> > From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/10 Mon AM 10:27:58 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: PESO - Chicago Marathon > > > > I definitely dislike the last part of your story. I mean I absolutely do > > > not appreciate the attitude of the police w.r.t. that woman. > > > > Boris, you have to be at something like this to appreciate that it would be > > _impossible_ for the taxi to cross the runner stream without major pileup > > and injury of many, many people. It was probably quicker for the taxi > > driver to make the diversion than wait for the runners to thin out. > > I agree with you Mike. I think that if they really wanted they > could've arranged (with some time lost by the runners) to get the taxi > through. What if during the diversion the taxi would get stuck in > traffic jam?
At one point in our local event (50,000 runners) an ambulance had to go onto the running route to get at a casualty. It was travelling in the same direction, at the runners' speed, with all blue lights. Still, within half a kilometre, runners had collided with the back of it and had to have treatment themselves. This is a vehicle nearly 3 metres tall. How do you think a car, invisible to all but the runners in front, will cope? There would be thousands (literally) of people unable to stop, pushing into those in front. I suspect the car would be pushed over and many of those caught in the crush would be seriously injured. > > I suppose it is one of those cases when we have to agree to be at > disagreement ;-). > > I hope that the child was born properly and his/her mother did not > suffer unnecessarily. I think we can agree that there should have been proper awareness of which roads would definitely be closed for whatever reason, so that the taxi should not have been there in the first place. I certainly agree about the unfortunate couple needing hospital access. m ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
