• Abnorc@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Would this be a criminal offense? As much as it’s annoying that his car is so massive, he drove a street legal vehicle in the wrong place. Paying for the damages seems like a sufficient consequence.

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      2 months ago

      Not a lawyer, but I would assume that reckless driving would apply here. If nothing else, he should be liable for the damages financially due to negligence

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        2 months ago

        It was overweight for the bridge, not the road. It was from a commercial trucking company, so likely a dump truck. The first clue should be that it was a F-750. There are pickup beds for them, but they’re almost always a flatbed or dump bed.

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          2 months ago

          Street-legal, bridge-legal, who gives a shit. The point is, they drove it illegally and should be able to be punished accordingly. The make and model are irrelevant.

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              2 months ago

              I don’t care either way, I was responding to a different person who said they couldn’t be punished because it was street-legal but in “the wrong place.” I was simply pointing out that street-legal-but-in-the-wrong-place is the same as not-street-legal.

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                  2 months ago

                  I have a hard-on for accurate language, I don’t give a shit what happens to the imaginary people in the pickup truck.

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      2 months ago

      He failed to observe a traffic control device. There’s at least a ticket in there somewhere for him.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      2 months ago

      If the bridge had been just a bit sturdier, it could have been damaged jut to the point where the truck could have passed, but the next person driving over would have fell in and risked their lives.