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Originally Posted by VINMAN
First question I'd ask is , why isn't the patrol car behind him with his lights on, blocking him??
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Good question, Vin. But - on the video site the author left these comments:
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Before leaving comments based on assumptions and not facts, please read the description.
1) No police or fire were on scene. Many of our photojournalists drive retired police and fire vehicles. The vehicles seen in the video are both photojournalists.
2) The photojournalists did everything they could to prevent the crashes, and a 911 call was already placed PRIOR to the start of this video.
3) The photojournalists pointed a 225,000 candlepower auxillary spotlight at the wrecked vehicles on the freeway to illuminate the scene. At that point, if you can't see that, you're not paying attention to the road.
4) At that point in time, the photojournalists did what they thought would be the best to help warn drivers. Maybe it helped, maybe it didn't. They did what they thought would be best in the moment. Maybe you would have done something different, but you weren't there, and you don't know the circumstances behind the accident.
There's only so much you can do to SAFELY warn drivers traveling 80-90mph on a 65mph highway. Those that crashed were clearly not paying attention.