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Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc) wrote:
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> More than 90% of all accidenta are avoidable.  Some aren't.

More tragic examples of the result of speeding and reckless driving:

A motorist was going 85 mph, weaving from lane to lane to lane.  He lost
control of his car, and it flipped over several times, his seat belt
failed, and he was ejected.  The rescue squad workers found him at the
bottom of an embankment, and his brain was hanging out.  The coroner
pronounced him dead.  He was put in a body bag.  He was taken to the
morgue.

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.

A motorist was going 80 mph _in the rain_.  His car hydroplaned, and
spun out.  It went off the road, up an embankment, and down, and hit a
bridge pier at about 65 mph.  The car literally flew apart.  The guy had
to be shoveled up. 

A New Jersey motorist was going 90 mph on Shirley Highway in Arlington. 
He rear-ended another car that was going 55 in the middle lane.  The gas
tank exploded, the cars turned over, and three people got cremated.    

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. 

A guy driving on a 2-lane highway tried to pass 4 cars in one fell
swoop.  He hit a Greyhound bus head-on at 95mph, he couldn't get back
into his lane in time.  Now he has no more time....

It's not worth it.
 
-- 
Scott M. Kozel    "The Virginia Highwayman"   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