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[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago
[-] Sylver@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

May tomorrow bring better luck

[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 7 points 1 year ago

My condolences to those affected.

[-] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

The chain reaction crash happened before 8:15 a.m. when traffic slowed on Interstate 75 in Chattanooga, causing four cars in the motorcade to hit one another, police said. All the vehicles involved in the crash were government vehicles taking DeSantis and his team to his scheduled event, police said.

So, one of the drivers in the motorcade was texting and didn’t notice that the car in front had stopped. Got it.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

And the other cars were following too closely for conditions.

[-] 70ms 18 points 1 year ago

It's basically a mirror of his campaign.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

When I was in the military (a very long time ago) we would do convoy training (on civilian streets and highways). We were trained to basically ignore any follow distance rules. If you were driving, you had to be right on top of the person ahead of you.

We also were constantly listening to the radio, and the directions given out by the lead vehicle. If the lead slowed, they announced it on radio, and we all slowed.

The point here is, many of these government drivers went through the same training, and operate in the same convoy mindset. The main difference is that I drove a 5-ton, and they're in armored civilian cars.

As a tangent, the funniest story I have is watching a guy several trucks ahead of me miss the exit off of the highway we were on. The rest of the convoy pulled over on the side of the service road and watched this idiot do a 5 point U-turn in the middle of a 4 lane Korean highway, so that he could drive the wrong way down the highway, to then make a wide turn onto the exit that he missed.

He had been the 5th truck in the convoy. So we waited for him to pull up, get into position, and then the alternate driver for that truck took over.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I understand the point you're making about convoy driving. However, regardless of whether the drivers were distracted, there were road condition issues (weather, construction, etc), or they weren't properly following motorcade procedures, four cars in the motorcade hit each other. It doesn't matter what the actual underlying issue was, they were driving too fast for (distracted / weather-or-construction / motorcade communications) conditions.

[-] art@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Better luck next time.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

DeSantis has now pledged to stop woke cars from destroying our country.

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Would you like to try again?

[-] brianshatchet@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Insert coin(s)

[-] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago
[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My exact thoughts.

[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I miss Ron DeSantis. But my aim is improving.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 year ago

What a tragedy.

[-] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I hope the next outcome is the one he deserves

Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time boys!

[-] PrincessZelda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] steebo_jack@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

The woke roads must of caused this because all the drivers were asleep...

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

better luck next time

[-] HealGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunate

[-] oleorun@lemmy.fan 3 points 1 year ago

This must be Disney's fault. The TRANSportation is to blame because it has the word trans in it.

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure this guy uses the safety belt

this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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