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Michael Earl-395764 SSC Guru Points: 53873 More actions · Answer 1

I was thinking the same thing just after I posted. I figured I would leave later.

Also, we currently have no evidence that Lynn has ever run anyone over.

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Michael Earl (12/11/2008)
I was thinking the same thing just after I posted. I figured I would leave later.
Also, we currently have no evidence that Lynn has ever run anyone over.

Yeah, but based on everything else that has happened I think he may be due. Plus, I'd be concerned he'd stop for me to cross in a crosswalk, get rear-ended and be driven into me.

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Michael Earl-395764 SSC Guru Points: 53873 More actions · Answer 3

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December 11, 2008 at 6:15 am

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point taken.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 4

Walking might be dangerous because when the car bounces off of Lynn... I don't have those ninja/cat reflexes. I'll just get hit.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 5

Think I'll walk home across the fields.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

Okay, I can take the heat, however consider this; 3 automobile accidents over 15 years of commuting from the south side of Colorado Springs to Denver and driving 667,500 miles, I think I am a fairly good and safe driver. It's all the other idiots out on the road that make things dangerous.

I chose to obey all traffic laws. I'm the one every gets ticked at because I drive the speed limits, stop (yes, actually stop) at stop signs, etc.

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 7

Lynn Pettis (12/11/2008)
I chose to obey all traffic laws. I'm the one every gets ticked at because I drive the speed limits, stop (yes, actually stop) at stop signs, etc.

So now we know WHY you have all the accidents! How are we supposed to anticipate these things?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 8

If it makes you feel better I've been hit, while stopped, not stopping, I've been sitting still, waiting, four times over the last 10 years. You're not alone.

Luckily, I drive trucks. I get bent fenders and the cars that hit me collapse like a meteor hit them.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 9

Lynn Pettis (12/11/2008)
Okay, I can take the heat, however consider this; 3 automobile accidents over 15 years of commuting from the south side of Colorado Springs to Denver and driving 667,500 miles, I think I am a fairly good and safe driver. It's all the other idiots out on the road that make things dangerous.
I chose to obey all traffic laws. I'm the one every gets ticked at because I drive the speed limits, stop (yes, actually stop) at stop signs, etc.

The only RTA I've been party to was when a (woman) driver crashed a red and hit our car as we were turning right on a green filter, at Gillette Corner, W. London. I was on the passenger (left) side with several well-wrapped glass panes on my lap. She hit us at about 40mph. Our car left the ground and came down on the drivers' side, then skidded perhaps 20 yards. It took us a few minutes to unstrap and climb up and out of the passenger-door window. We were lucky because there were no serious injuries - broken ribs hurt but heal. We were lucky because there was little damage from the glass. We were lucky because behind us and to the left was a panda car (black-and-white to you lot) with two cops who watched it happen. And finally we were lucky because even had we been seriously hurt, we slid to a halt right in front of a bunch of staff from the West Mid. Hospital who called the ambulance then rushed over to help.

The woman driver who caused the accident was lucky because her pre-teen child, who was unstrapped in the back of the car, was unhurt, as was she. However she was unlucky when it came to fault, blame and compensation.

The psychological effects lasted a little longer than the broken ribs took to heal.

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Grant Fritchey (12/11/2008)
If it makes you feel better I've been hit, while stopped, not stopping, I've been sitting still, waiting, four times over the last 10 years.

My wife had this happen 9 times over a 2 year span. Good part was my daughter learned very quickly - pay attention to other drivers. She only got hit twice while stopped in 6 years.

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Michael Earl-395764 SSC Guru Points: 53873 More actions · Answer 11

And that ties us back to the original thread topic - those people are probably the ones that have been recently posting on this site...

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

Chris Morris (12/11/2008)
The psychological effects lasted a little longer than the broken ribs took to heal.

That was the hardest thing for me after getting run down in the cross walk. I actually spent time with the school psychologist at UCCS for a few weeks working through that one. Even then, it was quite awhile before I'd even enter a cross walk until I saw that every car had stopped, even if it meant waiting for the flashing DONT WALK before I started across.

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 13

Wow, guess I am lucky I have never (knock wood) been rear-ended.

Michael, you are probably right.

And that ties us back to the original thread topic - those people are probably the ones that have been recently posting on this site...

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 14

Grant Fritchey (12/11/2008)
If it makes you feel better I've been hit, while stopped, not stopping, I've been sitting still, waiting, four times over the last 10 years. You're not alone.
Luckily, I drive trucks. I get bent fenders and the cars that hit me collapse like a meteor hit them.

My daughters were leaving school on Novermber 17th (my oldest is a senior and the middle one a freshman) and were rear ended while stopped getting ready to leave the school. They were slammed into the truck in front of them. The damage to the truck, $50. The damage to the front end of my daughters car, $3,200+. The rear needs some painting, at the moment, as they haven't pulled the bumber off the back end to see how much damage may be there from the car that slammed into them at about 15 miles an hour. Witnesses say the driver (a teenage girl) was speeding in the parking lot and hit her brakes only a few feet from the car.

The oldest took the brunt of the hit as the driver's side was where the car was struck. Both of them were taken to the hospital by ambulance, but they are doing much better.

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 15

Lynn, have you considered moving to Ohio[/url]?

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