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To: Neeka who wrote (105369)	8/1/2005 3:56:50 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

You missed the favorite road hazard here, live deer.

To: Neeka who wrote (105369)	8/1/2005 5:30:51 PM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

That old adage.....speed kills......is really true. Speed doesn't kill any more than guns kill. The untrained operator kills. Race drivers are trained to drive as much as 200+ mph in packs, their training and experience keeps from killing them all every race. If you can afford it, the best training for a driver or soon-to-be new driver is The Bob Bondurant school in Arizona, bondurant.com. They have a special course for street driving and accident avoidance. Especially good at deflating large ego's (teens and adults) concerning driving skills.

To: Neeka who wrote (105369)	8/1/2005 5:31:58 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Blown out truck tires are not something that you want to hit, I'm told. I've never hit one, but apparently they can really rack you up. You have to drive as if the other guy or thing is out to get you. All the time. Our neighborhood has an illogical yield sign on a street that forms a T with an intersecting street. There's a yield sign on one side but not on the other, presumably because somebody lobbied for it for selfish reasons. The stem of the T does not have a sign either. I am always alert to cars coming to that intersection from the stem of the T, but I pretty much ignore on-coming cars. Yesterday a woman driving opposite direction from me where I had the yield sign turned almost into me, insisting on her right of way and assuming that I would yield at the yield sign even though she wasn't signalling. I was able to stop and let her make her turn. If we had both been driving faster there would have been a collision.