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Bullcookies! There are both collisions and accidents
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Posted by Noel [Email] (more from Noel) on Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:49:13 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: semantics..., Snowmobile [Profile/Gallery] , Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:25:34
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SO...
You're driving along a limited access highway at the 65 speed limit. The median strip is wide and has trees on it. You're maintaining a very safe following distance of over 3 seconds between you and the car ahead, and the car behind you is several hundred feet back. A pickup truck passes you going 5 mph faster and he's less than a car length past when a deer bolts into his lane from the trees on the median. You can't see the deer from your car but the pickup truck driver sees it and brakes hard. Unfortunately his rear wheels lock and he goes sideways into your lane. Because he's so close to you there is no time to react. You hit the pickup truck.

OR...
You're sitting at a traffic light waiting to make a left turn. The speed limit is 30 mph on the streets you are on. The light turns green. You cautiously double check to make sure no one is coming, and pull into the intersection, making your left turn. You're almost all the way through the turn when a drunk driver runs the light at 60 mph from the right and hits your car.

OR...
another rear-end scenario. The freeway traffic has been stop and go and you just came down from 30 mph to a dead stop. Now you're sitting in the left lane with a guard rail on your left, an SUV on your right. There's 12 feet between you and the minivan ahead of you. You glance in your rearview mirror to see a clapped out Subaru bearing down on you at 30 mph. Two seconds later the Subie hits your car from behind.

Stuff happens that you can't control, whether you call it an accident or a collision. Anyone here can offer up scenarios all day long. There are both collisions and accidents. Most, but not all, accidents can be avoided. And not all collisions can be avoided, either.

->Posting last edited on Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:44:09.

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