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From: man@bocar.UUCP (M Nevar)
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Subject: Re: Doing dumb things while driving
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 08:33:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 08:33:44 1985
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	The shaving thing is pretty good, but I've seen that
	pretty often.  It is stupid, though.  Your posting
	reminded be of this month's Car & Driver issue.
	Patrick Bedard's article in particular.  He writes
	of some stupid things he has seen people doing on
	the roadways:

		"A van approached on the cross street
		and made a left turn across my bow.
		The driver's mouth was oozing foam.
		He was steering with his left hand while
		his right pumped away on the (tooth)brush
		handle.  Look ma, no cavaties.

		Another time I saw a woman penciling her
		eyebrows while she was driving.  This 
		was on the L.I.E.(Long Island Expressway).
		She had her lips pursed tightly, the way
		you do when you're concentrating....

		Just last Sunday...I eased past a Mustang
		moving along pretty well in one of
		those center lanes (San Diego Freeway).
		The driver was a California-blond thing,
		early twenties, I'd guess, and her jaw
		was ratcheting away...  I thought she was
		talking to herself. But then I saw she
		had a book propped against the steering
		wheel.  She was reading aloud, maybe
		learning her lines for a play or something...
		But she wasn't focused on her driving.
		That was obvious.

		On I-65 in Indiana, I saw a Ford with U.S.-
		Government plates moving at exactly the
		double-nickel. ...I could see a book
		resting on the steering-wheel spokes.

		From New York Magazine:

		  'I was stopped at a traffic light
 		  in lower Manhattan one morning.
		  Just as I stepped on the gas, I got
		  smacked from behind by a large truck.
		  I jumped out of my car.  The truck
		  driver slowly climbed out of his
		  cab.
			"What happened", I asked.

			"I didn't see you," he answered,
			which was hard to believe, since
			my car is a bright orange Volvo.


			"What do you mean you didn't
			see me ?" I said.

			I was reading," he said. "It happens."

			My car suffered $1,200 in damages.
			His truck was fine.

I'm sure this goes on all the time, too.  I got hit under just
the same circumstances.  The truck driver was shaving.....

Mark Nevar