🚀 go-pugleaf

E. Faubion <in@the.sig> wrote:
> 
> Dennis.Jensen@dwt.csiro.au (Dennis Jensen) wrote:
> 
> >Also, Cirillo, J.A. Interstate system accident research....... Public Roads
> >(1968) 35 (3) 71-75. Hope that helps.
> 
> 1968?  Gee, there's nothing like recent data.  But I will look them up
> if I can find them and see just how valid they are in 1998.   Sounds
> like fun.

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Monday, July 6, 1998
http://www.gatewayva.com/rtd/virginiaapwire/e1495.htm

"BUCHANAN, Va. (AP) -- A car carrying a young couple and four children
skidded across Interstate 81 in heavy rain and into the path of a fuel
tanker traveling in the opposite direction, killing all six in the car
and the truck driver".

According to state police, the southbound Honda was passing another
vehicle around 5:15 p.m. during a downpour when it appeared to
hydroplane, crossed the median and slid into the northbound lanes, where
the truck carrying diesel fuel hit it broadside.  The truck pushed the
car about 200 feet before both vehicles plunged through a gap between
I-81's northbound and southbound overpasses. The two vehicles fell about
100 feet through the gap onto U.S. 11 below.

A tragic example of driving too fast for conditions.  :-[

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Scott M. Kozel    kozelsm@richmond.infi.net  
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