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Article #13086Re: Daily gripe: almost 20 car pileup
From: MrKablooey�
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:00
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Regardless of whether or not the guy moved "at the right moment", the fault would rest on the 19 cars behind him. Walt Horning wrote: >Fortunately everyone was alert and all stopped in time. But it was the >classic situation where the light turned green and the guy up front >must have been asleep at the wheel. So everyone anticipated movement >and when it didn't happen, about 10 cars all had to stop suddenly. > >There was not much excuse for this. The driver did eventually move, so >it was not a broke down car. Also, if it was a stick shift and it >stalled, then it was driver error. And if it was mechanical difficulty >that caused a stall, the driver should have kept car maintained. > >The only excuse for not moving would have been mechanical failure of >the sudden kind where maintenance does little or nothing to help. >
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