RE: A sobering thought

["Jon Linkov" <njconn@email.msn.com>]

CT State Troopers and the local cops (Norwalk?) did a similar thing on some
sideroad here with similar (though not to the same degree #'s wise) results.

Jon
njconn@msn.com
'96 A4q
http://www.quattroclubusa.org/r/potomac

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Robert Myers
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 7:52 PM
To: Quattro list
Subject: A sobering thought


Hi Y'all,

About 25 miles from my home is a stretch of I-64 which has a long (~5
miles) steep (8%) grade.  Over the years since the highway's construction
this grade, despite the presence of three escape ramps for out of control
vehicles, has been the site of numerous accidents involving 18 wheelers.

Last week WV's finest (or so they say) during a five day stretch stopped
249 18 wheelers on this section of I-64.  49 of them were deemed to be so
unsafe that they were taken out of action on the spot.  148 citations were
issued for safety violations.  This is out of only 249 trucks stopped.

Does this information disturb others as much as it does me?  Twenty percent
were considered to me unsafe for operation.  If that statistic holds
nationwide we have problems.


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   Bob
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