It's a hazard which we should be focusing on surely....what people do in cars is a factor...like watching hands movement telling you the driver may be deciding to change lanes etcOriginally Posted by Slyer
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It's a hazard which we should be focusing on surely....what people do in cars is a factor...like watching hands movement telling you the driver may be deciding to change lanes etc
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I often trim my pubes while driving, what's the problem?
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Or the young lady talking animatedly on her cell-phone while doing over the 100km/h mark reading her A4 papers spread on the steering wheel...
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I regularly see truck drivers driving along while reading a book.
I've seen people attempting to control unruly children running loose in the car. An Indian woman just the other day in Epsom, about ten thousand children loose in her paki wagon... didn't see the motorcyclist coming the other way.
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My "spidey-senses" are attuned to fuckheads who are doing small things which are peculiar. A cage moving in an odd way, the waft of beer from an open window, etc.
What you see when you don't have a camera or a gun, eh?
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this accident [?] happened earlier this month in the states. i think i may have posted it already, but it seems suitable for this thread.
Motorcyclist fatally struck by car; cops say other driver painting nails By Russell Lissau |
Daily Herald Staff Published: 5/3/2009 4:02 PM | Updated: 5/3/2009 9:01 PM
As she rode her motorcycle in the Lake Zurich area Saturday afternoon, Anita Zaffke stopped for a yellow light.
The motorist behind her didn't, police said, because she was painting her fingernails.
Zaffke, 56, of Lake Zurich, suffered fatal injuries when she was struck by a car about 5:30 p.m., Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said.
The accident happened on the southbound side of Rand Road after Zaffke stopped her 2007 Honda Shadow for the light at Old McHenry Road, Lake County sheriff's police said.
Lora L. Hunt, 48, of Morris, also was headed south and crashed into Zaffke, police said.
Hunt told police she was painting her nails as she drove and didn't see Zaffke until after the crash, police reports indicate.
Lake County Sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Christopher Thompson confirmed Hunt was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Additional charges are possible.
Zaffke and her motorcycle were pushed forward a few hundred feet by the force of the crash, Keller said.
Hunt and other people stopped to help Zaffke, but she could not be saved. She was pronounced dead about 6:30 p.m. at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital near Barrington.
Zaffke had been wearing a helmet and likely died of chest and abdominal injuries, Keller said. An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted today.
Charges mulled in fatal nail-polish crash May 4, 2009 10:39 AM | 176 Comments | UPDATED STORY
The Lake County State's Attorney's office says it's looking into criminal charges against a woman who allegedly was painting her fingernails while driving and fatally struck a stopped motorcyclist over the weekend.
"We are looking into charges in the case," Assistant State's Atty. Patricia Fix said this morning. "But we are waiting for results of blood and urine tests and waiting for the results of an accident reconstruction, as well as any other technical evidence we can derive from the scene."
Authorities say Anita Zaffke, of the 1500 block of Eddy Lane in Lake Zurich, stopped at the intersection of Route 12 and Old McHenry Road at around 5:45 p.m. Saturday as the traffic light turned from green to yellow.
The driver of a Chevrolet Impala behind Zaffke, Lora Hunt, 48, of Morris, told police "she was painting her nails as she drove and did not see [the motorcycle] until contact was already made," according to a Lake County Sheriff's Department incident report. Zaffke, who was wearing a helmet, was thrown a distance from her Honda motorcycle, according to Lake County Coroner Dr. Richard Keller. Her son, Greg, said this morning his mother was also wearing a bright yellow cycling jacket.
"It appears to be a tragic accident and it appears [Zaffke] did nothing wrong," Lake County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Scott Morrison said Sunday. "She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and she could not have done anything to avoid it."
Zaffke died about an hour after the crash at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Keller said. An autopsy was scheduled for this morning.
Hunt was cited with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. She could not be reached for comment this morning.
-- Dan P. Blake and Andrew L. Wang
pic is of zaffke.
Hmm.
Fucking bullshit. Nothing wrong with the time or place just the silly BITCH behind her!
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o yeh, and that same thought is echoed by all americans on 2 wheels. some car drivers managed to twist the blame onto zaffke by saying she shouldnt have stopped for the yellow, as that light is often run when its red.
as far as known, the cager has not yet been charged, despite admitting fault.
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It's the flossing afterwards................it takes both hands.
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Free Scott Watson.
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