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On 16 Jul 1998 05:19:29 GMT, Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@06.usenet.us.com> wrote:
>In <slrn6qqchk.aoi.joelga@pebble.org> joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry) writes:
>
>>Then there's the stuff falling off of trucks.  Some good threads on
>>this every so often in the moto groups.  One that happened to me:
>>driving VW camper van (the kind with an exposed propane tank under the
>>side door).  Truck ahead starts losing railroad ties.  Have you ever
>>seen what happens when a railroad tie hits concrete at 70MPH?  It
>>starts spinning and dancing around in a random walk.  You can't brake
>>to avoid it because it is immediately going slower than you.  I avoided
>>it by inches by going in the left brakedown lane right next to the
>>fence.  More luck than skill that it didn't nail the propane.
>
>I had something like this happen to me, when a van dropped what looked
>like a steel bed on the highway, at around 70 mph, ahead of me, in the
>same lane.  At my usual 2-3 seconds following distance I had sufficient
>time to signal and change lanes.  The vehicle just ahead of me ended up
>stuck on top of the jettisoned cargo, and the vehicle behind me nearly
>crashed into him.  Was I lucky?  Only to the extent that I could change
>lanes without colliding with somebody.  It was not luck, but planning,
>that I had nearly 3 seconds in which to react. The motorists ahead of me
>and behind me each had only 0.5 seconds.

Now wait a minute.  Why didn't the person behind you have your 2-3 seconds?

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>Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
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>    "Any idiot can avoid automobile accidents that are his own fault.  It
>     takes skill to avoid accidents that are the *other* person's fault."


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