Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uvaee.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!uvaee!cffres
From: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: DWI restricts you to a motorcycle license for life
Message-ID: <381@uvaee.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 21:18:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvaee.381
Posted: Sat Jul 27 21:18:31 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Jul-85 06:37:42 EDT
References: <3313@decwrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara)
Organization: EE Dept., U of Virginia, Charlottesville
Lines: 13
Summary: 

In article <3313@decwrl.UUCP> chabot@miles.DEC (Sxyzyskzyik) writes:
>This is a really stupid and ineffective idea, says a person who knows people
>who've died because a motorcycle hit their cars.  Bluntly, it doesn't require
>that much energy to squish a person, and pedestrians and bicyclists can be
>killed just as dead by a person on a motorcycle as by a person in a car.  If 
>you're drunk and operating a vehicle, you usually aren't fully considering the
>fact that you could end up dead as well as killing some other people too; fear 
>of operating a motorcyle isn't going to scare anyone any more than the
>anticipation of wrapping your car around a tree. 
>

Not to mention that a truck might swerve to avoid a motorcycle and
lose control.