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Originally Posted by tater
I've been thinking about such accidents because last week a guy slammed on the brakes after looking up from his phone, and didn't manage to stop until through the light, and that was including using my wife's BMW which was stopped at the red light they shared as a barrier.
His skid marks were ~300ft until he hit my wife's bumper (I measured them on google earth), and my wife's car ended up ~75' into the intersection, and his car 75' past that.
Glad he looked up from texting when he did. #@$!# POS. Wish he had died to prevent entering the gene pool, sadly he just broke his nose.
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reminds me of an accident I had in 89-90. I was at a light, late for a meeting and stepped on the gas as soon as the light turned green. Another car trying to beat the yellow light hit me from the left going 70-80 kmh and tore off my bumper. If he had had been 1-2 seconds later, he would have hit my door and probably have killed me. Ever since then, I always check and wait 1-2 seconds after the light turns green before taking off...
A lot of these accidents are from lack of specialized training. Eons ago when I was a student, I had a part time/summer job as a driving instructor. One of the "Old Hands" there used to teach police/ambulance drivers how to drive. He always told me and had proven that you could get faster from point A to B by going a bit slower, paying attention to other cars and making your intentions clearly known rather than just barrelling along at top speed.