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Dashcam Shows Trooper Running Over Couple On Motorcycle
WPEC ^ | 9/11/2013 | Scott T. Smith

Posted on 09/12/2013 11:03:38 AM PDT by South40

NEW JASPER, Ohio -- An Ohio trooper is not talking after a dramatic collision with a motorcycle.

That accident sent two people to the hospital.

Video here

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs12.com ...


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To: FAA
"The guys wearing the badges aren’t necessarily there to help ya......"

In my dozen interactions with cops over the years, I've never had one encounter in which they were on the innocent citizen's side. They have no interest in enforcing real laws that matter. They do want to raise revenue for the welfare state. That's all they are. The IRS with badges.

21 posted on 09/12/2013 12:23:30 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Why haven't we heard from the 30 Benghazi survivors?)
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To: South40

He should write them up for impeding a peace officer in the fulfillments of his duties.


22 posted on 09/12/2013 12:34:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: NormsRevenge

No dogs were injured. A positive note. Here’s to a quick recupe of the victims... And a healthy settlement.


23 posted on 09/12/2013 12:35:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: b4its2late

“I bet he was texting.”

Perhaps.

Has the seat and rug been checked for ‘bodily fluids’?

;-)


24 posted on 09/12/2013 12:38:10 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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To: South40

Maybe the police need to drive a Mercedes with a unique collision avoidance system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVdBLMmRno&feature=player_embedded

NOTE: It is a well done spoof but an interesting concept.

“Warning I do not brake for Muslims”


25 posted on 09/12/2013 12:41:12 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: GladesGuru

Ha! :-O


26 posted on 09/12/2013 12:42:55 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: cuban leaf

Back before state-issued driver’s manuals became cartoon books to accommodate the least literate, driving far below the speed limit - especially at night on a four lane highway - was very specifically discouraged.


27 posted on 09/12/2013 12:57:27 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: South40
Here lies the body of William Jay, who died defending his right of way.
He was right, dead right, as he sped along, but he's just as dead as though he were wrong.
28 posted on 09/12/2013 12:59:00 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: cuban leaf
I've posted this here years ago about that.

An illegal alien crashed into me at about 25 mph while I sat at a red light in Seattle behind a large commercial van. It launched the 800 pound softail and I into that van and up in the air about ten feet coming to a crashing rest on top the cadillac in the next lane.

Of course the illegal had no drivers license/no insurance! The incident took me out of my career (climbing power poles as a distribution lineman) from a snapped thoracic vertebrae and crushed l/s spine...

The point being: ALWAYS WATCH FOR THE EVIL IN THE MIRRORS!

29 posted on 09/12/2013 1:43:28 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: cuban leaf
If I’m driving or riding slow, I watch my mirrors almost more than what is in front of me. Sure, if someone hits me it’s their fault, but I ride a motorcycle.from cuban leaf

Thanks for the reply. This is a good point about the mirrors. Still, this particular accident was a worst case as far as overtaking traffic from behind goes.

Even if this rider had been attending to the mirrors constantly, he would have had very little time to get off of the road after recognizing that the overtaking car was not slowing and was not going to change lanes. Some drivers don't change lanes until the last minute, and some don't slow until they're uncomfortably close, after all.

It's hard to protect yourself, on a bike or in a car, from someone who is speeding down the highway and not paying any attention to where he is going. This trooper would have driven right into the back of a car carrier had one happened to be there in front of him.

It's an uncomfortable accident to view, to be sure.

30 posted on 09/13/2013 9:03:27 PM PDT by Timm
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To: Timm

You are absolutely correct. You can take action if the speed difference is not too great, but I think the only whay that rider could have prevented that accident is by just going faster in the first place. Not that he should have been. I don’t know what his speed was.


31 posted on 09/14/2013 1:40:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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