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6 comments:
Again, was the law anywhere to be found?
TNHP showed up and wrote him a ticket.
He deserves it that's for sure
I never did like that stupid guard rail. Heading southbound, it gives me something to look at and I shouldn't be looking over there,
'cause as you all know....
I got some good video of the ripped guardrail, without the truck. Posts were pulled out of the ground.
Trucker has a perfect defense that it is impossible to stay in one lane and drive the Dragon, and the feds don't ban commercial vehicles. This bogus ticket would never survive a competent legal defense in court. And if it works for truckers, that means that defense works for everyone, under the 14th Amendment to US Constitution Equal Protection doctrine. Lawyers have won "reckless driving" tickets for bikers crossing the centerline on the Dragon, with all charges dismissed. The centerline is an inappropriate road marking on the Dragon, which is more like a single-lane road.
Staying in one lane requires extra lean angle, resulting in more scraping of bodyparts (bike and human), and more crashes. The key is not doing that in blind corners, which big trucks cannot comply with without rolling over.
Now that Guardrail Corner killed a biker last week, maybe TDOT can extend the guardrail 20 feet at corner entry, to keep bikes from falling off the cliff. Double layer of armco to keep bikes from going under it. Then we can add an airfence or tire wall. CB radios would help, but Rural Metro must be required to staff many more ambulances, which are more important than police cars. BCSO has 250 vehicles (48 are "missing"), but Rural Metro only has 10 ambulances in Blount County, and their contract allows them to be as slow as they want to be. 3 dead on the Dragon in 2 days... Does Big Brother care about saving lives, or making money with traffic tickets.
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