Until you get in an accident....
16 yr old BMW driver slams into a parked UPS truck
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Cowboy Mac
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It’s sad. I hope they lock up the driver of that car and throw away the key. Probably won’t happen in NY since he’s not Donald Trump.
BMW driven by boy slams into truck killing teen passenger
Video shows the moment a 16-year-old drove a BMW into the back of a UPS truck in New York City and killed his passenger, 14-year-old Fortune Williams.www.dailymail.co.uk
As horrific as this crash was, how much you want to bet his sups are blaming him for his parking position and not having hazards on
Let’s be honest. Is it an age problem or a parenting problem? I see grown adults driving recklessly all the time.
Probably both
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
They don’t seem to worry about that to much
Insurance company might have to pay a big claim like that
Sacrificial Lamb
Package Shepherd
As soon as they get their car here they start driving, but I live in the third world where anything goes.
PPH_over_9000
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RIP to the young passenger that passed
It's strange, though.... I was pulled into an office about two weeks ago over my backing and I expressed that I didn't want to block roadways that didn't have shoulders (backroads through the woods) so the safest thing in my mind was to pull into the driveway, but if I don't KNOW that driveway and can't guarantee a turnaround, I'm going to avoid backing OUT of the driveway blindly onto a backroad that moves at 45mph minimum by swinging wide when traffic clears and backing INTO the driveway to make the delivery (that was a hell of a sentence, I hope y'all can make sense out of it.)
I was instructed to pop the hazards and block the road.
Then yesterday I see this video and I thank God that it hasn't happened to me following management's
instruction, which I don't think I'll ever follow again because the video I saw was proof positive that management doesn't give a damn about actual safety. (Granted, I don't know if the driver involved has received the same type of coaching I have but I can only assume that he has.)
Third world? So, like... Is it more of a Detroit third world, or is it more like Bolivia and Cambodia?
I can't even lie, I never imagined UPS to be on the ground in any third world countries but it kind of makes sense.
It's strange, though.... I was pulled into an office about two weeks ago over my backing and I expressed that I didn't want to block roadways that didn't have shoulders (backroads through the woods) so the safest thing in my mind was to pull into the driveway, but if I don't KNOW that driveway and can't guarantee a turnaround, I'm going to avoid backing OUT of the driveway blindly onto a backroad that moves at 45mph minimum by swinging wide when traffic clears and backing INTO the driveway to make the delivery (that was a hell of a sentence, I hope y'all can make sense out of it.)
I was instructed to pop the hazards and block the road.
Then yesterday I see this video and I thank God that it hasn't happened to me following management's
instruction, which I don't think I'll ever follow again because the video I saw was proof positive that management doesn't give a damn about actual safety. (Granted, I don't know if the driver involved has received the same type of coaching I have but I can only assume that he has.)Third world? So, like... Is it more of a Detroit third world, or is it more like Bolivia and Cambodia?
I can't even lie, I never imagined UPS to be on the ground in any third world countries but it kind of makes sense.
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handlemypackage
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Sacrificial Lamb
Package Shepherd
Sounds metal as
Sixth Punch Sense
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Flashers don't matter in this case. Park position, maybe. Seems to be a very busy road with no driveways? Maybe there is alley where the garages are? Even parking on the side road leading to the highway.BMW driven by boy slams into truck killing teen passenger
Video shows the moment a 16-year-old drove a BMW into the back of a UPS truck in New York City and killed his passenger, 14-year-old Fortune Williams.
As horrific as this crash was, how much you want to bet his sups are blaming him for his parking position and not having hazards on
Regardless the driver in the sport car was 100% at fault and if the UPS driver was parked somewhere else maybe there are more deaths.
I'm sure that poor UPS driver is going through hell right now
Sixth Punch Sense
Well-Known Member
Agree. Hopefully he has a good management team.
He did nothing wrong but I'm sure the company will find a way to say that he did
Especially after somebody got killed
oldngray
nowhere special
The always reliable Be Prepared, Expect The Unexpected when they can't find any better reason to blame you.
Sixth Punch Sense
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Actually wonder if they go the other way. The poor family that lost their daughter is going to sue everyone. UPS best interest is to say he did the job perfectly to protect the company.
Regardless feel bad for everyone involved. I was a dumb 16 year old at one time.
He look like he was parked close to the curb.
There are some places you just cannot park really good and make a delivery
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
Sometimes you gotta hoof it for safety sake. Knowing when to do it, separates the safe from unsafe.
You on some of these roads there's no where you can pull over for a half a mile if you want to park completely off the road
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
That’s why they paid me, to figure it out.
