Every post i have read here is accusing Daniel of being in the wrong! Daniel slater's family are my close friends and i just attended a teenagers wake. Seeing his mother who will never see his son again. Try that! You are all defending the truck driver when you don't even know what happened. I have been on the rode and those truck drivers think that own the rode..Why don't they be more carefull. He had probably been driving on no sleep and his reaction time was off. Before, you start posting these comments try and think about his mother reading these remarks and then put yourself in her shoes!!shame on all of you! R.i.p Daniel!! Your mom,sister, granparents, aunt's uncles, friends and your true love courtney will miss you more than you know!!

Everyone everywhere just drives too fast. What can be the hurry. It's the same all over.Just try getting on hwy 101 afte school lets out. Kids are just following their parents example.

I saw this crash yesturday and it wasnt a pretty sight.
My brother is a Truck Driver and Ive rode over the road plenty of times with him and have seen alot of 4 wheelers pull out dead infront of him and its not a easy task to slow that truck down if your taveling 55 mph. Little trucks and cars thinks its a joke pulling out infront of big trucks Its not a jokeing manner.

Me heart really gose out to the family of the one how died in this car crash. I have to say that people need to stop and really look to make sure it is safe to go, before they just take off from Turnpike Rd. I have lived on that street all of my life intill I got married and there is always bad crashes there and that is why they made the road diffent, because of all of the car crash that have always happen there and to me it is because people are not making sure that it is safe to go. They now also have a sign up to tell people that the people that are driveing on Rt 34 are not the ones how are to stop that you are the one how has to stop if you are on Trunpike Rd so people can say what they want but we all have to stop and make sure that it is ok to go, before we just take off into the Rt34.

that area is wide open so speed should not be a problem.so if you can't make it across half a road without getting hit,then I guess it was not clear and you should hane waited

Take time at every intersection! Light or no light you still need to use your senses. When in doubt, wait it out! A larger vehicle is an optical illusion when you look at it traveling towards you! It may be going the posted speed limit but you think it is going slow so you pull in front of it. We (commercial drivers) are driving vehicles that weigh over 20,0000 lbs and they do not stop instantly! While we have extra training in how to drive our vehicles safely, we still share the road with inexperienced drivers who do not think before they act.

ok so it says they identified the person but the story is not there. Anyone else having this problem?

a traffic light (not blinking lights) may have prevented this tragedy. my heart goes out to the family

If the truck driver was going 55 or 45 miles an hour.. there still would have been an accident and a fatality. Everyone is trying to get somewhere on the road... traffic traveling on 34 shouldnt have to slow down to 30 mph everytime there is an intersection. My sympathy goes out to both families.

Most trucks are governed at a lower speed. That means we can't go much more than the speed limit. Like some of the other posters are saying we can't stop on a dime and people act like we can. Even at a lower speed people still pull out in front of us making it so we have to do sudden maneuvers that trucks just aren't designed for. We have cargo that can shift as well if we swerve or stop suddenly. So think about it next time you just have to get in front of that rig so he doesn't slow you down. How slow does a hearse go?

Its to bad things like this happens because of careless drivers. You cant point fingers but from what I have observed from my front lawn is that if people would slow down and try doing the speed limit for a change there might be less fatal accidents. And yes truck drivers this means you too!!!

I as well am sorry this happened but along with the other persons comment have seen people pull out in front of trucks countless times. My husband drives a truck and hear it from him all the time. People really need to realize that rigs can't stop on a dime.

Maybe the truck drivers should slow down a little bit. If you are driving a vehicle commercially you have a professional responsibility to use a little common sense thats what all your "special" Cdl Training is for.

may i say first my prayers go out to the family.at this time i don,t know who was at fault but i think if we all just slowed down a little and paid a little more attention to our driving there would be less accidents and certainly less fatalaties. if i counted the times in one day that people pulled out in front of me on a slow day it would be at least 10 times,that,s not saying anything about all the other offences.please can,t we all slow down and pay attention.

That is totally wrong. The other accident was almost 2 miles away!

These accidents are no ones falt but the car drvers. While I feel sorry this has happened, people need to realize that the stopping distance of a loaded truck is over 400 feet and an empty truck is over 200 feet. You people need to realize this! In Auburn the people in their cars are always pulling out in front of me when im driveing just to cut me off to stop at the next red light. Real bright!!! USE YOUR HEAD! 80000 pounds takes a bit to stop!