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Default 8 Murdered, 45 critically injured in LA Spree

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:47:33 +0100, Peter Hill
wrote:

On 18 Jul 2003 23:37:50 -0700, (Jaws) wrote:

leon skunkers wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:58:47 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

8 dead , 45 critically injured, including many children in LA Farmers
Market Driving Spree!

Ban Cars! Register them and license their owners!

No one has a need for a deadly automobile, let alone one that will
travel in excess of 60 miles per hour with one push of the peddle!

Ban these horrible instruments of death. Every year in the US, over
40,000 people are killed by them, and hundreds of thousands more are
maimed and crippled for life!

For Gods Sake,ban them for the Children!

Gunner

Liberals - Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends
of every country save their own. Benjamin Disraeli

yeah. And send your contributions to MAGOO (mothers against geezers
operating oldsmobiles). Hang up posters of the dead people all over
Florida's Fossil Riviera and get celebrities to whine about the whole
thing on TV.

Hangin' is too good for these old farts that take to the road
knowingly impaired by the ravages of age.


You'll be an "old fart" one of these days. After driving all those
years you're just going to hand over your keys. No laws saying you
have to, just decide for yourself that you're to old to drive. Give
up the vintage 1999 Corvette????? Give the old guy a little respect.
Maybe he caused an accident but he's still a human being.


All drivers should be retested every 10 years. Not just eyesight or a
doctors certificate, a full test to the current standards.


Well, I wouldn't worry about it, but it would cost a lot to do it.

However, many problems arise from older drivers not being aware of
current regulations, and others arise from slower reaction times.

Both could easily be tested by computer. All drivers could easily and
cheaply be tested by an adequate program. Raw score could be adjusted
up or down according to recorded legal violations since last test.

Obviously, those who violate any law, including parking or vehicle
defect violations are potentially more dangerous than those who try to
stay inside the law.

However, the only really significant point clusters around the
pass/fail score as the result of the computer test.

Say, for instance the "pass" score is 70 out of 100 possible points.

Anyone who achieves this score gets a new license for the next ten
years. Perhaps anyone who scores between 50 and 70 gets a full
retest from a driving examiner, just to try to eliminate possible
defects in the computer test.

Anyone who scores less than 50 out of a possible 100 is either clearly
incompetent or cannot be bothered to try to qualify, and their license
can be pulled for a few months before they can try again.

My next door neighbour but one is over 70. She is a very careful slow
driver and never exceeds 20mph. She fails her driving test every day.
She gets home and needs a 20ft kerbside space to parallel park a 10ft
Austin Mini in. She gives it lots of revs - sounds like around 3000
so if her foot slipped off the clutch it would be carnage. Then she
needs 10 backwards and forwards shuffles to get it in. After all
this, it's a foot away from the curb at the back and two feet away at
the front. I've seen abandoned cars parked better.


Um,well, does indicate a problem, doesn't it? If she cannot park any
better than that, is she a safe driver, no matter how slowly she
drives?

Many farm tractors won't do 20 mph, but people still get run over by
them. Perhaps it is time that she switched to slow electric vehicle
that can be run on streets or sidewalks?

She often gives the vicar a lift - must give praise to God after every
journey.


Or perhaps he has a lot of faith, or perhaps maybe cannot wait to meet
his maker? :-)








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(Truth is mighty and will prevail).

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