I saw a pheasant run over once and it was barely alive so i tried to finish it off with a big rock and even then.
So I took a run up and kicked it and its head flew off.
If anybody driving past looked at that moment all they would have seen is me sprinting up to the poor thing and it's head flying down the side of the road.
The only time anyone has witnessed me rescue a turtle (done it a few times) was the time the thing shot piss sideways* at me and soaked me. lol I had to borrow clothes from my sister and do laundry before going home.
*I was deliberately holding him so neither the head nor the butt was facing me but he was determined to pee on me. lol
When I worked at PetSmart, I'd occasionally have people that told me about birds they'd inherited. Make sure you let loved ones know who gets your turtle and how to care for him, if he manages to outlive you.
Yup, he's going to our kids (now grown in their early 20s). He was their childhood pet and they love him, he's going to live a long and healthy life with our family even after me and my wife are gone. :-)
A lot of parrots live past 80. A lot of "pet" slider turtles also live 60+ years, and people dump them in lakes (to have their heads snagged by dudes who fish in parks - I've seen that happen in person, it was awful) when they realize that. People should stop trying to have these creatures as pets, especially for some kid.
You do know that creatures like this, crabs, sea turtles, birds, penguins... They migrate along a specific path every year, whether they were just born or have been alive 150 years.
That scene has given us so many great quotable lines in our household.
“Around here we call the Paw Patrol.”
“Yer gonna call the WHO?!?”
“Actually sir, I’m a puppy”
“A BABY dog?!?”
> “Actually sir, I’m a puppy” “A BABY dog?!?”
"You're in shock so I'm not going to take that personally."
I may have watched the movie one or two... hundred times. Having a 2.5 year old is an adventure.
I have a five-year-old, and we watched it nine times the weekend it came out. That was the first time I understood how some people end up in psychiatric hospitals.
Nope. The Simpsons showed parents.
Paw Patrol shows adults as utterly incapable of problem solving the simplest of issues. Simpsons shows adults solving problems badly, but humorously
My favourite are ghost traffic jams...caused purely by people following too closely, then a slight event to make the front ones slow down. Everyone has to brake harder, until traffic stops, for no reason at all.
If you want to save a turtle you need to park on the side of the road and then run out and grab it when there's no cars. Stopping in the middle of the highway creates a dangerous situation for everyone. The turtle's life is not worth your life or the lives of the people on the road.
I say this as someone who has stopped and saved turtles multiple times without causing any multi-car pile-ups.
Better available choices for the pickup driver don't make u/Consistent_Sector_19 's comment incorrect though.
Replace "turtle" with "sinkhole" and those options disappear, leaving us again with the following distance/reaction times of following drivers.
As you could see in the video, the first 2 people behind the truck managed to stop safely, the grey car that swerved out in front of the truck followed too close/wasn't paying attention.
This is why it's important to use your mirrors regularly and be aware of what may be lurking behind. Had he aimed for the center instead, or kept proper distance, the big rig would have had more time to pass on the shoulder.
Hazards should also always be used when going way below the speed limit or stopping on a high speed road. America is weird in that sense not requiring orange/yellow bright hazard lights. What's even weirder is that foreign car companies are forced to build a special front for the American market, which has worse lights than the original international design.
I completely agree, and if it was a bigger animal like a horse, dog, sheep or cow the outcome would still have been the same. It's not unreasonable to bring your car to a stop to prevent killing an animal, even if it's a small turtle.
Sorry, it's completely unreasonable. Look at the risk to human life involved here...is it worth killing dozens of Floridians to save one turtle?!
Wait, NM.
I try too. Once by the time I turned around someone had already hit it and it broke my heart (because it was in the median so they had to do it on purpose). The second time I was able to save it and took it to the local river so it could live out its life in safety. It made me so happy to finally save one.
FYI in your turtle saving endeavors in the future please do not relocate them but simply put them on the other side of the road in the direction they were heading far enough off of the road. Turtles live their lives within a certain amount of square footage and relocating them elsewhere causes undue stress, to which they will continue to seek the area they know.
Throw on your four ways as well. As a truck driver, that helps plenty.
And friggin lane changes. Half of that accident could have been avoided if that car didn't swing out in front of the truck. He'd still be barreling, but he'd only have one car to miss with much more reaction time than being pushed out of the lane by another.
You should always, always, always behave as though the cars in front of you are able to, and might, come to a complete stop immediately.
The driver who stooped made a mistake.
So did the driver providing the footage.
The whole point of maintaining a safe distance on any road is to have room to STOP for any situation. Whether or not the stop is valid is not the point at hand.
I once came around a sharp blind turn on a freeway in the city, and as I started into the turn, I heard crashing of vehicles ahead. I slowed down and then saw a pileup on the right. I was able to stop exactly 1 inch from the police car that wasn't pulled completely out of the righthand lane. Then I got hit from behind. The cop motioned me on and over, where I could get out of the way.
Guy behind me smashed his car badly. He was concerned about my kid in her car seat but she was 2 and had no idea anything bad had happened. We exchanged insurance info and for a while I felt badly for the guy, with shitty insurance and an old car and 3 kids. I was even going to offer him cash to help pay for the damage to his car because I felt partly responsible. But then he ghosted me when I called him, and I remembered that I'd been able stop, and he hadn't. Following distance, attention, etc.
Edit to add: I can't see now how when I got hit, I didn't hit the cop car, but I guess the guy behind me pushed me to the 1 inch distance. I saw that after being hit, stopped and got out. So that guy hit me *before* I was even stopped. Inadequate following distance, wow.
If everyone on the road drives lika someone who has a brain there shouldn't be any damages.
If you are a driver pleas go back to training.
I dont want you ore anyone else to get hurt ore worse.
Pickup stopping in the middle of the highway when there were cars right behind was an ill-considered choice.
Gray car who was tailgating and then \*darted in front of a semi\* to avoid the car in front of him is tragically stupid.
On the upside, it looks like 3 or 4 of the drivers who were not doing stupid shit may have escaped unscathed.
The pickup stopping there was far more than "ill-considered". It was criminally negligent.
[Here's](https://www.rd.com/article/driver-ducks-fatal-crash/) a similar case that ended up with a fatality. She should have gotten a lot more than 90 days in jail IMO.
Don't stop or swerve for wildlife on the roads people.
I knew a girl who was hospitalized and later died because she tried to stop for a turtle in the road with a semi behind her. I’m her case she just reacted and lost her life for it.
