🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:01:23 -0700 (PDT), Bill Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>
wrote:

>On Jun 22, 10:47 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@On-
>My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>> >> Is this a unique event? Have there been other accidents at that spot?!!
>>
>> >>http://goo.gl/maps/1IZ6
>>
>> I don't know if they did an autopsy, but I'd bet it would show a
>> "health event"... diabetes can make you prone to heart attacks.
>
>
>Look closely at google maps above.  It appears that if you're not
>expecting the sudden 160deg turn, you'll do exactly what the Mercury
>News described: sail across the winery driveway and hit a tree.  (I'm
>assuming I have the correct spot here, and he was coming from the
>south.)   At that location, I wonder what the warning signs and
>guardrails look like.  Or if there are any.
>
>We don't have google earth here at work, so I can't check whether the
>highway was downhill at that point.
>
>How would one access the accident records for a location?   Find out
>whether it's a "death curve" or not?
>

Since this occurred in calif. you could start with "TASAS" in a search
engine.  But this is not on a State highway, you would use this to
find/get to the local accident databases.