courtesy

Today, I was broken down on interstate 80 in Indiana. I spent 3 hours on the shoulder of the highway with a locked brake.

Interstate shoulders are 10ft wide. A semi truck is 8 1/2ft  wide. That means if a driver is out walking around there truck there is a maximum of 18" separating them from traffic traveling at speeds of 65mph or greater.  This is very unsafe and very nerve racking.

I cannot count the number of vehicles, both cars and semi trucks, who failed to move over when then had plenty of room to safely do so.  In some states the law requires that you move over for broken down or emergency vehicles who are on the shoulder of the road.

Let's be courteous to one another out there  The life you save could be your own!

a few years ago a man had stopped to give assistance to a stranded motorist. Draft created by passing traffic threw him out into a lane of traffic where upon he was run over and killed.

This past year a friend of mine had broke down on an interstate. He was directing traffic around his vehicle and the wrecker that had come to help him. The wrecker accidentally backed up over top of him, crushing him to death.