LogFAQs > #899070236

Basically I got run off the road by a tractor/trailer who pulled out from a yield sign. He is lying and saying we left both exits (140m distance) at the same time. I ended up at his diesel tank, which typically sits ten feet or so back from the front of the cab. The time comes from him being at a dead stop until the time I almost hit him (I have video but I go behind his trailer and nothing else is seen). He also admitted he was empty. If we left at the same time like he said, I don't think I would have even come near the back of his trailer, much less the middle of his cab.

I think I have the answer in other words. It would have been impossible from a dead stop, with no traction control system, in wet conditions, to go that distance while making a right turn in 5.5 seconds. That doesn't even take deceleration into account. That is foot-to-the-floor acceleration with no intent of stopping. My vehicle has 240 brake horse @ 6000rpm and weighs 4200 lbs with me included. I stopped about two inches from his diesel tank, meaning most of that 5.5 seconds was me decelerating.

The truth is I might have bee. Going 53 kilometers per hour (~32mph). The point I'm trying to make is there's no way we pulled out at the same time. He's lying to try to put blame on me as his words about me were "....had he been driving accordingly..."
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