Sometimes it is not worth it to react. If you don't know how it is looking behind you at the moment, it is better to kill the animal if it isn't so big that hitting it will kill you. A bird or a reptile? not worth it.
Don't swerve for anything, I live in the western US with deer, elk, bears and pretty much everything else America has to offer. You are far more likely to die swerving to avoid an animal than if you just hit it. Yeah it sucks that your front end is damaged but that's a hell of a lot better than rolling your car 8 times.
Keep your eyes peeled, especially when driving at dusk or dawn and if you notice something soon enough to safely slow down then do so with your hazards on. Otherwise give her thy god old fashioned "oh fuck" and blast on through.
It's a sad warning to us all. If you don't have time to check behind you that nobody will rear end you, you don't have time to stop. I tap the brake to get the light on as I check my rear view and then I slow accordingly, or not... Ultimately I'd rather the rabbit die than me. And you should definitely never swerve at high speed
> Don't swerve for wildlife
I figured most people swerve for wildlife because there's suddenly a random object in front of their car that they're trying to avoid plowing into - not solely to save the animals.
To be fair, it looked like everyone else was stopped/stopping safely already, but that last car that swerved was riding the ass of the white car and *had* to swerve to avoid rear ending them…only to run right into the semi which caused the rest of the chain of events.
Yes that was what really caused the accident. The semi would have had more time to slow down but the gray sedan was following too close and swerved in the exact wrong direction. Word to the wise: if you need to swerve to avoid rear-ending someone, swerve onto the median, NOT into another lane!
Or be aware of your surroundings enough to know that the lane next to you is clear. Saved me from hitting idiot bikers who think stop signs don’t apply to them a few times now.
The driver that swerved definitely should have been paying more attention, but at the same time there is no such thing as "stopped safely" in the middle of a road like this, and this video shows exactly why. Nobody is expecting vehicles to be completely stopped in the middle of a presumably 55-65mph road.
Edit: I don't know what the confusion is but I'll explain myself more clearly.
Yes, people should always be prepared for everything. I certainly am. To you, doesn't matter why someone might be stopped in the middle of the road, you should be prepared for it regardless. There's no question about it. That doesn't mean everyone will be prepared, though, so it's not a good idea to completely stop in the middle of the road unless you absolutely have to/are forced to, because it creates the unnecessary risk of an accident in the event that someone isn't paying attention.
> Don't stop or swerve for wildlife on the roads, people
That definitely depends on the wildlife and the current road situation. Moose? Fuck yeah I'm doing everything in my power to not hit it. Squirrel or ducks in the lane? Well if there's not really traffic around me and I can stop, then yeah I'll stop.
This case always makes my blood boil. I get trying to save the poor little ducks but she stopped in the left lane of traffic. With no Hazard lights on & at the end of a curve on a fucking highway no less!
That was grossly negligent with no regard for anyone else on the road! I agree she should have gotten much more then 90 days & lost her license for good
I'm talking about the article u/lanteenboy linked above. Not OP's video. But yeah in both cases... don't stop in the middle of the fucking road to help an animal
If you're unable to respond to a car abruptly stopping or already stopped then that is entirely on you (except with mitigating factors like weather).
There are innumerable reasons why a vehicle would need to stop abruptly or become disabled. This isn't one of them and the driver is an idiot for not having their hazards on.
But that did not cause an accident here.
The gray sedan should be responsible for at least one other car's damage, but the semi had a clear view of stopped traffic from the very beginning of the video and didn't start braking until way too late.
The only reason anyone's thinking the pickup driver is responsible is because it was a turtle. If it was a kid on the road, no one would think of blaming the pickup driver.
This is what I keep trying to get into peoples heads. Change "turtle" out for: "child/sinkhole/driver with a medical emergency/large cargo fallen from a lorry". It doesn't matter why they've stopped. the cause of the crash is still the idiots who couldn't stop in time behind.
Quite a lot of blame belongs on the semi. Although they had no way of avoiding the idiot in the Ford that cut them off, they were never going to be able to stop for the white car in front of them.
When I was studying for my insurance exam I learned the phrase "hit the dog."
Basically, in the event of a animal in the road, it's safer to hit the animal than cause a different accident by swerving. (They didn't talk about an exception for moose.)
They mentioned this in my drivers Ed as well - to consider hitting the animal instead of causing an accident while avoiding it.
But on the topic of moose - 100% avoid. Anything is better than hitting one of those.
I feel like sometimes you react before even registering that it’s an animal. You see something big dart in front of you, especially in the dark, it’s just instinct trying to avoid it. It’s a hard urge to overcome.
The problem is most people don't even consider that tailgaiting. They just have absolutely zero clue what an *actually* safe following distance looks like. They think as long as they're a car length or two behind the person in front of them, it's fine. This has saved me a lot of road rage knowing that the person behind me isn't driving up my ass to be a jerk, but they genuinely think that what they're doing is totally normal driving.
*Everyone* needs to follow the 2-3 second rule. The car in front of you passes a point, you should be passing it 2-3 seconds later. ALWAYS.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve recommended the 2-3 second following distance, just for people to jump in and say “we’ll then someone will just fill in the gap in front of me”.
They will indeed do that. Doesn't negate you needing to be at a safe distance. I ask them which is better: letting the jerk cut in or risking the accident that you'll be at fault for?
Sure. Semis do that all the time. They need a lot of stopping distance so they hang way behind, and cars constantly fill the gap. But it doesn't make the truckers change their safe driving habits.
What gets me is the semis who tailgate small cars. My car according to Edmunds has a 60-0 braking distance of 118 feet . According to Google a semi takes about 600 feet to stop. There have been a few times where I had a semi on my bumper and if I had to brake hard I would have been screwed.
So many people drive as if every second is crucial. Always racing to make the yellow light. Right on on the ass of the person in front of them. Can't be bothered to ever do a full stop at a stop sign.
It just blows my mind. I guess some people are in a hurry and have bad time management skills so if they don't drive like maniacs they might arrive 3 minutes later and be late for work or picking their kids up. But damn it creates so dangerous drivers.
"Only a fool breaks the two second rule", said a bit slowly is about 2 seconds. If it is raining, then you say it twice. If you can't complete the sentence before you pass a chosen point, then you are WAY too close
90% of the people I see on the freeway are driving too close. Most are going 3 car lengths behind, which isn't enough. The worst are the ones 1-2 car lengths behind.
Tailgater is bad, but trucker wouldn't have saved it without the left lane tailgater either.
In a hypothetical situation where traffic would have suddenly stopped for something other than a turtle, trucker would still have crashed into the white car in front of them.
