Re: [ST] Rear Ended.

[Martin Waltman <marty_rw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok can we start the shoulder or between cars thread. I
had a close call once where had I gone to the shoulder
I would have been creamed and have since started
pointing toward the middle when stopped on the hwy or
at a light. In both cases with plenty of room in
front. Any thoughts on which is best?


- --- Rich Weyand <rfwlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 09:06 AM 2/6/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >Yeah, ditto.  Besides keep it in gear at a light I
> also position myself
> >close to the line so if I have to I can pull up
> between lanes to let the
> >idiot rear end the cars that were in front of me
> instead of me.  Put some
> >mass between me and the crash so to speak.
> >
> >I haven't needed to put it to practice though, but
> it seems like it would
> >work.
> 
> In 1980 or so I was sitting at a stoplight on
> Palatine Road, which is 2 lanes in each direction
> with a center median, 50 mph limit and very
> occasional lights for major intersections.  What I
> think they call in California an expressway.
> 
> Anyway, I was driving, two up on a 1975 Norton
> Commando Interstate, stopped in first gear at a
> light one full car length back from the guy in front
> of me, with a pickup truck and several other cars
> behind me.  Suddenly, I heard the squeal of brakes
> behind me, very loud, very high, and approaching
> quickly.  I shot out of there like a bar of soap,
> shooting forward and to the right alongside the car
> in front of me as the impacts began.  The pickup
> pulled forward into the car length and a half I had
> emptied.  The car behind him was impacted and shot
> more than a car length ahead, stopping short of the
> pickup by three feet or so.  All told, there were
> six impacts.
> 
> The fellow in the last car was probably doing 60 or
> more, and came over the rise to see nothing but
> stopped cars, threw out the hooks, and bought his
> insurance company a junkyard.
> 
> Without the extra space and me shooting forward and
> out, the pickup would have been shoved forward,
> pinning me and my passenger between the pickup truck
> and the car ahead.  I am always astounded when
> bikers crawl right up behind the cars in front of
> them at traffic lights.  Stupid.
> 
> So, yeah, it does work.
> 
> BTW, I prefer going to the shoulder side rather than
> between lanes.  Cars do not always stay straight in
> such an impact, and you can get pinned between. 
> Going to the shoulder side, if you get hit by one of
> the cars, you are more likely just to get pushed
> further into the shoulder or the ditch than pinned
> against another car.
> 
> 
> Rich Weyand
> 1999 Sprint ST "NOT RED"
> 
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