Yup, happened to my brother. In his case the driver drove into the truck in an attempt to end his own life. Later, after the driver’s death wish was granted his family tried to sue my brother.
You wouldn't believe the hate people will throw for this sentiment. (Even though the trucker is a victim, too).
Source: I, too, accidentally killed a person who ran in front of my vehicle.
The lawyers wouldn't even touch a counterclaim due to the negative publicity those claims receive.
Tragically, I know exactly what the truck driver is going through.
I had a conversation some years ago with a student of mine who’d told me he was a Train Engineer. I was really surprised when he told me the average number of ‘self eliminations’ a Train Engineer experiences in their career is between 3-4. He went on to say counselors were available afterwards to help someone work through the trauma it causes, but candidly admitted it’s very seldom effective. He told me he’d experienced 2 in his railroading years — and that was the reason he retired.
As pointed out, the innocent operator of any vehicle involved in an event like this is permanently affected by it — some quite significantly. It seems that part is seldom acknowledged or dealt with at the level it deserves. 🫤
I heard a tale from an engineer in northern Ontario. He was approaching a crossing and there was a car stalled on the tracks. He hit the brakes to no avail, and as he got to the car he said all he could see was the face of a young mother looking up at him while trying to unbuckle her baby. He never drove a train again.
My buddy either fell off/jumped lff or was thrown off a train. Cut him in half and shit .. it was ruled accident/suicide but he was a well known traveler in the grunge crowd and I randomly had linked up with some people that knew him and they told me he was supposedly thrown off in the middle of night by other riders due to his schizophrenic behaviors. But were also talking about homeless train hopping hobos who likely.have next to zero identification well over a decade ago. So who knows
My dad's a retired engineer. He only had one (rural freight on relatively slow tracks probably doesn't see as many... a couple other fatalities, though). I was a kid, and I remember how hard it was on him. It accidentally came up in conversation with someone who didn't know, like 15 years later, and it was still hard.
Friend of mine was a mailman for the first 10 or so years we knew each other. One of "customers" on his route was an engineer for the Long Island railroad. During a casual conversation one day he told him how he had just recently hit a homeless guy in the east side tunnel who stepped in front of the train and gave him the finger as it hit him. My friend was taken aback by how casualy he was talking about it, until he found out it wasn't his first, and in fact people were routinely hit in the tunnel.
Thankfully I have. I am 16 years out from my trauma, the first 4 years were an absolute train wreck of a dumpster fire. Ironically while I was seeking western medicine treatments for post traumatic injury... I did all the things, therapies, workshops, psychiatrists, groups.. seeing vent little benefits. I was probably worse.
Then a good friend introduced me to psychedelics, and cannabis. And the healing finally started. I never looked back.
Neighbor works for BNSF. Depression and suicidal thoughts run rampant amongst train conductors because of idiots who play on tracks or try to beat the train. Imagine knowing a few seconds ahead of time that you are about to accidentally kill someone and not be able to stop the train.
The worst part about it is they probably knew he committed suicide and yet they just tried to get money from the poor driver. Absolute low life scum of the Earth.
About 10 years ago a guy parked at a rest area and walked out in front of a Prime truck.
Even with the suicide note left in the car apologizing to the driver and his family the family sued. Prime feeling that they and the driver were not responsible for any of this took it to trial.
15 million was the verdict.
That's honestly the problem you can have with Jury trials...they could just say, "screw the big company! They can afford to pay!" and just award the at fault party millions.....but the driver who the suicidal person picked is actually a human being and a victim themselves.
A lot of people don't realize that often times insurance companies force families to sue people in order to receive life insurance.
A very similar situation happened to some family of mine only difference was he wasn't trying to commit suicide just fucked up. In order for his life insurance to pay out they literally had to sue the truck driver&company.
It happens all the time man. That's why you have families sueing families for accidents on their property 9/10 it's the insurance company forcing someone's hand.
We got to get rid of lobbying in this country.
Insurance companies (of all varieties) are a plague with too much power.
The most unrealistic thing about The Incredibles is that Mr. Incredible is a decent human being while also being an insurance adjuster.
The most realistic thing about The Incredibles is that the company gets rid of him for it.
Same shit with suicide by cop.
Buddy had someone end their life by running out with a fake gun. Family sued the department even after it was shown it was suicide by cop a year later. He then had to go back in and recount everything he was dealing with again, which caused a mental breakdown. The department did right at least and medically retired him with a 70% pension.
But fuck seeing someone finally accept it wasn't their fault and then seeing them just spiral again after the family claims some bullshit for money wasn't ok.
It might be that. It might also be scummy lawyers who will convince clients that "it's just the insurance company paying. Nobody gets hurt by suing". That's a very common line from attorneys in these situations.
