theyre no longer referred to as accidents since most all of them are avoidable. MVC’s- motor vehicle collisions. just to agree with whomever said most were avoidable.
[quote]fighting_fires wrote:
theyre no longer referred to as accidents since most all of them are avoidable. MVC’s- motor vehicle collisions. just to agree with whomever said most were avoidable. [/quote]
True. Or just simply crashes.
[quote]Bujo wrote:
So you’re saying 5 drivers managed to avoid an accident caused by a falling tree, while a 6th driver managed to plow into one of the stopped vehicles at 50mph? I can probably think of a dozen things the woman in the convertible could have done to avoid crashing into a parked car at 50mph. Obviously the folks in the stationary vehicles had limited options. [/quote]
No.
We were the five cars behind her.
There were no stationary vehicles prior to the incident.
She would have had a second or two to react, tops. About the only survival move I could see would be laying down across the passenger seat.
[quote]Stern wrote:
Who’s to say that with the trajectory and speed of the 2x4 it still wouldn’t have hit the window at a further distance? The wood wasn’t casually tossed into the air - it was propelled end first like a javelin.
Luck is luck, regardless of how bad the driver is.
ed- actually, just watched it again carefully and it looks like it’s bounced off of the front grill and along the hood at 0:33, so not like a badly thrown javelin. But still, no one can say with certainty that it wouldn’t have done the same thing with a bit more distance. Likely, but not certainly.[/quote]
The point is he or she would have had time to react.
[quote]Eli B wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
Who’s to say that with the trajectory and speed of the 2x4 it still wouldn’t have hit the window at a further distance? The wood wasn’t casually tossed into the air - it was propelled end first like a javelin.
Luck is luck, regardless of how bad the driver is.
ed- actually, just watched it again carefully and it looks like it’s bounced off of the front grill and along the hood at 0:33, so not like a badly thrown javelin. But still, no one can say with certainty that it wouldn’t have done the same thing with a bit more distance. Likely, but not certainly.[/quote]
The point is he or she would have had time to react.
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Well, point taken.
But I still consider it lucky they weren’t impaled through the chest. 