Moorhead, MN — A man was hospitalized after being involved in an accident with a semi-truck in Moorhead, Minnesota, on Monda, July 20, 2015. The accident took place on Interstate 94, just west of the city, around 2:15 in the afternoon.
Local police have identified the man injured in the accident as 80-year-old Leonard Raddohl. Local reports say that Raddohl was headed west on the interstate when a semi-truck being driven by 49-year-old Brian Quigley tried to pass him, but instead side-swiped his vehicle.
Quigley ended up driving through a set of highway cables, and coming to a stop in a ditch off the side of the road. He wasn’t injured in the accident. Raddohl, on the other hand, suffered non-life-threatening injuries when a camper attached to the back of his truck rolled off the side of the road.
Raddohl was taken to Sanford Medical Center for treatment. The accident is still being investigated.
Scene of the Accident
View from the Road
Commentary
Reports say that the driver of the 18-wheeler side-swiped the victim. And I think there are a couple of things we may be able to infer from that. From the sound of it, the driver of the big rig failed to get far enough over into the next lane, and was going too fast when passing the victim’s vehicle. Now, this brings up a question: Did this happen simply because the driver made some bad choices, or because the company he works for just has too laid-back an attitude toward safety on the road. It’s very easy to blame truck drivers whenever these sorts of things happen. But sometimes you have to dig a little deeper, and find that drivers sometimes have bad habits on the road because they’re being taught bad habits back at the office. Which of those two caused this accident, we don’t yet know.
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