A new video of an accident involving a K2 Chevy Silverado 1500 with a ladder on its roof and a Nissan Rogue is getting attention. In the minute-long video below, video footage recorded from the back of the Rogue shows what appears to be a very distracted Silverado driver rear-ending the Nissan, causing the Chevy’s airbags to deploy. Take a look.
Judging by the speedometer at the bottom of the video footage and by the surrounding traffic in the video, it appears that there’s a slowdown across all lanes of the highway. However, the Chevy Silverado doesn’t slow down, causing the crash. The Rogue certainly slowed down, but it’s hard to see how the Silverado driver wouldn’t be at fault in this accident.
A closer examination reveals that the driver of the Chevy Silverado is holding a phone, clearly visible with its camera lenses. The clearest explanation for what happened here is that the Silverado driver was distracted and crashed into the Rogue.
YouTube user @OfficialEclipseDragonz, who posted the video, shed a little extra light on it in the comment section. “No injuries and, to my knowledge, no citations,” the user said. “The pickup truck was not drivable after the accident. The Nissan Rogue was fine with $12,000 in damage but all the lights worked.”
It’s a relief to hear that there were no injuries, implying that the Silverado’s passive safety systems, namely its airbags, worked as designed. The Silverado driver had a front passenger, and it’s unclear whether there were additional passengers in the back seats.
This accident serves as a cautionary tale about distracted driving. One of the good things about modern infotainment systems is that they give us little reason to look at our phones while driving. Our maps, music, and communications are consolidated in the car’s built-in infotainment system, so there should be no excuse for this kind of distracted driving. Simply put, put the phone down while you’re driving to keep yourselves and other motorists and their passengers safe.
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But how would he have known where to go for the next job, LOL? See it all the time.
Pickup is at fault, well actually the driver is.
Secretary Hegseth needs to designate a driver.
Time to call Morgan and Morgan.
With distracted driving as the #1 cause of vehicular deaths, how is it possible that every, yes every, vehicle is not fit or retrofitted with a cell phone blocking device. It should be law and dismantelling it should come with severe jail time. Just my opinion, or let’s ask the families of all those killed in these type of absolutely preventable situations. Calling these “accidents” is beyond stupid.
Very few accidents occur, the are Avoidable collisions! An accident is when you have done everything in your power to avoid contact !
Lost that next job plus totaled his truck. at least the ladder is ok.
About the only thing the driver did right. Often when it’s at this level, he’ll have the ladder tied with one or two bicycle bungees and that goes flying too.
Just up the punishment. It says no citations were issued? Clearly this is the problem if true
“Just up the punishment.” I guess we just do nothing to actually stop people from getting hurt, maimed or killed. Just punish those responsible more severely. Does anyone on this planet understand that there is this concept called “PREVENTION”. I bet you don’t turn off your air bags, disengage your ABS, remove your EA’s from behind your front and rear facias, cut the side impact reinforcements from inside your doors, etc. Just because everyone loves(is addicted to) their cell phones should in no way rationalize their use during driving. Wake up folks!
Same thing happened to me except I was in my Silverado and stopped waiting for the driver in front of me to turn left. Was rear ended by a woman driving her friend’s Toyota car. Her airbags deployed and the hood was peeled back almost to her windshield. Her doors were jammed shut and I basically had to pry her door open so she could get out. My trailer hitch and step bumper took all of the rear damage. Unfortunately she pushed me into the car in front of me so I got a new front bumper too, but I drove away after the paperwork was done. Her car lost all of it’s fluids and went straight to the junk yard on a flatbed. Lady told the cop she was messing with her radio.
Distracted driving is why I quit riding motorcycles on the street. I hated sitting at stop lights or in traffic on the freeway. I figured in a car they will probably still hit me, but I’ve got a better chance of walking away. People already know they are supposed to pay attention when they drive. I’m not sure what the mechanism would be to force them to.
“I was messing with the radio.” I love it. That ranks right up there with when your mom found your pot stash in your sock drawer and you said “I was just holding it for a friend”.
I firmly believe that we don’t have to force anyone to pay attention, we just need to eliminate the myriad of distractions that vehicles are full of. Why is it there this overwhelming need to have every single piece of tech that exists incorporated into vehicles. I know I’m getting old cause all I still only need, in the cabin of a vehicle, the basics. Pretty much only the stuff that was there in around the late 80s. We, as a society, are completely addicted to “screens.” Screens, of any kind, don’t belong in vehicles. They belong on the wall opposite your couch or favorite chair. Cell phones/Nav screens/Infotainment screens are not, even remotely, necessities. People die because they exist inside vehicles. Sorry. We also complain about the excessive cost of today’s vehicles. Tech, tech, tech. DUH!!! Yea. I know I’m a Grumpy Ole Man. You don’t have to remind me.
“She was messing with her radio.” Love it. That’s about as true as when your Mom found your pot stash in your sock drawer and you said, “I’m just holding it for a friend”. People think everyone else is stupid. A Police friend of mine dressed down and hung around at a major intersection with a can begging for money. She was actually doing a “survey” of how many people went thru that intersection while on their cell phone, either texting or talking. The number would scare ya’ll. It’s a HUGE problem.