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Scott M. Kozel wrote in message <3595D2FF.1DB5@richmond.infi.net>...
>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.
>

Bullshit.  Nothing resulted in this instance from the speeding or the
tailgating.  The cause of the accident was changing lanes with a car in the
way.  Are we going to use this nifty example as proof that anyone exceeding
the speed limit (under any circumstances) is as dangerous as the idiot you
describe?

>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.

Did impatience make him change lanes before clearing the other car?

>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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You've demonstrated that people shouldn't drive like idiots, but I think
you're trying to read way too much into your little story.

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