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   Wells Posted 1:30 pm
   22 Feb 2006

   Hummer vs SentraA few weeks back, on the 11: o'clock news, a startling video image of a traffic accident scene set off alarm bells.
   A newer Sentra had stalled and stopped on the shoulder of the ramp between I-205 north and I-84 east in East Portland. The shoulder there is narrow because it abuts a concrete wall which supports the 102nd Ave overpass. The Sentra was then slammed by a Hummer, perhaps a speeding and cutting the corner into the narrow but paved shoulder, perhaps not, I'm not sure.
   The accident scene first showed the Sentra in a state of complete demolishment, like a ball, crushed on every side and top, perhaps rolled between the support wall and the Hummer. The camera then turned to the Hummer. Not a scratch! Not a frikn scratch!
   Both passengers in the Hummer died; a husband and wife. They were on a cell phone to their son at the moment of the crash.
   Now that's an image, published alongside the child's plaything, that would be even more repulsive, but at least educational. Ya think?

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   Wells Posted 1:32 pm
   22 Feb 2006

   Correction !!!!!!Sorry Sorry Sorry !!
   Both passengers in the Sentra died.

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   jdhlax Posted 4:52 pm
   22 Feb 2006

   More Regulation NeededAlong with rights go responsibilities.  If people can't handle the responsibilities, they shouldn't get to have the rights.  Because people have shown that they will buy obnoxiously large vehicles that they totally don't need, we need regulations limiting the size and weight of private motor vehicles.
   
   Jeff Hoffman

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