Posted on 04/04/2005 9:12:18 AM PDT by new cruelty
NEWPORT, Ore. -- Two people were killed Saturday on Highway 101 near the Sea Lion Caves.
A Ford Excursion was passing several vehicles when the lead car in the line made a left turn and was broadsided by the Excursion.
Oregon State Police said 23-year-old Trina Eyler and her passenger, 24-year-old Scott Carlson, both died.
The driver of the Excursion, 20-year-old Salina Taylor-Caldwell, was treated for minor injuries.
OSP is investigating the crash.
It sounds like a case of no turn signal, no glance in the rearview mirror, just slow and turn abruptly. Probably in a passing zone, too. Am I just getting old and cranky, or do people pay far less attention behind the wheel than was once the case? I used to blame this on cell phone distraction, but that can't be entirely to blame. I find myself having to laugh, watching anyone under the age of 30 trying to parallel park. Hint: nose-in-first is never going to work.
"A Ford Excursion was passing several vehicles when the lead car in the line made a left turn and was broadsided by the Excursion."
Sounds like someone doesn't know how to drive. Bad drivers that cause accidents should be ashamed of themselves. It's too bad when people get hurt when mentally challenged idiots get behind the wheel.
No joke, I saw a lady driving in REVERSE on the highway once. She missed her exit? Talk about RETARDED. If I were a Statie, I would have cut her license in half. I have other, similar stories.
Creatures that walk on two legs are not necessarily intelligent.
What? The Excursion didn't have a driver keeping it tamed?
SUVs are OUT OF CONTROL! Mine just went through the McDonalds drive-through without my permission.
Yep, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the 20-year old was passing a line of cars all at once, which is illegal. It was the SUV that caused the accident, not the reckless driver.
For folks that don't know about Hwy 101, it is a twisty-windy two lane Hwy on the coast (one lane in either direction).
Looks more like the title should be "Two Killed On Highway 101 By Own Stupidity".
It's about time that some of these left-turning-with-no-clue-or-warning idiots got what was coming to them. These are the #1 hazard to motorcyclists - I've lost two friends to idiots that do this.
It's a bad headline. It's an inaccurate headline. But somebody was drooling when they wrote it. But, hey, the media is very objective.
Another vicious drive-by. These SUVs must be stopped!
Assuming there was an intersection where the driver could make a left turn, then it wasn't a passing zone.
Sounds like the SUV had been drinking. Luckily, we keep a boot on our SUV to make sure it doesn’t cause too much mischief.
Hwy 101 is a two lane road. From the sound of it, I suspect that somebody was waiting to make a left turn across it, with cars stacked up behind them, and the driver of the SUV decided to pass them all without being able to actually see the lead car. I don't know that for sure, but 101 can be a nightmare.
Don't forget that the driver of the SUV, sustaining only minor injuries, has an unfair advantage over the ocupants of the other vehicle. This is the biggest threat of SUV's, not the gross fuel inefficiency, or the inordinate amount of precious natural resources that go into constructing them, no, it is UNFAIR in the extreme that mean, rich Republican SUV drivers are able to walk away from accidents that kill the poor working class drivers, whose low socioeconomic standing leaves them without the educational level to understand traffic laws and road signs. (Hopefully the sarcasm is obvious, but these days, it's hard to tell.)
Agreed- some liberal bloodhound slobbered all over this headline when writing it.
The esuvee.com site approaches the subject of the dangers of operating an SUV from a stand point that seems to blame both the vehicle AND the driver. I'm not sure I am 100% with the approach, and I think the bill boards advertising the site are crap, but the site may be of some help in educating people who think they can drive anything on wheels.
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SUV IS?
NEWPORT, Ore. -- Two people were killed Saturday on Highway 101 near the Sea Lion Caves.
A VEHICLE was passing several vehicles when the lead car in the line made a left turn and was broadsided by the VEHICLE.
Oregon State Police said 23-year-old Trina Eyler and her passenger, 24-year-old Scott Carlson, both died.
The driver of the VEHICLE, 20-year-old Salina Taylor-Caldwell, ALSO DIED.
OSP is investigating the crash.
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