Watching the news right now about the girl killing herself by head on collision with the truck driver...
I work in the food distribution industry. Which means that I have worked with, and continue to work with, many many truck drivers. With that being said, I don't think these people committing suicide by ramming a semi understand what they are doing to the truck driver.
I know 3 ex-truck drivers personally that work in the warehouse because they couldn't handle driving anymore because of ACCIDENTS they had that resulted in fatalities. Accidents where a car had a blowout and slid out of control only to end up under the trailer tandems crushed. They carry around the fact that they killed somebody every day of their lives. I can't even imagine how they would feel if the fatality was actually a suicide.
Not to mention that these people thinking the semis are a good choice to hit because they are so big, don't understand that they could kill the driver of the truck too.
I was working as a transportation supervisor 1/1/08 at around 1:30 in the morning when I got a call from a Texas State Trooper about one of my drivers that was involved in a fatality crash with a drunk driver.
A car ran a red light, and tore the front left tire off of the tractor. The tractor trailer ended up falling on it's side, which through the driver partially out of the window. His head, shoulders, and part of his torso was drug under the side of the tractor about 80 feet along the street, and up onto the curb. The drivers of the car were both ok...
So as you can see, a big truck can be taken out by a car.
Now saying all of that, I'm not against suicide. If you want to kill yourself, that's you choice. I can understand being terminally ill with cancer, and in constant pain when awake, or in a drugged out stupor, and not wanting to live like that anymore... But don't potentially kill somebody else in the process of your own exit strategy. There are so many painless and / or quick ways of doing it that don't endanger anybody else, that I can't understand the whole "driving down the wrong side of the street" mentality.
I work in the food distribution industry. Which means that I have worked with, and continue to work with, many many truck drivers. With that being said, I don't think these people committing suicide by ramming a semi understand what they are doing to the truck driver.
I know 3 ex-truck drivers personally that work in the warehouse because they couldn't handle driving anymore because of ACCIDENTS they had that resulted in fatalities. Accidents where a car had a blowout and slid out of control only to end up under the trailer tandems crushed. They carry around the fact that they killed somebody every day of their lives. I can't even imagine how they would feel if the fatality was actually a suicide.
Not to mention that these people thinking the semis are a good choice to hit because they are so big, don't understand that they could kill the driver of the truck too.
I was working as a transportation supervisor 1/1/08 at around 1:30 in the morning when I got a call from a Texas State Trooper about one of my drivers that was involved in a fatality crash with a drunk driver.
A car ran a red light, and tore the front left tire off of the tractor. The tractor trailer ended up falling on it's side, which through the driver partially out of the window. His head, shoulders, and part of his torso was drug under the side of the tractor about 80 feet along the street, and up onto the curb. The drivers of the car were both ok...
So as you can see, a big truck can be taken out by a car.
Now saying all of that, I'm not against suicide. If you want to kill yourself, that's you choice. I can understand being terminally ill with cancer, and in constant pain when awake, or in a drugged out stupor, and not wanting to live like that anymore... But don't potentially kill somebody else in the process of your own exit strategy. There are so many painless and / or quick ways of doing it that don't endanger anybody else, that I can't understand the whole "driving down the wrong side of the street" mentality.
mile1423:
Eek! They couldn't come up with another way that didn't involve someone else?!?!?