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Posted by David of Broadway on Sun Jan 21 08:44:57 2007, in response to Re: He was in my class, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 21 03:06:29 2007. According to the Daily News article:A witness heard a screech of brakes at an intersection with all-way stop signs. Following this screech of brakes, Sean was propelled over 100 feet along Veterans Avenue. Yes, it's possible that the article is imprecise and the incident took place near rather than at the intersection. But it obviously took place closer to this particular intersection than to any other. Note the block lengths in question. Consider the five possible scenarios. Perhaps the driver was driving westbound and hit Sean east of the side street. That block is very short, and the only way to reach it is by turning off of U. If the car was going fast enough that, even after a screech of brakes, it could still propel Sean over 100 feet, then clearly the driver had no plan to stop for the stop sign. Perhaps the driver was driving westbound and hit Sean west of the side street. The point of the stop sign is to give the driver an extra opportunity to look at his surroundings. Had he looked then, he would have seen either Sean or a bus discharging passengers at a bus stop. Yet by the time he reached Sean, he was going so fast that even a screech of brakes would slow him down only enough to propel Sean over 100 feet. In other words, either he failed to stop at the stop sign or he accelerated very rapidly in a setting in which pedestrians are present or are likely to be stepping off of buses. Furthermore, if Sean had been coming from the south side of the street (the side with the buses), as he most likely was given where he was coming from, Sean had to walk across an entire lane before reaching the lane with the car (assuming the car was in the proper lane). Perhaps the driver was driving eastbound and hit Sean west of the side street. At that point he should have been slowing down for not only a stop sign but also a mandatory right turn. And, again, pedestrians are to be expected in the vicinity of bus stops. Perhaps the driver was driving eastbound and hit Sean east of the side street. In that case he was driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Whoops. Or perhaps, as the article states, the screech of brakes or the contact with Sean took place at the intersection itself, an intersection with stop signs in all legal directions of (motorized) travel. |
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