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Strange...the inside of the van must be full of stuff. If not, then there is something going on in their brains. The driver is charged with reckless driving and driving without a license.
I was behind a van on the freeway, going about 75 mph and the king-sized mattress on top went airborne. It went at least 40 feet up and several cars collided while avoiding it. But the van kept on going and the driver may not have been aware of the loss until reaching a destination. Someone suggested to a State Cop that he call ahead to have the van stopped (no one got the license number). He said,"What should I say, to look for a van that no longer has a mattress on top?"
This caused a severe accident on the NJ Turnpike last year that killed the driver of a tanker, which exploded in a fire that shut down the whole highway for hours. Multiple mattresses piled on top of a truck or van of some sort and not tied down properly, one or all (can't remember exact details) fell off and the truck overcompensated when trying to swerve out of the way, went off the road and flipped over, which almost instantly caused the massive fire and explosion.
I hate driving behind people with items precariously perched on top of their cars, especially when they're driving a speed which I think is too fast in anything other than the right lane. It's negligent to drive on a highway at a fast speed with items not property secured on your car. This woman who died/the driver and anyone else who does it are reckless and IMO negligent. It sucks when others have to die for a third party's stupidity.
I believe in the NJ case the driver of the car which lost the mattresses was either charged or somehow held accountable otherwise for this.
This stuff about brain not being fully developed before 25 years of age has been misused too much.
Even my not-yet-3-year old kid knows you dont touch things that have been just taken off the gas stove, and that you need to be careful while playing on the edge of the bed. A 20 year old should know better.
"Rates of death by injury between ages 15 to 19 are about six times that of the rate between ages 10 and 14."
This happened not too far from where I live. Because it was local, it was on the news everywhere you turned. The sheer stupidity made me cringe then, and still does, a week later.
I actually stopped a high school kid from sitting on top of a driving suv down in Miami once. I told him that my brother (FF) scrapes people like him off the concrete almost every week...
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