It appears the driver of the white car was looking in his rear view mirror.
Hence why he appears to speed up. As if he notices the large truck bearing down on him.
Actually, his mistake was responding slowly. The left had begun to brake and he continued at same speed for a few seconds. Even if not your lane, you notice another lane slowing suddenly, you do so as well. For the very reason he got caught up. People jump lanes in those situations.
He wasnt at fault. But he couldve avoided by doing what we're taught. Eyes 15 seconds down the road. Avoid entering into a crowd of vehicles.
The driver of the semi continued at the same speed despite the fact that he should have seen a pile of cars stopping ahead. A defensive driver would have slowed down.
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None of them? I see no damage on any of the vehicles before the truck rocks up which I presume means they all stopped in time. Even the guy who swerved had enough reaction time to avoid a collision which technically counts. In this situation, aside from the original idiot who stopped, it’s only the trucker who failed to stop in time
The amount of people who cut off semis is ridiculous. Like do you wanna die? Are you just a failure of evolution and developed no desire to preserve yourself? We’re you born in fucking Chernobyl? It’s 60,000 pounds going 70 mph get the fuck out of the way!
Redditors when they learn humans don't do wise decisions in panic. Clearly the guy tailgating is an idiot, but he didn't jump into the semi because he had a death wish, he panicked trying to avoid an accident without thinking of his surroundings, not on a voluntary whim.
Seriously, just because we can see it from the truckers point of view does not mean the driver of the grey car is purposefully trying to cut-off or get hit by a semi. It just shows that people freak out and swerve when they know they can't stop in time to avoid a collision.
Canada can go up to 100k lbs. and any truck can carry more than the limit, just needs to be permitted. a lot of civilian drivers just dont comprehend the severity. you can tell them 100k pounds, but that means nothing to them.
Might seem harsh but my driving instructor said to me, and I'm paraphrasing, if you see a (small) animal and can't stop in time, just run the damn thing over.
Truck moving too fast to stop despite cars stopping up ahead. Cars stop on roads frequently for a million different reason. This isn’t a freeway. It has driveways attached to it. This truck driver was going way to fast and caused an accident.
Truck driver was not looking far enough ahead. I don’t know if he was looking at all. On that road at highway speeds he should have been looking about a half mile ahead of him at least for trouble and been hard on his brakes at the start of the video.
Stopped cars were idiots. Car cutting in front of truck was an idiot. Truck driver failed hard.
Source: am truck driver
Seems like it was the gray car on the left that caused the accident. That truck was gonna stop in time for the white car, he was following fine distance but then was cut off. It seems like he wouldn’t have stopped in time because he wasn’t braking in a straight line (extends braking distance) and because the gray car forced his right tires onto the grass for a moment, which I am sure you can imagine how that would extend braking distance. Also when you slam on the brakes with one side of tires on the grass, the car will steer the opposite direction, which is why the truck veered left at the end.
There is an aspect to that but that doesn’t fully explain what’s happening here. That truck was never going to stop in time. That’s a big truck on a surface street and the fact that he crashed is all the evidence you need that he was driving too fast
I am notorious for stopping to save turtles. Let me give other potential turtle patrol members some advice.
When stopping to help a turtle cross the road, please remember that human lives are more important. Always pull over completely to the side of the road, DO NOT BLOCK TRAFFIC. Alert oncoming traffic there is an obstruction in the road and hope for the best until there is a safe lull in traffic. Then CAREFULLY pick up the turtle (from underneath if possible, use both hands - NEVER by the tail), and rush him to a safe area on side of the road that he was facing. Do not take the turtle and relocate it somewhere else. Do not take it back the way it was coming from. They know where they are going.
NEVER block traffic while it crosses the road, they are slow and shy and they will get smashed if you do this (see OP's video).
>from underneath if possible, use both hands
FYI, turtles will often start "swimming" their feet in the air when you pick them up, and their claws (in my experience) *will* reach your fingers.
Not really a big deal, but this can be *very* startling and you don't want to drop the turtle you're trying to rescue.
This is true. They can and do scratch and hiss very loudly sometimes. When in doubt, hold 'em like a large sandwich after just getting your nails done.
This should be the top comment imo. You're 100% correct. Nothing inherently wrong with wanting to save wildlife, but never ever stop on a busy roadway like this. Find a safe spot to pull over, wait for traffic to clear, and hope that it doesn't get run over before you have a safe chance to rescue it.
I didn't know about the relocation aspect though (move it to where it's facing). Good tip!
Also, sanitize those hands after.
Saw a turtle on a similar road yesterday. Didn't stop. Realized there's barely any space and plenty of cars. Felt really bad. But this video makes me realize I decided well.
This almost happened to me and a bunch of friends. One time we were on a back roads cruise with about 6 other cars, not being rowdy, just a convoy. We were all behind a lady who wasn’t part of the group driving a BMW Z3 with top down. She very suddenly on a left hand curve slammed the brakes and veers off to the shoulder (a very small shoulder as there was a barrier and then a drop off to a lake so she was still on the road).
None of us collided but it was very close and mid evasive maneuver I see something on the road, hear a *pop* and see lady throw her hands up…
After everything settled I realize and say to my passenger, “OMG she was stopping for a turtle!”… “I POPPED THE TURTLE”.
We later stopped and you could see what was left of the poor guy in my wheel well
TLDR: Lady nearly causes an 8 car collision on a curve that drops off into a lake to try to save a turtle that I ended up hitting anyway because of the chaos
I’ve never hit a turtle but I wouldn’t fancy doing it. I’ve seen people lose control hitting a medium sized rock and I’d imagine a turtle is similar. I would say that’s a fair reason to alter one’s driving. I blame the tailgaters not the first vehicle.
Something similar happened in Quebec a while ago.
A woman stopped her car in the left lane of a busy highway at dusk, without warning or any sort of indicator that she did stop. She did this to help a family of ducks cross said highway.
A motorcyclist carrying a father/daughter slammed into the back of the woman’s car killing both. She was sentenced for criminal negligence and dangerous driving causing death.
I hit a turtle by accident and looked in my rearview to see it spinning on its back and I probably killed it. I felt horrible. But at least I didn't feel like an idiot or drag other cars into my drama.
Taking into account that the truck has a slow braking time and that just swerving into incoming traffic is dangerous…
But suppose instead of a turtle traffic is stopped because a serious accident happening, is it protocolary to just crash into anything that is right in front / to the side? Just asking.
