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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's up with all the cars hitting trees and bursting into flames lately?
... A man in his 50s drove off Shepard Road ... He hit .. a water fountain and tree ... Initially, dispatchers said it was feared the car had gone into the river ... Passers-by pulled the man out of the car, which then went up in flames ...In St. Paul, passers-by pull man from car before it burns
By Mara H. Gottfried
mgottfried@pioneerpress.com
Posted: 06/17/2013 12:01:00 AM CDT
Updated: 06/18/2013 02:04:32 PM CDT
... the pickup, which had an out-of-state license plate, was headed eastbound on 72 when apparently the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree. He said the vehicle, which was pulling a trailer filled with tools, caught fire and came to a stop in the ditch ...
May 24, 2013
UPDATE: Fiery car wreck kills 2 in Limestone
By Kim West kwest@athensnews-courier.com
... the vehicle failed to negotiate a turn while traveling north on Vienna Road. The car then struck a tree and eventually became engulfed in flames ...
Police update information regarding double-fatal car crash
Observer-Dispatch
Posted Jun 18, 2013 @ 10:13 PM
A man died early Tuesday after the car he was driving crashed into a tree and burst into flames in Hancock Park ...
Man dies in fiery Hancock Park crash
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-melrose-collision-20130618,0,7080273.story
By Emily Foxhall
June 18, 2013, 9:10 a.m.
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Until the talking points arrive in the mail, we should blame Obama | |
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Cars sure don\'t just smash into other things and then burst into flames all by themselves, y\'know | |
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I really really tried to warn you about domestic assassinations and the NDAA | |
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It\'s obviously related to the conspiracy against Wikileaks | |
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Until I know more details, I\'ll be making a special effort not to drive fast into the trees | |
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randome
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Hastings was driving down the road and broke into spontaneous combustion. And after that, of course the car drove into a tree, because a pile of ashes can't steer very well.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to prevent this.
Also, guns.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I would bet 95% of all of these were texting or talking on phone
and forgetting to
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD
If it were me, I would make it impossible to text, to use a phone, to use a computer.
They should be 100% disabled.
And in NJ I think, there is going to be a new law saying police can look at a persons cell phone to see if it was used in an accident.
I am 100% for that.
the conspiracy theory is that people can text, talk, use computer, smoke, reach for the radio, and eat a sandwich, drink a 48 ounce sugar high soda, etc. and drive.
Ah, no. All that kills.
As silly as trying to beat a train across the tracks (or surfing on top of a moving train and
forgetting that is a tunnel straight ahead.)
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)It's is crazy! Apparently 40% of MA drivers do it...
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/local/2013/06/04/distracted-driving-40-percent-of-mass-motorists-text-and-drive/
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Are you blind?
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)The willful coordination between car manufacturers and certain arboreal forms of life can no longer be doubted. I don't care how much Obama won't talk about the subject! Our eyes have been opened!
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Aerows
(39,961 posts)jumping out into the middle of the road on unsuspecting drivers. Those pesky trees wait until they catch someone talking on a cell phone, texting or intoxicated and they fling themselves into the street.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,196 posts)Not only will they Stand Their Ground, they'll also occasionally drop coconuts on the road to flip dumbass young motorcyclists right into their co-conspirator (gravel) that lines the streets so that said dumbasses are left to limp home with a bent shift pedal and clutch lever to explain to their parents why their best school pants are shredded from the knee on down and are all bloody.
Not that I would have any personal knowledge of such an occurrence, of course, being Practically Perfect in Every Way as I am...
longship
(40,416 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)taking the law into their own palms.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I'm frond of it.
randome
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MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)that are being planted, but I can't be sure.
randome
(34,845 posts)We mustn't allow the issues to be watered down with false tropisms.
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Aerows
(39,961 posts)and let it sprout as it may
randome
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Aerows
(39,961 posts)randome
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Aerows
(39,961 posts)It's coming up roses.
randome
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I ROSE up
randome
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Aerows
(39,961 posts)and hope that it doesn't become to desiccated.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)(insert Georgio Tsokopolaious <how-tf-ever you spell it> photo here.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)My day just wouldn't have been complete without it & my employer blocks image posting & media.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)randome
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Aerows
(39,961 posts)It means something to him. That was the only person it was meant to mean something to. No offense.
randome
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Nailed me!
treestar
(82,383 posts)Designed to eliminate Obama's critics.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I dislike the hell out of them, but let's not slander our opponents by claiming everyone that doesn't love Obama as much as you do is a PETA member.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I've already been a racist, a person that never loved him, and an LGBT assasin of the Presidency because I didn't like his stand on DADT. Not like I've heard any alarmist bs directed my way, even though I voted for the man twice and campaigned for him.
Bush and Obama own this.
treestar
(82,383 posts)He signed the repeal law.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Every time you investigate incidents like this, it turns out that physics played a part.
Every. Single. Time.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I welcome the Physics Overlords!
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Maybe we could initiate some research to try and put a stop to this scientific method nonsense.
Oh, wait...
randome
(34,845 posts)I know this guy in Hong Kong...
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winter is coming
(11,785 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Guess they cause more traffic accidents than automobiles do as well.
korak
(77 posts)Listening to Icona Pop......
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)how would you feel if once a year thousands of your friends and family members were brutally murdered just to be gaudily decorated and left to rot in our houses then discarded without another thought?
randome
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MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Why do you hate baby Jesus?
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Spending a lot of time in Washington State & seeing all the trees being mowed down & the beautiful landscape bothers me. Not to mention seeing a bunch of dead trees being discarded in a big dead heap after XMas in the Home Depot parking lot irks me.
Forgive me for being a bit of a tree hugger
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)I hate the idea of bringing a tree in the house to watch it die. She maintained that it was no different than cut flowers. Sooo we compromised and got a live tree with the idea that we would use it year after year, and then roll it's pot back out side until the next holiday season. Then we broke up then it got neglected. After the divorce, I got custody of the now more-than-half-dead tree which I stuck in a hole in the yard at my new place--mostly with the intent of keeping anyone from tripping in the hole. That was in 2001 and that pine is now an easy forty feet tall!
You're forgiven.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)But I'll azalea the difference.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Thanks so much.
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)No, thank YOU ever so much
WovenGems
(776 posts)Trees have found a way to fight back. A split second before impact the tree leans into the collision upping the damage.
You should have included a foliage conspiracy option in the poll.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)The wild driving I see every day on city streets amazes and frightens me.
Across the street and down a block from my office a couple of weeks ago some car went flying down the parking lane at high speed, went onto the sidewalk, and took out 4 trees, 4 parking meters and 3 street signs before coming to rest. I didn't see the accident or the car, but later that day i did see the mess left behind.
Probably some 20-something Persian male in a black Mercedes or Beemer in a big hurry to get someplace or showing off, passing traffic on the far right in the parking lane because.......well isn't that what that lane is for???
zappaman
(20,606 posts)and about a half mile before the place where it happened.
Odd that the car in the video is the same car in the accident.
But go on, CTers and speculate away!
In the CT world, there are NO accidents!
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/06/michael_hastings_red_light_video_speeding.php