and MOSTLY straight. However, there are a few slight turns here and there. There are some houses right near the road where the slight turns are located. I have seen several high speed accidents in that location where people have drive right off the road and into a tree in front of a house. I remember one where the FD had to cut the doors and roof of the car to get out the victim(s). I never heard if the victim(s) lived but I can't believe they did.

A few years ago, on the same road but in a long straight section there was a head on collision. One driver was killed. I saw a young volunteer firefighter walking away from the scene being comforted by an older firefighter. Not a good scene at all.

Most of the accidents on this road are at a major intersection that is just flat out dangerous. The intersection has too much going on and not enough space. I see, or see evidence of, an accident at least every week or so.

Last week was the worse I have ever seen on that road. Complete carnage in less than 24 hours. Driving home from work, I saw a car down in a deep ditch. Two women in side and I think they just drove off the road and slid down into the ditch. A short distance later was a major accident where one car crossed the double yellow line and hit another car. Thankfully they just hit the front driver side fender and it was a glancing blow instead of a head on collision. As it was, both cars went off the road but I don't think anyone was seriously hurt. Then I got down to the major intersection and another ugly accident was being clean up. Never seen that many accidents on the road in all of these years.

But it was not over.

The next morning was another accident. This one with three cars. It looked like one car was turning off the road and a car came up behind them at a high rate of speed and just hit them. Both cars were totaled for sure. I think the victims had already been transported to the ER. BUT, it was still not over because some guy was not paying attention and bumped the car in front of him in a backed up traffic. So it was five accidents in less than 24 hours.

The VFD was really busy.

I have lost count of the number of accidents but I would guess I have seen 20+ on that road at this point. Most of them are people just driving off the road. I don't know if they fall asleep or get distracted with the radio or the phone....

Later,
Dan

The odd part is in front of my house - two lane state hiway (1 lane each direction) posted 60 but the flow is 65. My house is about 1 mile from a curve on the N and 1/2 mile from a curve on the S. Neither of them are sharp. I have had 7 accidents before I quit counting. right in front of my house involving cars off the road. First was right after they rebuilt the hiway and put up gardrails right in front of me (big, deep ditch crosses under hiway there). Guy coming S took the gardrail head on and wiped it and 5 of the big posts right off. Then a guy, again coming S went off road to the right, up a big bank, back down and into the ditch winding up witht the car verticle against the bank. Gal went to sleep crossed over the opposite park lane and then back across to be t-boned by a Semi (fatal). latest was a loaded cnip trjuck N bound ran off the road and parked it square across my driveway. A few others of similar nature and a 50' tape would cover all the accidents. Weird. No-one can explain why.