Facts of the Case On May 28, 1972, Mrs. Gray, accompanied by 13-year-old Richard Grimshaw, set out in the Pinto from Anaheim for Barstow to meet Mr. Gray. As she approached the Route 30 off-ramp where traffic was congested, she moved from the outer fast lane to the middle lane of the freeway. Shortly after this lane change, the Pinto suddenly stalled and coasted to a halt in the middle lane. A car traveling immediately behind the Pinto was able to swerve and pass it but the driver of a 1962 Ford Galaxie was unable to avoid colliding with the Pinto. The Galaxie had been traveling from 50 to 55 miles per hour but before the impact had been braked to a speed of from 28 to 37 miles per hour.
Later that evening, when Marcus and Lucia go back home to Los Angeles to finally reveal to their parents their upcoming plans Bradford finds out that the man who towed his vehicle turns out to be the father of Lucia and that they are soon to become in-laws. Miguel Ramirez and Bradford immediately start arguing and start again with the racial insults the moment they see each other. When Marcus goes to Lucia’s family’s house for brunch, he meets Lucia’s grandmother for the first time the family purposely does not tell her grandmother about Marcus’ ethnicity. When Lucia’s grandmother sees Marcus’ face she lets out a shriek and fall flat on her back in astonishment. Mister
My sister started driving at 15 with no license, but I my parents made it very clear they didn’t trust me with the car like they trusted my sister. When I turned 15, I begged my parent’s to let me to go take my learner’s permit test with no such luck. Frustrated I did something I did not even know I was capable of doing. I took the car without permission, not to mention it was like my first time driving. I picked all my friends up trying to showing off.
This driving test I would spend was the time when I felt that there was nothing in my mind, but fear and anxiety. At seven o'clock, I was present at DMV. I realized that I came an hour earlier than my driving teacher did. After one long stressful hour, my driving teacher arrived with his bored and unhappy face, and said: " OK, we still have forty five minutes before the test, get in the car, I will show you all the streets that you might drive in the driving test.". "Remember, Ms. Ngan, you must not drive over 40mph on this street, you must turn on the signal,…".
The day on Sunday Nov.14, 2004, little did they know, would change their lives forever. Kevin and Alex were off to church leaving his wife and three children home. Church was over and they were one the way home when Kevin pulls out in front of a car, that he did not see coming at the intersection. Kevin was thrown out of the car and was lying in the ditch Alex was still in the car unresponsive and not breathing. The firefighter who went to Alex knew not to move his head so he placed his hand on little Alex’s chest to see if he was breathing, when he realized he was not, he began to pray over him.
Homecoming Book Review Jacob Lemm 4/18/11 Jacob Lemm 4/18/11 Homecoming, set in the early 1980s, tells the story of Tillerman siblings Dicey, James, Sammy, and Maybeth that their ages are between six and thirteen. The novel begins when the Tillerman children find themselves alone in their car, some miles from their home, in a shopping mall parking lot in Peewauket, Connecticut. Momma had driven them away from home, saying that they were going to visit her Aunt Cilla in Bridgeport, Connecticut. At the mall, she parked the car and walked away, instructing the children to do what Dicey told them. 13 year old Dicey Tillerman, and her brothers James (10), Sammy (6), and sister Maybeth (9), lived in a wooden house out in the dunes in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Background This is a review of a mutually agreed whiplash settlement for which I provided legal representation for Mrs. Vida Johnson, Plaintiff; whose car was involved in an accident on 2013 December 20, with a Delivery Truck Driver, employed to the Metro Mart Retail Corporation. On the date in question, my client, who was 72 years old, was driving her 1978 Mazda 322 Motor Car in transmit to her home from Metro Mart. Resulting from traffic congestion associated with the Christmas holidays, my client was forced to come to an abrupt stop in reaction to driving conditions ahead of her, when the rear of her car was struck by Metro Mart truck. On exit from her vehicle, to assess if there had been any damages done to her car, my client became aware of pain in her neck and shoulders. She was subsequently taken by police to the Bay’s Regional Hospital, where X-rays were ordered for her skull, neck and dorsal spine; which revealed that there were no abnormalities to the areas that were examined.
Her car is now what appears to be a pile of scrap metal. She had run head on into a white minivan. A mother was driving her two sons home from school, one who was five, and the other who had just turned ten. Now, they are all dead. When Julie stepped into her car just eleven minutes earlier, she did not expect to kill an entire family.
Jennifer Beltran Professor Hawley English 101 28 October 2013 Hybrid vs. Fossil Fueled Vehicles As I drove to work today the gas light came on, I pulled over to the gas station to fill up my gas tank. Normally my boyfriend is the one in charge of filling up the car. When I finally arrived at Quick Shop and saw how much gas cost, I was shocked. Although gas prices have been going down since the government shutdown, I was extremely hesitant in filling the gas tank all the way. Last month the average gas price was $3.54 per gallon, today gas is averaging at $3.04.
2011 cars Driving distracted Dangerous texting and cell-phone use is widespread, our survey finds T he 911 call went out about a minute after Sarah Edwards received her last text message. In January the 18-year-old highschool senior from Chocowinity, N.C., was reading that message when her 1988 Honda Accord drifted across the center line of a rural two-lane road and into the rear tires of a loaded logging truck. She died instantly. “She never looked up,” said her mother, Tracy O’Carroll, remembering the words of the truck driver who made the call. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has called distracted driving a deadly epidemic.