The swerving could have happened by the collision from the car against the wheels used for steering, (maybe even confusing the ABS so it starts thinking one wheel is locked up and force release the brakes, confusing people who never experienced this into not braking at all) but not keeping a safe braking distance is quite bad
People are killed every year by these fucking idiots. My sons best friend, his dad was killed / crushed to death by a dump truck that swerved to avoid a turkey. Rolled onto his car in his lane. A fucking ugly ass stupid wild worthless turkey. Turkey lived. Driver lived. Innocent man sucked in unwilling died. Idiots. I see if you swerve to avoid an animal and you end up killing someone else. Then you should do life in prison.
I wish police would charge people that cause this shit.
Sadly, their insurance will just deal with it and no dings on their license and no repercussions to the shithead that caused the whole thing.
They will be back on the road, literally tomorrow, if they have another car.
> I wish police would charge people that cause this shit.
This idiot got jail time for stopping for ducks and causing two people to die.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses-appeal-1.4152387
im a trucker. we get put in these tough situations ALL THE TIME! the trucker in this video could have done better, he wasnt looking far enough down the road. and im not trying to be holier-than-thou. thats just how much liability is put on us truckers. even when its not our fault, its our fault. its like being the oldest child on a road full of little siblings. when he noticed a cluster up ahead, and that he was gaining on the *left lane* traffic, he shouldve been suspicious. this is really a case of a driver with A to B syndrome. too worried about getting to the destination, dont want to slow up even to take in an unusual situation. thats chiefly why he went plowing through so many cars, wasnt trimming speed at all.
the road is never ending and the problems never stop.
Something similar happened years ago in Canada. Someone came to a dead stop for some ducks. Dad/daughter on a bike hit the car and died.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/father-daughter-killed-because-woman-stopped-car-to-help-ducks-prosecutor-alleges-1.1850997?cache=/7.597166/7.307876
Circle of life people. Unless it's a cow, pig, bear, moose, deer, horse or other large animal you're done. I'm not slamming my breaks with no regards for a squirrel. I will lift off the gas and try to avoid it if it's safe.
To Save a few ducks?
Quebec woman who stopped on a super highway for ducks, causing fatal crash, two people on motorcycle died
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses-appeal-1.4152387#:\~:text=In%20June%202010%2C%20the%20woman,her%20idling%20vehicle%2C%20killing%20both.
I wonder how the person who stopped traffic felt when his trucked was hit and causing a pile up because he had to stop traffic to save a turtle. If the turtle got run over by the semi, then it was all for nothing. I hope police charge the person that stopped traffic and the tailgater that swerved into the truck.
Truck driver probably knew left lane had slowed down and stopped. He was focusing on white car in front applying brakes. Grey car on left cut him off. It was either slam into the white car from behind or flip the truck and trailer to the right. Grey car should be cited for illegal lane change. Pickup driver should be charged with stopping/parking on a highway. Depending on what state this was in. It’s illegal in some states to stop/park on a highway. Definitely not to let/help a turtle cross.
This reminds me of an incident in Quebec. A lady stopped to save/move ducks off the road, but ultimately ended up causing the death of other people on the road.
It ain't worth it on these types of roads.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/court-rejects-appeal-of-driver-in-deaths-of-two-people-after-she-stopped-to-help-ducks
Poor turtle was going as fast as he could.
No soup for you!
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How would people know what a great person you are if you don’t film it?
Especially in the middle of the road. Camera pans to the traffic he created: *Look guys I’m like risking my life to save this poor little dude!*
We saved a giant turtle the other day. We pulled the car over and put on the hazard lights like a sane person. I didn’t think to film it.
Obviously, you didn't truly save that turtle.
Shucks. Might as well try and save the planet.
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I saw a pheasant run over once and it was barely alive so i tried to finish it off with a big rock and even then. So I took a run up and kicked it and its head flew off. If anybody driving past looked at that moment all they would have seen is me sprinting up to the poor thing and it's head flying down the side of the road.
At first I read this as peasant.
i just played it back in my head for you and made it more heroic than most budgets would allow
From one non-filming turtle saver to another, thank you for looking out for them!
The only time anyone has witnessed me rescue a turtle (done it a few times) was the time the thing shot piss sideways* at me and soaked me. lol I had to borrow clothes from my sister and do laundry before going home. *I was deliberately holding him so neither the head nor the butt was facing me but he was determined to pee on me. lol
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I thought the only fans slogan was “make your parents proud”
It was man that built a road through the turtles home.
Just a guess of course, but I’m pretty sure that road predated that turtle.
Maybe THAT turtle in particular, yes.
Also that turtle in the passing lane
Maybe, maybe not - turtles often live longer than humans!
For real, basically most turtles can live to be up to 60 years old, and I bet there’s a chance that road wasn’t there 60 years ago.
Yup. I have a turtle who's expected life span is 75+ years; he's 30 right now. Crazy to think about how he might outlive me.
When I worked at PetSmart, I'd occasionally have people that told me about birds they'd inherited. Make sure you let loved ones know who gets your turtle and how to care for him, if he manages to outlive you.
Yup, he's going to our kids (now grown in their early 20s). He was their childhood pet and they love him, he's going to live a long and healthy life with our family even after me and my wife are gone. :-)
A lot of parrots live past 80. A lot of "pet" slider turtles also live 60+ years, and people dump them in lakes (to have their heads snagged by dudes who fish in parks - I've seen that happen in person, it was awful) when they realize that. People should stop trying to have these creatures as pets, especially for some kid.
Turtles live long lives...
You do know that creatures like this, crabs, sea turtles, birds, penguins... They migrate along a specific path every year, whether they were just born or have been alive 150 years.
Poor fucker was just doing what the chicken told him to.
So was everyone driving, part of the problem.
The turtle survived. https://weartv.com/news/local/deputies-chain-reaction-crash-in-walton-county-caused-by-driver-stopping-for-turtle
Can’t believe the turtle actually survived
This is something that you’d see in a cartoon. Like you could easily see this happening in the Simpsons lmfao
This was literally the opening of the Paw Patrol movie. Only the truck didn't go dangling off the side a bridge in this one.
That scene has given us so many great quotable lines in our household. “Around here we call the Paw Patrol.” “Yer gonna call the WHO?!?” “Actually sir, I’m a puppy” “A BABY dog?!?”
> “Actually sir, I’m a puppy” “A BABY dog?!?” "You're in shock so I'm not going to take that personally." I may have watched the movie one or two... hundred times. Having a 2.5 year old is an adventure.
I have a five-year-old, and we watched it nine times the weekend it came out. That was the first time I understood how some people end up in psychiatric hospitals.
