SPEED LIMITS ON TOLL ROADS....IF I PAY TO DRIVE ON YOUR ROAD SHOULDN'T I BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE NAKED WITH MY CONVERTIBLE TOP DOWN IN THE LEFT LANE?

Lana812 wrote:


Hell, all lanes... don't limit the sexxxy just to the left lane!!!

SPEED LIMITS ON TOLL ROADS....IF I PAY TO DRIVE ON YOUR ROAD SHOULDN'T I BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE NAKED WITH MY CONVERTIBLE TOP DOWN IN THE LEFT LANE AT ANY SPEED I DESIRE?

GingerSlut wrote:



hmm, what a well thought out and applicable article, I agree totally useless


Cleveland's Dead Man's Curve not going to stop tipping trucks anytime soon (23-photo gallery)
Published: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 5:30 AM Updated: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 9:49 AM
By Aaron Marshall, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer

The Plain Dealer July 17, 2012: A load of metal coils sits on the eastbound lane of the Innerbelt just beyond Dead Man's curve. A truck dumped the load after rounding the curve, causing at least one SUV to crash and flip.
Dead Man's Curve: 23 of its familiar truck tips gallery (22 photos)


CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On Tuesday, the winding stretch of I-90 roadway -- famously known as Dead Man's Curve -- got another one.

Not another victim. Heck, fatalities are nearly unheard of at Dead Man's Curve. A veteran Cleveland police crash investigator knows of only two since the Grand Prix course-turned highway opened to drivers in 1958.

But an eastbound tractor-trailer took the curve too fast just after noon, and a load of metal coils spilled onto the roadway, which eventually sent an GMC sport utility vehicle flipping over as the driver tried to hopscotch to safety.

A tow truck had to be called for the SUV, the metal coils hauled away and traffic was snarled for four hours. You know the drill.

The accident was the 63rd at the curve involving commercial truck traffic since 2009, according to crash reports filed with the Ohio Department of Public Safety. Those wrecks have caused property damage more than half the time and caused injuries in at least 24 cases.

A check of the truck crash records for the curve show the usual reasons -- unsafe speeds, following too closely, improper lane changes. But what about the roadway design itself? Does a freeway where big rigs and others have to slow down to 35 mph really make any cotton-picking sense?

"We aren't police investigators. We don't know the exact causes of crashes but certainly speed played a factor in many of crashes, and unstable loads could play a factor in many," said Steve Faulkner, press secretary for the Ohio Department of Transportation. "I don't believe you are going to see a police report that says roadway design caused an accident."

In the next breath though, Faulkner acknowledged that the I-90 Inner Belt Curve -- ODOT officials get huffy at the "dead man" nickname -- is flawed and far below today's design standards. But just like Northeast Ohio drivers, ODOT officials are stuck with it.

"Would we build a road like that today? No. That design is no longer even valid," Faulkner said. "We wouldn't build the road using that kind of geometric measurement. I can't get in the head of the design engineer from back in the 1950s, but I can tell you that it met all of the guidelines and regulations at that time."

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