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I'm sorry to hear that.
May tomorrow bring better luck
My condolences to those affected.
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.
And the other cars were following too closely for conditions.
It's basically a mirror of his campaign.
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.
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.
Better luck next time.
DeSantis has now pledged to stop woke cars from destroying our country.
Would you like to try again?
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Such a shame.
My exact thoughts.
I miss Ron DeSantis. But my aim is improving.
What a tragedy.
I hope the next outcome is the one he deserves
Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time boys!
The woke roads must of caused this because all the drivers were asleep...
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better luck next time
This must be Disney's fault. The TRANSportation is to blame because it has the word trans in it.
Unfortunate
Sadge
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I'm pretty sure this guy uses the safety belt