At 09:37 PM 6/21/2012, Robert Stevens wrote: >Some testimony to rethinking the idea of leaving >the van in gear … but then, this "appears" to be a case of Some testimony to doing what you were taught when you learned to drive, and always turning your wheels in toward the curb...even if there isn't one. The same sort of thing happened in Providence years ago, except it was an idling bulldozer doing street construction that went a tenth of a mile downhill straight through two active intersections during lunch hour and ended up against the wall of the Episcopal Diocese house without damaging anything. Driver may not have set the brakes, but he certainly aimed it straight. Cat D8 or summat. Yrs, d |
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