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Killed a civic today. (yay! or not. :)

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Here's a story from a guy I went to school with:

So I'm driving up I-80 to go skiing (California) and here's some little red civic jetting through traffic changing lanes right and left. It has chains on... the back tires. I'm thinking "I'll be seeing that guy again". A few miles later I see him on an embankement and see the tire marks. It looked like he managed to slide in an arc about 3 lanes wide and hit the bank backwards

(note: this isn't my story)

I still wanna know why people think that just because thier car can do 60-0 in 120 feet that the vehicle behind them can. When traffic comes to a stop I'm always looking at my rear view mirror to see if I need to use up a couple more feet of space to compensate for the guy behind me.

And those racing trucks can't do more than 100kph because of the rules. Therefore they are tuned to get to 100kph as fast as possible, they have a 50 gallon water tank for cooling the brakes off otherwise they wouldn't last a single lap. It's neat to watch the steam come pouring out of the front wheels as they dive into the corners.
 
Man I have seen so many near accidents due to people running red lights around here (Long Island).

Just today, driving into work. I pass this car on the road, 4 lane local highway. The light in front of me turns yellow. I realize that unless I floor it, no chance of making it thru so I hit the brakes. I come to a complete stop after the light turns red. I am there for at least a second and the car I passed flies thru the intersection. Didn't even hit the brakes. Fortunately, everyone around here is so used to it, no one in the right mind would gun it thru the intersection after the light turns green anymore.
 
That civic driver was a total moron!
Even 60 is too fast in conditions like you just described... or maybe its not as bad as you described but when its bad up here in canada you don't see too many people doing over 50... even 35-40 when its really nasty (or you get stuck behind a snow plower 😉)
 
BTW those of you who think that because a car crumples makes it unsafe... HELLO! It's supposed to do that! When you have a 2000lb vehicle versus say a 10000lb one, the 2000lb vehicle is going to receive 5 times as much of a shock as the 10000lb one. That's why it needs the crumple zones to diffuse that shock out. Now, a rigid 10000lb vehicle versus a 50000lb vehicle wouldn't stand a chance, because it has no crumple zones to diffuse that shock, and so everyone inside it dies. That's why a civic can get hit by a van and the driver survive, but if a van gets hit by a massive 18-wheeler I doubt they will survive 🙂
 
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