Date:         Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:17:33 -0500
Reply-To:     Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon crash looked vey ugly
Comments: To: gary hradek <hradek@yahoo.com>
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It's very important that people realize that driving is not a cavalier
activity.  Our physical environment suffers because traffic engineers
are trying to find ways to work around the attitude that car
accidents, speeding, and wreckless driving is inevitable.  Common
sense saves our lives, the environment and could hopefully put the
junk science of traffic engineering to bed.  More pavement, straighter
roads, more engineering are not always the answer and they have their
own costs (I drive of course, but I also cycle, spend a lot of time on
foot, and think that more pavement kills our communities).

It's always a tragedy when something like this happens--don't get me
wrong.  But I think that frequently people who wouldn't live next to a
toxic waste dump, don't smoke, and are generally otherwise cautious
with their lives forget all caution when they get behind the wheel.
It just doesn't make sense.

Slow down--you'll get there.

Donald Baxter, 85GL (probably the same color as the deceased)
Iowa City

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:46:57 -0700, gary hradek <hradek@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Stay awake, stay off the phone and stay alive.
> Hope it was not someone from the list.
>     sympathies to the wife, gary
> Newlywed man dies in crash as wife watches
>

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Donald Baxter
316 Ridgeview Avenue
University Heights, Iowa 52246
http://www.mindspring.com/~onanov