CdM is in love!

[Eddie Teach]

To get to the point half a mile away from your car, you first have to start from the point right next to your car.  During that window, you're a goner in an accident.

Elevated risk for 5 seconds vs. slightly less risk for half an hour.

[DGuller]

Ok, another Google search.  The term is "motorist in broken down car killed".  I only looked through the first two pages.  Only one person was actually killed inside the car, and that was when the truck crashed into the car, and it was in Britain (so it could've been a car smaller than anything a typical American drives).  Most of the rest were killed when they were near their car, with the rest being murders.

[grumbler]

Unless  you order scrapple.

  Wish I'd said that.

[alfred russel]

I would guess that most people aren't so crazy to sit in their cars while on a highway. 

[Eddie Teach]

Unless it's "rush hour".

[grumbler]

I would guess that most people aren't so crazy to sit in their cars while on a highway. 

That all depends.  If you are on the DC beltway and break down, your chances of living to cross the road are pretty small, so you should stay in the car with the emergency blinkers on, and wait for the cop to come along in five minutes or so.  If you are on the Pennsy Turnpike, five miles from any junction, you'd be better off getting out of the car and well off the road.

With cell phones, breakdowns are much less of a hassle/danger, because you can immediately call for help.

[The Brain]

I would guess that most people aren't so crazy to sit in their cars while on a highway. 

That all depends.  If you are on the DC beltway and break down, your chances of living to cross the road are pretty small, so you should stay in the car with the emergency blinkers on, and wait for the cop to come along in five minutes or so.  If you are on the Pennsy Turnpike, five miles from any junction, you'd be better off getting out of the car and well off the road.

With cell phones, breakdowns are much less of a hassle/danger, because you can immediately call for help.

You mean update FB.

[Ideologue]

There was a guy the other month who crossed I-126 in front of me on foot at night.

Super-illegal, but somehow I avoided killing him.

[grumbler]

You mean update FB.

Well, I'd update Fireblade after the event, for sure.

[The Brain]

If Quebec had been a stand-your-ground state she would have been fine.

[CountDeMoney]

I would guess that most people aren't so crazy to sit in their cars while on a highway. 

That all depends.  If you are on the DC beltway and break down, your chances of living to cross the road are pretty small, so you should stay in the car with the emergency blinkers on, and wait for the cop to come along in five minutes or so.

And if you can't use you blinkers, you should always have flares  or a reflective red triangle in the trunk.  Some are even available to mount on your car.

[CountDeMoney]

No question that it is extremely stupid to stop in the left lane, and no question but what the woman is negligent to a degree, but the negligence of the motorcycle rider, particularly with his daughter on board, seems to me to be the greater.

So how does negligence on part of the victim work in Canadian law, then?  I mean, other than being ignored?

[Barrister]

No question that it is extremely stupid to stop in the left lane, and no question but what the woman is negligent to a degree, but the negligence of the motorcycle rider, particularly with his daughter on board, seems to me to be the greater.

So how does negligence on part of the victim work in Canadian law, then?  I mean, other than being ignored?

Well Quebec and the civil code is a bit funny (which means fuck if I know), but in the rest of Canada you absolutely do have contributory negligence, so you can find the victim 75% responsible, but that still means the other person pays out 25%.

[mongers]

Also the accused is rather attractive.

Ah, that's the crucial data point we've been missing up until now. 

[Razgovory]

I do wonder if she would have been convicted in the US or even tried.