tdrive2 wrote:
This is dangerous???? Everyone else is going 120-130? 50 over? Who are you endangering? You want to go 310 on a 3 lane highway with no one else on it. It's your choice if you can kill yourself and crash head on into that huge concrete slab separating you between the oncoming traffic.
That is probably why every vehicle at that speed is not arrest for Dangerous Driving and impounding the car until the outcome of the trial.
As many don't know......if you are arrested under the HTA, which 172 does fall under, the car can actually be seized until the disposition of the case....which could be months!!
The problem with collisions...where to start:
- damage to vehicle
- damage to another vehicle
- damage to property (poles, barriers, trees etc..)
- cost of EMS per injured person
- cost of fire response
- cost of police
- cost on health care system (ER)
- cost on health care (rehab/physio)
- lost wages of injured
- cost of towing
If highway closed and serious injury/death
- cost of diverting traffic
- cost of loss of commerce
- cost of MTO crew
- cost of reconstructionist
- cost of technical traffic collision investigators
- cost of coroner
- cost of autopsy
- cost of funeral
- cost of Post Traumatic Stress to anyone that has viewed this event
PLUS everyone else's insurance rates INCREASE as per collisions in your area
PLUS....a NEEDLESS loss of SOMEONE's LOVED ONE!