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E. Faubion <efaubion@oklahoma.ten> wrote:
> 
> In principle I agree with this however if the policy's intent is to
> legislate a law so others can break the law then we've gone too far.
> Driving unecessarily slow is one thing, driving too slow to suit the
> fast driver is another.  It's a mistake to confuse the two.

A few years ago, this happened on a Maryland urban interstate highway. 
This shows the dangers of speeding, tailgating, and reckless driving.

A motorist was tailgating other motorists, and flashing his lights, to
bulldoze them out of the way.  Witnesses saw no sign of any emergency. 
Another motorist was in the left lane of a six-lane (3 each way)
expressway, passing a line of cars, going at or just above the speed
limit, according to witnesses.  The tailgater lost his patience, and
zoomed around on the right.  He decided to express his road rage by
cutting in across the front of the guy he had been tailgating.  He cut
it too close, and the rear bumper of his Chevrolet Lumina clipped the
front bumper of the Chevrolet Caprice.  His car spun out of control into
the median, rolled over the guardrail into the oncoming lanes of
traffic, and was broadside when he hit a large pickup truck head-on (or
head-side, whatever). He had two unfortunate passengers with him.  

The car was torn into three major pieces, and many minor pieces, and
their bodies were strewn in pieces along the highway.  The Caprice
driver was not injured, and the pickup driver was moderately injured.

Very tragic, the motorist's impatience and reckless driving cost him his
life and the lives of his two passengers.  They had to be shoveled up. 
He collided with two other cars in the process, and created a ten-mile
long traffic jam.

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