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Re: Daily gripe: almost 20 car pileup

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From: MrKablooey�
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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Date: 1999/01/25
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