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Car Without Brakes Nearly Slams into Trump Motorcade
VOA News ^ | August 31, 2017 | William Gallo

Posted on 09/01/2017 7:25:34 PM PDT by McGruff

A freak accident almost led to disaster on Wednesday when a brake malfunction caused a woman's car to nearly collide with President Donald Trump's motorcade on a highway in southern Missouri, police say.

Trump was returning from a speech on tax reform in Springfield when a white sedan emerged from a wooded area, plowed down an embankment, and headed directly for the presidential limousine.

The car stopped about 10 meters (30 feet) from Trump's limousine, which sped by unharmed with the rest of the motorcade. Video posted on social media showed a woman emerge from the car, seemingly distressed at her accident.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: trump45; usss
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To: McGruff

Perhaps a rush to a conclusion?


21 posted on 09/01/2017 8:01:45 PM PDT by Maudeen (This world is not my home.)
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To: McGruff

What they have NOT explained is why these two women were in a car that was parked in a WOODED AREA.


22 posted on 09/01/2017 8:03:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: petitfour
Has anyone released the name of the woman? And the passenger?

No, but I have their police mugshots.


23 posted on 09/01/2017 8:06:23 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: McGruff

Very Interesting...


24 posted on 09/01/2017 8:07:23 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The car’s motion in the video looks pretty odd to me. Where was it coming from? It doesn’t even look like it was on a road. What was it doing in the woods?

Biggest oddity: To me it looked like the ditch would have stopped it. Or at the very least slowed it much more. It looks to me like it would have had to accelerate to make it through the ditch and onto the road. Just my opinion eyeballing it. I think if someone took some measurements and made some calculations we’d have a better idea.


25 posted on 09/01/2017 8:07:28 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: McGruff

Did anyone film them towing this vehicle away?
This story stinks on ice for anyone who watched the video
Google map showing how that car even got into the woods would be illustrative


26 posted on 09/01/2017 8:21:03 PM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: McGruff

SS better be all over this.


27 posted on 09/01/2017 8:21:36 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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To: McGruff

That’s pretty good driving by hillbilly standards, and a car in above-average state of repair.


28 posted on 09/01/2017 8:32:19 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: McGruff

Sure, no intent. Except there was no road there and it was nowhere near any designated store exit. Nope sorry, ain’t buying this load. We went over all this the other day with satellite views of the area.


29 posted on 09/01/2017 8:38:30 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: generally
See here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B014'22.0%22N+93%C2%B014'55.9%22W/@37.2394444,-93.2506135,584m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d37.239451!4d-93.248862, then click on 'Satellite' (lower left corner of map) to make sure you are looking at view of actual terrain and not just a map illustration.

This was a test run to gauge reaction or some such. NO WAY was this a coincidence. NO WAY. Not a single FReeper is dumb enough to believe it was.


30 posted on 09/01/2017 8:40:56 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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To: Paladin2

Besides the parking brake, one can turn the ignition off and let the engine decelerate the car, once it slows enough jam it into Park or Reverse. I think if I were headed towards a busy highway with cross traffic, I would spin the steering wheel and hit anything else rather than ram into cross traffic.


31 posted on 09/01/2017 8:43:10 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: so_real

https://imgur.com/a/XpVOO

https://imgur.com/a/HwOOm

https://imgur.com/a/f9BS1


32 posted on 09/01/2017 8:46:16 PM PDT by johnk (faithful with little....)
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To: McGruff

Wow...yeah watching both videos and looking at where it was on google maps there was no way this was an accident. The car was where it shouldn’t have been. It emerged JUST as POTUS limo was passing. Looked to me like it was going full force and luckily they miscalculated the dip...probably ripping the brake line and/or other damage.


33 posted on 09/01/2017 8:50:17 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Paladin2

Don’t late model cars have dual braking systems, where one front wheel and the opposite rear wheel are on one line, and the remaining two wheels on the other. If one line fails, there are two remaining wheels with brakes. IIRC, my 81 VW Rabbit had that. Diesel with 5 spd. stick. Sweet car.


34 posted on 09/01/2017 8:50:36 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: McGruff

The Deep State is testing to see how close they can get a car bomb to Trump’s motorcade.


35 posted on 09/01/2017 8:53:21 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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To: Paladin2

Timing. That’s what nags at me. It’s just too pat. Would the police lie and cover up?/S.


36 posted on 09/01/2017 8:54:40 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: McGruff

ON second look it appears that they probably were in the Bass pro call center parking lot, lost their brakes, and came out of the woods down the road from the retention pond or whatever it was. But wow...


37 posted on 09/01/2017 8:57:32 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: McGruff

Gun without safety nearly goes off killing errant driver.


38 posted on 09/01/2017 9:00:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: McGruff

O.K., She made it across the waterway. What caused her to stop where she did, and not continue out onto the highway? Engine quit? Bust something crossing the waterway? What? The POTUS’ limo is built like a tank. Had she actually collided with it, there’s no way she’d injure him. If she did have ulterior motives, she hatched a stupid plan to do something about it.


39 posted on 09/01/2017 9:04:59 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: Tucker39

Since after the 80’s at least.

This report is total BS by totally unknowledgeable individuals.


40 posted on 09/01/2017 9:06:18 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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