Posted on 09/12/2013 11:03:38 AM PDT by South40
In my dozen interactions with cops over the years, I've never had one encounter in which they were on the innocent citizen's side. They have no interest in enforcing real laws that matter. They do want to raise revenue for the welfare state. That's all they are. The IRS with badges.
He should write them up for impeding a peace officer in the fulfillments of his duties.
No dogs were injured. A positive note. Here’s to a quick recupe of the victims... And a healthy settlement.
“I bet he was texting.”
Perhaps.
Has the seat and rug been checked for ‘bodily fluids’?
;-)
Maybe the police need to drive a Mercedes with a unique collision avoidance system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVdBLMmRno&feature=player_embedded
NOTE: It is a well done spoof but an interesting concept.
“Warning I do not brake for Muslims”
Ha! :-O
Back before state-issued driver’s manuals became cartoon books to accommodate the least literate, driving far below the speed limit - especially at night on a four lane highway - was very specifically discouraged.
An illegal alien crashed into me at about 25 mph while I sat at a red light in Seattle behind a large commercial van. It launched the 800 pound softail and I into that van and up in the air about ten feet coming to a crashing rest on top the cadillac in the next lane.
Of course the illegal had no drivers license/no insurance! The incident took me out of my career (climbing power poles as a distribution lineman) from a snapped thoracic vertebrae and crushed l/s spine...
The point being: ALWAYS WATCH FOR THE EVIL IN THE MIRRORS!
Thanks for the reply. This is a good point about the mirrors. Still, this particular accident was a worst case as far as overtaking traffic from behind goes.
Even if this rider had been attending to the mirrors constantly, he would have had very little time to get off of the road after recognizing that the overtaking car was not slowing and was not going to change lanes. Some drivers don't change lanes until the last minute, and some don't slow until they're uncomfortably close, after all.
It's hard to protect yourself, on a bike or in a car, from someone who is speeding down the highway and not paying any attention to where he is going. This trooper would have driven right into the back of a car carrier had one happened to be there in front of him.
It's an uncomfortable accident to view, to be sure.
You are absolutely correct. You can take action if the speed difference is not too great, but I think the only whay that rider could have prevented that accident is by just going faster in the first place. Not that he should have been. I don’t know what his speed was.
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