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"Coyoteboy" <coyoteboyuk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Wickeddoll mumbled incoherently to the rest of alt.autos.toyota:
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>> "mark_digital" <976-XXX@comcastnot.com> wrote in message
>> news:BPKdnYaKWtYuhV7YnZ2dnUVZ_qarnZ2d@comcast.com...[color=darkred]
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>>> "Wickeddoll" <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:epth58.3go.1@news.evilcabal.org...
>>>>A little snow, a lot of morons:
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>>>> [url]http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=253508[/url]
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>>>> There were lots of assorted idjits on our roads, but the SUV/minivan
>>>> drivers were the most dangerous and arrogant. It was all I could do to
>>>> keep from being slammed by those jerks!
>>>>
>>>> Natalie
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>>> Yesterday a grain hauler rolled his truck over on I-91 spilling it's
>>> contents and blocked traffic for two hours. The news report said the
>>> police were not going to charge him. The only thing I can figure why not
>>> would be if he told them some little crap box cut him off and there were
>>> other witnesses driving large cars bias against small vehicles.
>>> Pure speculation on my part. The higher one sits for driving, the
>>> smaller
>>> everything else appears. And confidence level increases. Oh my. Have I
>>> finally stumbled upon why people drive SUV's?
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>> That's what I mean - bigger vehicle, smaller rationale.
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>> Natalie[/color]
>
> No, and you cant tar all people with the same brush - thats rediculous and
> infantile. I drive a large SUV and as mentioned below I drive it with more
> care and attention than my "normal" car. You cant group people by car and
> throw accusations any more than you can group them by skin colour. Maybe
> the driver had a blowout. Maybe he was cut up by some other vehicle but
> no-one caught the plate, large or small? Theres innumerable reasons for
> not
> pressing charges, and to assume that a truck driver not being prosecuted
> must mean a conspiracy against small cars is nearly as far fetched as
> filming the moon landings in a studio. You only dent your case with such
> arguments.
>
>
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> J[/color]

Before you get your jock in a twist, please read what I said in a previous
post.

There were plenty of careful drivers in vehicles of all kinds, but the ones
that made me gasp were always in AWD cars/trucks. This happens every time
I'm in bad weather, and I know you've seen it too.

The vehicles themselves are great - wish I had been able to afford one back
when my children were little, but I couldn't at the time. I had a
craptacular Subaru Loyale wagon for a while, but it was a roll of the dice
to keep that thing running, so that didn't work out. However, when it *did*
work, it was waaayyyyy better on bad roads, so I don't blame people for
having them. They just need to consider that the rest of us can't react as
easily to hazards as they can. Again, not blaming the car, blaming the
operator. You can't tell me what I've seen, and obviously others have seen
it as well. People do get overconfident in AWD vehicles, and endanger
others in the process. Not *all* AWD drivers - probably not even most. But
I'm telling you, the ones who did so yesterday here, were AWD vehicle
operators.

Natalie