Crane collapse Derrimut

[u/Initial-Year-2729]

Oh no no no.

[u/hammerofwar000]

Holy fuck, crushed a vehicle with no occupants. No one injured thankfully.

[u/PointOfFingers → u/hammerofwar000]

This is why you do 40 through construction zones, those guys had to run!

[u/Asleep_Stage_4129 → u/PointOfFingers]

That's not why, but ok.

[u/pastilias1 → u/Asleep_Stage_4129]

Keeping the workers safe by going slower is not a reason? Interesting

[u/frutiaboy → u/[deleted]]

Getting hit by a car while, for instance, running away from an exhausted crane in need of a lie down.

[u/pastilias1 → u/[deleted]]

The crane is part of the worksite which is considered a speed restricted zone. One of the reasons you have to go slow is to also account for contingencies, in this case a crane snapping in half...

[u/blind3rdeye → u/[deleted]]

the reason is that vehicles travelling faster near people working increases the chance of them getting hit by a car.

Yeah, especially if they are trying to run away from a falling crane.

I guess if everything always goes to plan, then no one gets hurt. But there are many many ways where things don't go to plan - and a falling crane is one of them.

[u/Shamaneater → u/[deleted]]

Being hit by a meteor is what I would call "astonishingly unlikely" —with ~240 construction crane accidents and incidents per year (47 fatalities 💀 from 2003-15).

I agree it's not the overwhelming reason why one drives slower in construction areas, but crane accidents are far more common than you seem to believe.

[u/Shamaneater → u/[deleted]]

Obviously, you didn't read my response with comprehension. Try again.

[u/MM0G-Franna → u/[deleted]]

It‘s also because „40 is the highest speed a car can go without instantly killing“ and also so the braking distance is much lower

[u/Rock_the_jazzbar → u/[deleted]]

What a snarky snark-meister taking the most narrow and bad faith interpretation of the comment

[u/Asleep_Stage_4129 → u/pastilias1]

Yes, but not just in case they need to run from a collapsing crane.