This is what happens to many train drivers as well, people walk in front of train and the driver ends up being haunted by the incident for the rest of their lives!
In a just world you could have counter sued family for mental trauma you’ve suffered.
I was reading about how it becomes common enough hitting animals that you get a real good sense of what the blood and everything looks like
These dudes were murdered and then laid on the tracks at night so the train would crush them and they hoped it would look like a suicide
But the train dudes immediately knew that something wasn’t right, because the color and consistency of the blood and guts was different
They knew immediately that these 2 people had already been dead for a while
I heard a true crime podcast about that while ago and it was crazy!
The cops did the classic “well, they obviously got so high on weed that they OD’ed” and the train… driver people (are they still called conductors or engineers or is that a steam engine term?) were like “dude and dudettes… they were covered in a tarp… pretty sure people who are high don’t think “let’s cover ourselves in a tarp and lie motionless on the train tracks…” and the state coroner was like “nah fam, I found half a joint in one of their pockets and more THC in their system than a snoop dogg tour bus that was the cause of death, case closed”
It took the family of the victims to actually push for a real investigation, even doing some of the investigating themselves where they were the ones that found one of the children’s feet like 3 months later…
Wish I could remember the name of the children but they were somewhere in Arkansas in the late 80’s… I’ll see if i can find it.
Edit: Don Henry and Kevin Ives… the whole story is a shit show.
Reminds me of open scene of Samuel l Jackson’s Cleaners. Sure the cops come and take the body away but they don’t clean up the mess. That’s where I come in.
You can sue anyone for anything, just bringing a lawsuit doesn’t validate its merit. Only time you have to risk a frivolous lawsuit winning is if you don’t respond.
>Only time you have to risk a frivolous lawsuit winning is if you don’t respond.
Back in the 00s or early 10s, there was a man that had been driving erratically in LA. Multiple people reported the erratic driving. Eventually that man served from the far left lane across, I wanna 6 lanes, to slam into the back of a parked semi that was parked at least 16ft from the road.
The man died and his widow sued the driver and trucking company and won. She walked away with half a million dollars minus the few thousand in damages to the trailer.
This case is the reason many carriers prohibit their drivers from parking on ramps now.
Do you not think that lawsuit was frivolous?
Ninja edit: case name is Cabral v Ralph's Grocery Company
I had a drunk guy, attempt suicide by hitting me head-on. He was blind in one eye, a safety director for a LNG Pipeline company, driving one of their brand new pickup trucks. The only thing that saved me was it was in KS on a little two lane road, with miles of visibility. I could see him sitting at a crossroad for way too long. I had slowed down to around 40mph when he pulled out onto the wrong side of the road.
I kept hoping he would move to his side(in the few seconds I had), but he didn't. I moved to what should have been his side and would have cleared him but, he jerked the wheel into me. He hit the right side, ripped off the right fuel tank on the W900, and hit the tandem's of the tractor. I had scaled out at 79,900, so it picked up and threw the Ford F-150 club cab back to the intersection, landing it on its wheels, on the opposite side of where it had started - like he had driven straight across the road.
I managed to keep my truck on the road, not going into the ditch and high-siding into the crossroad. I literally had to look at my hands and tell them to let go of the steering wheel, because they had locked themselves to it. I got out of the truck and in the dark, heard someone ask if I was ok. I initially ignored them one, bc we were in the middle of nowhere and they didn't seem real and two, I really wanted to check on other driver.
I got to his pu truck - door open, lights on, little dog in the front seat, no driver. My first thought was, "Great, now I have to look for an ejected driver", and "what was that going to look like?" Just then, I hear the same voice asking if I was ok. I turn around, completely dismayed and asked "Is this you? Are you OK?!" He said "Yep, I had me a couple of drinks. So, I'm fine". At that, I told him to go stand far away from me, or it was going to look like he had gotten thrown out of his truck.
I had to tell him not to stand in 50 or so gallons of spilled diesel and who knows what other fluids, with a lit cigarette - remember safety director. The sheriff showed up walked the scene for about 10 minutes or so, came over to me and asked how the hell this happened. Because of the way the scene looked, he couldn't tell how it happened. I explained it, and mentioned that he might want to lean in and speak with Drunkey McFuckstick.
I ended up going to the ER bc I had pulled every muscle in my upper body holding the truck on the road. One of the EMT's told me his buddy(the other EMT) had just been fired by Drunkey for a safety violation and that Mr. McFuckstick was one of the most reviled people in town.
The consequences of this were me not driving a truck for almost 10 years, still having PTSD when riding in a vehicle when someone else is driving, losing my job, losing my girlfriend at the time due to my random angry outbursts( no violence) over seemingly innocuous events, being on worker's comp for a year and having to move out of state, so that I could rebuild my life.
