🚀 go-pugleaf

Or an example of driving too fast for bald tires.  Which are illegal.  So is
driving faster then the conditions allow.  Both are illegal.  People, though
seem to think that a posted speed limit gives them the right to drive that
fast under any circumstances.  Fog, for example.  Don't you hate it when
someone blows by you at the limit in fog so thick that you can't see past
the end of your hood?  Especially when you are driving 20 under the limit so
you can see people in front of you before you hit them?  Speed limits set at
artificial numbers are stupid.  You cannot say that it is always safe to
drive at 60 on a highway through a city, 70 on a rural highway, and never
safe to go any faster.  The wsp says these limits are the fastest you can go
in "optimal conditions".  I say they are for revenue, and in some places it
is safe to go faster, in some not as fast.   We just need the basic speed
law.
-jack

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>http://www.gatewayva.com/rtd/virginiaapwire/e1495.htm
>
>"BUCHANAN, Va. (AP) -- A car carrying a young couple and four children
>skidded across Interstate 81 in heavy rain and into the path of a fuel
>tanker traveling in the opposite direction, killing all six in the car
>and the truck driver".
>
>According to state police, the southbound Honda was passing another
>vehicle around 5:15 p.m. during a downpour when it appeared to
>hydroplane, crossed the median and slid into the northbound lanes, where
>the truck carrying diesel fuel hit it broadside.  The truck pushed the
>car about 200 feet before both vehicles plunged through a gap between
>I-81's northbound and southbound overpasses. The two vehicles fell about
>100 feet through the gap onto U.S. 11 below.
>
>A tragic example of driving too fast for conditions.  :-[
>
>--
>Scott M. Kozel    kozelsm@richmond.infi.net
>Highway and Transportation History Websites
>Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm
>PHL area http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html