Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials

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Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials - Lemmy.World

Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!

Let me guess: it happened because the relevant safety regulations were repealed or the authority in charge was dissolved or muzzled.

Or perhaps because the owners of the transport company may have refused to listen to safety concerns from employees because it would require expensive upgrades and additional personnel that they didn’t want to pay for.

In either case, I am sure this will be a “No one could have predicted this” situation, the driver of the truck takes all the blame, and nothing changes regarding company policy or safety regulations.

The company can only get away with this sort of thing if there isn’t adequate oversight. The root cause is political. If that indeed had anything to do with it, which is speculation at this point.
Yep. In either case, though, I expect the responsible parties to face zero meaningful consequences.
And they wonder why we’re so fucking jaded 😂😂 but for real. Justice doesn’t exist anymore.
Fairly certain that it never has.