On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:14, Gonz wrote: > My sister-in-law is a nurse and once she was called late at night due > to a bad accident. A family of four lost three people due to the > driver trying to avoid a raccoon crossing the highway and running > their car off the highway and flipping it. >
A general rule of thumb I read on a motorcycle-based mailing list once was: "If it is small enough to eat in one sitting, it is not worth the danger of swerving to avoid it". I tend to stick to that rule when things dart out in the road in front of me - and haven't hit anything yet (thank goodness!) Don't know for sure where a raccoon fits in that rule, actually. Some of them are pretty big. I think I'd rather go through it than flip the car/motorcycle over, though! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
