Ryan Hall Describes “The REAL Danger Of Storm Chasing” – A Tornado Chase Crash

Ryan Hall describes an accident involving his STORM SEEKER pickup truck. YouTube Tips ⓘ

Ryan Hall of Pineville, Kentucky, runs a YouTube channel known as Ryan Hall Y’all. Ryan says he’s been interested in weather for as long as he can remember. He’s got some serious skills and a serious setup — both mobile and home studio-wise.

Unfortunately, he hit a setback in April 2021. While storm chasing in Texas in April 2021, his storm chasing partner, who was driving his well-equipped pickup truck, crashed almost head-on at a Farm-to-Market rural highway intersection (FM-367 and FM-368) in Iowa Park Texas. His driver missed a stop sign in darkness at an intersection that would best be described as non-intuitive.

The straight away Highway FM-367 had the stop sign to regulate a stop to a more heavily traveled FM-368/367. The driver that failed to stop was definitely at fault, and was cited. However, the proper design of that intersection is questionable. Anyone driving at night on this rural two-lane highway, and encountering oncoming traffic straight ahead, would probably pay more attention to lane usage and the oncoming headlights to make sure the oncoming driver is alert and also driving with proper lane usage. Combined with facing blinding oncoming headlights on a highway that curves in front of you before your eyes, a non-local driver would not expect the stop sign, and could understandably perhaps not even see the stop sign.

While the oncoming driver was taking the curve on FM-368 with the unusual right of way involving a left turn in front of the STORM SEEKER pickup truck driver, both vehicles crashed. The crash occurred because the pickup truck driver didn’t stop, but partly because the driver was perhaps accustomed to situations which normally require drivers making the left turn to yield to oncoming straight-thru traffic. But that is not the case at this unusual intersection, because the way this intersection is regulated, the driver on the curve making a left on FM-368/367 gets priority to turn left in front of vehicles traveling straight on FM-367.

NOTE: The intersection should be re-designed or the stop sign should at least be illuminated and/or include flashing red lights on the stop sign.

The driver they hit was not hurt, according to Ryan Hall; and the side-swipe head-on style crash did not total Ryan Hall’s GMC pickup truck. After repair and retrieval of the pickup truck in September 2021 from the Walters Collision Center in Pikeville, Kentucky, the STORM SEEKER truck was back in service on October 8, 2021, according to a Tweet posted @ryanhallyall.

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