If you haven’t already seen this dramatic video of a Pepsi truck crashing on the Tollway, it’s definitely worth a look-see. But what isn’t worth your time is the poor reporting on the WFAA website.
“We now have dramatic video of an 18-wheeler as it careened out of control on the Dallas North Tollway,” the online report says. “The images, provided by a North Texas Tollway Authority traffic camera, show the Pepsi truck driving in the southbound lanes at Beltline Road Wednesday afternoon when a car apparently cut it off. The truck driver over-corrected and crossed the concrete median barrier, ending up on its side sliding in the northbound lanes.” (Emphasis mine.)
As any boob who actually watches the video can see, the accident was totally the car driver’s fault. Yet the reporting makes it seem as if the trucker was. His truck “careen[s] out of control,” as if the driver lost control. From what I can see, he was forced into the median by a speeding sedan that plowed into him twice and blocked his forward movement. In annoyingly PC fashion, the word “apparently” is used as if this report is a court of law where evidence must be proven, instead of a thinking person who can believe what he sees. The car CUTS HIM OFF. Simple as that. And the trucker “over-corrected?” How is having a car force you to the side “over-correcting?” He did all he could — all anyone could — do. Characterizing this accident as WFAA does seems like total disregard for facts and instead devotion to buzzwords. Not cool.
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Chaulk it up to another “text book” taught Texas idiot more interested in keeping his job and his Hollywood-style appearance instead of focusing on reality and true fact..
Ohhh Shock Me !! Like this never doesn’t happen elsewhere in this screwed up state? Why don’t we all vote for succession from the USA while we’re at it too!! After all, our Governor seems to think this is the right thing to do.
Like we don’t have a shortage of fools who don’t know the difference between ‘working wisdom’ vs. ‘textbook knowhow’ and you finally recognized this?
Congradulations!! Now please return your tray tables to their origional upright position as you exit.
ok…
1. I have no effin clue wtf Rickey is talking about…
2. to actually comment on this post – “cut him off” …serisously? I’m sorry, but where I come from, when you “cut someone off” it means the pull into their lane in front of them without enough distance between vehicles….WFAA must be completely retarded….cut him off my ass…it looks almost like he deliberatly hit him twice – or at least once, and the second time, which looks like he actually plowed directly into the trucks steer axle, which could have been from the cars driver “over correcting” after hitting the truck and bouncing off the first damn time…if you look closely, the car never even made the corner, like the driver wasn’t expecting the road to turn….hmm, hope whoever they were talking to or texting got their message okay!