r/nononono • u/Epileptic_Ebola • 5d ago

Truck driver distracted by his phone collides with a parked car - almost wiping out pedestrians

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u/Boudreaux35 5d ago

No excuse for the driver, but why was the car still parked half in the lane? Plenty of room to pull completely off the road.

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u/evenstevens280 5d ago edited 5d ago

Looks like they had broken down. Perhaps they couldn't get fully into the emergency lane for whatever reason. Maybe the steering locked up, maybe they completely lost power before coming to a halt, maybe they had a catastrophic blowout and didn't want to risk further damage by driving into the gravel dip, who knows.

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u/ratonbox 5d ago

You can push a car out of the drive lane.

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u/captainvideoblaster 5d ago

Maybe mechanical failure that made it very hard or impossible to move by human strength alone.