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- From: gcm@world.std.com (Gretchen C Macdowall)
- Subject: Re: Fun with a truck. NOT!
- Message-ID: <BzLuJ7.LwB@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec9.233359.29866@tessi.com> <1992Dec10.030455.22809@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <Bz11o3.9Bq@news.udel.edu> <1g9886INNj6a@spool.mu.edu> <1992Dec14.105001.1@stsci.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:30:42 GMT
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- >Anyway, one should always exercise caution, especially as a pedestrian, when
- >facing several hundred pounds of steel traveling with a good bit more momentum
- >and kinetic energy than the typical human body.
-
- You don't even have to be running. Two
- recent experiences that keep me alert at intersections:
-
- - On the corner waiting for the light to change. A large truck takes the
- corner really sharp and part of the truck and the back wheels come up onto
- the sidewalk. If I hadn't jumped out of the way I would have been
- flattened. I used to stand at the very edge of the corner so I could vault
- off as soon as the light changed - no more.
-
- - Crossing the street between cars stopped for a light. Car rolls back
- just as I am going between it and the car behind it. Almost got squashed
- between the two cars.
-
- I don't think anyone was being malicious in either case - just not very
- observant.
-