On Friday, August 7, 2015 at approximately 2:30 pm, a call was dispatched for a vehicle auto accident on Dalrymple Road and Victoria Lane. The accident was report as serious and a head-on collision.
One of the vehicles involved was a USPS vehicle. The drive of the USPS vehicle had to be flown out by Maryland State Police helicopter.
USPS vehicle involved in accident
The driver in the pick up truck was more than likely playing with a cell phone. I hope the Postal Service does come up with a better delivery truck than the LLV! The new truck will ,though, have a nice soft spot for the scanner. Only the best for postal equipment, not the carrier.
That was a pretty quick rush to judgement, considering the epidemic of equipment operators in my plant who steer with one hand and hold their cell phone in the other.
Let’s hope the carrier recovers fully, and that he or she had their seat belt on. Or at least had the brains to tell management they did. I know this isn’t quite the same thing, but while my piece of shit LLV broke down this week after writing it up at least three times for a suspected bad fuel pump, and having the now retired lazy ass “mechanic” refuse to look at it until it totally died, I drove two other LLV’s in the fleet, and both of them just like my truck had the “check engine” lights on all day, drove like a Conestoga wagon, and barely coughed and wheezed their way around the route. This is getting ridiculous. You can’t just keep repairing over and over again. These trucks should have been replaced ten years ago.
Management is dragging their feet in typical fashion regarding a new fleet. They were too interested in removing people and padding their pockets with money they had no right to. Now that their hands are being forced, we’ll eventually get new LLV’s, but not before I retire. We see commercials about how advanced the USPS is but drive trucks that are the laughingstock of the delivery sector. Management better hope some of us don’t get hurt in an accident that is not our fault, but the fault of the LLV, like dying while driving right down a major thoroughfare or kicking itself into reverse while you’re driving 45 miles an hour, like mine did a while back. I’ll sue management to the ends of the earth if I get hurt and it’s the fault of the vehicle.