assignment due 7/13

Find 3 news posts and do type 1 writings on each of them. These should be posted in your blog by Friday, 7/13. Aly Hewitt

BOSTON -- Two people die after a six-vehicle crash in Falmouth over the weekend, police said
The accident happened at the intersection of Route 151 and Sandwich Road around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to police, the driver of a Toyota 4Runner was speeding toward the intersection when it was struck by a Saab convertible. The 4Runner crashed into a Dodge pickup and two other vehicles, a fourth vehicle was hit with debris from the crash.

The driver of the Dodge pickup died at the scene, the two occupants of the 4Runner were ejected, found in the woods and flown by medical helicopter to a Boston-area hospital, one died at 4 a.m. Sunday, the second occupant was being treated for life-threatening injuries, as of noon Sunday.
Six other people suffered less severe injuries.

Response- If the first cara wasn't speeding through the intersection, none of this would have happened. If the occupants of the 4runner were wearing their seatbelts, they might not have been ejected from the car causing one to die and the other with life threatening injuries. This all could have been prevented with simply doing a 45 degree check and slowing down or using a legal stop, safety stop, or staggered stop.





2)
N.H. Man Sentenced For Crash That Killed Vermont Couple
POSTED: 1:16 pm EDT July 12, 2007
UPDATED: 1:41 pm EDT July 12, 2007

NEWPORT, N.H. -- A Swanzey, N.H. man has been sentenced to up to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty causing a car crash that killed a young Vermont couple last fall.
A judge sentenced Joseph Bailey, 24, to two seven to 14-year terms Thursday in Newport, N.H..
Bailey pleaded guilty to two counts of negligent homicide in the crash that killed 21-year-old Kevin Squires, of Guilford, Vt., and 18-year-old Kelsey Wells of Brattleboro last September

Bailey told police that the combination of being tired and taking heroin caused him to fall asleep at the wheel. His pickup crossed the centerline on Route 12 in Swanzey and slammed into the victims' car.

Response- This further demonstrates the common sense of not driving while tired and drowsy or under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. That Vermont couple would not have been killed if it wasn't for that man that just couldn't use his common sense. And he was using that as an excuse? Wouldn't that just make it worse? I mean, drugs aren't legal.



3) I couldn't find another report about car collisions anywhere!