Accident last night?
Princess
Anyone hear anything about an accident last night at Walkley and Ridge
Rd? Cager missed the corner and hit some bikers??
Blah
"Princess" <crap...@storm.ca> wrote in message
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ValleyBoyz
What was the asshole thinking?
I hope the biker fairs out ok!
Cory
04R6
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Susan
like an accident waiting to happen to me.
Sue
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if it's the one i have seen a lot of bikers standing there taking a brake
after doing wheelies.
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"Steve" <inv...@microsoft.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Susan may have written:
> > Yes, but why were they sitting on the side of the road at midnight?
>
> From the report it sounds like the bikes were sitting on a bit of
> gravel that is commonly used as a parking lot. There is access to one
> of the parks there. It is a sharp 90 corner. While the corner is well
> marked it often takes people by surprise. The corner is sharper then
> it looks, and it is not banked well. It would not surprise me if the
> car simply entered the corner too quickly and lost control.
>
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Robert P.
of the lane. A competent driver shouldn't have a problem.
"Susan" <susanrem...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Susan
pavement; however, I don't think sitting on the side of the road in the dark
is a wise idea. Maybe the driver saw them and either experienced target
fixation or lost their concentration momentarily after being surprised by
them being there? And most people aren't driving to the best of their
ability at midnight.
Sue
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Robert P.
their ability regardless of the time.
I've been rear-ended while stopped at a red light in the middle of the day.
Also, in 1979 in Kingston I was in the Bank of Montreal when a driver drove
his car into the side of the building 1 - 2 pm. At the Billings Bridge exit
to Riverside; I saw the aftermath of a car T-boned by an OC Transpo bus when
the car pulled out from the stop sign. The driver said she did not see the
bus. This happened about 11:00 am. I've seen motorcycles, cars, vans,
trucks, SUVs zip through school zones like it is a NASCAR track. I've also
seen OC Transpo buses run red lights and stop signs, taxi drivers drive like
drunken fools and police cars cut corners so sharp as to cross the lane and
yet they claim to be professionals. They may drive for a living but that
does not make one a professional. Age, sex, time of day, season and type of
vehicle are not the issue. I do, however, admit the bike could have found a
more desirable place to stop, yet we (I) do not know the reason why he was
stopped at this particular spot. Also were his lights on? I know when I have
to stop on the side of a road at night I always leave my lights on (trying
not to sound superior which I am not)
As one of my driving instructors, years ago always said - there are no
accidents only collisions. Many people like to blame the road and weather
for collisions. This is incorrect. They are all the fault of one of the
drivers. The driver controls the vehicle. The driver maintains the vehicle.
If one or both of these responsibilities are not followed disaster is sure
to follow. In order for a collission to occure someone has to screw up.
Like the big pile up on the 401 a few years ago they blamed the fog and also
the construction of the road. You have two lanes sometimes three and near
Toronto even more. Everyone is moving in the same direction. The same for
the 417 through the city. Gridlock cause by ineptness, stupidity,
carelessnes, failing to look further ahead than the hood ornement on the
car, etc... Some like to call the 17 a highway of death. Yet the road is
not driving the vehicle. The road does not move causing a vehicle to cross
the center line and hit another head on.
messenger1
IMHO a vast majority of people on the road at any time ARE bad drivers by
virtue of either a lack of knowledge of their, and the vehicles limitations
and a lack of training/experience. I cringe every time I read about a
traffic fatality caused by those "killer soft shoulders" that someone hit
"by accident" causing them to lose control and either kill themselves or
someone in an oncoming vehicle.Also, a friend often argues mechanical
failure as a cause of accidents, a very minute number of accidents are
directly attributable to a non preventable mechanical failure, again, its
the drivers responsibility is to ensure the 20 y/o ***** they are driving
is mechanically fit to be on the road.
Tom B
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Mike "Gummiente" Palmer
pulled out from the stop sign. The driver said she did not see the bus."
There was an accident many years ago at an intersection in CFB Gagetown, NB.
An Army tank was at a stop sign, waiting to proceed through when it was rear
ended by a woman in her car. Said she "didn't see the tank".
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Mike "Gummiente" Palmer
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Gananoque, Ontario - a proud Canadian!
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hans
http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=1594
here this is for you idiots who hang out with the guy with the accident
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