They’ll say he didn’t clear the intersection
Correct. They will say the driver failed to look left-right-left/have escape route/expect the unexpected. We had a driver get hit by a red light runner last year too. Same story. Tier 3, removed from service. Nowhere near as ugly as the crash in this video, thankfully. Glad to hear the driver is alright.
But yes, they will crawl over broken glass to pin any accident on the driver, whether or not it was actually the driver’s fault. I had a lady last week blow straight through a stop sign right in front of me while I had the RoW. Never even looked. That would have no doubt been classified as avoidable, but luckily for the both of us, I was actually paying attention.
But as others here have said, we also have trucks with tailgates bent to
with yellow paint on them, deep gouges in the front bumpers and on the sides. It’s gonna happen at some point with so many trucks parked within 5 inches of both each other and the side of the building, but it happens on route too. Don’t see any of those trucks parked out in the mechanic’s bay. Awful lot of getting away with stuff going on out there.
So why does nobody want to ‘fess up?