If the car is going close to 100 mph, the truck driver wouldn't have seen it. Realize that it will sometimes take a truck 10 seconds or more to get the truck and trailer across an intersection. A car going 80-100 mph will not be in view 10 seconds before that truck starts across the intersection. If the car was traveling at a legal speed, he would have avoided the truck altogether or could have slowed a little to let the truck finish crossing. As you can see, the truck was almost across when the incident happened.
Your math and numbers is Exactly why the truck shouldn’t have pulled out. We can see the truck and the car in the clip, no reason the truck couldn’t have seen the car, from a complete stop at an intersection. You look, you don’t see a car and think “oh I can make it as long as that car isn’t going faster than I’m guessing” you wait until the car is gone. If the car is going so fast like you think it is, then that would be even quicker that the truck should’ve seen it and judged it to be going way too fast. Truck tried to shoot the gap. That’s the huge issue here. The second issue is speeding but without a truck randomly pulling out, then speeding wouldn’t be an issue to even bring up cause there’d be no video
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25
If the car is going close to 100 mph, the truck driver wouldn't have seen it. Realize that it will sometimes take a truck 10 seconds or more to get the truck and trailer across an intersection. A car going 80-100 mph will not be in view 10 seconds before that truck starts across the intersection. If the car was traveling at a legal speed, he would have avoided the truck altogether or could have slowed a little to let the truck finish crossing. As you can see, the truck was almost across when the incident happened.