Did they decide having police cordon off that lane was too much of a hassle?
Edit: found a few articles - guy in the bucket is OK. He went really still after that so I was concerned.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c62gxxe1jxdo https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/27/semi-truck-crash-worker-upside-down-video/84384899007/
Police have poors to beat; they ain't got time for traffic control.
In Massachusetts a police detail is legally mandated any time there is a lane closure so they just get to sleep in their cruiser and it's usually overtime work so they get paid extra.
I’ve made traffic control plans for road construction and depending on the locality police are rarely involved with traffic control. This area clearly looks like the state’s DOT right-of-way, and these might be contractors in which case they are required to submit traffic control plans to the DOT and DOT confirm if it for safety. However, contractors have to actually execute the plans in the field. This could be a case of bad plans or a site supervisor who didn’t check the original traffic control plans matched with what was on the ground.
They're idiots. They hardly ever have flaggers or traffic control when they actually should. All those reports do is cya nobody is actually checking to see if they're doing it. Then an accident happens like this and they blame everything on the truck driver when they didn't do their jobs correctly. It should come back on the engineer who approved those workers and didn't check what they were actually doing.
That, children, is why we wear our safety gear.
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Bro got life saved by that harness. Wonder if it was a compliance compliant Compliance In A Can harness
It's so awesome that stuff like this comes in a can, now anybody can be conveniently compliant.
What’s the hinged metal piece in the upper left? Those nails aren’t supposed to go in those holes are?
That's a roof anchor that you tether to. You nail it into the roof, yes. Those nails are specifically designed for this application.
Always remember folks, modern day safety standards and regulations were paid for in blood. Although thankfully this guy survived by the sounds of things.
Harness saved his life. Always use fall protection people.
Holy fuck. Trucker should have his CDL yanked for that level of carelessness.
Hard to tell from the video, but it doesn’t seem likely that the trucker is at fault here. The work crew seems to be trying to cheat and avoid lane closures, but they’re operating the bucket too low for that. There’s probably a middle manager somewhere who decided that lane closures were too expensive and unnecessary, standard procedure be damned. People forget safety rules are written in blood.
Yeah you all good points. Likely I'm wrong in my assertion.
Yeah, my entire thought process was “why isn’t that lane closed? It should be closed if they’re working under the height of the traffic ligh- oh there’s the truck and this is why the video was posted… At least he was clipped in so he didn’t fall.”
He just keeps on coiling the cable as he’s hanging there. “I’ll just be hanging out here if you need me”
What a shit pinata, where's the candy?
"Typisch Deutsche Bahn!"
(TIL the notoriously unpunctual Deutsche Bahn (DB) owned a internationally operating logistics company, but sold it last year.)
Dear Liza, Dear Liza…
The dashcam video seems to come from a safety car blocking that lane. The truck driver changed lanes in a very steep angle right after the safety car.
No? They're turning onto the road from a right angle. The truck absolutely didn't just drive around the "safety car", if that's what it is.
Don't make the mistake of unmuting the video.
I can't believe this scenario hasn't been thought out. There must have been a failure in plan execution.
Yeah like what was their conversation like pfff what are the chances of a lorry on a road one in a billion probably
