Posted on 12/11/2013 8:10:07 AM PST by BenLurkin
TMZ reported that experts told Walker's family that a car approaching 90 MPH will lose traction after hitting "Botts' Dots", reflective dots on the road used to guide drivers at night.
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20+ years ago a neighbor of mine was and inventor by trade and told me his mentor patented the angular road reflector (not the round ones) and got a penny for everyone sold.
That’s my Facebook quality post for the day.
Tee angular reflectors used on California fwys are designed so that at night they reflect white light in one direction and red light in the other.
In other words, if you are ever driving on a freeway there at night and all the reflectors look red - you are going the WRONG way.
Nine times out of ten, “experts” are the biggest liars in the court system. Bigger liars than even the lawyers.
When the facts are on your side, present the facts. When they aren’t, present experts.
I thought he was not driving?
If you read around, the industrial park appears to be a mini F1 track on the weekends. Lets say the accident report comes back to just a loss of control by the driver. Blaming just Bott's dots for hydroplaning seems a little far fetched to me. I would vote the driver ran over a patch of something that caused the loss of control. That something might be marbles from previous racing or something accidentally got spilled on the road like loose gravel or water. Google map shows a major housing subdivision under development just to the northeast of the accident site. If wind blew enough dirt and grime onto the roadway, that might have been enough as well.
What is really lame is that these aren’t punk kids, they were rich guys who could afford track time at any of the awesome California road courses.
possibilities that rumble strips cause accidents?
There will be all sorts of factors that that could be brought up in a civil suit because you are dealing with driver perception.
The could argue the width of the road, whether any of the curves were super elevated, the horizontal geometry was to straight, or not enough signs on the road to warn or provide the driver with information to make his decisions. Again it will be all about driver perception...
Here in Washington State the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of a drunk driver who went of the road and hit a power pole because the power pole was too close to the road.
Good point! I suspect attendance at those types facilities will increase for a while..
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