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Originally Posted by Buzzard
Wife's father worked for CN. He said it happened VERY frequently.
Myself and a lot of my family have been around the trucking industry for many years. There's stories of it happening there as well. About 15 years or so ago a guy decided to take himself and his family out in a head on with one of my uncle's super b tankers full of fuel.
Suicide often can be explained, or at least rationalized fairly easily. What I'll never get though is people taking others with them, or exposing their act to anyone around with no apparent regard.
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There is no known stats to quantify the amount of head on collisions that are in fact suicide. There are some road traffic experts that say it is at minimum 2%, and I have heard some believe it is as high as 20%. There is no way to know unless a note is left. If you think about it, if you ever wanted to leave the earth, and want to spare your family the shame, and still make sure your family gets that big life insurance payout, steering your Harley into that 18 wheeler is a heck of way to do it.