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Originally Posted by Burninator
I can't believe people are blaming the police for not setting up a road block. I doubt there is police anywhere that could step up a road block that fast. Things like this do not happen very often.
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Well how many kilometers did the truck actually drive in the wrong lane for? If it is 15-20....than yeah, they didn't have time to close the road off and get it blocked off, at least not the West end...they should have picked say 97th street and tried to block any access they could heading West, but you probably are looking at 10 minutes to get that all set up and thats the time it would take to go that distance. If it was the 40 or so that some claimed than they absolutely had time to cut off the West end of the city and block off most of the access to the road and get something done. Fart I only lived in Edmonton for two years and I can think of that off the top of my head....once reported that theres a truck going the wrong way...they easily can act on that right away.
I'm not blaming the Police for this...rather I was skeptical about the 40km thing, and I'm also skeptical that it was a pure 100% accident. Could the guy have been in a diabetic shock where his judgement was out of whack and he was acting crazy or in a state where he's in the wrong lane and didn't think to just stop the truck and get out of the lane and into the median...yeah, I could buy that. I don't think he was 100% passed out and blindly going down the road for 40km as was speculated in some of the reports.