{"id":8105,"date":"2011-03-04T08:19:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T12:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2011-03-04T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:28:23","slug":"dont-text-and-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/dont-text-and-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t text and drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few images sent along by Dave Carr:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I90_Montana_accident1\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident1-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident1-480x285.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks like the guardrail did its job here, keeping the SUV out of the ditch, right? Well, not quite the way the traffic engineer <em>thought<\/em> it would:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I90_Montana_accident2\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident2-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident2-480x357.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ripped the guardrail off the posts like a ribbon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I90_Montana_accident3\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident3-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I90_Montana_accident3-480x357.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the real story from D.R. Stinson:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t caused by texting. This was a college student from Washington state headed east to school a couple years ago as I recall. He got started late and had been driving too long. He was tired and fell asleep at the wheel. As lucky as he was that day, he should have bought a lottery ticket. He walked away with nothing more than dirty laundry. If you know Montana, it&#8217;s on I-90 just north of Deer Lodge, in the southbound lane. I drive through there dozens of times a year, and it always comes to mind when I go past it. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few images sent along by Dave Carr: Looks like the guardrail did its job here, keeping the SUV out of the ditch, right? Well, not quite the way the traffic engineer thought it would:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[111,688],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-cars","tag-montana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-26J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8110,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}