Posted on 07/01/2006 7:09:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Woman Faces Charges After Road Rage
by The Associated Press
Published Jul 01, 2006
Police charged an Orleans County woman after a road rage crash killed a passenger in her car.
Karen Greene, 20, of Medina, was charged with criminally negligent homicide and reckless driving for allegedly causing the death of Robert Crump, 19.
The crash happened in February on Mount Read Blvd. in Greece.
Authorities said before the crash happened, Greene pulled in front of a pickup truck that had stopped in front her and then slammed on her brakes.
The truck's driver said he tried to avoid the car, but the car pulled alongside him then hit a utility pole.
Greene pleaded not guilty and was released to a probation program. She returns to court July 7.
That karma thing will come back and bite you in the ass big time.
Whoever wrote this story did a poor job of it and didnt place enough information in it for anyone to really know what happened.
The pickup stopped in front of her and then she passed him slamming on her brakes. The pickup started to move at that exact moment and both cars must have swerved at the same time causing the pickup truck to hit the car.
The passenger probably died from hitting his head on the dash during her sudden slammed stop. The air bags probably didn't work.
Let's see now, another way it could have happened is...
Greene pulled in front of a pickup truck that had stopped in front her and then slammed on her brakes. The truck's driver said he tried to avoid the car, but the car pulled alongside him then hit a utility pole.
Let's see now. She pulled in front of the stopped truck. The driver of the stopped truck must have departed from his truck and run up past her and then slowed down so that her car was along side of him. Although she had slammed on the brakes her car must have still been moving forward at a high rate of speed along side him. She then swerved into a utility pole attempting to avoid the jogger who had left his pickup truck and was running along side of her moving car. Both the jogger and the driver of the car were doing 50mph or more making the crash into the utility pole fatal to the passenger of the car.
Another possibility is that the utility pole was in the lane of traffic. The pickup swerved to avoid her and the pole but she kept going driving into it.
Another possibility is that after she slammed on the brakes she departed her car, left it in gear and it kept moving forward but was being passed by the truck who swerved to avoid the slower moving car. The car ran off the road hitting the pole. She, the driver of the car, was not actually in the crashed car when it hit the pole.
Hmmmmmmm, another possibility is...
"Don't tail-gate."
Don't LET anyone tail gate. Let them pass.
Noob or lib? Nah...obviously a recent product of the publik edumacation system.
Only twenty years old and already impatient enough to experience road rage? Good grief!
I guess there are a lot of ways it could have happened.
Fact is air bags dont work unless you are hit in front. No amount of braking will cause them to explode.
If the person in the car had a seat belt on they wouldnt have hit the dash.
The story is very poorly written.
I think a TV and video-game mentality has contributed to road rage and auto accidents in general.
People pat themselves on the back for tricky (i.e., dangerous) maneuvers, We have drivers on Long Island, who make U-turns across double-yellow lines and three lanes of traffic.
People can't endure stopping more than a minute and a half at an intersection. You can imagine that they are telling themselves, "Well, I've waited long enough, it's my turn to go, even if I am turning from a sidestreet onto a busy 4-lane roadway." It's as if TV's commercial breaks have trained drivers to put up with a limited period of waiting, before they want "the show" to resume.
There's one major problem for the TV-video game drivers. Real life doesn't grant extra lives.
Maybe the utility pole was a handyman named Jablonski...
Both good advice.
This entire article should be taken out and shot.
That doesn't stop the occasional maniac from doing something stupid, but I can state with a smile their aggressive actions are savagely curtailed when they realize they have other things they rather do than annoy me.
Intelligent, courteous driving is road rage to you? Please let me know when you are on the road pretending to know how to drive!
I plan on keeping my day job. I own my own little shop of horrors, and can crack all the puns I want while punishing a minimum of the population. Sometimes, it does creep over to FR.
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