In your face gpsman

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpa...1977999410.xml

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The police chief said Chamblee will be cited after an investigation is
complete. He stopped short of saying Chamblee was tailgating but said
he did
not have his vehicle under control. "He caused this accident," Loicano
said.
"He will be charged accordingly because of his negligence."

Speed not a factor

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gpsman wrote:
> Arif Khokar wrote:
>
>>http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpa...1977999410.xml
>>
>>[ ... ]
>>
>>The police chief said Chamblee will be cited after an investigation is
>>complete. He stopped short of saying Chamblee was tailgating but said
>>he did
>>not have his vehicle under control. "He caused this accident," Loicano
>>said.
>>"He will be charged accordingly because of his negligence."
>>
>>Speed not a factor
>
>
> "Speed not a factor" is a sub-headline (hence the lack of punctuation),
> not a reference to the latest crash and the primary subject and reason
> for this story. The writer goes on to explain that reference is to the
> speed limit which was apparently raised sometime in the recent past.
>
> <q> Speed not a factor
>
> All of this year's accidents involved pickup trucks, Loicano said, and
> he warned that Causeway police will scrutinize the way trucks are
> driving.
>
> "They cannot tailgate. They must be focused," he said. "They have to
> pay special attention" because they are larger, higher vehicles. "We
> will pay special attention to them."
>
> The chief noted that four such accidents have occurred since 2000. He
> said the raised speed limit is not a factor, noting that both vehicles
> in Tuesday's crash were traveling well below the speed limit. </q>
>
> As you can see the police chief seems mostly concerned with
> "tailgating" which, by definition, consists of following too closely
> for one's velocity. A safe and "assured clear distance ahead" is
> always relative to velocity.
>
> Nice try though.
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>
> - gpsman
>

What do you mean "nice try?" this sounds very similar to the incident
you classified as "speed related."

nate

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Nate Nagel wrote: <brevity snip>

> What do you mean "nice try?" this sounds very similar to the incident
> you classified as "speed related."

I... have classified no crash as "speed related".

I... merely pointed out in that thread that IMO the CHP was correct by
classifying the crash as "speed related" **in accordance with CA law**.

Arif evidently found the phrase "Speed not a factor" in a news report
and misinterpreted that to mean another somewhat similar crash in a
different state 1000 miles away was determined to not have speed as a
related factor.

The law is probably certain to vary from state to state and a crash
exactly like SD Dave observed might be found to be unrelated to speed.
But in CA, it wasn't.
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- gpsman