Re: Who to contact about a deadly stretch of road.

John Lansford wrote: <brevity snip>
> "gpsman" <gpsman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >The same is true here. Thousands of drivers preceding each crash
> >"victim" managed to traverse this same stretch of road without
> >crashing. How could the road be at fault?
>
> By your argument, I never should need to add guardrail, pier
> protection, bridge rails, etc, to a highway project, because since the
> vast majority of drivers never run off the road, then the ones that do
> should get what they deserve.

Then I'm not explaining my argument very well. I have no argument
against devices intended to limit the severity of crashes when they
occur. My argument is only that the road, its geometry and/or design
or the lack of law enforcement or any other circumstance or condition
that every other driver must encounter... can not be found at fault in
a crash.

> >Blaming the road, fog or ice for crashes is pure rationalization, a
> >mindless effort to shift responsibility for one's poor decision making
> >skills to an inanimate object.
>
> I'm not blaming anything, actually. However, there are occasions when
> the driver is not at fault in a crash. Since I have never evaluated
> the area in question, I am simply providing some possibilities that
> may contribute to the number of crashes.

Oh... I thought you wrote: "It sounds as if the geometry and bad
design, coupled with the lax speed enforcement, is causing the
crashes." Evidently I have mis-copied and/or mis-pasted... more than
once.

There are occasions when a crash is not the fault of at least one
driver but those circumstances are extraordinary. I firmly believe
there is no such animal as a "deadly stretch of road" where any
"deadly" or dangerous qualities of the road couldn't be entirely
negated by driving more carefully.

But that's just me.
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- gpsman

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