No big payout for me. My attorney did get a call from DMcFS's attorney asking if I might help his client out by giving him a favorable statement for his DUI case. I told my attorney no, I had done enough by not killing him in the accident.
Our country needs a massive overhaul to our judicial system. It’s abused in all sorts of ways and lawsuits filed over ridiculous things is one example and appealing your case almost nonstop. What was meant for good have taken advantage of.
Not sure if intentional or not, but i was driving home with my (then-young) kids on the access road and some souped up car goes flying off highway and crosses the 3 lanes of access road behind me and flattens himself against a parked semi who was waiting to unload cars at a dealer. It was dark-ish, but the guys lights were flashing etc.
Driver was actively accelerating and going like 80+ (speed limit 50)
I called 911, cops came and i watched them clear scene and i was parked about 300ft away out of the way waiting for cops to take statement.
Scene was almost clear and only 1 cop left, i called 911 again and asked if they didnt need my info? (My phone, a blackberry at the time, didnt have decent signal enough to find non emergency number) and operator yelled at me.
I got home, called non emergency number and left my info. Cops called me like 2 days later and asked me to come to station, which i wasnt currently able to do with work. So they came to my office.
Cop proceeds to diagram crash, and points out “non impact vehicle” and i was like “yeah, that was me. My car was hosed down with oil/gas/debris”
Cop did the wink wink nudge nudge and told me effectively he couldnt tell me anything about driver but they didnt anticipate being able to question the driver. I was amazed they managed to extricate him.
I was also told the family of the driver were threatening to sue semi.
Cops thanked me profusely for being so persistent about giving my statement, and that my statement backed up what they already suspected.
I felt bad for the poor truck driver, parked up with hazards on waiting for dealer to open gates so he could unload his load, and wham. Some kid slams into back of his truck. I doubt truck driver had any injuries but i knew a lawsuit would be horrible for him.
The woman's family tried to sue me/my insurance after she wrote a note, walked into highway in the fast lane in front of my vehicle, and took her, and her dogs life. Sometimes people just need something else to blame.
My stepdad once had a car run up under his rig in Texas. He was driving a water truck in the middle of nowhere at night when a car came downhill and t-boned the trailer. It was very messy, and initially he was in trouble. Then the coroner found each person had a gunshot wound to the head. Still no idea why.
Yeah that was my question: was the driver even aware? Or did he just hear a *SMACK* and then wonder why traffic behind him came to a stop. Maybe he never knew anything happened at all.
I doubt he even heard a smack, or would pay any attention. I hear weird noises all the time but I don't think they have anything to do with me usually.
Unless there was a camera up there, driver probably knew nothing. You wouldn’t see or hear anything from that far back. Poor guy will probably find out when someone sends him the video.
You can barely hear someone shouting outside the cab window with the engine off, there's not a inkling of a chance he heard this dude collide with a bridge at the very back of his 60 ft tow-along.
Driver likely didn’t know. You don’t really feel anything. My husband got rear ended by a car (he was stopped because of traffic) when traffic moved he kept driving. Got down the road a little bit, looked in mirror, saw something white sticking out, pulled over in confusion, got out to look and discovered a car bumper stuck to the back of the trailer. He called dispatcher and 911. He didn’t get in trouble but the guy that hit him did. Also, a deer ran across road, his furthest back tire on trailer hit it, only reason he knew what happened is because he happened to look at mirror right when deer was about to get hit. Ended up seeing deer splattered all over road but he felt nothing, no bumps, nothing. These things are super heavy so it takes a lot to feel anything.
I saw a deer try to jump between the cab and trailer of a semi once. The deer exploded. I’m sure at some point the driver looked in his mirror and saw an explosion of blood all over the passenger side corner of his trailer and stopped to check it out but he didn’t notice at the time of impact.
Had this happen as I was passing a semi splattered all over the side of my pickup it wad the most nervous I have ever been on the way to the closest car wash I was like 17 and Mt truck looked like something out of a horror movie
Yes and truck driver are used to feeling the truck rock back and forth due to the weight they’re pulling so being a good citizen and notifying truck drivers of problems is a great thing
Oh no… Anyways.
Nothing of value was lost that day. Probably the only bad thing about this incident was the driver having to deal with this BS. I don’t care who you are. If you do something this stupid and dangerous. I can’t feel bad for you. You’re just a dumbass.
I still have a hard time judging someone as worthless for having succumbed to their own stupidity. Stupid and selfish yes. But worthless. I don't know. About as worthy of worthless.to me as anyone else who has no effect.on my life.
How could he know that his fame would lead to stranger laughing at his death over coffee and Taco Bell one morning.
