driving fun
Feb. 13th, 2007 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioI'm not unreasonable; I don't expect pristine roads while snow is actually falling. But you've known this was coming for days, and it's not off hours, and Forbes Avenue is kind of a major road (to say nothing of the lesser roads). I really expected to see some evidence of plowing or salting this morning.
No love,
Monica
Dear driver from Ohio,
You should be familiar with the white fluffy stuff from back home. No one else on the highway is having difficulty maintaining the posted minimum speed of 40mph. If you really think that's twice what's safe, could you at least have the decency to stop swerving between lanes and slamming on your brakes at every little twitter of fear? And maybe consider getting off at the next exit and taking local roads?
But hey, at least I know my horn works now.
What is the law (and etiquette, for that matter) concerning stopping for
accidents you witness but aren't in? Ever since I was run down by
someone speeding through a red light, and not one of the several
witnesses stopped to support my story (or see if I was ok -- I was
thrown several feet), I've tried to stop if I actually see the accident
and I can. I always stop if I see clear fault (and especially
if I think the underdog is going to take the hit unfairly, like when the
bicyclist or pedestrian really was being stupid), or if anyone seems to
be injured. (Well, unless police or an ambulance just happen to be
there...) But I didn't stop for either of the two fender-benders I saw
on my way to work today, because they looked minor and what would be the
point? It got me wondering about what my obligations are in all of
these cases, from fender-benders up to major squishings, in light of my
observation that no one else ever seems to stop. Does everyone just
assume that the insurance companies, police, and ambulance crew will
work it out, and your testimony or other help is irrelevant?
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Date: 2007-02-13 03:35 pm (UTC)