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If you are rear ended, what method did u fail?
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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1441029" data-attributes="member: 33372"><p>I was going south down a two lane road earlier driving the speed limit of 45MPH earlier this year and had cars on my left going North. To my right on the sidewalk were pedestrians,and I had traffic behind me. A dog came from nowhere thru the traffic on my left and like a Kamikaze ran right infront of my truck. I had perhaps a second as he shot into the road to make my decision on how to react as he ran into my into my path. I braked to avoid hitting him but to no avail</p><p></p><p>If I had swerved left i'd have left my lane and hit traffic. Had i swerved right i'd have left my lane and hit Human pedestrians. Had I locked the truck down and slammed on brakes I'd have certainly been rear ended , suffered damage to the truck and there almost certainly would be a probability of human injury from being rear ended</p><p></p><p>I was charged with an Avoidable Accident in that I had Failed to Expect the Unexpected and asked several times" what if it had been a child" that had run into the street. I was never told what i did wrong,only that I was a Professional Driver and should have avoided the situation. Of course I am always seeking improvement so I asked How i could of prevented this situation and was told I should have slammed on the brakes as hard as i could to avoid hitting the dog.</p><p>My reply that this would have caused me to be rear ended at the least ,as well as a good chance that in swerving to avoid rear ended me the car behind me very well could have hit a pedestrian was answered with " UPS would not have been at fault " had this happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="728ups, post: 1441029, member: 33372"] I was going south down a two lane road earlier driving the speed limit of 45MPH earlier this year and had cars on my left going North. To my right on the sidewalk were pedestrians,and I had traffic behind me. A dog came from nowhere thru the traffic on my left and like a Kamikaze ran right infront of my truck. I had perhaps a second as he shot into the road to make my decision on how to react as he ran into my into my path. I braked to avoid hitting him but to no avail If I had swerved left i'd have left my lane and hit traffic. Had i swerved right i'd have left my lane and hit Human pedestrians. Had I locked the truck down and slammed on brakes I'd have certainly been rear ended , suffered damage to the truck and there almost certainly would be a probability of human injury from being rear ended I was charged with an Avoidable Accident in that I had Failed to Expect the Unexpected and asked several times" what if it had been a child" that had run into the street. I was never told what i did wrong,only that I was a Professional Driver and should have avoided the situation. Of course I am always seeking improvement so I asked How i could of prevented this situation and was told I should have slammed on the brakes as hard as i could to avoid hitting the dog. My reply that this would have caused me to be rear ended at the least ,as well as a good chance that in swerving to avoid rear ended me the car behind me very well could have hit a pedestrian was answered with " UPS would not have been at fault " had this happened. [/QUOTE]
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