[Spridgets] Hang up and drive, Pt 4

[corvallis at peoplepc.com]

Around the first of the new year, Oregon has outlawed cell phones while
driving. Sorry about your losses. ...bill in oregon
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-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Soave
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:50 PM
To: Spridgets
Subject: [Spridgets] Hang up and drive, Pt 4

So...we have:
1) Mom's totaled Mercedes, 2007
2) My best friend's mom, Doreen Cassidy, killed 2007
3) My truck rear-ended

and....
4) My truck essentially totalled today 

all by people (of a single gender, I may add to inevitable abuse) on
cellphones. Today's episode in stupidity involves me on a one lane road in
my F-150, 50 feet downstream of a 4 way stop, I go to make a right into the
dentist office parking lot, and she decides to pass me ON THE RIGHT, ON THE
GRASS and t-bones my right front wheel with associated damage to fender,
door, bumper, etc. Not a glancing blow, but a t-bone. The comment from the
other driver as the officer wrote her citation after citation was, "well, I
was going straight and he turned right." 

And I had a cracked tooth, to boot. Everyone's ok, thankfully.

Looking at a new tow vehicle.
Ron
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