News of a pickup truck running over and spilling 80,000 pounds of corn on the street is likely a funny story, but unfortunately, this spill was tragic. Michigan’s MLive report The truck driver lost control of the truck, killing one person and hospitalizing another.
The crash happened Saturday afternoon when the pickup truck driver tried to pass a stopped car for a turn. The pickup truck driver swerved to round the vehicle, hit the vehicle they were trying to overtake, and lost control of the 40-ton vehicle. They then crossed into the oncoming lane and crashed head-on into an oncoming SUV.
There is no word on what happened to the truck driver, but the driver of the vehicle they hit died at the scene. Their passengers survived but were taken to hospital with unspecified injuries.
United States, Road deaths sadly continue to rise although other countries are becoming safer. As we previously reported, “In 1979, the risk of death from a car accident in the United States was more or less equal to that of other developed countries. Fast-forward to 2021, the number of road deaths in the United States is at a 16-year high. Meanwhile, the numbers for Japan and Norway are the lowest since the 1940s.”
Unfortunately, preventing crashes like this seems more difficult than simply adding traffic calming measures, pursuing mobile phone users while driving, and improving infrastructure. pedestrian floors. It’s hard to stop drivers from making reckless decisions. People get tired and make mistakes. People become aggressive when they are in a hurry. And there’s no way to guarantee that they won’t do that. But until the US really takes road safety seriously, it looks like we’ll only continue to see people continue to lose their lives unnecessarily.
