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Re: Solve speeding by limiting cars!



wassensf@dma.org (Steve Wassenich) wrote:

>>Years ago, as an EMT in a rural Virgina town, I was called to a accident 
>>with a rolled-over pickup truck.  On this perfectly straight road, speed 
>>had to have been a contributing factor.  I'll never forget the look of 
>>horror frozen on that partially-ejected teenager's face.  
>>
>On a "perfectly straight road", how did this "partially-ejected teenager" 
>manage to roll a pickup truck, and what did this have to do with speed?  
>Sounds to me like the little twerp drove it into the ditch and flipped it.

Needless to say, the driver was silent on this matter.  This piece of road 
was one of the deadliest in the county for the number of accidents that 
were speed-related.  There were plenty of narrow, twisty, two lane roads 
that virtually never had accidents on them, OTOH.

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