🚀 go-pugleaf

"Scott M. Kozel" <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote:

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

I agree, however where I work reckless driving can include the first
two.  What we've learned here is that the agressive driver invariably
commits one of the following three violations:  speeding, lane
violations, tailgating.  Just a few days ago I watched a motorist
commit all three in the space of less than 60 seconds.  Needless to
say we had a little chat at roadside shortly after that and his
pocketbook is going to be considerably lighter after he pays the
fines. :-]

>A motorist was tailgating other motorists, and flashing his lights, to
>bulldoze them out of the way.  Witnesses saw no sign of any emergency. 

Perhaps there was, perhaps there wasn't.   Either way I'd probably
move out of the guy's way just to be safe.  Either way he's a hazard
to navigation and if he's going to tangle with someone it ain't a
gonna be me.  On the other hand if I'm on duty I'll be finding out
real quick what his 'emergency' is.

>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.  

Tragic.

>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.

That's why I'll give up the lane to these idiots when I'm driving off
duty.  It's not worth getting hurt because of some idiot's impatience.


We had an instance here recently where one driver was chasing another
bumping his rear bumper.  Finally the first vehicle went out of
control, crossed the centerline and got hit by a vehicle going the
opposite direction killing the driver and his two little girls.  The
driver who caused this has been charged with three counts of murder.
What makes this whole thing so bad is that the driver who was killed
could have just stopped and had it out with the jerk who was chasing
him.  It was a domestic situation that involved using vehicles as
weapons and now we have two little girls, innocent as hell, dead as
hell.  

This particular case has a side note worthy of mention.  Had the three
victims been wearing seatbelts they'd be alive.  The innocent driver
headed the opposite direction was wearing his and he was treated and
released from the hospital.  

ef

*reverse the ten for email*
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6123/