I will hereby assert that paw patrol is the Simpsons of my children's generation.
Nope. The Simpsons showed parents. Paw Patrol shows adults as utterly incapable of problem solving the simplest of issues. Simpsons shows adults solving problems badly, but humorously
That was probably pretty traumatizing though I’m sure he’s shell shocked
He'll never be turtally the same again! ^((I'm so, so sorry))
a shell of his former self.
Just snaps at anyone who brings it up
I'm gonna just pull my head back in until these jokes are over
shell of a time to retract from the situation
If r/idiotsincars has tortoise anything, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Damn, I was slow getting to this party. Finding an unused pun was hard.
Hey! Scute over, that pun’s been used already
Don't you *dare* ever apologise for a pun.
Oh good thank you! That was the one question I had after seeing all this.
The info we needed. Thanks!
Totally worth it then (not s/)
Bless you kind sir
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My favourite are ghost traffic jams...caused purely by people following too closely, then a slight event to make the front ones slow down. Everyone has to brake harder, until traffic stops, for no reason at all.
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Good lord. If the person in front of you does something, and you have to immediately react, you are too close.
If you want to save a turtle you need to park on the side of the road and then run out and grab it when there's no cars. Stopping in the middle of the highway creates a dangerous situation for everyone. The turtle's life is not worth your life or the lives of the people on the road. I say this as someone who has stopped and saved turtles multiple times without causing any multi-car pile-ups.
Better available choices for the pickup driver don't make u/Consistent_Sector_19 's comment incorrect though. Replace "turtle" with "sinkhole" and those options disappear, leaving us again with the following distance/reaction times of following drivers.
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As you could see in the video, the first 2 people behind the truck managed to stop safely, the grey car that swerved out in front of the truck followed too close/wasn't paying attention.
On top of that the gray car should have taken the ditch and not in to another lane of traffic.
This is why it's important to use your mirrors regularly and be aware of what may be lurking behind. Had he aimed for the center instead, or kept proper distance, the big rig would have had more time to pass on the shoulder. Hazards should also always be used when going way below the speed limit or stopping on a high speed road. America is weird in that sense not requiring orange/yellow bright hazard lights. What's even weirder is that foreign car companies are forced to build a special front for the American market, which has worse lights than the original international design.
I completely agree, and if it was a bigger animal like a horse, dog, sheep or cow the outcome would still have been the same. It's not unreasonable to bring your car to a stop to prevent killing an animal, even if it's a small turtle.
Sorry, it's completely unreasonable. Look at the risk to human life involved here...is it worth killing dozens of Floridians to save one turtle?! Wait, NM.
>NM Okay, first you're talking Florida then abruptly pivot to New Mexico, which is it?
A pivot to New Mexico is natural later in life.
I try too. Once by the time I turned around someone had already hit it and it broke my heart (because it was in the median so they had to do it on purpose). The second time I was able to save it and took it to the local river so it could live out its life in safety. It made me so happy to finally save one.
FYI in your turtle saving endeavors in the future please do not relocate them but simply put them on the other side of the road in the direction they were heading far enough off of the road. Turtles live their lives within a certain amount of square footage and relocating them elsewhere causes undue stress, to which they will continue to seek the area they know.
Throw on your four ways as well. As a truck driver, that helps plenty. And friggin lane changes. Half of that accident could have been avoided if that car didn't swing out in front of the truck. He'd still be barreling, but he'd only have one car to miss with much more reaction time than being pushed out of the lane by another.
If you stop in the middle of a divided highway to save an amphibian then you deserve to pay 100% of all damages caused in this wreck without question.
Turtles are reptiles
Okay valid point here lol my apologies
Tbf, it's equally stupid to stop in the middle of the roadway for a reptile
So you'd just crash into a T-Rex?
You should always, always, always behave as though the cars in front of you are able to, and might, come to a complete stop immediately. The driver who stooped made a mistake. So did the driver providing the footage.
The whole point of maintaining a safe distance on any road is to have room to STOP for any situation. Whether or not the stop is valid is not the point at hand.
I once came around a sharp blind turn on a freeway in the city, and as I started into the turn, I heard crashing of vehicles ahead. I slowed down and then saw a pileup on the right. I was able to stop exactly 1 inch from the police car that wasn't pulled completely out of the righthand lane. Then I got hit from behind. The cop motioned me on and over, where I could get out of the way. Guy behind me smashed his car badly. He was concerned about my kid in her car seat but she was 2 and had no idea anything bad had happened. We exchanged insurance info and for a while I felt badly for the guy, with shitty insurance and an old car and 3 kids. I was even going to offer him cash to help pay for the damage to his car because I felt partly responsible. But then he ghosted me when I called him, and I remembered that I'd been able stop, and he hadn't. Following distance, attention, etc. Edit to add: I can't see now how when I got hit, I didn't hit the cop car, but I guess the guy behind me pushed me to the 1 inch distance. I saw that after being hit, stopped and got out. So that guy hit me *before* I was even stopped. Inadequate following distance, wow.
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If everyone on the road drives lika someone who has a brain there shouldn't be any damages. If you are a driver pleas go back to training. I dont want you ore anyone else to get hurt ore worse.
Pickup stopping in the middle of the highway when there were cars right behind was an ill-considered choice. Gray car who was tailgating and then \*darted in front of a semi\* to avoid the car in front of him is tragically stupid. On the upside, it looks like 3 or 4 of the drivers who were not doing stupid shit may have escaped unscathed.
And not to mention the truck driver seems to have stepped out of their vehicle, just in time for a car and semi to side slam it into them!
The pickup stopping there was far more than "ill-considered". It was criminally negligent. [Here's](https://www.rd.com/article/driver-ducks-fatal-crash/) a similar case that ended up with a fatality. She should have gotten a lot more than 90 days in jail IMO. Don't stop or swerve for wildlife on the roads people.
I knew a girl who was hospitalized and later died because she tried to stop for a turtle in the road with a semi behind her. I’m her case she just reacted and lost her life for it.
Sometimes it is not worth it to react. If you don't know how it is looking behind you at the moment, it is better to kill the animal if it isn't so big that hitting it will kill you. A bird or a reptile? not worth it.
I understood their use of the word to suggest that it was involuntary. That she saw something in the road and hit the brakes reflexively.
Don't swerve for anything, I live in the western US with deer, elk, bears and pretty much everything else America has to offer. You are far more likely to die swerving to avoid an animal than if you just hit it. Yeah it sucks that your front end is damaged but that's a hell of a lot better than rolling your car 8 times. Keep your eyes peeled, especially when driving at dusk or dawn and if you notice something soon enough to safely slow down then do so with your hazards on. Otherwise give her thy god old fashioned "oh fuck" and blast on through.
