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Originally Posted by Lomac
Am I correct in stating that you're complaining about a driver that lost control during highway corner and that it forced hundreds of people to adjust their weekend plans? |
No, you are incorrect if you state that, all I meant by it is the people who are slightly upset or disappointed have every right to be upset and disappointed. I am not in any way blaming the owner/driver/occupants of the jeep, nor am I angry at them. What prompted me to say that portion at all is because I mentioned to someone it sucked that I probably wouldn't make it back to Van in time for the Pac V. Rios fight because of the accident, and someone else went off on me about how disrespectful I was being to the two girls who died.
I was in no way saying like "Fuck those girls they messed up my plans". I'm simply saying it was an all-round bad scenario.
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Originally Posted by Lomac
Roads get icy during this time of year; hell, black ice is pretty prevalent already, and that's stuff you can't see in order to avoid. It's possible this girl was driving below the speed limit but still managed to hit a patch of black ice and was unable to gain control of the car before it crashed.
Don't ever drive the Coquihalla, then... you do that drive expecting at least a two hour delay going up (or down) the Snow Shed, due to accidents this time of year.
That said, I do agree that the speed limit on the S2S could be higher in a few sections, but this is starting the time of year when drivers need to start slowing down on that highway, regardless of posted limits.
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I completely understand that, nor did I ever say that speed was a factor in this particular accident. In fact since we literally know nothing of what happened, its really only speculation.
What I am saying, is how the media is going to twist this to make it out as if speeding is the whole problem and it would have prevented this accident if speeds were slower...
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Originally Posted by Soundy
Fuck, RS and reading comprehension really are mutually exclusive.
I never gave anyone crap for going over the limit. I give crap for whining about the consequences when you get busted. You KNOW the limit, you WILLINGLY exceed it, then you have ZERO room to whinge. You pushes yer skinny pedal, and you takes your chances.
That is all.
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I was just playing man, I know what you mean, and you are right, I knew I was speeding the entire time. Had I gotten a ticket I would have bitched cause I got a ticket and obviously I don't want one, but I wouldn't complain that it was unfair...
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Originally Posted by jlenko
The corner it happened on, is the same damn corner that head on accidents KEEP happening on, yet the ministry is doing nothing about it.
It's the stretch just north of Lion's Bay, where it's twisty as fuck because it's too tight to widen to four lanes. It's one lane in each direction, with no centre divider.
Even some cones bolted to the pavement on the centre line would be a start.... but nooooo....
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To be clear, this is actually not the same corner as where the motorcyclist and the other vehicle happened earlier this year, but it is in the same direct vicinity.
To be fair, to the crews involved, the shoulders are widened as much as humanly possible here, and the double yellow line is much wider than a regular highway (all of the S2S has this). If you look at the double yellow on the S2S its like double the seperation size of that of any conventional highway in NA. Agreed though, they should work on a solution to this small section.