Public and Private Training Yields Fewer Mistakes Behind the Wheel
The accident that started it all happened on the evening of Oct. 2, 1997, in the northwest Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park. A semi-end dump truck operator thought she could haul more loads of dirt per hour by running red lights at a quiet county road intersection. Each time she took the risk, her probability for a crash compounded.
At about 11:00 that night, her luck ran out. Plowing through the intersection at full speed, the dump truck slammed into the side of a Geo Metro subcompact, pushing the car down the road sideways 160 ft and killing its driver, a 21-year-old woman who was five months pregnant.