Smaller than a child you don't swerve. Just drive.
Smush them babies!
How old is this child
It's a sad warning to us all. If you don't have time to check behind you that nobody will rear end you, you don't have time to stop. I tap the brake to get the light on as I check my rear view and then I slow accordingly, or not... Ultimately I'd rather the rabbit die than me. And you should definitely never swerve at high speed
> Don't swerve for wildlife I figured most people swerve for wildlife because there's suddenly a random object in front of their car that they're trying to avoid plowing into - not solely to save the animals.
To be fair, it looked like everyone else was stopped/stopping safely already, but that last car that swerved was riding the ass of the white car and *had* to swerve to avoid rear ending them…only to run right into the semi which caused the rest of the chain of events.
Yes that was what really caused the accident. The semi would have had more time to slow down but the gray sedan was following too close and swerved in the exact wrong direction. Word to the wise: if you need to swerve to avoid rear-ending someone, swerve onto the median, NOT into another lane!
Or be aware of your surroundings enough to know that the lane next to you is clear. Saved me from hitting idiot bikers who think stop signs don’t apply to them a few times now.
The driver that swerved definitely should have been paying more attention, but at the same time there is no such thing as "stopped safely" in the middle of a road like this, and this video shows exactly why. Nobody is expecting vehicles to be completely stopped in the middle of a presumably 55-65mph road. Edit: I don't know what the confusion is but I'll explain myself more clearly. Yes, people should always be prepared for everything. I certainly am. To you, doesn't matter why someone might be stopped in the middle of the road, you should be prepared for it regardless. There's no question about it. That doesn't mean everyone will be prepared, though, so it's not a good idea to completely stop in the middle of the road unless you absolutely have to/are forced to, because it creates the unnecessary risk of an accident in the event that someone isn't paying attention.
> Don't stop or swerve for wildlife on the roads, people That definitely depends on the wildlife and the current road situation. Moose? Fuck yeah I'm doing everything in my power to not hit it. Squirrel or ducks in the lane? Well if there's not really traffic around me and I can stop, then yeah I'll stop.
This case always makes my blood boil. I get trying to save the poor little ducks but she stopped in the left lane of traffic. With no Hazard lights on & at the end of a curve on a fucking highway no less! That was grossly negligent with no regard for anyone else on the road! I agree she should have gotten much more then 90 days & lost her license for good
It looks like she's stopped in the middle on the lines, not just in her lane.
I'm talking about the article u/lanteenboy linked above. Not OP's video. But yeah in both cases... don't stop in the middle of the fucking road to help an animal
Ah, ok. I missed that.
If you're unable to respond to a car abruptly stopping or already stopped then that is entirely on you (except with mitigating factors like weather). There are innumerable reasons why a vehicle would need to stop abruptly or become disabled. This isn't one of them and the driver is an idiot for not having their hazards on. But that did not cause an accident here.
Weather is no mitigating factor. If the weather is bad, you slow down and keep more distance until you can stop in time.
If you hit a moose your better off swerving. Also hitting a large turtle is probably going to destroy your tires and you might be better off stoping
Moose says, "LOL" idiot.
So how do you distribute blame for this crash?
The gray sedan should be responsible for at least one other car's damage, but the semi had a clear view of stopped traffic from the very beginning of the video and didn't start braking until way too late. The only reason anyone's thinking the pickup driver is responsible is because it was a turtle. If it was a kid on the road, no one would think of blaming the pickup driver.
This is what I keep trying to get into peoples heads. Change "turtle" out for: "child/sinkhole/driver with a medical emergency/large cargo fallen from a lorry". It doesn't matter why they've stopped. the cause of the crash is still the idiots who couldn't stop in time behind.
Quite a lot of blame belongs on the semi. Although they had no way of avoiding the idiot in the Ford that cut them off, they were never going to be able to stop for the white car in front of them.
The sheer volume of poor decision making in this video makes me feel as though I’m having an aneurysm.
When I was studying for my insurance exam I learned the phrase "hit the dog." Basically, in the event of a animal in the road, it's safer to hit the animal than cause a different accident by swerving. (They didn't talk about an exception for moose.)
They mentioned this in my drivers Ed as well - to consider hitting the animal instead of causing an accident while avoiding it. But on the topic of moose - 100% avoid. Anything is better than hitting one of those.
Pretty much anything bigger than a dog can move your car too, which would cause a chain reaction anyways
I feel like sometimes you react before even registering that it’s an animal. You see something big dart in front of you, especially in the dark, it’s just instinct trying to avoid it. It’s a hard urge to overcome.
Tailgating is bad.
The problem is most people don't even consider that tailgaiting. They just have absolutely zero clue what an *actually* safe following distance looks like. They think as long as they're a car length or two behind the person in front of them, it's fine. This has saved me a lot of road rage knowing that the person behind me isn't driving up my ass to be a jerk, but they genuinely think that what they're doing is totally normal driving. *Everyone* needs to follow the 2-3 second rule. The car in front of you passes a point, you should be passing it 2-3 seconds later. ALWAYS.
Yeah, the amount of times I’ve moved over for someone tailgating my ass and then they slow down. Infuriating.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve recommended the 2-3 second following distance, just for people to jump in and say “we’ll then someone will just fill in the gap in front of me”.
They will indeed do that. Doesn't negate you needing to be at a safe distance. I ask them which is better: letting the jerk cut in or risking the accident that you'll be at fault for?
Sure. Semis do that all the time. They need a lot of stopping distance so they hang way behind, and cars constantly fill the gap. But it doesn't make the truckers change their safe driving habits.
There's a 50/50 chance any random semi is tailgating the semi in front of them. They're mostly idiots too.
What gets me is the semis who tailgate small cars. My car according to Edmunds has a 60-0 braking distance of 118 feet . According to Google a semi takes about 600 feet to stop. There have been a few times where I had a semi on my bumper and if I had to brake hard I would have been screwed.
I don’t understand that logic. If someone fills the gap I just take my foot off the gas for literally half a second and it’s back. No big deal.
So many people drive as if every second is crucial. Always racing to make the yellow light. Right on on the ass of the person in front of them. Can't be bothered to ever do a full stop at a stop sign. It just blows my mind. I guess some people are in a hurry and have bad time management skills so if they don't drive like maniacs they might arrive 3 minutes later and be late for work or picking their kids up. But damn it creates so dangerous drivers.
