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Originally Posted by thumper
i don't claim to know anything about accident investigations, but the hood is intact on the cherokee which makes me think there was no frontal collision, but the driver's side rear is really messed up... how is this a head-on collision?  |
Looks to me like the jeep drifted into the oncoming lane sideways, and clipped the truck. The media will call it a head on collision to add effect, I guess technically they are not wrong as two vehicles travelling the opposite direction collided, but it is a little misleading...
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Originally Posted by jlenko
I wonder how this would of turned out had they obeyed the speed limit...
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There is no proof yet that they were speeding, but you are right, I bet they were.
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Originally Posted by Everymans
As someone who was speeding and hit the guardrails on a rainy day on the s2s i seriously disagree with raising the speed limit. It's such a windy narrow road. 80km makes the most sense, it's not a straight stretch of highway like marine drive(which only has a relatively short and misunderstood section of 80km speed limit.) More police speed traps would make sense. Last 2 times i went to whistler i didn't see a single cop on the s2s.
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You are exactly the idiot who the rest of us competent drivers have to cater to because you do not know how to control your speed.
Drive the S2S on a dry summer day and you will NEVER maintain an 80km/h speed. This is especially more evident by the fact that you didn't even abide by it on a rainy day.
ONE MORE TIME:
SPEED LIMITS ARE SET FOR OPTIMAL CONDITIONS, WHEN IT IS DRY & WARM. IF YOU TRY TO MAINTAIN THAT SPEED LIMIT IN THE RAIN OR THE SNOW IT'S YOUR OWN PROBLEM WHEN YOU INEVITABLY CRASH.
And the vast majority of the S2S is not narrow nor is it all that twisty. The lanes on the S2S are actually designed to be 2.5' wider than any standard section of highway in BC.
While the S2S is not a straight stretch of road, it is certainly not located in an urbanized area like Marin Dr. in burnaby, nor does it have the cross walks, and red lights that marine does.
The Canyon portion of the 97C an the 97 which connects Merritt north up to cache creek and onwards up past williams lake, has a speed limit of 110km/h. Major sections of this road are FAR more twisty and treacherous than that of the S2S, and they face far more inclement weather than the S2S year round.
I can't believe people thanked your post, the only good portion of your entire post is that we need inspections of vehicles. The rest of it is complete farce.