Some people just cant be bothered. Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/

On 04/11/2021 08:00 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Some people just cant be bothered. Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/


Maybe. Were either ejected from their vehicles? Whatever the 'unknown
reason' was, not driving the wrong way on a four lane highway would have
helped. Heading for the median when you see someone coming at you at a
high rate of speed would have helped.

All the air bags and seatbelts in the world can't keep people safe from
their own choices.

On 4/11/2021 11:46 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/11/2021 08:00 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Some people just cant be bothered.Â* Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/



Maybe. Were either ejected from their vehicles? Whatever the 'unknown
reason' was, not driving the wrong way on a four lane highway would have
helped. Heading for the median when you see someone coming at you at a
high rate of speed would have helped.

All the air bags and seatbelts in the world can't keep people safe from
their own choices.



I've often wonder about these head on collisions. They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night. If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure. This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions. They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night. If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure. This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.

I start making plans when I see an oncoming driver coming my way even if
it's a perfectly legitimate move into a center turning lane.

On 4/11/2021 9:21 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions.Â* They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night.Â* If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure.Â* This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.

I start making plans when I see an oncoming driver coming my way even if
it's a perfectly legitimate move into a center turning lane.



Both were young drivers so they probably did not think to think ahead.

In other news today, nearby a storm blew over a tree taking power lines
down. A 17 year old driver hit the lines and somehow a fire started on
the driver's side so she got out on the passenger side. Stepped on a
line and was electrocuted.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:47:29 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/11/2021 9:21 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions.Â* They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night.Â* If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure.Â* This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.

I start making plans when I see an oncoming driver coming my way even if
it's a perfectly legitimate move into a center turning lane.



Both were young drivers so they probably did not think to think ahead.

In other news today, nearby a storm blew over a tree taking power lines
down. A 17 year old driver hit the lines and somehow a fire started on
the driver's side so she got out on the passenger side. Stepped on a
line and was electrocuted.

More likely her car was energized and she completed the circuit when
her foot hit the ground.
Jump!

On 04/11/2021 07:47 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 4/11/2021 9:21 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions. They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night. If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure. This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight,
no visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided
highway.

I start making plans when I see an oncoming driver coming my way even
if it's a perfectly legitimate move into a center turning lane.



Both were young drivers so they probably did not think to think ahead.

In other news today, nearby a storm blew over a tree taking power lines
down. A 17 year old driver hit the lines and somehow a fire started on
the driver's side so she got out on the passenger side. Stepped on a
line and was electrocuted.

Natural selection at work. I don't want to get into a women drivers
thing but I've noticed young women don't seem to have a working
acquaintance with the laws of physics. There are several 90 degree turns
around here and I've seen them take them at speeds that were on the edge
of the vehicle's abilities, but I don't think they even realize it.

A house on the outside of one of the corners started with a nice white
fence like a Kentucky horse farm. That slowly escalated to railroad ties
with a hardware store's worth of reflectors. Somebody went through it
again this winter so maybe Jersey barriers will be next.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:47:29 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to
digest...


On 4/11/2021 9:21 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions.* They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night.* If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure.* This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.

I start making plans when I see an oncoming driver coming my way even if
it's a perfectly legitimate move into a center turning lane.



Both were young drivers so they probably did not think to think ahead.

In other news today, nearby a storm blew over a tree taking power lines
down. A 17 year old driver hit the lines and somehow a fire started on
the driver's side so she got out on the passenger side. Stepped on a
line and was electrocuted.

That's shocking!

--
Tekkie

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:21:54 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.

I start making plans when I see an oncoming driver coming my way even if
it's a perfectly legitimate move into a center turning lane.

Good grief! Is there NO topic that you will NOT smartass about and blather
about in your known verbose manner, senile gossip?

On 4/11/2021 9:21 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions.Â* They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night.Â* If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure.Â* This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.

I start making plans when I see an oncoming driver coming my way even if
it's a perfectly legitimate move into a center turning lane.



I cannot google up any follow up articles except crash happened at 7 am
which corresponds with sunrise in Tampa.

rbowman writes:
On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions. They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night. If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure. This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.

Most headons occur without warning. A sudden swerve into oncoming
traffic, a blind curve, a moment's inattention.

On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 10:16:53 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
rbowman writes:
On 04/11/2021 11:30 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I've often wonder about these head on collisions. They don't give a
time but this one seems like daylight, most are night. If you see
headlight coming at you, I'd think it would be smart to go off to the
side to be sure. This section of road was very wide with a lot of
center median and shoulder.

Unless it took them a long time to respond it looked light daylight, no
visibility problems, and plenty of room to get off the road. Even
without going off road, it has two lanes like any other undivided highway.
Most headons occur without warning. A sudden swerve into oncoming
traffic, a blind curve, a moment's inattention.

True. I vaguely remember the days before I-80 was running through Nebraska. Highways
6 and 34 were the main east-west roads. Both two lane. It seemed like the local tv news had
at least one head-on collision every evening to talk about.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:46:10 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


Maybe. Were either ejected from their vehicles? Whatever the 'unknown
reason' was, not driving the wrong way on a four lane highway would have
helped. Heading for the median when you see someone coming at you at a
high rate of speed would have helped.

All the air bags and seatbelts in the world can't keep people safe from
their own choices.

That's the nice thing about Usenet: it allows senile gossips to pontificate
and smartass about just ANYTHING, even the tragic deaths of people. Right,
Trumptard?

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:46:10 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 04/11/2021 08:00 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Some people just cant be bothered. Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/


Maybe. Were either ejected from their vehicles? Whatever the 'unknown
reason' was, not driving the wrong way on a four lane highway would have
helped. Heading for the median when you see someone coming at you at a
high rate of speed would have helped.

All the air bags and seatbelts in the world can't keep people safe from
their own choices.

I used to encounter wrong way drivers a couple times a year working
nights. I always assumed they were just drunk. I pull to the right and
they always passed me driver side to driver side like we were on a 2
lane blacktop. I always wondered if they figured out something was
wrong or just forgot they were on the beltway.

On 4/11/2021 10:00 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Some people just cant be bothered.Â* Bet it would have made a difference here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/


Was it caused by drugs, alcohol or mask hypoxia?

On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 10:01:01 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Some people just cant be bothered. Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/

On what looks like a straight highway on a clear and sunny day too. I can understand
how one car somehow gets going in the wrong direction, but you'd think people going
the right way on road like this would see them coming and move over way out of the
way and stop.

An old guy my father knew did this. He was like 90 and went visiting someone in the
hospital. Somehow he got on a highway near the hospital going the wrong way and
did the same thing. He survived though.

On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 9:01:01 AM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Some people just cant be bothered. Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/

The news this morning had a passenger vehicle rear ending a farm tractor. The vehicle driver was killed, the passenger treated and released at the nearest hospital. The tractor driver was ok. This happened about 9:30 Sunday morning in central Nebraska.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 10:00:55 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to
digest...


Some people just cant be bothered. Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/

It would have been better if she was driving the correct way on the highway.
Let's not draw conclusions. Maybe: she was under the influence, committing
suicide, distracted, etc.

I never pulled a dead person from under a seat belt, but others have.

--
Tekkie

"Tekkie©" wrote in message
...

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 10:00:55 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to
digest...


Some people just cant be bothered. Bet it would have made a difference
here.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborou...sion-on-us-41/

It would have been better if she was driving the correct way on the
highway.
Let's not draw conclusions. Maybe: she was under the influence, committing
suicide, distracted, etc.

I never pulled a dead person from under a seat belt, but others have.

But those would have been dead anyway.

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:34:23 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the trolling senile cretin's latest troll****


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