Posted on 09/06/2006 6:42:27 PM PDT by Samwise
"I always hang a rosary in my car and my wife is like, 'Oh, it's a miracle that you're even alive.' And I say, 'Well, we've got good company in there' so that may be one of the good things that happened. That's all you can hope for," Sgt. Kelly said.
From the link in post 19.
Yes, it is. Thanks for finding it.
In-a-Ugo.
I dunno. I posted another link in post 19. Maybe you can tell from the video (First Person link). There are other cars in it.
it's just amazing he was able to walk away from that.
I am not aware of this law. So if the person is parked on the shoulder, you're supposed to go over to the left? It doesn't make sense. Isn't a shoulder supposed to be for emergency purposes/authorised vehicles???
whoa... Super Trooper!!!
What make of car?
Process of elmination leads me to believe it was a Ford Crown Vic.
Yes, that's the law in Indiana. A few years ago we had a long string of officer deaths because idiots just crashed into them.
Its common in many states and spreading. Its not really unreasonable either I can't believe they need a law but it looks like we do.
Either slow down or change lanes for emergency crews. If you want to do 70 as you pass give them a lane's berth otherwise SLOW DOWN.
The move over law here in NC requires motorists to move to the left lane if an emergency vehicle is stopped on the right side of the road, shoulder, emergency lane, etc.
Don't know about that, but a dozen years ago I was driving on the interstate and switched lanes to avoid a semi on the side of the road. This was in the middle of winter, with ice and snow, and I slid off into the median.
I got winched back onto the highway; no tickets were issued.
I agree it looks to be a Ford Crown Victoria.
I'd go buy a lottery ticket...
might not be a bad idea
Because the truck is in a jack knife position, I'd be willing to bet something happened prior to the impact of the police car that got the truck jack knifing... ...but we'll never know the truth because it's ALWAYS the trucks fault...
Over 90% of all police vehicle in the Uniteds States are Ford Crown Victorias. It's a good bet that was a Crown Vic in the pic.
The Crown Vic used to have a bad habit of exploding when rearended by a high speed vehicle.
We lost a Missouri State trooper about two years ago in a similar incident. He was writing a ticket out and a 1 ton dually pickup pulling a large trailer hit the Crown Vic in the rearend. The P/U was doing about 70 to 75mph when it hit the troopers car. The trooper died from his injuries, the gent getting the ticket was lucky to get out of the car alive and had serious injuries as I recall.
Ford supposedly redesigned the gas tank area a couple years back but the Mo trooper had an earlier car. Not to many cars can take a hit in the rear end and come out okay.
Glad to hear that Sgt Kelly is okay.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
"I agree it looks to be a Ford Crown Victoria."
As I recall, GM got out of the business. The other alternative is the Mopar Intrepid, and I've not seen any of those in long-distance cruiser duty.
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