Saturday, July 7, 2007

Type 2 Mickey Rentas Jr.

List 5 ways to effectively communicate with other drivers

  1. Hand signals
  2. Directionals
  3. Lane position
  4. Head lights
  5. Back lights

Type 1 “accident opening danger”

My overwhelming thought on the statement was that of a surreal and cringing truth. To me it’s scary to believe. In relation to the video, they both go hand in hand. They both talk about crashes-and there being a lot of them.

Type 1 three new posts

Fatal 95 Crash Kills N.H. Man

(WBZ) WALTHAM A Nashua, N.H. man was killed Friday night, when police say he lost control of his vehicle on Route 95 North in Waltham.

Two lanes of the highway were closed for several hours after the 8 p.m. accident. The entire road was closed for a short time.

Thomas Cibotti, 66, was the only person in the car. Police say he was traveling at a high rate of speed, when he lost control, veered from his lane, and went airborne. The car flipped over another car on the Route 20 on-ramp, then hit a tree.

Police say Cibotti was not wearing his seatbelt, and was thrown from his car. He pronounced dead at Lahey Clinic in Burlington.

(© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

I’m sure how fully comprehended of the article I am, but I do believe that they’re trying to make a point of or about the man not wearing his seatbelt. They aren’t coming out and saying “this man died because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt” , but the way that it’s one of the last things provided, really makes you think about the whole seatbelt situation.

Pa. woman is killed in I-91 crash

By PATRICK J. CROWLEY, Reformer Staff



Tuesday, July 3

DUMMERSTON -- A single car crash on Interstate 91 Monday morning claimed the life of one woman and sent another to the hospital in a helicopter.

Diane Dupre, 64, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., was killed in the crash, state police said. Reiko Hockensmith, 70, of Camp Hill, Pa., was airlifted by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (D-HART) helicopter.

Though a press release from Vermont State Police said she was taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and police later confirmed that she was taken there, hospital spokespeople could not find Hockensmith's name in their system. Her condition remained unknown as of Monday evening.

Hockensmith's car, a 2000 Toyota Solara convertible, was traveling southbound near mile-marker 13 in Dummerston when the car left the road, heading through the median and briefly into the northbound lane, according to the press release.

Lt. Rick Hopkins, commander of the state police barracks in Brattleboro, said it appeared the car then overcorrected, rolling into the median again and resting on its roof.

Dupre was pronounced dead at the scene by Assistant Medical Examiner Archer Mayor. Police said

It doesn’t really talk about the cause of the accident other than the lady was just driving the car. Although, it does say “the car left the road”, which I think shows a case of something going wrong with the car or the car had a mind of its own and (not liking its owner) tried to kill her. The first one is more likely.

Identity of crash victim is released

By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN, Reformer Staff



Saturday, June 30

BELLOWS FALLS -- Police on Friday released the name of the driver who died after being pursued by a group of police vehicles early Thursday morning.

Douglas Kinney, 32, of Claremont, N.H., fatally shot himself in the head just south of Charlestown, N.H., and crashed his white, 1991 Chevrolet Sports van, according to New Hampshire State Police.

According to state police, members of the Bellows Falls Police Department answered a call at about 2 a.m. from a 17-year-old female who claimed that she was being stalked by a white van.

She claimed the van had made several passes while she was walking through the Square downtown.

When police arrived on the scene, the van appeared again.

The Bellows Falls officers tried to stop the van, according to state police, when Kinney drove across the Vilas Bridge into New Hampshire.

Kinney headed north on Route 12 and the Bellows Falls department was joined in the pursuit by state police and Charlestown police vehicles.

Speeds never exceeded 60 miles per hour, state police said.

"There was no attempt by law enforcement to force the van of the roadway and at no time was there any contact between the cruisers and the van," according to the state police press release.

Kinney's van crossed the southbound lane, struck the guardrail and rolled down a steep, wooded embankment, state police said. Officers found Kinney dead in the van with a gunshot wound to his head.

The incident was investigated by the Bellows Falls Police Department, New Hampshire State Police, Charlestown Police Department and the Sullivan County Attorney's office.

Although this article touches upon 2 very scary subjects: Creepy dudes, and crashes, one must not overlook the traffic safety portion of this article. You know that portion, at the very end, briefly touched upon. The article doesn’t even say if he was wearing his seatbelt or not. Way to be concise.

Type 3 graduated licensing Mickey Rentas Jr.

Just like any other place in America, in Vermont we drive cars to get places. And just like any other place in America, Vermont is always getting new future drivers. The way Vermont prepares those future drivers with the skills they need to full time operators is through the GDL law.

What the GDL law is all about is reducing the amount of crashes and injuries on the roads. It is to help teens learn, understand and use the right driving behaviors. The way it works is that as teens try to acquire their driving licenses, they have to go through steps of pre-license stages. The stages are a permit stage, a junior-operators license and finally a driver’s license. Each step has a set amount of goals that must be certified and validated before you can go to the next stage.

I like the Graduated Drivers License law; it’s a great way to prepare future drivers for driving on the road. Without the law, there would be a greater amount of 1. Fatalities due to crashes and 2. Crashes themselves. But that’s not saying that I think that they should make it harder. I think it’s good the way it is.

2 comments:

scottyevil said...

To the author of this post.....I hope you rot in hell!!! For you to know nothing about the person you are writting and in the end to call him a "creepy dude", I can sincerely wish upon you the same horrible circumstances which fell upon Doug. As one of my earliest childhood friends, I write this to honor his passing and celebrate everything that made him worthy of respect primarily in his passing. Read the information below, understand what he did to serve you and your country then think twice about the person who allows you the freedom to call him a "creepy dude"!!!
Douglas Michael Kinney, 32, of Palmer Street in Claremont, died Thursday morning, June 28, 2007. He was born in Claremont, NH on July 21, 1974 the son of Herbert Nelson and Judy Emelda (Rowe) Kinney and had resided in the Claremont and Unity area all his life.

He was a graduate of Stevens High School and received credits in the service to earn an associates degree.

He served his country in Iraq, with the US Marine Corp and was discharged in October of 2006 as a Corporal and received four medals, Overseas Expedition Medal, National Defense Medal, Presidential Unit Citation and Global War on Terrorism Expedition Medal. Thank you for being my son, brother, father and uncle, for being the person you were for all of us.

The surviving family includes two sons, Logan Kinney and Kaleb Kinney both of Claremont; his mother, Judy Kinney; two sisters, Chantel Thibodeau and Melissa Ayotte all of Claremont; one brother, Jeffrey Kinney of Lebanon; his maternal grandparents, Wayne and Ida Rowe of Charlestown; five aunts, one uncle, aunts, uncles and cousins.

He was predeceased by his father, Herbert N. Kinney in 1983 and his paternal grandparents, Merrill and Ida Kinney.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday morning, July 3rd at Ten O’clock in St Mary’s Church with Rev. Father Shawn M. Therrien, Pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in St Catherine of Siena Cemetery in Charlestown.

The Stringer Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street in Claremont is in charge of arrangements.

To view an online memorial, send a message of condolence or for more information visit, www.stringerfh.com.

Unknown said...

Your example is one of the evidences that van drivers are really 'folk devils'. I still can't imagine how they dare to behave themselves on a road so madly. It seems that man and van are nightmare on roads. It is true that a van man is now most often viewed as a mobile thug – a dangerous threat to the decent, right-thinking, motoring majority.