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Article #640Re: They All Bought the Farm (Was: Re: Last minute lane changers)
From: Dave
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00
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[snip] >A motorist was taking dope and doing 110 mph. He rounded a curve on an >Interstate that was designed for 60 mph. A tractor-trailer was disabled >and stopped (air brakes locked up) on the outer lane of the expressway. >He hit his brakes at the last moment, and he slammed into the back of >the truck. His head got chopped off. >Two guys were smoking pot while going 100mph. The driver said, "We're >cool man!" Then the car slammed into a telephone pole, and snapped it >in two. The car was smashed like an accordion. Dead on arrival. I'm not going to comment on the other examples you gave. There's kind-of valid points there, but it's not really relevant to the "safe speeding" debate. There's a difference between speeding and reckless/insane/stupid driving. But these two examples are very silly, I think that possibly the fact that they were high, and doing drugs AS THEY WERE DRIVING probably has a tad bit more to do with the cause of the accident than the speed at which they were traveling. ---------------------------------------------- dco2393@rit.edu "Never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat, never drive a car when you're dead" -Tom Waits Randy sez... "These clowns own choice of words marks them for what they are." <6muq62$l1o$1@samsara0.mindspring.com> but I think he's... "just making shit up" <6k6t3o$hi$2@camel15.mindspring.com> Skate slalom...be happy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: dco2393@NO_SPAMrit.edu (Dave) Subject: Re: They All Bought the Farm (Was: Re: Last minute lane changers) Date: 1998/07/20 Message-ID: <35b9eafd.56997027@news.ne.mediaone.net> X-Deja-AN: 373090416 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <359C8AEB.374789BD@compuserve.com> <359c9b16.59899118@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <6ni8hf$fq9$1@samba.rahul.net> <359CF0A2.2D8A@richmond.infi.net> <6njfc6$na2$1@samba.rahul.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980710135451.29319E-100000@eve.speake <35AAD986.A119B347@prodigy.net.nospam> <6oerjp$o92$1@samba.rahul.net> <slrn6qnalm.77e.joelga@pebble.org> <91DFE709AF7FEEAD.DB0BDBC5C97D8BD9.466AC2B6B5A2F34B@library-proxy.airnews.net> <35B082DB.3367@richmond.infi.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MediaOne -=- Northeast Region Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,seattle.general,ca.driving