# This may be a new world record **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421 "2025-03-08T22:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/1 "2025-03-08T22:24:12Z")
… unfortunately. > **[28 charges for pickup truck driver in crash that injured 10 people](https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2025/03/28-charges-for-pickup-truck-driver-in-crash-that-injured-10-people.html)** > > The truck went through a red light and caused a four car pileup, officials said. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/2 "2025-03-08T23:50:55Z")
It’s unfortunate so many people were hurt But I’d say he’s NOT being overcharged ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/3 "2025-03-09T00:55:37Z")
Ironically, within the past couple of weeks, two recent fatal accidents took place only a block or so from the intersection where this knucklehead pulled this stunt. This could easily have turned into the third fatal accident. I drive through that area every Sunday, and I think I’ll take a different route for awhile. Too much bad karma on that stretch of US Route 1. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/4 "2025-03-09T01:45:19Z")
If one intersection is having an abnormal amount of accidents, then maybe a highway engineer should look into why. Of course my mind goes to a red light camera installed and the yellow light shortened to to increase the number of tickets issued. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/5 "2025-03-09T02:02:44Z")
Another entitled pickup operator. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/6 "2025-03-09T11:43:23Z")
In many cases, it may be due to bad highway design, but not in this case. The two previous accidents were essentially identical, namely young women who rear-ended tractor trailers and weren’t wearing seatbelts. They were just as stupid as this jerk in the pickup truck, but they weren’t as reckless–even though they wound up dead. ---
**Author:** ![johnlump\_191311](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@johnlump\_191311](https://community.cartalk.com/u/johnlump_191311)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/7 "2025-03-09T14:44:14Z")
Red lights cameras work. I got one once. Never since. After that one I stopped trying to gun it. Frankly they should be out everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/8 "2025-03-09T14:59:14Z")
How would a red light camera prevent the **original** crime? From the article: “Authorities allege that the driver was fleeing the scene of a crime at the time of the crash”. Somehow, I don’t think someone fleeing LEOs after committing a crime would think “gee, red light camera, I had better stop”. Road design? Same thing! Road near me was recently redone, added grass islands, do you think that will encourage people to walk twenty feet to a controlled crosswalk, or will they continue to jaywalk, at night, in dark clothing? ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/9 "2025-03-09T15:08:10Z")
> [@Purebred](#): > > “Authorities allege that the driver was fleeing the scene of a crime at the time of the crash”. > Somehow, I don’t think someone fleeing LEOs after committing a crime would think “gee, red light camera, I had better stop”. +1 It appears that the felon driving the truck had just visited another teen in an upscale condo community in order to threaten/bully him. If he thinks that he can get away with that type of behavior, why would he be worried about a red light camera? Because he drove **across** very busy US Route-1–on a red light, at high speed–it’s very possible that he never even noticed the red light as he made his getaway. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/10 "2025-03-09T16:31:21Z")
You definitely have a strange way of looking at things, imo I don’t see this as “another entitled pickup operator” I see this guy as a criminal What he’s driving doesn’t matter for me ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/11 "2025-03-09T18:05:10Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > Another entitled pickup operator. That makes no sense . If the idiot and his moron friends had been driving a minivan would they still be entitled ? How about just plain stupid ? ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/12 "2025-03-09T18:39:41Z")
> [@VOLVO-V70](#): > > If the idiot and his moron friends had been driving a minivan would they still be entitled ? No! If they had been in a minivan or a sedan, they would _automatically_ earn dual endorsements as _gentlemen and scholars_–no matter the criminal acts in which they were involved. Weren’t you aware of this “fact”? 😏 ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/13 "2025-03-09T23:18:14Z")
> [@db4690](#): > > You definitely have a strange way of looking at things, imo > > I don’t see this as “another entitled pickup operator” > [@VOLVO-V70](#): > > That makes no sense . I personally see, both online and out driving, the nonsense pickup truck drivers try to pull out there. Apologies if I inadvertently lumped you two in that segment. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/14 "2025-03-10T00:35:18Z")
The guy’s a CRIMINAL Thats what I’m choosing to focus on You seem to have chosen to focus on what type of vehicle he was driving ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-may-be-a-new-world-record/199421/15 "2025-03-10T01:08:50Z")
db: Whether you choose to believe it or not, there are, to varying degrees, correlations between types/makes of vehicles and behavior of their drivers. Why do you think there are so many jokes about “BMWs with defective turn signals”? In my part of the states, pickup drivers seem to have an even lower rate of turn indicator usage than drivers of other vehicles.