Perfect way to ruin a good day...

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by teevee

Those I can live with, but it's really annoying to get slapped this hard for a relatively minor offense.

A few years ago, a guy in a pick up failed to stop while crossing HWY 16 West. He just kept going across the four lane divided highway. We were on our way west and for whatever reason, he just kept driving through all the stop signs. We slammed on our brakes when we realized that this guy either did not see us, or was thinking he'd cross the four lanes before we got there. But, dang, we hit him on the side of his behind the back tires despite braking hard. A nano-second difference would have been the difference between life and death in our situation.

Our car was totalled. When the towtruck driver arrived at the scene, he thought he'd be seeing dead bodies. Chris was driving and had an airbag to cushion his impact, but I didn't and had to deal with whiplash for the next eight freaking months because of that idiot.

That collision was preventable. We had a hard look at our own driving methods and decided to drive the speed limit and stop at ALL stop signs and even most of the yield signs too.

Not to slam you, Quinn, but road safety laws are there for a good reason. I hope you learn something from that big fat ticket.