Semi traveling on a New Mexican highway, two lane with narrow shoulders and 65 mph speed limit. Trainee at the wheel of the semi at the limit looking down the road sees a car veer into its lane maybe a hundred yards in front. Semi veers onto shoulder and car driver looks up, sees semi bearing down on him and cuts hard right. As driver of semi recovers and checks the mirror the car has oversteered and goes into a skid sideways and off the road creating a huge dust cloud. Other cars are stopping to help and by the time the semi comes to a stop it's almost a mile from the accident with no place to turn around.

What is the semi drivers responsibility?

Stay and try to help? If driver has had first level emergency responder training is the answer different?

Continue on believing help is on the way and he had no responsibility for the accident?

 

I had an ambulance roll over in front of me in Tulsa, OK some years ago. I don't know what kind of truck you're talking about, but on wet blacktop, it did not take me a mile to stop my truck. The ambulance crew was right there, so help was on site, but of all things, mine was the only flashlight that was working, and this was at night. I came very close to doing a T-BONE with that ambulance, but I was not involved. Why did it take a mile to stop the truck in MN???

 

If it was me..i would stop to try to tell my side of story so i wont get stopped 10 miles ahead and be accused of running someone off the road....

 

Good question... :?: Can't see how the truck driver was at fault in any way... if'n it was me... I would keep rolling. Why stop and get yourself into something that didn't have anything to do with you? From the way the situation is described, the car didn't flip... just went off into the cornfield. It was four-wheeler dumb-a$$ity that caused it. I might make a call to 911 though saying somebody had just about become a grill-ornament however for "CYA" purposes. That's my two cents...