Act decisively truckers in pile-A58 seemed worse

Posted on 02-10-2014 at 12:02 by sir_smokalot – 25 Comments”

The professional performance of truck drivers during the mistdrama on the A58, two weeks ago, has larger consequences occur, so conclude researchers. By their trucks to the sides to steer, there were no cars under the slide.

On september 16, jl. came in a dense fog on the Zeeland A58 3 separate chain collisions, 2 deaths and many injuries to regret. The Foundation for Scientific Research, Safety and insurer TVM conclude after its own investigation that the damages are greater, as the trucks simply on the lanes were all that remained. After all: a car that another car flips makes something more likely to survive than one that’s under a truck with 25 tons of cargo moves.

“But the suffering was immense as commercial drivers, heavy-duty trucks not to the side of the highway were conducted. Now it was, as it were, a free passage is made, which makes passenger cars, mainly to each other shined and not to the full reason on trucks.”, according to a spokesman of TVM in the Telegraph. For which tribute.

UPDATE: a response from ‘aerial photographer’ gives us some more background information:

If we the facts, this is a nonsense story. I have directly after the acceleration of the mist as aerial photographer with my plane over a 1/2 hour over the havoc hung. All truck combinations on 1 after standing on the normal lanes. The one exception was a truck behind the accident. What is the fact that there are no trucks, run on the collisions for calls of course for the drivers. If I get the photos back, I see a persons car on the back of a truck. That they on the own lane remained has just contributed to a rapid assistance via the hard shoulder. Moreover, this is part of the A58 reasonable vrachtwagenluw. The vast majority of the truck traffic is 2 miles away on the A58 from the Vlissingen harbour and the Westerschelde tunnel.