Atticus Grinch |
07-05-2005 07:31 PM |
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Originally posted by Spanky
These drivers of the gas rigs are paid serious money because they get special emergency training and the driving is highly hazaderous. These guys are paid not to panic. Maybe if a kid ran out onto the road, but there was nothing in the road to swerve from. I just don't get the connection between, minor explosion in the car = hard right turn. Why not just brake.
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Good point. They'll be adding a gantlet of 14yos with Roman candles to Bob Bondurant next season. Forewarned is forearmed.
Every year, a small percentage solo auto fatalities have no discernable cause. No positive tox screen, no fatigue, no skidmarks, no road hazards, no apparant distractions, no witnesses. It appears an elite group of misfortunates are fated just drive themselves into trees and die when no one's watching. A theory out there is that each of them discovered a bee or wasp in their car, and in the ensuing panic lost control. Bang --- into a tree/light/hydrant what-have-you at full speed. The bee/wasp then blithely goes on its way, none the worse for wear, leaving first responders and lawyers to puzzle endlessly over the cause.
I learnt this from Stephen King. By comparison, I couldn't tell you a single damn fact I learned from Faulkner, except that when you were retarded in the 1930s they cut your balls off, and that I could have learned more directly from Hank Chinaski.
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