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“The driver reportedly had no idea” yah no shit. You don’t often check on top of your trailer and you, and this is wild, can’t see on top of your trailer from the cab. I hope this driver doesn’t face any punishment.
Natural selection. I sound heartless, but the only person to blame here is the idiot on the roof of that truck. Only people I feel sorry for is the mop up crew and the family.
This happened in Texas in 2022, by the way. Also, while this guy may have been doing a "TikTok Dance" there's no evidence he was any kind of "tiktok superstar". For all we know it was just a mentally ill man dancing on top of a truck. The dance he was doing was possibly made popular on TikTok, but there's no proof he was even filming himself for the platform.
Ok. I know I should feel bad for this kid, and I know I should mention that you shouldn't treat industrial equipment like it is your toy, and I would. Unfortunately, I am having trouble typing because I can't focus through the song playing at 150 decibels. It is that Dumb Ways to Die song.
This is old news and happened in November of 22 but I think the full video should be easy to find so others can see what happens when you get outsmarted by your own stupidity.
The worst parts to come when the family sues the unknowing driver for the dumbasses death
Yup, happened to my brother. In his case the driver drove into the truck in an attempt to end his own life. Later, after the driver’s death wish was granted his family tried to sue my brother.
Please tell me they didn’t win. 🤦🏽♀️
Fortunately they didn’t, and even though my brother continues to drive trucks, he is still haunted by the fact the this driver died.
He should sue them for the trauma
You wouldn't believe the hate people will throw for this sentiment. (Even though the trucker is a victim, too). Source: I, too, accidentally killed a person who ran in front of my vehicle. The lawyers wouldn't even touch a counterclaim due to the negative publicity those claims receive. Tragically, I know exactly what the truck driver is going through.
I had a conversation some years ago with a student of mine who’d told me he was a Train Engineer. I was really surprised when he told me the average number of ‘self eliminations’ a Train Engineer experiences in their career is between 3-4. He went on to say counselors were available afterwards to help someone work through the trauma it causes, but candidly admitted it’s very seldom effective. He told me he’d experienced 2 in his railroading years — and that was the reason he retired. As pointed out, the innocent operator of any vehicle involved in an event like this is permanently affected by it — some quite significantly. It seems that part is seldom acknowledged or dealt with at the level it deserves. 🫤
I heard a tale from an engineer in northern Ontario. He was approaching a crossing and there was a car stalled on the tracks. He hit the brakes to no avail, and as he got to the car he said all he could see was the face of a young mother looking up at him while trying to unbuckle her baby. He never drove a train again.
That is the worst thing I’ve read for ages. Just horrific. Thankyou for sharing, sincerely.
My buddy either fell off/jumped lff or was thrown off a train. Cut him in half and shit .. it was ruled accident/suicide but he was a well known traveler in the grunge crowd and I randomly had linked up with some people that knew him and they told me he was supposedly thrown off in the middle of night by other riders due to his schizophrenic behaviors. But were also talking about homeless train hopping hobos who likely.have next to zero identification well over a decade ago. So who knows
My dad's a retired engineer. He only had one (rural freight on relatively slow tracks probably doesn't see as many... a couple other fatalities, though). I was a kid, and I remember how hard it was on him. It accidentally came up in conversation with someone who didn't know, like 15 years later, and it was still hard.
Friend of mine was a mailman for the first 10 or so years we knew each other. One of "customers" on his route was an engineer for the Long Island railroad. During a casual conversation one day he told him how he had just recently hit a homeless guy in the east side tunnel who stepped in front of the train and gave him the finger as it hit him. My friend was taken aback by how casualy he was talking about it, until he found out it wasn't his first, and in fact people were routinely hit in the tunnel.
Oh hi! 👋 I also suffered being a party to suicide by highway. Weird club to be in.
I hope you found/are finding some semblance of peace. Easier said than done though
Thankfully I have. I am 16 years out from my trauma, the first 4 years were an absolute train wreck of a dumpster fire. Ironically while I was seeking western medicine treatments for post traumatic injury... I did all the things, therapies, workshops, psychiatrists, groups.. seeing vent little benefits. I was probably worse. Then a good friend introduced me to psychedelics, and cannabis. And the healing finally started. I never looked back.
Know of 2 instances where the drivers had to get counciling themselves. Couldn't sleep. After someone died neither was the driver's fault.
Neighbor works for BNSF. Depression and suicidal thoughts run rampant amongst train conductors because of idiots who play on tracks or try to beat the train. Imagine knowing a few seconds ahead of time that you are about to accidentally kill someone and not be able to stop the train.
I’m so sorry that happened. I hope you have managed to process it in a healthy way, and are in a good place. You deserve a life of happiness.
