Near Miss!

[bigredfish]

Just back from taking our male cat to the Vet Hospital (prayers welcomed, he's not good) and damn near got crunched by a garbage truck pulling back into our street.

Granted, I was moving along, but I really thought he saw me and was slowing down to stop, Maybe as much my fault as his?
You can see me jinking wider to give him some room but I was kinda committed at that point and saw oncoming traffic including an 18 wheeler heading my way so stopping abruptly in the traffic lane woulda been bad. I was seriously waiting to hear/feel the crunch and had to clean my underwear when I got to the house.

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[Captain_B]

The trash truck ran the stop sign, you had the right of way even if he had stopped, good situational awareness and defensive driving sir.

 

[TVille]

Prayers for your cat. The garbage truck, as @Captain_B said, was in the process of running that stop sign to beat the 18 wheeler coming, and your turn messed up his illegal plans. You were already in the turn lane, before he showed up, and it appears your blinker was on. Cleaning your undies is all you have to worry about, and you should send them the bill (and dirty undies) for that!! Good defensive driving!!

 

[bigredfish]

Got the tag. On the inbound, the angle and sun reflection didnt allow you to see the last plate letter, but I got a good shot from the culdesac LPR cam


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[xplorer]

Prayers for your cat.

Yup agree with the others before me, truck ran the stop sign you had the right of way no question about it.

 

[gwminor48]

Prayers for your cat, one of our daughters had to have hers euthanized yesterday and it made me relive the pain of having to do that with ours. Hopefully yours will get better.

 

[JDreaming]

Hope your cat gets better soon. And very glad you are okay and Mrs.bigredfish can have both of you with her for long long time.

 

[sebastiantombs]

Hope the kitty recovers soon.

The recycling truck seems to be in a big rush from the videos. Definitely ran the stop sign and should be ticketed for that. Maybe send the Department of Public Works Administrator an AVI copy of the first video, although I'd hate to see the guy fired, but a good dressing down might help.

 

[tech101]

Prayers for your cat, Truck driver is at fault for not stopping at the stop sign and not checking or paying attention as You clearly had right of way to turn and you were in the turning lane. If he was paying attention he would have known you are going to make that turn. Truck driver had almost 4-5 sec before the truck driver slammed on his brakes possibly distracted by something while driving.

Also glad you were in a SUV with much higher ground clearance, if it was a car than might have had curb rash or under shield of the car scraped... Also doesn't seem like it hoping there is no sprinklers to replace there.

 

[bigredfish]

Yeah if I broke a sprinkler head, they'd call me to fix it anyway I'm the HOA board member that actually does shit , a rarity it seems...

 

[Parley]

I agree with the all the above. It was the garbage truck's fault for running the stop sign. You did nothing wrong. You had the right of way.

 

[bigredfish]

By the way, the overview camera at the entrance is a 5442-ASE 3.6mm bullet, and the two LPR cams are old 5231Z-12's.

 

[looney2ns]

What a dick. Hope you have a meaningful discussion with his supervisor.

Hope Mr Kittie gets better.

 

[bradner]

Prayers for your cat.

How could any attentive driver not see you turning! in the CDS clip you can see him sitting in the right hand seat. I wonder if that changes his view pattern when he ran the stop sign - which is a stupid move in a big vehicle like his.

 

[TonyR]

Ditto to what others have said regarding the at-fault driver. The company / municipal dept. / supervisor really needs to see what the driver did, otherwise it's Russian roulette until he runs out of luck.

Glad you are OK and hope kitty has a healthy 2022.

 

[Steve.L]

DAMN! Major violation by that truck driver! WTF?

Chick at work did that to me in the parking lot recently, I gunned it and minimized the damage to a swipe across my plastic bumper. I asked here "Where were you looking?" She says "To the left." Uggghhhhhh...

Good luck with kitty!

 

[dok0619]

When I first read this I thought the cat got run over! I see the plate is FL...figures seems like half the people here don't know how to stop at a stop sign or use a turn signal

 

[bigredfish]

Update: The cat’s spending the night at the vet hospital. Not sure yet what’s wrong. He’s 9 going on 30 as he’s used quite a few of his cat lives. My daughter named him Baby which I’m sure if he could talk he resents , as he was the runt of a feral litter in our backyard but grew up to be the dominant alpha male. He's been a good protector of his sister and niece and loves to snuggle up to you in bed. My little buddy.

 

[vandyman]

Is that the same cat in your Xmas picture?
Give Baby a kiss from me.

 

[bigredfish]

No different one. Thats Samantha which is is niece.
Thank you