Not to worry!
I have one bullet saved (think Barney Fife) for just that event. ;)
Posted on 02/03/2006 3:37:46 AM PST by irgbar-man
Not to worry!
I have one bullet saved (think Barney Fife) for just that event. ;)
what an unfortunate accident!
looks like the driver used all precautions tho...
Or a Madonna movie! (Bloom County bumpus!)
"He said he saw Scibora leave a parking lot traveling fast, faster than Ronnberg's car. As Lutz saw it, Scibora hit the car. He said he had seen Scibora another time at the intersection, darting across traffic and forcing cars on Pasadena to jam their brakes to avoid hitting her."
Don't bring a scooter to a car crash.
Only if she had no children. Otherwise, her genes are still in the pool.
Is the Tampa Bay area still listed as one of the least safe areas in the county for pedestrians? I live in the area and both elderly drivers and elderly pedestrians are unpredictable and unyielding.
I lived in Daytona for about 2 1/2 years and it was a daily occurrence there. Virtually every time you would hear screeching tires, you look up and you see blue hair and white knuckles....
This is sad, yes, but hardly an unknown danger. As a biker, I have *always* had to watch out for cagers, and the sight of some octogenerian peering out through the steering wheel at the road still makes Me instinctively head for the curb. You do not want to know how many times people have pulled the usual stunts in front of Me; left turns coming from the other direction, backing out of driveways within feet of Me, changing lanes into Me -you name it, it's happened. Despite assumptions otherwise, a few hundred pounds of steel on two tyres simply can not stop that quickly. Swifter than a car, yes, but momentum still dictates some less-than-instantaneous cessation of movement.
Would not help. My scoot had chrome everywhere, with dual stacked chrome headlights and a candy-apple red paintjob and people *STILL* claimed they never saw Me (the wanker was in the fast lane and changed into the slow one -where I was putting along! Bloody near came close to bumping Me over.)
See My previous...
My eighty year old grandmother was driving with an elderly friend. They arrived at a familiar intersection. My grandmother looked to the left to see if traffic was clear for her left turn. She asked Mabel to look to the right. Mable said it was clear, and my grandmother turned, immediately caused an an accident. She was lucky that she was driving a 1976 Thunderbird... the old beast protected them, and no one was hurt. But, she shouldn't have relied upon her friend... that's what caused the accident.
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