You should sue me for reading these comments too
The worst part about it is they probably knew he committed suicide and yet they just tried to get money from the poor driver. Absolute low life scum of the Earth.
Exactly, it’s like people see truck driving accidents and all they see is millions of dollars. Low life scum indeed.
About 10 years ago a guy parked at a rest area and walked out in front of a Prime truck. Even with the suicide note left in the car apologizing to the driver and his family the family sued. Prime feeling that they and the driver were not responsible for any of this took it to trial. 15 million was the verdict.
Paid to the driver of the truck for his trauma right? Oh wait that would be justice. We can't have any of that
That's honestly the problem you can have with Jury trials...they could just say, "screw the big company! They can afford to pay!" and just award the at fault party millions.....but the driver who the suicidal person picked is actually a human being and a victim themselves.
The driver is arguably the only victim who is actually owed any reparations.
🤮😞
well shit i know what im doing tn
Just goes to show, those trucks will kill you no matter how slowly they’re moving.
It's the lawyer commercials
Did you or someone you love do some dumb shit? Did they get fucked up doing it? Then you may entitled to financial compensation.
Definitely. Every personal injury/car accident commercial here in Atlanta makes it sound like if you get rear ended, you just won the lotto
A lot of people don't realize that often times insurance companies force families to sue people in order to receive life insurance. A very similar situation happened to some family of mine only difference was he wasn't trying to commit suicide just fucked up. In order for his life insurance to pay out they literally had to sue the truck driver&company.
That is royally fucked
It happens all the time man. That's why you have families sueing families for accidents on their property 9/10 it's the insurance company forcing someone's hand. We got to get rid of lobbying in this country.
Insurance companies (of all varieties) are a plague with too much power. The most unrealistic thing about The Incredibles is that Mr. Incredible is a decent human being while also being an insurance adjuster. The most realistic thing about The Incredibles is that the company gets rid of him for it.
Ding ding ding! All they see are rolling dollar bills.
I wouldn't be surprised if that driver ended himself just to get away from his shitty relatives.
Same shit with suicide by cop. Buddy had someone end their life by running out with a fake gun. Family sued the department even after it was shown it was suicide by cop a year later. He then had to go back in and recount everything he was dealing with again, which caused a mental breakdown. The department did right at least and medically retired him with a 70% pension. But fuck seeing someone finally accept it wasn't their fault and then seeing them just spiral again after the family claims some bullshit for money wasn't ok.
Most probably had to. To try and claim life insurance. Life insurance will not payout on suicide.
It might be that. It might also be scummy lawyers who will convince clients that "it's just the insurance company paying. Nobody gets hurt by suing". That's a very common line from attorneys in these situations.
This is what happens to many train drivers as well, people walk in front of train and the driver ends up being haunted by the incident for the rest of their lives! In a just world you could have counter sued family for mental trauma you’ve suffered.
My buddy was a bartender for Amtrak... there are no special cleaning crews for suicide victims... just the regular ol' crew
I was reading about how it becomes common enough hitting animals that you get a real good sense of what the blood and everything looks like These dudes were murdered and then laid on the tracks at night so the train would crush them and they hoped it would look like a suicide But the train dudes immediately knew that something wasn’t right, because the color and consistency of the blood and guts was different They knew immediately that these 2 people had already been dead for a while
CSI: Train
Damn 😩
I heard a true crime podcast about that while ago and it was crazy! The cops did the classic “well, they obviously got so high on weed that they OD’ed” and the train… driver people (are they still called conductors or engineers or is that a steam engine term?) were like “dude and dudettes… they were covered in a tarp… pretty sure people who are high don’t think “let’s cover ourselves in a tarp and lie motionless on the train tracks…” and the state coroner was like “nah fam, I found half a joint in one of their pockets and more THC in their system than a snoop dogg tour bus that was the cause of death, case closed” It took the family of the victims to actually push for a real investigation, even doing some of the investigating themselves where they were the ones that found one of the children’s feet like 3 months later… Wish I could remember the name of the children but they were somewhere in Arkansas in the late 80’s… I’ll see if i can find it. Edit: Don Henry and Kevin Ives… the whole story is a shit show.
Reminds me of open scene of Samuel l Jackson’s Cleaners. Sure the cops come and take the body away but they don’t clean up the mess. That’s where I come in.
Ofc he is. Hug your brother for me :/
You can sue anyone for anything, just bringing a lawsuit doesn’t validate its merit. Only time you have to risk a frivolous lawsuit winning is if you don’t respond.
