Ain’t it great when illiterate drivers are given driver’s licenses?
ROTFLMAO.
Similar problems seen at bus wreck site
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_us/georgia_bus_wreck_acc…
By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA – Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier
where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed
last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at
the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.
Today, with her left knee still not healed from the 2002 accident, she
feels upset that more hasn’t been done to prevent accidents there.
"It really bothered both of us," she said of the Bluffton University
accident that killed seven. "In retrospect, we probably should have
done more as far as insisting they do something to correct the
situation."
Investigators said the driver of the Bluffton team bus also apparently
mistook that same exit ramp for a highway lane on March 2 and overshot
a stop sign at the top of the ramp. The bus slammed into the concrete
barrier, flipped and fell 30 feet onto the pavement below. Six people
were killed and 28 people were hospitalized. One of the injured died a
week later.
On Friday, Atlanta police released to The Associated Press through the
Georgia’s Open Records Act three reports on accidents at the
intersection of Interstate 75 and Northside Drive from 2002 to 2003,
all involving drivers who didn’t know they had left the I-75 high
occupancy vehicle lane. In all three, including in Hartman’s accident,
the drivers said they were confused by the exit or did not realize
they had left the highway.
Before the March 2 Bluffton University accident, the Georgia
Department of Transportation said there had been two deaths from seven
accidents involving that exit ramp in the last nine years.
"It’s horrible to categorize fatalities but two fatality accidents,
all involving motorists who ran stop signs, is not an inordinate
number over a 9-year-period," said spokesman David Spear. "I don’t
think it speaks to the design of the ramp or signalization of the
ramp."
As a result, the Georgia transportation department has no plans to
close the ramp. But Spear said the agency is trying to "come up with
potential additions" to alert drivers, including additional signs or
traffic control devices.
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Drunken Driver <drunk@the_wheel.com> wrote in
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> Ain’t it great when illiterate drivers are given driver’s licenses?
> ROTFLMAO.
> Similar problems seen at bus wreck site
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_us/georgia_bus_wreck_accid
> ents
> By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer
> ATLANTA – Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier
> where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed
> last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at
> the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.
> Today, with her left knee still not healed from the 2002 accident, she
> feels upset that more hasn’t been done to prevent accidents there.
> "It really bothered both of us," she said of the Bluffton University
> accident that killed seven. "In retrospect, we probably should have
> done more as far as insisting they do something to correct the
> situation."
> Investigators said the driver of the Bluffton team bus also apparently
> mistook that same exit ramp for a highway lane on March 2 and overshot
> a stop sign at the top of the ramp. The bus slammed into the concrete
> barrier, flipped and fell 30 feet onto the pavement below. Six people
> were killed and 28 people were hospitalized. One of the injured died a
> week later.
> On Friday, Atlanta police released to The Associated Press through the
> Georgia’s Open Records Act three reports on accidents at the
> intersection of Interstate 75 and Northside Drive from 2002 to 2003,
> all involving drivers who didn’t know they had left the I-75 high
> occupancy vehicle lane. In all three, including in Hartman’s accident,
> the drivers said they were confused by the exit or did not realize
> they had left the highway.
> Before the March 2 Bluffton University accident, the Georgia
> Department of Transportation said there had been two deaths from seven
> accidents involving that exit ramp in the last nine years.
> "It’s horrible to categorize fatalities but two fatality accidents,
> all involving motorists who ran stop signs, is not an inordinate
> number over a 9-year-period," said spokesman David Spear. "I don’t
> think it speaks to the design of the ramp or signalization of the
> ramp."
> As a result, the Georgia transportation department has no plans to
> close the ramp. But Spear said the agency is trying to "come up with
> potential additions" to alert drivers, including additional signs or
> traffic control devices.
I’m sick of people who blame highway crashes on highway design. These
people were driving too fast and that’s that.
Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
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>Drunken Driver <drunk@the_wheel.com> wrote in
>news:e066v25942k62j6j5reoa5nvqod8dr63pe@4ax.com:
>> Ain’t it great when illiterate drivers are given driver’s licenses?
>> ROTFLMAO.
>> Similar problems seen at bus wreck site
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_us/georgia_bus_wreck_accid
>> ents
>> By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer
>> ATLANTA – Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier
>> where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed
>> last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at
>> the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.
>> Today, with her left knee still not healed from the 2002 accident, she
>> feels upset that more hasn’t been done to prevent accidents there.
>> "It really bothered both of us," she said of the Bluffton University
>> accident that killed seven. "In retrospect, we probably should have
>> done more as far as insisting they do something to correct the
>> situation."
>> Investigators said the driver of the Bluffton team bus also apparently
>> mistook that same exit ramp for a highway lane on March 2 and overshot
>> a stop sign at the top of the ramp. The bus slammed into the concrete
>> barrier, flipped and fell 30 feet onto the pavement below. Six people
>> were killed and 28 people were hospitalized. One of the injured died a
>> week later.
>> On Friday, Atlanta police released to The Associated Press through the
>> Georgia’s Open Records Act three reports on accidents at the
>> intersection of Interstate 75 and Northside Drive from 2002 to 2003,
>> all involving drivers who didn’t know they had left the I-75 high
>> occupancy vehicle lane. In all three, including in Hartman’s accident,
>> the drivers said they were confused by the exit or did not realize
>> they had left the highway.
>> Before the March 2 Bluffton University accident, the Georgia
>> Department of Transportation said there had been two deaths from seven
>> accidents involving that exit ramp in the last nine years.
>> "It’s horrible to categorize fatalities but two fatality accidents,
>> all involving motorists who ran stop signs, is not an inordinate
>> number over a 9-year-period," said spokesman David Spear. "I don’t
>> think it speaks to the design of the ramp or signalization of the
>> ramp."
>> As a result, the Georgia transportation department has no plans to
>> close the ramp. But Spear said the agency is trying to "come up with
>> potential additions" to alert drivers, including additional signs or
>> traffic control devices.
>I’m sick of people who blame highway crashes on highway design. These
>people were driving too fast and that’s that.
Yup. See how well that works? They won’t have that problem again.
Natural selection is a self-regulating mechanism.
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