Post #224,939
9/16/05 12:12:37 AM
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Interesting coincidence...
...as I watched about a half dozen cars and 2 very large trucks tangle immediately in front of me and the wife (in the new car), while raining on the NJ T-pike.
I was travelling and some 80 mph when I saw the first one start ping-ponging around about 100 yards up.
Behind me was many many autos and one very large fuel tanker.
I braked...HARD...narrowly missing the pickup on my left that was the last one to bump fenders...looked back...and immediately moved as close to the accident as possible and was missed by about a foot by the idiot trucker that saw his opening on the right and decided that he could pass this fray at 50+.
I was supposed to go on a boat ride around Manhattan. An accident on southbound caused the rubberneck that caused my near death experience.
We had dinner in New Brunswick...fabulous 4 star meal...waited for the closed southbound TP to reopen...and here I am.
Whee!
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #224,941
9/16/05 12:21:14 AM
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Keep that rabbit's foot clean! Glad you're OK too.
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Post #224,947
9/16/05 1:39:31 AM
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(rain.. 80 mph.. ... Juan Manuel Beep at Nurburgring?)
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Post #224,983
9/16/05 11:00:08 AM
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Its the New Jersey Turnpike.
Driving under 80 is dangerous.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #225,037
9/16/05 2:17:19 PM
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Funny thing about toll roads...
...seems that the speed limit is pure fiction. And for good reason: if you're gonna pay that much, you wanna get off of it fast!
Same rules here on the Ill Tollway: Go 55 and die!
jb4
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Post #225,041
9/16/05 2:22:34 PM
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Official limit is 65
Unofficial cruise speed when it is 3 or more lanes is 75 in the slow lane.
What created the issue for my little "experience" was someone late in braking...it was a bit slick and they "panic braked" and lost control. From there...its sort of like watching an accident on a restrictor plate track in nascar.
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Post #225,052
9/16/05 3:11:00 PM
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Re: Official limit is 65
I appreciate that Tpke Rulez limit one's options.. (depending on what the penalty is there - for dropping to 65 in Slow lane, when the rain squalls limit visibility to x car lengths. Do many have car guns?)
So then, it's a Tpke-full of Fangios, but without remembering his Attention! reminder (most of whom dunno WTF he was).
Your description suggests another argument for ABS - the less physics-ept the driver, the more that complex gadget is Worth lots more than the 18-speaker Boson multi-channel driver-distractor. While a Pro can outbrake the transistors on decent surfaces; in oil-slime, etc. it's priceless.
I'm sure you know what alt. routes there are (or aren't). All I know is - if this is the way it Is on that Tpke, even with obvious weather afoot - methinks I'd opt for eschewing the Keystone Krashers that day, with any alts. at all.
Luck,
moi
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Post #225,055
9/16/05 3:21:51 PM
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use the turnpike or take the train, no other routes :(
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Post #225,058
9/16/05 3:25:26 PM
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Don't move back east, my friend
lest you become a shut-in.
The alternates are worse...much MUCH worse.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #225,118
9/16/05 9:12:15 PM
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Indeed. Boston --> Miami gave me a taste of that Tpke :(
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