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Why You Should Not Run Stop Signs

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Well everyone knows it is not safe to run a stop sign but a lot of people do it any way. Well here is what can happen when you do run a stop sign.

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This used to be a GM 3500 utility bed truck. Amazingly the driver's worst injury was a broken leg. It took over an hour to get him out of the truck.

 

This is what he pulled out in front of....

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Damn, was this in your town?

It happened up in the northern part of the county that I work. Out in the country on a state highway. If he would have been a few seconds faster it would not have been pretty.

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Well maybe not a few seconds but a few milliseconds and the semi would have hit the driver door straight on instead of hitting the front fender. Either way he was/is one lucky SOB, stupid but lucky :cheers:

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Damn, was this in your town?

It happened up in the northern part of the county that I work. Out in the country on a state highway. If he would have been a few seconds faster it would not have been pretty.

 

 

Dang, that was nasty. The driver is one lucky SOB to be alive.

 

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I was in Brandon, MS on Sunday. We had a flat tire on the boat trailer coming up on exit 59 on I-20 West bound, and stopped on the exit ramp and changed the tire. I didn't have any hand cleaner with me, so I had to drive into Brandon to find somewhere to wash up. Ended up at the Shell station just across from the Law enforcement center.

 

I think that I-20 would be a great place to spend some of those stimulus funds. The west bound lanes before you get to Brandon are some of the worst I have driven on.

 

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