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zulutango · 09-03-2011, 08:34 PM

Gee Granny, you are a nice lady, so I decree that the laws of physics and the laws of the land will not apply to you. When you crash or hit someone else, nobody will get hurt, because you are a nice person. Also, from now on, the laws only apply to bad people and unless you are an axe murderer you can do whatever you want. We will only punish bad people.

You know, as somebody else has already pointed out, we only have a self-serving letter from someone who wanted to escape the consequences of their illegal activities. If you can remember just a few weeks back about a furor raised by a man who was harassed by the Cops and prevented his high risk wife from being able to go to hospital to have her baby???? Remember what really happened when the truth came out? Grann did not have to speed up over the limit by how much?? to pass the trucks. She chose to. She did not have to further speed (by how much)up to pull in front of the trucks. She made a bad choice to break the law in the first place and it got worse as she went along. I tried to google earth the location to see the speed reduction signs but the location was too general. there is one 4 lane that goes thru a built up area with some stores, houses and an intersection etc, near the park.If she had limit signs. Most areas in BC with that kind of drop in speed have several warning and actual decreased limit signs posted, sometimes on both sides of the road.

Head on crashes are the result of both scenarios you presented. I have investigated what I can remember as an equal number of both. The first ones usally involve higher impact speeds because driver at fault mistakenly believes that it is safer to do so than on a corner. I would say that the larger number of headons involved this type of crash.

Not many people crash head on because of distractions while rounding a corner because the natural inclination is to slow down and pay attention on a corner.

If by "underestimating the sharpness of the curve" you mean driving too fast for their ability and the physics involved in cornering, yes some do but most tend to go wide to the outside of the corner and kill themselves off road right or off road left. Not many slide scross the centre line and hit someone head on and it would have to be a right hand corner, therefore eliminating 50% of the possible crashes.

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zulutango RS Peace Officer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Vancouver Islan Posts: 3,867 Thanked 1,636 Times in 683 Posts Failed 64 Times in 27 Posts	Gee Granny, you are a nice lady, so I decree that the laws of physics and the laws of the land will not apply to you. When you crash or hit someone else, nobody will get hurt, because you are a nice person. Also, from now on, the laws only apply to bad people and unless you are an axe murderer you can do whatever you want. We will only punish bad people. You know, as somebody else has already pointed out, we only have a self-serving letter from someone who wanted to escape the consequences of their illegal activities. If you can remember just a few weeks back about a furor raised by a man who was harassed by the Cops and prevented his high risk wife from being able to go to hospital to have her baby???? Remember what really happened when the truth came out? Grann did not have to speed up over the limit by how much?? to pass the trucks. She chose to. She did not have to further speed (by how much)up to pull in front of the trucks. She made a bad choice to break the law in the first place and it got worse as she went along. I tried to google earth the location to see the speed reduction signs but the location was too general. there is one 4 lane that goes thru a built up area with some stores, houses and an intersection etc, near the park.If she had limit signs. Most areas in BC with that kind of drop in speed have several warning and actual decreased limit signs posted, sometimes on both sides of the road. Head on crashes are the result of both scenarios you presented. I have investigated what I can remember as an equal number of both. The first ones usally involve higher impact speeds because driver at fault mistakenly believes that it is safer to do so than on a corner. I would say that the larger number of headons involved this type of crash. Not many people crash head on because of distractions while rounding a corner because the natural inclination is to slow down and pay attention on a corner. If by "underestimating the sharpness of the curve" you mean driving too fast for their ability and the physics involved in cornering, yes some do but most tend to go wide to the outside of the corner and kill themselves off road right or off road left. Not many slide scross the centre line and hit someone head on and it would have to be a right hand corner, therefore eliminating 50% of the possible crashes. Last edited by zulutango; 09-03-2011 at 08:47 PM.