Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "ONSCENE TV" channel.

@distantnative2478 That may be, but when the guy gets back in the car the first time, I saw him momentarily hit the brake pedal, and they went on, so his flashers may well be functional, add to that, we don't know how he got in the accident to begin with, he either hit the wall, or was hit just before the camera rolled.
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Scrolling through YT on my phone and came across this and watched it. Then later rewatched on the PC and noted first off, the first guy at the very beginning did so many things wrong, like turning off all lights, and not hitting flashers, then he gets in and out of his car at least twice, then is hit, with him inside, then he gets hit at least twice more as other people pile on. Sad, but none of them bothered to hit flashers, most of these I think were older models that didn't have auto flashers in case of an accident, and no one bothered to turn them on. One car still had lights on, horn blaring. One car looked really bad, but no airbags looked to have deployed, if the car was new enough to have them. This being from the west coast, so not so uncommon to drive older vehicles. Anyway, horrific accident, but good that many did use their heads and had flashers going as they slowly went past the accident scene, and more on the side of the road, but too many others going too fast, not bothering to slow down etc, several of them came close to causing more accidents as they suddenly veer to the right, one guy actually hit the wall in the process. As bad as it was, it could have been even worse.
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@johnnyrodriguez276 Last week, Ron Pratt did a video where he and Mike, an employee went to recover two cars, one a Dodge Avenger that broke down and was on the side of the road, driver not with car, and another driver came along and hit it, sending it off the road. The entire back axle of the Dodge, and the trunk were smashed good, and the axle was free from the car. This video was from Midwest Trucks, and Ron is one of the members of the family that owns the business and tape them for YT. This was a call he was on. I mention this as it's not uncommon to have that happen where people do not pay attention.
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First off, I agree, he should not be out of his car, and most of these I think predate before automatic deployment of the hazards, as this is I think west coast so cars before 2012 or so are still quite common on the roadways here. I think it was 2012 that we began to see this on new cars. The Fiat 500 had them when introduced here then. I know others have as well. But if your car, like the first car, an early 2000's Toyota Senora I think sedan likely didn't have them, but they should have been deployed, even if manually.
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