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If he matched the truck's speed before pulling in front of him, would it reduce the risk of the jackknife situation you described? Seems like it would to me.
by trefn 16y ago
If he matched the truck's speed before pulling in front of him, would it reduce the risk of the jackknife situation you described? Seems like it would to me.
- sp4rki 16y agoActually there was one other outcome possible if the cars made contact at a wrong angle (which was not that probable since the pickup was against a barrier and the engineers car was driving straight in the lane): The pickup would have pushed against the barrier some more that it would have probably stopped the car or at least reduce the speed at which it was traveling, while at the same time pushing the car in front to the opposite side, maybe making spin in place. If things went wrong in this situation at worse he'd have a car in a worse state and the man in the pickup could have died if the barrier made him topple over. The probability of the pick-up going into traffic again (which would make the car in front collide with the barrier, which could be fatal) was really small... hell uuid duplicate probability small at that.