OK, I'll play devils advocate, while not a popular position but after having spent my adult lifetime investigating traffic crashes, causes me to look at the ENTIRE situation/scene.
Look at the position of the rollback wrecker.
1.) The rollback appears to be parked in and blocking the left
traffic lane.
2.) With the bed elevated, which if it is like all the others I ever
worked with, the bed is rusty grimy brown, possibly wet and
the same color as the surrounding wet pavement!
3.) The rear of the rollback bed being lowered obscures the
wreckers taillights to vehicles approaching from the rear.
4.) The wrecker does not appear to have ANY emergency lights at
all.
5.) On top of all this, the roadway is wet and it appears to have
been or it is currently raining which reduces visibility overall.
6.) There is NO type of advance warning devices visible to vehicles
approaching the rear of the parked rollback wrecker.
7.) LEO's on the scene appear to have failed to provide any traffic
control for traffic approaching the scene from behind the
wrecker which is blocking the road, ie. cones, flares, electronic
pavement strobes or even a parked cruiser with emergency
lights on.
From the perspective we (the viewers) get from the video, everything is clearly visible but if you look at the scene from the perspective of the approaching driver, things are not as clear as they appear.
