Motorist Gets To Work On Time

Found this sort of funny and sad at the same time.

http://chat.carleton.ca/~jnoakes/bike/motorist.html

Marty

Marty Wallace wrote:
Found this sort of funny and sad at the same time.
http://chat.carleton.ca/~jnoakes/bik...chat.carleton-
.ca/~jnoakes/bike/motorist.html
Marty



Not a joke, this actually happened.....

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pionee...tes/wisconsin-
/9016591.htm?1c

or

http://tinyurl.com/2377c

SUV travels road to ruin Damage by Twin Cities driver tops $80,000

Soon after a boy riding his bike was told to steer clear of freshly
poured concrete on a road-widening project between Stillwater and
Somerset last week, a Twin Cities woman drove her SUV around orange
barrels and churned though more than 1,000 feet of wet concrete,
according to authorities.

Her insurance company will be getting a bill for at least $80,000 to
remove and replace the damaged stretch of Wisconsin 35/64 roadway, just
north of County Road V, which was re-poured Friday, said Wisconsin
transportation officials and the project contractor.

The St. Croix County Sheriff's Department investigated the June 17
incident, Sheriff Dennis Hillstead said, but no charges have been
filed. The woman is not being identified because it was determined to
be an accident.

"I've seen it happen before, but nothing like this," said Jim Bednar,
project manager for SEH, a Rice Lake-based engineering firm. "Usually
when it happens, they drive 20 to 40 feet, not 1,000."

The woman, who had two child passengers in the SUV, drove onto the fresh
concrete despite road-construction signs, orange barriers and parked
construction vehicles, Bednar said.

The 9-inch thick roadway had been poured about four hours before, said
Bednar, and the bottom 4 inches had begun to harden. The woman continued
driving as the SUV sunk into the top 5 inches of the concrete.

"She must have put it in four-wheel-drive to keep going," he said.

Work crews didn't witness the incident, but when they returned later,
they called the sheriff and began looking for the vehicle. The boy on
his bike who had been told to stay off the wet pavement told them he saw
the driver and gave a description.

The driver was soon located, Bednar said, and she said that while she
did not stop initially, she planned to return to the scene.


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cfsmtb writes:

[...]

a Twin Cities woman drove her SUV around orange
barrels and churned though more than 1,000 feet of wet concrete,
according to authorities.
[...] The woman is not being identified because it was determined to
be an accident.

How to you accedently drive threw barriers and threw 1,000 feet of
concrete?

The boy on
his bike who had been told to stay off the wet pavement told them he saw
the driver and gave a description.

Yay for cival minded cyclestists.

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