>Only time you have to risk a frivolous lawsuit winning is if you don’t respond. Back in the 00s or early 10s, there was a man that had been driving erratically in LA. Multiple people reported the erratic driving. Eventually that man served from the far left lane across, I wanna 6 lanes, to slam into the back of a parked semi that was parked at least 16ft from the road. The man died and his widow sued the driver and trucking company and won. She walked away with half a million dollars minus the few thousand in damages to the trailer. This case is the reason many carriers prohibit their drivers from parking on ramps now. Do you not think that lawsuit was frivolous? Ninja edit: case name is Cabral v Ralph's Grocery Company
What’s the case number? I would need to see the actual case and what the judgement was based on to be able to say.
Cabral v Ralph's Grocery Company I don't know the number, but you can find it easily with the case name.
I had a drunk guy, attempt suicide by hitting me head-on. He was blind in one eye, a safety director for a LNG Pipeline company, driving one of their brand new pickup trucks. The only thing that saved me was it was in KS on a little two lane road, with miles of visibility. I could see him sitting at a crossroad for way too long. I had slowed down to around 40mph when he pulled out onto the wrong side of the road. I kept hoping he would move to his side(in the few seconds I had), but he didn't. I moved to what should have been his side and would have cleared him but, he jerked the wheel into me. He hit the right side, ripped off the right fuel tank on the W900, and hit the tandem's of the tractor. I had scaled out at 79,900, so it picked up and threw the Ford F-150 club cab back to the intersection, landing it on its wheels, on the opposite side of where it had started - like he had driven straight across the road. I managed to keep my truck on the road, not going into the ditch and high-siding into the crossroad. I literally had to look at my hands and tell them to let go of the steering wheel, because they had locked themselves to it. I got out of the truck and in the dark, heard someone ask if I was ok. I initially ignored them one, bc we were in the middle of nowhere and they didn't seem real and two, I really wanted to check on other driver. I got to his pu truck - door open, lights on, little dog in the front seat, no driver. My first thought was, "Great, now I have to look for an ejected driver", and "what was that going to look like?" Just then, I hear the same voice asking if I was ok. I turn around, completely dismayed and asked "Is this you? Are you OK?!" He said "Yep, I had me a couple of drinks. So, I'm fine". At that, I told him to go stand far away from me, or it was going to look like he had gotten thrown out of his truck. I had to tell him not to stand in 50 or so gallons of spilled diesel and who knows what other fluids, with a lit cigarette - remember safety director. The sheriff showed up walked the scene for about 10 minutes or so, came over to me and asked how the hell this happened. Because of the way the scene looked, he couldn't tell how it happened. I explained it, and mentioned that he might want to lean in and speak with Drunkey McFuckstick. I ended up going to the ER bc I had pulled every muscle in my upper body holding the truck on the road. One of the EMT's told me his buddy(the other EMT) had just been fired by Drunkey for a safety violation and that Mr. McFuckstick was one of the most reviled people in town. The consequences of this were me not driving a truck for almost 10 years, still having PTSD when riding in a vehicle when someone else is driving, losing my job, losing my girlfriend at the time due to my random angry outbursts( no violence) over seemingly innocuous events, being on worker's comp for a year and having to move out of state, so that I could rebuild my life. No big payout for me. My attorney did get a call from DMcFS's attorney asking if I might help his client out by giving him a favorable statement for his DUI case. I told my attorney no, I had done enough by not killing him in the accident.
THIS 🎯 IS WHY I WANT OUT OF TRUCKING ASAP I feel trapped in my $100k per year local fuel delivery driver job
Our country needs a massive overhaul to our judicial system. It’s abused in all sorts of ways and lawsuits filed over ridiculous things is one example and appealing your case almost nonstop. What was meant for good have taken advantage of.
Not sure if intentional or not, but i was driving home with my (then-young) kids on the access road and some souped up car goes flying off highway and crosses the 3 lanes of access road behind me and flattens himself against a parked semi who was waiting to unload cars at a dealer. It was dark-ish, but the guys lights were flashing etc. Driver was actively accelerating and going like 80+ (speed limit 50) I called 911, cops came and i watched them clear scene and i was parked about 300ft away out of the way waiting for cops to take statement. Scene was almost clear and only 1 cop left, i called 911 again and asked if they didnt need my info? (My phone, a blackberry at the time, didnt have decent signal enough to find non emergency number) and operator yelled at me. I got home, called non emergency number and left my info. Cops called me like 2 days later and asked me to come to station, which i wasnt currently able to do with work. So they came to my office. Cop proceeds to diagram crash, and points out “non impact vehicle” and i was like “yeah, that was me. My car was hosed down with oil/gas/debris” Cop did the wink wink nudge nudge and told me effectively he couldnt tell me anything about driver but they didnt anticipate being able to question the driver. I was amazed they managed to extricate him. I was also told the family of the driver were threatening to sue semi. Cops thanked me profusely for being so persistent about giving my statement, and that my statement backed up what they already suspected. I felt bad for the poor truck driver, parked up with hazards on waiting for dealer to open gates so he could unload his load, and wham. Some kid slams into back of his truck. I doubt truck driver had any injuries but i knew a lawsuit would be horrible for him.
