jimharri
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Too late; you mentioned him.Not to mention Joe the Plumber.
Too late; you mentioned him.Not to mention Joe the Plumber.
I have probably driven more than 500 different makes/models/types of vehicle and whilst I may have been unfamiliar with the handling of the vehicle I have NEVER had an issue with speed. It's ALWAYS been obvious where the speedometer is, and whilst your average speedometer is not entirely accurate they ALWAYS over-read so if the needle says 45kph you can guarantee you won't be breaking the speed limit in a 45kph zone.
"Accidentally" pressed the wrong pedal and suddenly ended up doing nearly twice the speed limit? I though he was driving an SUV, not a Ferrari.
Ha, i couldn't deny you that !If I was the twat a lot on here think I am, I'd have got my own private island in the Caribbean just off of you!
Not buying it.I don't think anyone's questioning if he knew where the speedometer was.
The black box data from the car shows he depressed the accelerator peddle 99% in the seconds before the crash, and never hit the brake pedal. So either he was suicidal or he hit the wrong peddle.
He was driving an SUV with a 3.5L V6 that does 0-62 in 5.5 seconds and would do 45mph to the speed at which he hit the barriers (85mph) in roughly 3 seconds on a flat road.
Not buying it.
Most vehicles have a fairly similar pedal layout and it's nigh on impossible to mistake the accelerator for the brake pedal, even un an unfamiliar vehicle...UNLESS you are mentally impared.
the suicidal suggestion is interesting.I don't think anyone's questioning if he knew where the speedometer was.
The black box data from the car shows he depressed the accelerator peddle 99% in the seconds before the crash, and never hit the brake pedal. So either he was suicidal or he hit the wrong peddle.
He was driving an SUV with a 3.5L V6 that does 0-62 in 5.5 seconds and would do 45mph to the speed at which he hit the barriers (85mph) in roughly 3 seconds on a flat road.
There have been 14 other accidents at that spot and they've changed the road and built in a run off for cars that are going too fast and that's where he would have ended up if he hadn't hit the wrong pedal.
Its not suspicious, its not salacious, its just a 50 year old dude driving an unfamiliar car on a dangerous road and making a mistake that results in 16000 traffic accidents a year in the USA and thank goodness no one else got hurt and Woods is relatively OK.
Mentally impared.And yet it happens to 16,000 people a year in the United States alone.
Its a known phenomenon with people doing research into why it happens to otherwise perfectly fine drivers when they panic.
You can just Google pedal error and see its a very real thing.
Agreed along with a medical episode that is not always easy to diagnose if you recover from it quickly as some do.And yet it happens to 16,000 people a year in the United States alone.
Its a known phenomenon with people doing research into why it happens to otherwise perfectly fine drivers when they panic.
You can just Google pedal error and see its a very real thing.
A Tee break?Okay; this is getting out of hand now. So we'll have a break for a few hours.