Originally Posted by
livedarklions
"Swerved directly" is a relative term. Stopping distance on a semi increases drastically at high speed. There's no telling what he "should" have been able to do without a lot more detail.
The few pics I saw seemed to show a low speed road with lots of markings that should have suggested low speed. Maybe my memory isn't serving me well, and it was a 70 MPH road. And since we are nitpicking, the truck didn't need to stop. It needed to slow to below the riders pace.
I have zero tolerance for the "hard to see" and "didn't see them" excuse. It doesn't fly with me, and that is what I should have communicated here.