WOW... so according to Tinnydrop the driver is at fault? No way! Does anyone READ the facts, or do they just read the headline and assume they know what they are talking about? 1. Where he was picking up garbage, is at an apartment complex. Driving a front load truck, you can't BACK in to get the garbage, now can you? And sorry, the driver couldn't LIFT the garbage container. He had no choice but to drive in and back out. 2. Even backing out, had he gotten out of the truck, if the gentleman was down the street, he is not going to stand there to see where the gentleman is headed. Do you do that everytime you back out of somewhere? You see someone down the street walking, do you wait and see what direction and what speed they are walking at? Better yet, why not walk down the street and ask him where he's going?? That's a good way to get shot!
I find it amazing that it's so easy for someone to place blame on someone else, and no one can just say it's an accident. To the professional driver instructor, do you think that your above an accident? I can only pray that it doesn't happen to you. If it does, I will be here posting... did he get out of the truck and look???
Driving a garbage truck is not easy in the least. The difference between the accident in New Middletown and this one is that the driver was acting negelent! He was speeding and broke the law when he ran the stop sign! This driver was not breaking the law, and witnesses have even said that the truck was backing up slowly and with caution! If you think you can do it better, maybe you had better go apply. We will see if you can even pass your CDL. I'm normally not this angry, but this is completely insane that charges are even being considered in this case. Maybe the procesucting attorney of Mahoning County needs to find his heart and understand that it is what it is.... and accident.
I find it appalling that the driver would do a day in jail. Seriously, do you think he went out that day to kill a man?! The rest of his life will be spent with the death of that man on his mind. I feel bad for the man's children that he left behind, but instead of making the driver out to be some sort of premediated murderer, make the children realize that accidents happen to good people. The company of the driver should be held accountable for a truck that did not have working beeps when reverse is engaged, but at the same time, Ohio does not have a law that states it is mandatory for a truck to have this. I can only hope that Ohio Department of Transportation has fully investigated this company. I could see if the driver was acting in a manor that was unacceptable, however all witnesses have said, that the driver was catiously backing up, and going slowly. Why does this have to be prosecuted! What a waste of tax payor dollars. Go after your drug dealers, and those shooting up the city of Youngstown, and shooting each other. Accidents are accidents, that is why there is a defination of it in the dictionary.
Driver pleads not guilty in death of pedestrian
WOW... so according to Tinnydrop the driver is at fault? No way! Does anyone READ the facts, or do they just read the headline and assume they know what they are talking about?
1. Where he was picking up garbage, is at an apartment complex. Driving a front load truck, you can't BACK in to get the garbage, now can you? And sorry, the driver couldn't LIFT the garbage container. He had no choice but to drive in and back out.
2. Even backing out, had he gotten out of the truck, if the gentleman was down the street, he is not going to stand there to see where the gentleman is headed. Do you do that everytime you back out of somewhere? You see someone down the street walking, do you wait and see what direction and what speed they are walking at? Better yet, why not walk down the street and ask him where he's going?? That's a good way to get shot!
I find it amazing that it's so easy for someone to place blame on someone else, and no one can just say it's an accident. To the professional driver instructor, do you think that your above an accident? I can only pray that it doesn't happen to you. If it does, I will be here posting... did he get out of the truck and look???
Driving a garbage truck is not easy in the least. The difference between the accident in New Middletown and this one is that the driver was acting negelent! He was speeding and broke the law when he ran the stop sign! This driver was not breaking the law, and witnesses have even said that the truck was backing up slowly and with caution! If you think you can do it better, maybe you had better go apply. We will see if you can even pass your CDL.
I'm normally not this angry, but this is completely insane that charges are even being considered in this case. Maybe the procesucting attorney of Mahoning County needs to find his heart and understand that it is what it is.... and accident.
June 11, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Police seek help in solving accident that killed a blind pedestrian
I find it appalling that the driver would do a day in jail. Seriously, do you think he went out that day to kill a man?! The rest of his life will be spent with the death of that man on his mind. I feel bad for the man's children that he left behind, but instead of making the driver out to be some sort of premediated murderer, make the children realize that accidents happen to good people. The company of the driver should be held accountable for a truck that did not have working beeps when reverse is engaged, but at the same time, Ohio does not have a law that states it is mandatory for a truck to have this. I can only hope that Ohio Department of Transportation has fully investigated this company. I could see if the driver was acting in a manor that was unacceptable, however all witnesses have said, that the driver was catiously backing up, and going slowly. Why does this have to be prosecuted! What a waste of tax payor dollars. Go after your drug dealers, and those shooting up the city of Youngstown, and shooting each other. Accidents are accidents, that is why there is a defination of it in the dictionary.
June 11, 2008 at 11:29 p.m. permalink suggest removal