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[Matty]

Just saw that. Sentence seems reasonable.

Been reading comments all over the media and people are split about 75/25 in defense of the "poor girl". Everyone's knee-jerk reaction fails to take into account the fact that the 30 in QC is a narrow "highway" with no shoulder to speak of - there is a concrete divider just two feet out. Makes her stopping in the left lane even less reasonable.

She's appealing the 10yr driving ban.

Fok her. Move to the city and get a bus pass you dolt.

 

[reno cool]

looks like two lanes and not a turn. Why was the motorcycle not able to avoid the idiots car?
Was he riding too close or was the car already stopped when motorcycle approached?

 

[bacon]

Talk about putting your eggs in the wrong basket, this shit is a quackup and there is zero chance it should fly. Nest case, your honor. This is all beakause she lacked common sense.

 

[MrX]

Seems about right to me. There's not much excuse for parking in the left lane of a highway, ducklings or no.

 

[MrX]

looks like two lanes and not a turn. Why was the motorcycle not able to avoid the idiots car?
Was he riding too close or was the car already stopped when motorcycle approached?

I think the car was already at a complete stop, which would be a pretty big surprise for the motorcycle.

 

[reno cool]

Doesn't it look like a straight road, he should see her from a long ways out?

 

[reno cool]

guess we cant tell if its straight because they're coming from photogrophers side

 

[Matty]

Seems very likely that the motorcyclist was distracted, but it only takes a very short distraction to end up rear-ending a stopped car.

Plus, swerving and emergency-braking on a motorcycle are not nearly as easy as doing the same thing in a car.

Sad story all around.

She's still the biggest idiot.

 

[MrX]

Yes, probably. I don't know the details. Could be that a car was in front of the motorcycle and swerved around the parked car, leaving the motorcycle little time to realize what was happening.

Could be that the motorcycle wasn't paying enough attention. The other motorcyclist that was following behind was able to stop.

 

[Cami]

How do oncoming drviers not realize the vehicle in front of you is stopped? She will serve her 90 days on weekends.

 

[bacon]

We NEED her posting in the what are you doing this weekend thread

 

[reno cool]

Weekends? 10 lashes with the knout I'd give her

 

[MrX]

How do oncoming drviers not realize the vehicle in front of you is stopped? She will serve her 90 days on weekends.

Meh. At highway speed, you could be right upon a car that is parked (no brake lights) on the road in a real hurry.

 

[MrX]

She also got 10 years no driving. That's probably the most important part of the sentence.

 

[Cami]

Yeah that's true, but at some point, one would think you'd realize the vehicle in front of you is getting closer....but as previously posted, don't know all the details.

 

[Cami]

She also got 10 years no driving. That's probably the most important part of the sentence.

agreed, I just find it...odd that she isn't serving her full sentence at once, but on weekends.

 

[Matty]

In Europe, they tend not to put up roadwork signs - they just line up orange cones diagonally to force people in the other lane. People hit these cones all the time. I saw two people do it while I was driving around Germany, and I nearly hit a row of cones myself in Poland. Mind you I was going a wee bit fast.

Anything unexpected is not good when you're going 65+.

 

[MrX]

Think about how often cars get smashed when they're parked on the shoulder with flat tires, etc. (it happens all the time).

Now move that parked car into the fast lane.