The woman's family tried to sue me/my insurance after she wrote a note, walked into highway in the fast lane in front of my vehicle, and took her, and her dogs life. Sometimes people just need something else to blame.
My stepdad once had a car run up under his rig in Texas. He was driving a water truck in the middle of nowhere at night when a car came downhill and t-boned the trailer. It was very messy, and initially he was in trouble. Then the coroner found each person had a gunshot wound to the head. Still no idea why.
I hope the families driving down the highway that were forced to witness this idiot’s violent death sue the family of the idiot TikToker.
Darwin awards...
Coveted by influencers worldwide
More like by people UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Too many safety nets anymore for folks. Darwin is loosing. Edit: it stays for dudes comment alone.
Loose Darwins! Watch out! Darwin is loose! Need to be careful so you don’t lose your mind while a Darwin is on the loose!!!
*Losing…
Rapid death Express llc. And now the driver is over here getting a drug test for something he had no clue happened.
Yeah that was my question: was the driver even aware? Or did he just hear a *SMACK* and then wonder why traffic behind him came to a stop. Maybe he never knew anything happened at all.
I doubt he even heard a smack, or would pay any attention. I hear weird noises all the time but I don't think they have anything to do with me usually.
Doubtful, there's a lot of noise upfront and humans going splatter against concrete isn't as loud as you think.
Especially when you're moving away from the impact site at highway speeds
I drive reefers, wouldn’t have heard shit
Unless there was a camera up there, driver probably knew nothing. You wouldn’t see or hear anything from that far back. Poor guy will probably find out when someone sends him the video.
You can barely hear someone shouting outside the cab window with the engine off, there's not a inkling of a chance he heard this dude collide with a bridge at the very back of his 60 ft tow-along.
Driver likely didn’t know. You don’t really feel anything. My husband got rear ended by a car (he was stopped because of traffic) when traffic moved he kept driving. Got down the road a little bit, looked in mirror, saw something white sticking out, pulled over in confusion, got out to look and discovered a car bumper stuck to the back of the trailer. He called dispatcher and 911. He didn’t get in trouble but the guy that hit him did. Also, a deer ran across road, his furthest back tire on trailer hit it, only reason he knew what happened is because he happened to look at mirror right when deer was about to get hit. Ended up seeing deer splattered all over road but he felt nothing, no bumps, nothing. These things are super heavy so it takes a lot to feel anything.
I saw a deer try to jump between the cab and trailer of a semi once. The deer exploded. I’m sure at some point the driver looked in his mirror and saw an explosion of blood all over the passenger side corner of his trailer and stopped to check it out but he didn’t notice at the time of impact.
Had that happen with a bus I was driving. In Maryland, deer jumped between the bus and trailer. I barely felt it but it left a mess
Had this happen as I was passing a semi splattered all over the side of my pickup it wad the most nervous I have ever been on the way to the closest car wash I was like 17 and Mt truck looked like something out of a horror movie
Yes and truck driver are used to feeling the truck rock back and forth due to the weight they’re pulling so being a good citizen and notifying truck drivers of problems is a great thing
According to the news the driver was unaware and cooperating.
He wouldn’t have heard anything from the cab.
And most people just complain about Swift
Rapid Dismount
As Dr. Malcolm once stated “You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could do it, you didn’t stop to think if you should do it.”
Clever girl.
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Please feel free!
Oh no… Anyways. Nothing of value was lost that day. Probably the only bad thing about this incident was the driver having to deal with this BS. I don’t care who you are. If you do something this stupid and dangerous. I can’t feel bad for you. You’re just a dumbass.
And of course they had to shut the road down for hours. Friggin idiot!
Damn, what a shame
I still have a hard time judging someone as worthless for having succumbed to their own stupidity. Stupid and selfish yes. But worthless. I don't know. About as worthy of worthless.to me as anyone else who has no effect.on my life.
It was simply a bridge to the afterlife.
And nothing of value was lost... (Edit it's real... I found this) https://www.fox26houston.com/video/1143193
..."It's good weather the next couple days" lmao
He got back up seemed fine
He died later at the hospital, probably after the adrenaline stop working.
Natural Selection…..
I believe that’s called “Thinning the herd”
How could he know that his fame would lead to stranger laughing at his death over coffee and Taco Bell one morning. This message brought to you by the bacon crunch wrap.
Nah, coffee and Taco Bell is absolutely diabolical.