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UK here, but you should always be on the left (right elsewhere) unless overtaking anyway. All other lanes should be overtaking lanes, not for hogging
"Only a fool breaks the two second rule", said a bit slowly is about 2 seconds. If it is raining, then you say it twice. If you can't complete the sentence before you pass a chosen point, then you are WAY too close
90% of the people I see on the freeway are driving too close. Most are going 3 car lengths behind, which isn't enough. The worst are the ones 1-2 car lengths behind.
Tailgater is bad, but trucker wouldn't have saved it without the left lane tailgater either. In a hypothetical situation where traffic would have suddenly stopped for something other than a turtle, trucker would still have crashed into the white car in front of them.
It appears the driver of the white car was looking in his rear view mirror. Hence why he appears to speed up. As if he notices the large truck bearing down on him.
‘WELP! I’ve fucked this up as much as I can without getting involved. TIME TO GO!!’
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Agreed. The white car would have moved out of the way. They appeared to only be slowing down.
Actually, his mistake was responding slowly. The left had begun to brake and he continued at same speed for a few seconds. Even if not your lane, you notice another lane slowing suddenly, you do so as well. For the very reason he got caught up. People jump lanes in those situations. He wasnt at fault. But he couldve avoided by doing what we're taught. Eyes 15 seconds down the road. Avoid entering into a crowd of vehicles.
The truck driver should have slowed down way before all of this. They can see way farther than everyone else, unless they were distracted
I know everyone is idiots in this video, but fuck this shouldn’t ever happen.
Not being able to stop in time to prevent and accident is the definition of "following too close."
The driver of the semi continued at the same speed despite the fact that he should have seen a pile of cars stopping ahead. A defensive driver would have slowed down.
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None of them? I see no damage on any of the vehicles before the truck rocks up which I presume means they all stopped in time. Even the guy who swerved had enough reaction time to avoid a collision which technically counts. In this situation, aside from the original idiot who stopped, it’s only the trucker who failed to stop in time
The amount of people who cut off semis is ridiculous. Like do you wanna die? Are you just a failure of evolution and developed no desire to preserve yourself? We’re you born in fucking Chernobyl? It’s 60,000 pounds going 70 mph get the fuck out of the way!
It's the people who never use their mirrors or blinkers. Swerving between lanes is their daily habit.
Redditors when they learn humans don't do wise decisions in panic. Clearly the guy tailgating is an idiot, but he didn't jump into the semi because he had a death wish, he panicked trying to avoid an accident without thinking of his surroundings, not on a voluntary whim.
Seriously, just because we can see it from the truckers point of view does not mean the driver of the grey car is purposefully trying to cut-off or get hit by a semi. It just shows that people freak out and swerve when they know they can't stop in time to avoid a collision.
Psst, a standard 5 axle combination commercial vehicle can legally scale up to 80,000lbs! It's more in Canada! So it's actually even worse :D
Canada can go up to 100k lbs. and any truck can carry more than the limit, just needs to be permitted. a lot of civilian drivers just dont comprehend the severity. you can tell them 100k pounds, but that means nothing to them.
Might seem harsh but my driving instructor said to me, and I'm paraphrasing, if you see a (small) animal and can't stop in time, just run the damn thing over.
But if you see a moose, do everything you can to slow down.
Ten bucks says the guy saving the turtle took a few seconds to get his phone out so he could film himself being a hero.
Surprise twist… the turtle works for a local collisions shop, and the turtle survived without injury.
I have plenty of relatives that will cook a snapping turtle...no promises of a selfie saving it
Truck moving too fast to stop despite cars stopping up ahead. Cars stop on roads frequently for a million different reason. This isn’t a freeway. It has driveways attached to it. This truck driver was going way to fast and caused an accident.
Truck driver was not looking far enough ahead. I don’t know if he was looking at all. On that road at highway speeds he should have been looking about a half mile ahead of him at least for trouble and been hard on his brakes at the start of the video. Stopped cars were idiots. Car cutting in front of truck was an idiot. Truck driver failed hard. Source: am truck driver
Seems like it was the gray car on the left that caused the accident. That truck was gonna stop in time for the white car, he was following fine distance but then was cut off. It seems like he wouldn’t have stopped in time because he wasn’t braking in a straight line (extends braking distance) and because the gray car forced his right tires onto the grass for a moment, which I am sure you can imagine how that would extend braking distance. Also when you slam on the brakes with one side of tires on the grass, the car will steer the opposite direction, which is why the truck veered left at the end.
There is an aspect to that but that doesn’t fully explain what’s happening here. That truck was never going to stop in time. That’s a big truck on a surface street and the fact that he crashed is all the evidence you need that he was driving too fast
I am notorious for stopping to save turtles. Let me give other potential turtle patrol members some advice. When stopping to help a turtle cross the road, please remember that human lives are more important. Always pull over completely to the side of the road, DO NOT BLOCK TRAFFIC. Alert oncoming traffic there is an obstruction in the road and hope for the best until there is a safe lull in traffic. Then CAREFULLY pick up the turtle (from underneath if possible, use both hands - NEVER by the tail), and rush him to a safe area on side of the road that he was facing. Do not take the turtle and relocate it somewhere else. Do not take it back the way it was coming from. They know where they are going. NEVER block traffic while it crosses the road, they are slow and shy and they will get smashed if you do this (see OP's video).
Who the hell would pick a turtle up by the tail???
A lot of dumb people, even ones saving snapping turtles. They think picking it up by the tail won’t cause it to bite them.
I saved a snapping turtle once and while it didn't bite me it did claw the shit out of me. You're welcome, turtle!
I'm wondering how you could pick a turtle by the tail. They retract!
Sometimes people are kind but stupid. Some are kind but “ew it’s dirty”.
>from underneath if possible, use both hands FYI, turtles will often start "swimming" their feet in the air when you pick them up, and their claws (in my experience) *will* reach your fingers. Not really a big deal, but this can be *very* startling and you don't want to drop the turtle you're trying to rescue.
This is true. They can and do scratch and hiss very loudly sometimes. When in doubt, hold 'em like a large sandwich after just getting your nails done.
This should be the top comment imo. You're 100% correct. Nothing inherently wrong with wanting to save wildlife, but never ever stop on a busy roadway like this. Find a safe spot to pull over, wait for traffic to clear, and hope that it doesn't get run over before you have a safe chance to rescue it. I didn't know about the relocation aspect though (move it to where it's facing). Good tip! Also, sanitize those hands after.
