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Teen driver causes multi-vehicle crash on I-485 

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I-485 Outer, Charlotte, NC
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Don't bother to tell that or why the (name withheld) was, you know, something wrong with it. Mental yield, did he just get his license? I mean, if it's (name withheld), you know, it couldn't have been too long. Of course, they're not going to tell you that. They're going to tell you everything you don't need to know. Kind of like when you Google something on the Internet. The only thing I've heard that's 100% is that a kid. into the van's lane. And when he did, he hit the van, and then they both went into the, they both went into the, what you would call it, the 18-wheeler on the side of the road. Was he speeding and was he overtaking the van? He was driving a Honda CRV. And the other one was some sort of Chrysler or something, I think. He had a mini van. He was overtaking the minivan with the family in it? In other words, speeding? Or were they going the same rate of speed and he just didn't see the car beside him and he switched lanes into the car? Or was he driving, you know, erratically? Was he driving weaving in and out of traffic? That's something I'd like to know and everything. I asked you on one of the chat groups and everybody said, that's not nice. You know, the family's grieving. I'm like, well, it doesn't matter. I mean, it needs to be said, and they were upset that they posted pictures of the cars. I'm like, I want everybody to know how bad it is. I drive on 485 every day. And I mean, I just had last night, I had a guy just, I mean, he just blatantly like he was going to hit me. I mean, he just blatantly, he was mad at another guy at road rage and he was trying to get to him. He just blatantly swerved over at me so he could get to the other guy. Like my daddy always said, you gotta drive for yourself and everybody else too. It's much worse than it's ever been. Something is, you know, affecting people mentally or whatever. I found the same thing. You know, we went to the beach here the other week, and I've never seen it that bad there. You can't even get out and go around Myrtle Beach. You might as well just get out with the sledgehammer and start beating your vendors in because it's going to happen to save you the trouble. People are, they've never been like this before, but something is happening mentally. I don't know if that's true or not, but it seems like since COVID people have changed a lot more on their mental status. Now let's throw another scenario in the works. What if the teenager in the CRV had a tire go flat and pulled him over into the minivan, which caused the whole chain reaction? picked up something on 485 that called the tire to go flat. Well, once again, they're not going to tell you the important stuff, just everything you already know, or don't hear to hear over and over. Important stuff like that for some reason, they never report. and everything else but they didn't burn. And when they, when that transportation people look at it, they'll look at that tread. They'll be able to look at that trend and see if there's a nail or something like that in it. But they've got plenty and plenty of witnesses, a bunch of witnesses. So that should do it. Hey, let me get this phone. If you check that out, Kevin. That's something I've got to figure out. I don't have to run up on it blind pulling the trailer and trying to figure out what I got to do next.

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I-485 Outer, Charlotte, NC

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