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Re: More Speeding and Reckless Driving (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:31:50 -0400, Scott M. Kozel <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
>E. Faubion <in@the.sig> wrote:
>> 
>> whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning) wrote:
>> 
>> >Typical cop's attitude.
>> 
>> Typical loser's response.
>
>Earl:
>
>More tragic examples of the result of speeding and reckless driving:
>
>A motorist was going 85 mph, weaving from lane to lane to lane.  He lost
>control of his car, and it flipped over several times, his seat belt
>failed, and he was ejected.  The rescue squad workers found him at the
>bottom of an embankment, and his brain was hanging out.  The coroner
>pronounced him dead.  He was put in a body bag.  He was taken to the
>morgue.
>
>A motorist was taking dope and doing 110 mph.  He rounded a curve on an
>Interstate that was designed for 60 mph.  A tractor-trailer was disabled
>and stopped (air brakes locked up) on the outer lane of the expressway. 
>He hit his brakes at the last second, and he slammed into the back of
>the truck.  His head got chopped off.
>
>A motorist was going 80 mph _in the rain_.  His car hydroplaned, and
>spun out.  It went off the road, up an embankment, and down, and hit a
>bridge pier at about 65 mph.  The car literally flew apart.  The guy had
>to be shoveled up. 
>
>A New Jersey motorist was going 90 mph on Shirley Highway in Arlington. 
>He rear-ended another car that was going 55 in the middle lane.  The gas
>tank exploded, the cars turned over, and three people got cremated.  
>
>It's not worth it.
> 
>-- 
>Scott M. Kozel    "The Virginia Highwayman"   kozelsm@richmond.infi.net  
>Highway and Transportation History Websites  
>Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm
>PHL area http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html

A man got into a taxi in Mexico City.  The taxi drove very slowly.  Several
bandits jumped in the taxi and beat and robbed the man, and stabbed him in the
eye with a sharpened screwdriver.

So don't get in any slow-moving cars, hear?

-- 
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From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: More Speeding and Reckless Driving (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)
Date: 1998/07/06
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