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Brandon Sommerville <grimrod@mindless.moc> wrote:
> 
> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
> 
> >A few days ago, I saw a car zooming through urban expressway traffic at
> >about 90 mph.  It was very disruptive to the whole traffic stream.  Like
> >a broker-field runner stiff-arming the other players.  It brought to
> >mind a news article I saw a couple years ago.
> 
> Stupid and dangerous driving.  Has nothing to do with doing 90 mph in
> a light traffic high visibility interstate situation.

Has everything to do with the mentality, "I'm invincible.  I'll never
have a major accident".
 
> >It was on I-95 in Miami at rush hour.  A guy in a full-sized Mercedes
> >was going 100 mph.  He was impatient with the urban traffic, so he did
> >numerous tailgatings, and numerous lane-changes.  He finally lost
> >control of his car, and it went off the side of the road, and hit a
> >guard rail end-treatment (the type that slopes into the ground).  The
> >car ramped up, became airborne, and the car slammed into a retaining
> >wall.  Highway patrolmen said that the car literally painted itself onto
> >the wall.  The first trooper that examined the wreckage was so sickened
> >by what he saw that he vomited his guts out.  It took three hours before
> >they could identify the identity of the driver and the registration of
> >the car.  He had to be shoveled up.
> >
> >What's the point of this article?  One, after a high-speed crash, people
> >don't care (sometimes even know) what kind of a ride you had.  The car
> >always looks like a pile of junk.  Second, his velocity might have been
> >appropriate on I-94 in Montana, but not on I-95 in Miami at rush hour.
> >Three, thankfully he didn't hit anyone else.
> 
> Four, people like you connect that to driving at high speeds under
> appropriate conditions, such as good weather, high visibility and
> light traffic.

Fifth, baloney.

-- 
Scott M. Kozel    "The Virginia Highwayman"   kozelsm@richmond.infi.net  
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