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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Cage crash
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.145318.7192@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:53:18 GMT
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- Last night, 12:30 am or so. I was driving a cage in the rain, coming
- home from a happy movie. Traffic was light on Dundee Road, a four-lane-
- plus-raised-center-turn-lane thoroughfare a mile from my home. There was
- one vehicle, a Bronco or similar by the taillights ahead of me by about 40
- yards. Looking ahead, as biking has trained me to do, I spotted what I
- thought was the headlights of a car sliding on the wet pavement oncoming,
- quite some distance away. Well, as soon as I saw the headlights bounce up
- the curb and back, weaving and sliding SERIOUSLY, I braked, spotted a
- pizza-place parking lot to my right, and escaped into it, hoping that the
- drunk driver wouldn't follow me in. He didn't. Instead, he creamed
- head-on into the Bronco that was ahead of me on the road. I got out of
- the car to go help, but as I walked up, I noticed that the car was a Fiero,
- and was BADLY twisted and crunched, and the driver wasn't moving. I sprinted
- back to the Pizza Place to scream for them to call 911. I ran back to the
- vehicles. Someone was talking to the woman in the Bronco, who had blood
- all over her face. She knew her name, but was in shock. The Fiero's door
- was torn off, and I could see the guy looked pretty twisted, especially
- his neck, and his face looked pretty pushed in. I decided he was better
- off where he was, to wait for the ambulance.
-
- I directed traffic until the emergency vehicles arrived a few minutes
- later. They packed the lady in the Bronco off in an ambulance, and
- just put a sheet over the guy in the Fiero.
-
- I think that the only difference between me and the lady in the Bronco
- was that I was looking further ahead, and looked for an out when faced
- with an emergency. I think she froze when presented with a fast situation.
- Looking at the scene from her perspective, and knowing how long she had to
- react, I think she could have made it over the curb onto the grass on
- the right side of the road, if she'd thought of it. I thank my motorcycle
- experience for being able to sit here and type this right now. I feel
- horrible that I wasn't able to help the guy.
-
- Dave Svoboda (svoboda@void.rtsg.mot.com) | "I just can't take
- 90 Concours 1000 (Mmmmmmmmmm!) | this weird shit
- 84 RZ 350 (Ring Ding) (Woops!) | before breakfast!"
- AMA 583905 DoD #0330 COG 939 (Chicago) | -- Evo Woman
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