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Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc) wrote:

> I was in one where I was stopped at a red light, and so was the car in
> front of me and the car behind.  The light turned green, and the car
> behind me accelerated briskly.  They didn't even wait for the car in
> front of me to move.  There was no damage to either vehicle, but there
> was a definate bump.  One lane each way, cars coming the opposite way
> and a curb to the right, How should someone avoid that?

According to Mr. "One Ton" (now residing in my killfile), it's all your
fault and you should take some accident-avoidance classes. But, you know,
that's ridiculous. Sometimes you really are just in the wrong place at the
wrong time, no fault of your own. It happens.

When a similar accident happened to me (stopped at a red light at night,
guy comes up behind me weaving and speeding and can't stop in time for the
light) I had a split second to see the guy coming at me, but my only
option would have been to accelerate rapidly forward into the intersection
and to the right or left, out of his way. Considering that the light was
red, I couldn't do it. Too much ingrained training, I guess. And I don't
think I would have been able to get out of the guy's way anyway -- it
really was a split-second thing. Just enough time to think "Oh $#!!
they're going to hit --" and, BOOM.

Oh, yeah, when I pulled into the next mini-mart and told the guy there
what had happened, he said "Oh, that blue car that just came through this
intersection doing about 85!" I just hope they didn't run into a few other
people out there that night...

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