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Re: They All Bought the Farm (Was: Re: Last minute lane changers)

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From: Dave
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00
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>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.


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From: dco2393@NO_SPAMrit.edu (Dave)
Subject: Re: They All Bought the Farm (Was: Re: Last minute lane changers)
Date: 1998/07/20
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