SAN ANGELO, TX — A driver of a Ram pickup was sent to jail after the truck she was driving was hit by a Ford pickup making a lane change on S. Abe St. at 8:45 p.m. Saturday night.
The crash wasn’t the Ram driver’s fault, but according to the San Angelo police, she had a county warrant for her arrest. She knew she was going in from the second she stepped out of her wrecked Ram.
Police said the two trucks were southbound on Abe. The Ram was in the inside lane, the Ford in a center lane. The Ram may have been in the Ford pickup driver’s blind spot, police said, but that was no excuse. The Ford driver was attempting to make a left turn out of nowhere into a parking lot, across the inside lane and in front of the Ram.
The wanted Ram driver had no time to avoid the collision.
The impact deployed the Ram’s airbags and the truck’s front end was badly damaged. The Ford was damaged as well (see pics).
The driver of the Ford was issued a citation for unsafe lane change. The driver of the Ram was booked into the county jail for an outstanding warrant.
It wasn’t her day.
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I knew that sooner or later I'd see an accident in the "paper" because of this? I actually attended Driver Education when I went to high school and we were taught to exit from the right hand lane on a 4 lane road (2 in each direction) ! But I have noticed for the last several months that maybe I am driving improperly as I see more and more drivers exiting from the left lane on the loop. I've been very leery lately when a vehicle is speeding up on my left and I am approaching an exit on the loop if that vehicle is suddenly going to cut in front of me to make that exit.
Well, you can call it the blind spot if you like, but I'd bet that Ford driver drives the way I described when they're on the loop as well, difference being it must be proper to do the same on our local streets?
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