Our club thre Marramack Valley Military Vehicle club
does a lot of parades and as of late the new thing is
for floats and groups tossing candy to the kids in the
crows .. Not it was bad enough to avoid the nit whits
that just drift in and out in front of you or the Kama
kazzie kid on a bike, skates or like but now we have
every totler and his sister charging out like pahranas
on fresh meat for a peice of candy..
I get concerned evey bump I feel in the truck is some
kid I didn't see and I just make them road kill..
Almost makes me want to stop doing parades ..
Bob B
>From: "Joe Garrett" <j.garrett@gte.net>
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: [MV] Luck and damned luck
>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:07:19 -0700
>
>Some of you will recall that I recently got my five ton M54A2 out of the
>mud
>where it had been stuck since December. This afternoon I took it to the
>scales for a weigh-in and intended to go to the State Patrol for the
>required title inspection. On the way up there, I ran into a big traffic
>jam on I-5 so I exited and headed home.
>
>About 1 mile from my house, while I was travelling 35 mph in a 45 zone and
>holding up a big line of traffic, a car ran a stop sign in front of me. It
>was a small Mercury Topaz with a family of five in it. I never even
>touched
>my brakes. I drove right over the hood of their car. It broke the
>windshield, the driver's window, and pushed the front of the car completely
>sideways about a foot. The left front wheel was lying almost flat on the
>ground. The steering wheel was pushed completely sideways. The driver was
>in shock, and was bleeding, but refused treatment. Everyone else was fine.
>I called 911 and reported it as an injury accident. The aid car was there
>in less than 5 minutes.
>
>Needless to say, the Topaz was totalled. They couldn't even roll it up
>onto
>the tow truck, they had to drag it. By the time we left there, the family
>seemed to be fine. My five ton has two broken spring hangers on the
>passenger side. The bumper is bent, but can probably be easily repaired.
>There is white paint on the bumper, the wheel, the front differential all
>the way under it, and all over the axle itself. For those of you who are
>unaware, tow trucks for this size of a vehicle run about $275 an hour.
>Storage is going to be $40 a day.
>
>The driver of the other car got a citation for "Negligent Driving" which is
>much more serious than just running a stop sign. This happened because
>there were witnesses who made statements to the police. He had an
>insurance
>ID card, so I may be OK. I carry uninsured motorist insurance on my MV's
>even though I don't carry collison.
>
>Here is the punch line for this story, and why I am posting it. If the
>other car had gotten there 1/2 a second earlier, I would have killed a
>family of five. If I had driven over the passenger compartment instead of
>the hood, those people would not be alive right now. I am still absorbing
>what just happened but wanted to share what a five ton truck can do to a
>passenger car.
>
>Please, everybody, be careful driving your MV's. What just happened to me
>was absolutely, completely unavoidable (for me, anyway). If I had killed
>those people, though, this wouldn't matter one wit. I am very, very upset
>about all of this, and wanted to share my concerns with all of you. I
>don't
>know what good this will do, but I hope all of you will consider this when
>you go out driving in your MV's.
>
>Joe Garrett
>cell 425-344-1402
>
>
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