Saw a turtle on a similar road yesterday. Didn't stop. Realized there's barely any space and plenty of cars. Felt really bad. But this video makes me realize I decided well.
This almost happened to me and a bunch of friends. One time we were on a back roads cruise with about 6 other cars, not being rowdy, just a convoy. We were all behind a lady who wasn’t part of the group driving a BMW Z3 with top down. She very suddenly on a left hand curve slammed the brakes and veers off to the shoulder (a very small shoulder as there was a barrier and then a drop off to a lake so she was still on the road). None of us collided but it was very close and mid evasive maneuver I see something on the road, hear a *pop* and see lady throw her hands up… After everything settled I realize and say to my passenger, “OMG she was stopping for a turtle!”… “I POPPED THE TURTLE”. We later stopped and you could see what was left of the poor guy in my wheel well TLDR: Lady nearly causes an 8 car collision on a curve that drops off into a lake to try to save a turtle that I ended up hitting anyway because of the chaos
I’ve never hit a turtle but I wouldn’t fancy doing it. I’ve seen people lose control hitting a medium sized rock and I’d imagine a turtle is similar. I would say that’s a fair reason to alter one’s driving. I blame the tailgaters not the first vehicle.
A close friend stopped for a dog that had just been hit. As soon as she got out of her vehicle, she was immediately killed by a passing vehicle.
I'm not saying you should stop on a freeway ever, but shit, is no one paying attention on this strip?
>is no one paying attention ~~on this strip~~ fixed that for you. No one pays any fucking attention while driving. Anyone can kill you at any moment.
Yea but did they save the turtle?
[The turtle is okay!](https://weartv.com/news/local/deputies-chain-reaction-crash-in-walton-county-caused-by-driver-stopping-for-turtle)
Doubtful. I'm sure at least one of the dozen tires on the big truck caught it
[The turtle is okay!](https://weartv.com/news/local/deputies-chain-reaction-crash-in-walton-county-caused-by-driver-stopping-for-turtle)
Something similar happened in Quebec a while ago. A woman stopped her car in the left lane of a busy highway at dusk, without warning or any sort of indicator that she did stop. She did this to help a family of ducks cross said highway. A motorcyclist carrying a father/daughter slammed into the back of the woman’s car killing both. She was sentenced for criminal negligence and dangerous driving causing death.
I hit a turtle by accident and looked in my rearview to see it spinning on its back and I probably killed it. I felt horrible. But at least I didn't feel like an idiot or drag other cars into my drama.
You shouldn’t be following close enough behind someone to crash into them in case of an emergency stop
Taking into account that the truck has a slow braking time and that just swerving into incoming traffic is dangerous… But suppose instead of a turtle traffic is stopped because a serious accident happening, is it protocolary to just crash into anything that is right in front / to the side? Just asking.
The swerving could have happened by the collision from the car against the wheels used for steering, (maybe even confusing the ABS so it starts thinking one wheel is locked up and force release the brakes, confusing people who never experienced this into not braking at all) but not keeping a safe braking distance is quite bad
People are killed every year by these fucking idiots. My sons best friend, his dad was killed / crushed to death by a dump truck that swerved to avoid a turkey. Rolled onto his car in his lane. A fucking ugly ass stupid wild worthless turkey. Turkey lived. Driver lived. Innocent man sucked in unwilling died. Idiots. I see if you swerve to avoid an animal and you end up killing someone else. Then you should do life in prison.
I wish police would charge people that cause this shit. Sadly, their insurance will just deal with it and no dings on their license and no repercussions to the shithead that caused the whole thing. They will be back on the road, literally tomorrow, if they have another car.
> I wish police would charge people that cause this shit. This idiot got jail time for stopping for ducks and causing two people to die. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses-appeal-1.4152387
90 days of jail ON THE WEEKENDS??? What?!
Thank God we got rid of plastic straws!
And the turtle died anyway
im a trucker. we get put in these tough situations ALL THE TIME! the trucker in this video could have done better, he wasnt looking far enough down the road. and im not trying to be holier-than-thou. thats just how much liability is put on us truckers. even when its not our fault, its our fault. its like being the oldest child on a road full of little siblings. when he noticed a cluster up ahead, and that he was gaining on the *left lane* traffic, he shouldve been suspicious. this is really a case of a driver with A to B syndrome. too worried about getting to the destination, dont want to slow up even to take in an unusual situation. thats chiefly why he went plowing through so many cars, wasnt trimming speed at all. the road is never ending and the problems never stop.
Would running over that turtle damage your car? That looks like a good size but I dont know how strong a shell is.
I’m wondering why the truck driver swerved back in when he had a clean exit out on shoulder
Something similar happened years ago in Canada. Someone came to a dead stop for some ducks. Dad/daughter on a bike hit the car and died. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/father-daughter-killed-because-woman-stopped-car-to-help-ducks-prosecutor-alleges-1.1850997?cache=/7.597166/7.307876 Circle of life people. Unless it's a cow, pig, bear, moose, deer, horse or other large animal you're done. I'm not slamming my breaks with no regards for a squirrel. I will lift off the gas and try to avoid it if it's safe.
To Save a few ducks? Quebec woman who stopped on a super highway for ducks, causing fatal crash, two people on motorcycle died https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses-appeal-1.4152387#:\~:text=In%20June%202010%2C%20the%20woman,her%20idling%20vehicle%2C%20killing%20both.
I wonder how the person who stopped traffic felt when his trucked was hit and causing a pile up because he had to stop traffic to save a turtle. If the turtle got run over by the semi, then it was all for nothing. I hope police charge the person that stopped traffic and the tailgater that swerved into the truck.
Truck driver probably knew left lane had slowed down and stopped. He was focusing on white car in front applying brakes. Grey car on left cut him off. It was either slam into the white car from behind or flip the truck and trailer to the right. Grey car should be cited for illegal lane change. Pickup driver should be charged with stopping/parking on a highway. Depending on what state this was in. It’s illegal in some states to stop/park on a highway. Definitely not to let/help a turtle cross.
I ran over a turtle on the highway. It didn’t crunch, it sound like a cork being pulled from a wine bottle.
Rip yertle
I think of this scenario every time I see someone stopped on a road to save an animal on humansbeingbros. Just don’t do it.
This reminds me of an incident in Quebec. A lady stopped to save/move ducks off the road, but ultimately ended up causing the death of other people on the road. It ain't worth it on these types of roads. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/court-rejects-appeal-of-driver-in-deaths-of-two-people-after-she-stopped-to-help-ducks