OHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
08-12-2008, 12:21 PM
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A friend of mine hit a deer head-on just south of Huntsville on #11 last week .... $20,000+ damage to his MB CLS500. He was travelling the speed limit +/- 10 kph .... didn't help.
Watch #11 up that way, heavily patrolled with lots of radar
Watch #11 up that way, heavily patrolled with lots of radar
08-18-2008, 02:22 PM
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I sure as hell wouldn't want to hit a deer at 250 KPH dude....especially on a bike. Last fall a cop hit a deer nearby and it nearly took his head off....closed casket.
I would NOT run high speeds up north at all this year...the mosquitoes are driving the deer out of the woods for relief and they are everywhere.
In the fall the deer get into the "rut" and wander around with hard-ons onto the highways too.
In my neck-of-the-woods they had 7 car-deer hits before lunch one day last fall.
Oh, and watch out during hunting season too...the hunters like to "push" the deer towards waiting guns and they freak out and run, and run, and run....
I would NOT run high speeds up north at all this year...the mosquitoes are driving the deer out of the woods for relief and they are everywhere.
In the fall the deer get into the "rut" and wander around with hard-ons onto the highways too.
In my neck-of-the-woods they had 7 car-deer hits before lunch one day last fall.
Oh, and watch out during hunting season too...the hunters like to "push" the deer towards waiting guns and they freak out and run, and run, and run....
08-22-2008, 10:27 PM
#64
Three Wheelin'
The hitting a dear at "x" kms an hour is a red herring. If he'd been going 10km's FASTER - he'd have passed the deer long before it stepped onto the road.
There are apparently a couple of cases working thier way through the courts that will challenge the appropriateness of the "50 over" law. Note that the law includes a broad range of transgrssions, racing away from a stop light, blocking another car in any way etc. But those never seem to get enforced - 150 over is easy and "appears" to help. It doesn't...
http://www.safespeed.org.uk/speedlimits.html
Check out the prominently featured CANADIAN research - "speeding" is SAFE!
RK
There are apparently a couple of cases working thier way through the courts that will challenge the appropriateness of the "50 over" law. Note that the law includes a broad range of transgrssions, racing away from a stop light, blocking another car in any way etc. But those never seem to get enforced - 150 over is easy and "appears" to help. It doesn't...
http://www.safespeed.org.uk/speedlimits.html
Check out the prominently featured CANADIAN research - "speeding" is SAFE!
RK
08-23-2008, 10:04 AM
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You don't want to mess with the larger wildlife.
Ian
08-23-2008, 01:45 PM
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Ya, it would be the end if you hit a deer. Wouldn't feel a thing....
I saw a black convertable Corvette on the 404 this week with an OPP and a tow truck on my way to work about 2pm.
I saw a black convertable Corvette on the 404 this week with an OPP and a tow truck on my way to work about 2pm.
08-23-2008, 05:23 PM
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08-30-2008, 09:54 PM
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09-02-2008, 09:56 AM
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Very light traffic going both directions, but hardly any e/b ... perfect opportunity for them. One cruiser tucked behind a wall with the radar, farther down the 407 hiding up on the ramp where it is very difficult to see them, 3 more cruisers ready to swoop down to bag their catch ... the give away was the 3 tow trucks on the side of the 407 and part way up the ramp. Looks like it's become a sport to them ... kinda like fishing in the stocked trout pond.
09-02-2008, 02:09 PM
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Yesterday, holiday Monday, about 11:30 a.m. e/b would not have been one of those times.
Very light traffic going both directions, but hardly any e/b ... perfect opportunity for them. One cruiser tucked behind a wall with the radar, farther down the 407 hiding up on the ramp where it is very difficult to see them, 3 more cruisers ready to swoop down to bag their catch ... the give away was the 3 tow trucks on the side of the 407 and part way up the ramp. Looks like it's become a sport to them ... kinda like fishing in the stocked trout pond.
Very light traffic going both directions, but hardly any e/b ... perfect opportunity for them. One cruiser tucked behind a wall with the radar, farther down the 407 hiding up on the ramp where it is very difficult to see them, 3 more cruisers ready to swoop down to bag their catch ... the give away was the 3 tow trucks on the side of the 407 and part way up the ramp. Looks like it's become a sport to them ... kinda like fishing in the stocked trout pond.
Be careful out there1
09-02-2008, 11:10 PM
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fail to plan, plan to fail...we're all mental cases here...i don't think we'd be hardpressed to find 2 additional people to help us break an arbitrary and unjust law
09-05-2008, 02:41 PM
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Honestly this has been a bad week... every day I see someone pulled over getting a ticket.
One of the Doctors my wife works with just got his 3rd speeding ticket within the month driving his S6 and with a new Audi R8 arriving in October... needless to say he is fighting everyone of 'em.
REMINDER for everyone to be vigalent this weekend, hopefully by Monday the safety blitz will be at an end.
One of the Doctors my wife works with just got his 3rd speeding ticket within the month driving his S6 and with a new Audi R8 arriving in October... needless to say he is fighting everyone of 'em.REMINDER for everyone to be vigalent this weekend, hopefully by Monday the safety blitz will be at an end.
