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So why jump outta the car prior to impact..

Are we trying to avoid the airbag?
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I thought the one girl was going to get "pinched" between her car and the next one! Made me cringe. I cannot for the life of me comprehend the "bail-out" technique, and it wasn't only one person who tried it!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
....& the police were writing tickets?
 
Don't you think they should Tony? Maybe not all, but some of those people definitly deserved one, at least for driving like idiots!
 
I got it....

They were jumping outta the car to avoid getting a ticket.

Technically you wouldn't be driving at the time of impact if you were not in the car.....Right?
 
Mike - Don't know; however, I agree the ones who bailed out of their cars should get tickets...I don't know what caused them all to line up along the curb & bump one another & why the road wasn't blocked....bet there's gonna be some lawsuits (& a few aimed at the municipality)
 
I'll have to remember that one! But only for low speed fender benders.

Your Honor - I was not in the car at the time of the accident . . .

Hmmm - might not get very far with that arguement.
 
Talk about entrapment, eh Tony?
The bailers should be ticketed with "attempting to flee the scene of an accident"!
 
Or maybe cited for very poor Fred Flintstone impersonations - faulty equipment
 
Whoa!......Cool car Allen M.

What is a 140 TC engine?
Is that a tube/fiberglass car.

You should to introduce yourself & your ride on the other British cars forum.

I completely missed your link until just now.
 
I noticed everyone had their wheels turned to the left to try and avoid the next car, but I believe if they had turned to the right and scraped their front tire along the curb they might have avoided hitting the car in front of them. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
Good point mailbox!!

AllenM, that is a very cool and rare car you have there. Coming from Vegantune it should be quite a performer too. I remember them from their engine-building etc. when we were campaigning Formula C and B cars in the mid to late sixties.
 
I was thinking the same thing about the direction of the wheels. Had they turned the other way, they may have drifted into the snow bank and stopped the car. Or at least spun the car which may have put the wheels onto softer ground.

Notice a minivan drove down the hill without any problem by staying away from the curb, while another car was out of control.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]What is a 140 TC engine?
Is that a tube/fiberglass car.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the comments on the car! They made two engines for it the 140 TC (140 HP Twin Cam) and the 160 TC. Both were Vegantune's VTA engines. I think they also had a 170 TC version that wasn't offered in the cars but was developed later. That's what I'm working toward at this point - around 165 HP.

It is a tube frame and glass car - double wishbones and coilovers on all four corners. Don't know what the stock shocks were but it has fully adjustable LEDA's and slightly heavier springs now courtesy of the previous owner. The car was derived from the Lotus Elan. Vegantune started out converting Elans using their engines and frames and later decided to build the bodies too - making them a little heavier and reinforcing them with Kevlar. The name Evante was derived from Vegantune by dropping letters and rearranging them.

I've collected several old British car magazines. I'm planning on scanning them in and posting them on the website soon.
 
First, as for lawsuits, here is an Indiana law which is similar to laws in almost every, if not every state:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]A governmental entity or an employee acting within the scope of the employee's employment is not liable if a loss results from the following:...

(3) The temporary condition of a public thoroughfare or extreme sport area that results from weather.[/QUOTE]

Ind. Code Sec. 34-13-3-3.

Therefore, they can file all the lawsuits against the city they want, those suits aren't going anywhere.

Second, as for the bailing out- trying to find logic in that is nuts.

Third, it looks like some people were trying to get in the other lane, you can see their wheels pointed to the left, it seems that either they were just going too fast (I guess that's obvious), or, and most of those cars looked new enough to have them, they didn't keep the brake pinned down to allow the ABS to do its job, but even with ABS, if you are braking hard, in really slippery stuff, you cannot turn well as attempting to decellerate...but that graduare level snow driving stuff.

Finally, perhaps they were writing reports, not tickets, or the tickets were for "too fast for conditions"...which would be pretty hard to dispute.

Anyone know where this is from?
 
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