There was a fatal crash on a local highway recently, and two high school students were killed. The driver of a tractor trailer saw a car stopped to make a turn. He hit the car, swerved into the opposite lane, and hit two other cars, killing the students. This is a tragedy, of course, but is there a solution?

The state is going to study the intersection to see if changes are needed. There will be a long, expensive study, but changing the road configuration isn't going to make drivers keep their eyes on the road. From what's been written in the newspaper, the truck driver saw the stopped car too late. If the state recommends leaving the intersection as it is, I'm sure people will complain. I've lived here for over fifty years, and this is the first time I've heard of an accident occurring there. I wonder if the truck driver was texting or otherwise distracted. How else could he not see a car that was stopped in front of him?

In other crash news, a woman across the Hudson River "lost control" of her Tesla and ran into a car coming from the opposite direction - two people hospitalized. I wonder if she lost control or if the car lost control.

https://www.caranddriver.com/tesla/model-3