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Date:         Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:56:37 -0800
Reply-To:     Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Canadian tires
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On 1/19/07 5:41 PM, "David Marshall" <sales@fastforward.ca> wrote:

> I just drove from Kamloops to Vancouver with some all seasons on a Syncro > Transporter with a 1.8t engine in the bed - no real issues at all and there > was LOTS of snow. Drive at a respectable speed and you are set. > > > > We probably would, but Iıve seen too many fatalities on that highway. I donıt > drive it all that often in winter, but almost every time Iıve driven to > Kelowna Iıve passed a fatal accident., on the Coq or the Connector. Itıs > gotten so I donıt even like heading up there anymore; Iım cautious, but itıs > the other guy that scare hell outta me. Just last year I came upon on accident > just this side of the toll booth ­it had just happened. The highway was pure > ice. This truck driver comes up to me and asks me if I know first aid (some) > and leads me to this smashed in SUV. The driver is leaning over, towards the > passenger door, and his head is opened up. I took his pulse but nothing. His > wife was standing there in the blowing snow trying not to freak out. The three > of us stood out there in a blizzard waiting for the cops and an ambulance, and > there were so many near-misses on that stretch of highway. People are insane. > This guy died because he booted it try to pass a low boy, spun out and smashed > in the side of the cab of his SUV on the back of the truck bed.


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