Fatal Crash - Alamo Ranch Parkway

[OaklandR]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

What???

If you can read and go the speed limit then you can figure this out. If you cannot read signs then you should not be driving.

That's what makes it so dangerous. You can be following all the laws and some idiot comes plowing along. Unfortunately these things have to be accounted for.

[huckster]

One must always be alert for witless drivers, it is defensive driving. The State of Texas cannot hold everyone's hand inside of their car.
Some will die from hitting a Live Oak with their car. Well by God , that tree should not have been there. Others drive into store fronts.
Drunks, aggressive drivers, immature kid drivers, reckless drivers, tailgaters, slower drivers, the elderly, weaving, sudden swerves or sudden halts etc.
Some even behave as though the laws do not apply to them. For instance.
Danger is everywhere. People die in automobile accidents everyday.

Once , long ago perhaps 1984, I was driving out 281 northbound by night (this was when nothing at all existed out there - nothing) and was near the exit ramp at Texas FM 46. It was pitch dark.
There along the 60 ft. vertical escarpments, the solid limestone cliffs, was an old pickup driving along ahead of my young family. A drunk also nearing the exit ramp. Perhaps he was passed out, I never knew.

Welllll.............the guy left the roadway while we watched, and by the dim illumination of headlights alone left the roadway crossed the ditch and up the backside and was then speeding parallel and alongside the vertical cliffs at 70mph down the grassline for about 100 ft., narrowly avoiding wrecking the old truck against the stone cliffs, skillfully avoiding collision.
Ultimately the old pickup was steered back onto 281 before the exit ramp and he proceeded on his way
as though nothing had transpired. Perhaps this small spectacle was not humorous.....
I could not help but burst out laughing at the hapless driver but he did manage to steer clear of a collision with the stone cliff.
These are the ones to watch for.

Originally Posted by OaklandR

That's what makes it so dangerous. You can be following all the laws and some idiot comes plowing along. Unfortunately these things have to be accounted for.

[Azure110]

I find it odd that they released the names of the family that was killed but no where is the driver of the truck is named, plus there is nothing showing that he was charged other than the investigation is on-going.