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Old 12-04-2008, 07:44 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Any of your statistics tell you that the ignorant driver in the car was at primary fault for any given percentage of those accidents involving trucks?

You're correct in saying that a truck can't maneuver in any way as fast as a car can. What this proves is that the general public is absolutely INCORRECT in blaming truckers for a large number of the accidents they're INVOLVED IN (not caused.) The fact that any rational human being can understand that the truck can't maneuver faster than they can means that they should also understand (as a "good" driver), that they're going to have to pay an ever increasing amount of attention to what's going on around them, so that they can assure their own reaction will not be the one that causes said trucker to make a potentially fatal maneuver.

Go ahead, keep thinking you're unsafe around truckers. Leaves more room for me.
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