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Definitely "Dudeist".
I've sometimes wondered if cagers "see" authority bikes better?
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After 30+ years of working around "emergency" vehicles ? I'd say no! If they can't / don't, see a firetruck coming & pull in front of them ?....well?
Ron,
26 years in Fire/EMS, and I agree!
Running Code thru South Reno one night many, many moons ago, had a drunk who would NOT pull right. After about six or seven blocks of this nonsense, and two Reno PD cars came out of nowhere and basically forced the idiot off the road. Later that year, that same engine (different operator) was totaled in a roll over accident involving....a drunk driver.
About 10 years ago I was knocked off my Ducati (red Duc, high beam on) in broad daylight on the freeway by a driver on a cell phone (she told the trooper she'd been calling her boss to let him know she was running late). When she told the trooper that she "never saw me", trooper replied, "no ma'am, you never LOOKED!"
Cheers!
Hard to imagine isn't it ? Years back a woman in a Nova ! busted through an intersection ...hit a pumper so hard ,..she knocked it over...a full sized pumper , 500 gal of water on board & 6 firefighters....and gear loaded.
Amazing! Nova must have been really moving...
forgot to mention...the pumper was lit-up and screamin' ..on a run.
How many crew injured?
Mostly bumps & bruises for the crew as I recall...oddly enough , they scrambled out & tended to her .....I just cannot remember if she survived ?
This was 30+ yrs ago.
Hard to believe she could have survived....though ya never really know, do ya? Helped extricate a guy once who literally wrapped his '67 Impala around a steel utility pole after departing I-80 at 120+. He walked out of the hospital the next morning. I'm sure you've had similar experiences. There, but for the grace of...
So true,
Part of my job involved me in accident investigations. In the same week I saw a full sized Dodge [St Regis] that hit a pole , est. 30-35 mph , skidmarks present . No interior damage, driver [seat belt on] was killed.
Later that week a kid in a Honda Civic hit a pole so hard the car ended up in 3 pieces..body split, engine & trans assembly thrown from it.The responding officer said that when he arrived on scene the kid was sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette. ........go figure...
Well, at least y'all aren't talking about motorsickle crashes . . . . yet!
(I hope it stays that way)!
Seabeck, I think I owe you some money. Want to come to the Washington State BMW Club meeting this Sunday, 0900, Harbor Place at Cottsmore in Gig Harbor? I'll bring a checkbook!