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| Clearly the 17 year old at fault. However, the Nutrien employees, while probably legal, probably fostered the situation by driving too close together to allow safe passing of one truck/tank at a time.
I nearly witnessed the same situation a couple years ago hauling grain with a semi. Local Coop had two employees Edit hauling anhydrous tanks following each other traveling US 69 around 40 mph about 200 feet apart. I had to slow to their speed with loaded semi as traffic didn’t allow safe passage of both. I could have passed one safely but would have had to squeeze between tanks…..probably pushing front guy along as I couldn’t slow that fast.PATIENCE was required. 17 year old girls have no PATIENCE. I followed them for 7 miles. One car followed me the whole time. I witnessed several close calls and poor judgment of people with no PATIENCE trying to pass whatever combination of vehicles they were able. I ended up putting left turn signal on and partially moving into oncoming lane when oncoming traffic allowed just to stop the “crazies” with no PATIENCE from trying to pass a string of vehicles unsafely. Had the tanks been spread out a half mile I could have managed to pass both INDIVIDUALLY and been on my way.
Again, clearly the girls fault for unsafe passing, but I wonder if the action wasn’t unintentionally encouragied by driving too close together at a slower speed.
Edit. Coop employees were hauling anhydrous tanks as well.
Unfortunate
Sorry for loss
Edited by ncianotiller 6/7/2023 06:51
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Deadly Crash
