• @[email protected]
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    663 months ago

    The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers

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      1083 months ago

      The driver deserves criminal punishment in addition to the punishment of ignoring physics.

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        203 months ago

        Would this be a criminal offense? As much as it’s annoying that his car is so massive, he drove a street legal vehicle in the wrong place. Paying for the damages seems like a sufficient consequence.

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          663 months ago

          Not a lawyer, but I would assume that reckless driving would apply here. If nothing else, he should be liable for the damages financially due to negligence

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            223 months ago

            It was overweight for the bridge, not the road. It was from a commercial trucking company, so likely a dump truck. The first clue should be that it was a F-750. There are pickup beds for them, but they’re almost always a flatbed or dump bed.

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              -43 months ago

              Street-legal, bridge-legal, who gives a shit. The point is, they drove it illegally and should be able to be punished accordingly. The make and model are irrelevant.

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                  03 months ago

                  I don’t care either way, I was responding to a different person who said they couldn’t be punished because it was street-legal but in “the wrong place.” I was simply pointing out that street-legal-but-in-the-wrong-place is the same as not-street-legal.

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          3 months ago

          He failed to observe a traffic control device. There’s at least a ticket in there somewhere for him.

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          73 months ago

          If the bridge had been just a bit sturdier, it could have been damaged jut to the point where the truck could have passed, but the next person driving over would have fell in and risked their lives.