Home of my favorite campground, "Country Roads". Hard to believe New York City, where I've lived nearly all my life, is in the same state as most of the rest of NY.
Posted on 10/08/2018 7:04:14 AM PDT by ETL
Home of my favorite campground, "Country Roads". Hard to believe New York City, where I've lived nearly all my life, is in the same state as most of the rest of NY.
I’m 64 and one of those guys that brakes at the last minute. My wife commented on me making people nervous at intersections. And then I noticed just a few months ago that people often inch forward at an intersection when I come up behind them. It wasn’t until then I realized that I am probably scaring the crap out of people that think I’m not going to stop.
I’ve owned 34 cars in my lifetime and I’ve never had a brake failure over well over a million miles - until this chevy truck. And some vehicles were decades old when I traded them in or junked them.
I was on the phone with the chevy dealer when I started typing. They are going to replace my lines for only $770 labor. It pays to live in small town America.
I’m driving the truck to the dealership on Saturday,11 miles away, with NO brakes. I’ll try to get the emergency brake working...
Fortunately I’m in a rural area and can time the intersections, and the traffic is very light.
And some of the reviews are horrendous.
SAFER Layout
Entity Type: CARRIER
Operating Status:
ACTIVE Out of Service Date: None
Legal Name: SHAHED HUSSAIN
DBA Name: PRESTIGE LIMOUSINE CHAUFFEUR SERVICE SARATOGA LUXURY LIMOUSINE HASY LIMOUSINE Physical Address: 776 SARATOGA RD GANSEVOORT, NY 12831-3233 Phone: (518) 306-7663 Mailing Address: 776 SARATOGA RD GANSEVOORT, NY 12831-3233 USDOT Number: 3180110 State Carrier ID Number: MC/MX/FF Number(s): DUNS Number: -- Power Units: 3 Drivers: 2 MCS-150 Form Date: 08/29/2018 MCS-150 Mileage (Year): 3,500 (2017)
I pretty much wore a seatbelt all the time after I bought my first car, an MG Midget, but it was cemented for me when I was getting my degree, doing clinical training in a hospital.
I was a young guy, and an an attractive young woman was brought to me in a wheelchair for an exam, seemingly unharmed except for her face.
Her lovely face had a sutured laceration that went from above her right eye on her forehead all the way down to her chin, and a sutured tranverse laceration that met up with the vertical laceration on her right cheekbone, and went diagonally across her face, across her upper lip, ending up on her left cheekbone near her left ear.
The horrible thing to me, still inexperienced, was the appearance of the sutured wounds. The skin around them was swollen, purplish/reddish and puffy, with what looked like great big black sutures going top to bottom and side to side.
I don’t recall, but I suspect I may have been gaping at her, and without even having to ask her, she said something like “I wasn’t even wearing a seatbelt...I was going slow, about 20 miles an hour and rear-ended a car. My face hit the steering wheel before I could react, and it did this.”
I always wondered if they were ever able to do anything about those lacerations that looked like they were going to leave huge white scars.
But after that, never drove again without a seatbelt.
18 people in a limo rated for 18 — no room for error.
All large adults, heavier on average than that taken into account when the ratings were set (over heating the cylinders).
Brakes with thin pads (overheating the cylinders).
A very long and steep hill (over heating the cylinders).
High speeds (over heating the cylinders).
A somewhat careless driver (over heating the cylinders).
A T intersection.
A few major bumps up and down at the end.
A Ditch forming a flat, immobile surface.
A custom frame with little “crumple”.
No seat belts.
I’m surprised no one survived, but not very.
The other thing to do in a vehicle like that, one most people don’t do, is to downshift to a lower gear on a hill where the breaks would take too much wear, like second or third in that vehicle. IIRC I had a 2000 Navigator, a vehicle much like the Excursion, but shorter, and it had a 4 speed transmission.
Shahed “Malik” Hussain, whose undercover work for the FBI has been controversial, testified over the course of several weeks during the ongoing trial of four Newburgh men standing trial for a terrorism plot. Hussain’s role in that sting operation came under fire recently from defense attorneys who, during their cross-examinations of the government’s star witness, pried at Hussain’s finances, conflicting statements, murky background and his previously unknown criminal history in Pakistan. The case is on schedule for closing arguments this week. Meanwhile, lawyers for two Albany men convicted in 2006 of money laundering in support of terrorism said they are closely examining whether Hussain’s testimony in the Newburgh case is in conflict with his testimony at the trial in Albany four years ago. They say the government never disclosed the fact Hussain had been arrested twice for murder in Pakistan. The government said they couldn’t confirm any details, but haven’t said what they actually knew in 2006. The New York Times has followed the Newburgh case and had an interesting story about a portion of Hussain’s testimony last month.
Was he the driver or company owner?
I think the owner. I think the driver has been identified as a man named Scott Lisinicchia.
From one of the comments under the FoxNews article at the top...
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Local media outlets report this info....
Driver: Scott Lisinicchia, 53
Limo company: PRESTIGE LIMOUSINE CHAUFFEUR SERVICE
776 SARATOGA RD. GANSEVOORT, NY 12831
Owner: SHAHED HUSSAIN
The driver had an Italian Name.
I think the owner. I think the driver has been identified as a man named Scott Lisinicchia.
Thanks. I posted my previous before seeing your post (131).
BREAKING NEWS: NY Governor says limo in crash that killed 20 failed an inspection last month and was not supposed to be on the road.
From one of the comments under the FoxNews article at the top...
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Local media outlets report this info....
Driver: Scott Lisinicchia, 53
Limo company: PRESTIGE LIMOUSINE CHAUFFEUR SERVICE
776 SARATOGA RD. GANSEVOORT, NY 12831
Owner: SHAHED HUSSAIN
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From RubyR's earlier post...
Oh boy -- google Shahed Hussain in that Albany-Saratoga area. Lots going on.
Shahed “Malik” Hussain, whose undercover work for the FBI has been controversial, testified over the course of several weeks during the ongoing trial of four Newburgh men standing trial for a terrorism plot.
Hussain’s role in that sting operation came under fire recently from defense attorneys who, during their cross-examinations of the government’s star witness, pried at Hussain’s finances, conflicting statements, murky background and his previously unknown criminal history in Pakistan.
The case is on schedule for closing arguments this week.
Meanwhile, lawyers for two Albany men convicted in 2006 of money laundering in support of terrorism said they are closely examining whether Hussain’s testimony in the Newburgh case is in conflict with his testimony at the trial in Albany four years ago.
They say the government never disclosed the fact Hussain had been arrested twice for murder in Pakistan.
The government said they couldn’t confirm any details, but haven’t said what they actually knew in 2006.
The New York Times has followed the Newburgh case and had an interesting story about a portion of Hussain’s testimony last month.
Breaking where? Link?
Somebody’s getting sued.
And somebody’s going to jail.
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