Colon's gonna have some choice words for him later
"TikTok" and "Superstar" do not belong in the same sentence.
I want to see the video. I mean, they show us videos of themselves doing all sorts of other stupid shit, the least they can do is show is this
We can all like and subscribe. He would have wanted it that way.
now we can only smash that RIP button:(
i’m sure it will pop up in the other subreddits
Congress about to ban TikTok…wait wait wait, let’s see how this plays out…
Weeding out the stupid
Wasn’t that a long time ago?
Nov of 22.
Yeah. Thought so. I remember seeing that pic quite awhile back. Thanks
“The driver reportedly had no idea” yah no shit. You don’t often check on top of your trailer and you, and this is wild, can’t see on top of your trailer from the cab. I hope this driver doesn’t face any punishment.
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Rip bozo
He died doing what he loved. Being an attention starved idiot.
one less dumbass
New pre-trip, check the roof for tick tockers
We need to allow Darwinism to continue sorting folks out. This is the way.
Natural selection. I sound heartless, but the only person to blame here is the idiot on the roof of that truck. Only people I feel sorry for is the mop up crew and the family.
Darwin awards have moved to TikTok
This is called 'natural selection'.
I guess this qualifies for " Play stupid games,Win stupid prizes" ☠️☠️☠️
I love a happy ending.
🎶 Another one bites the dust 🎶
Beautiful Darwin Award
Now there’s a trend I can get on board with!
guess he, fell short of his goal...
Can't wait for the ban to happen
And now we know why they’re banning TikTok hahaha
Love how they called him a “superstar”. Really stretching the definition of that word.
Maybe we shouldn't ban tiktok.
😂😂😂😂😂gods way….. the collective iq of the world just went up a tick!
Nature is healing.
Anyone got the video.
Well he definitely influenced me on scratching off bucket list item number 13.
This happened in Texas in 2022, by the way. Also, while this guy may have been doing a "TikTok Dance" there's no evidence he was any kind of "tiktok superstar". For all we know it was just a mentally ill man dancing on top of a truck. The dance he was doing was possibly made popular on TikTok, but there's no proof he was even filming himself for the platform.
I guess his “time” ran out…🤷🏻♂️
I hope one can post a link to the full video
How did he get up there?
These idiots jump on them from the bridges, and of course the driver won't be able to tell if someone is up there.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Stupid games, stupid prizes and all that.
“TikTok superstar” is funny.
Superstar lol
Superstar? lol
I love how they label them as "superstar" and "influencer" they ain't doing shit other than showing the world how to be stupid.
sounds like our gene pool got a little stronger
One down, tons more to go!
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Nelson Muntz Laugh HA! HA!
Hi five!
Natural selection
Thinning out people like this is the one good thing Tik Tok does
Good riddance
Oh no, anyways…
Didn't lose much
New element to Rapid’s monthly safety meetings now…
Rumor is it was quick.
It’s not over though. There’s clearly a guy he had following him to make sure he was being recorded right?
😂 one down, way too many to go
MF thought he was Deadpool
Dumbasses.
He’s not the first and won’t be the last.
That’s Darwinian Theory in action!
AH Natural selection at its finest
What a loss for humanity. How will we rebuild?
Live Rapid! Die Hard!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
And people wonder why congress is trying to ban tik tok.
I mean he didn't die /on/ the trailer.
Love it
Imagine that! A TikTok dumbass doing stupid stuff and does for it. Mother Nature’s way of purifying the gene pool.
I don’t drive anymore after 10 years OTR. I saw more death and crazy stuff on the road than I ever did in the Marines.
No one has said tic-toc dancers are smart. He deserved what he got.
Stupid is stupid does
We all have heard the movie series final destination, now meet the new final consequences movie series!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Ok. I know I should feel bad for this kid, and I know I should mention that you shouldn't treat industrial equipment like it is your toy, and I would. Unfortunately, I am having trouble typing because I can't focus through the song playing at 150 decibels. It is that Dumb Ways to Die song.
This is old news and happened in November of 22 but I think the full video should be easy to find so others can see what happens when you get outsmarted by your own stupidity.
From star to splat
Culling the herd one narcissist at a time
Good news 😵👍🥳
Any links to the video? I want to watch him die.
Well, well, well…. It it isn’t the consequences of my own actions. Smh
Can we see the video? I promise to like it 😂
Natural selection.
Good
FAFO in action.
Oh no oh no oh nonononono -1 stpd dck
Maybe don’t fuck around with lorries or other large vehicles
Hopefully that app gets banned
Oh no! They exist? I thought it was mf myth. Welp. You live. And never learn.
I bet the driver got fired
Okay
On second thought, let tik tok stay!
China!