Monster Truck Crashes Into Crowd In Dekalb Thursday, Augustt 9, 2007 19:13 CDT DEKALB, Ill. -- A monster truck performing stunts in front of an auto parts store veered into a crowd of spectators Thursday, injuring at least nine people, officials said. Three adults and six children were taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb At least one person refused medical treatment...

... can't be charged with it. It also looks as if the allegation of excess speed was not substantiated to the satisfaction of the jury. All that we know for sure is that the cyclist veered into the path of the motorbike. The motorcyclist should have anticipated that this might happen, and failed to ride defensively, but failing to anticipate that someone else may do something stupid or ...

... motorist or motorcyclist would have expected that, faced with the obstruction, the cyclist would have just cycled into it, morphed through it, or just stopped dead. Who would expect veering, especially sharply? If he's like the fuckwit cyclists I see, they pull out without even bothering to look what is behind them. You're even taught in cycling ...

... truck in the 60's? No idea, but I well remember their Moskovich cars from about that period. They got banned from the roads here after some government department did tests on them and found that they all had a braking defect which caused them all to veer away from a straight line under braking. And on full lock the tyres rubbed the brake pipes. -- Tony the Dragon

... <tony.dragon@btinternet.com> writes Are the 'Tired' was that not a Russian truck in the 60's? No idea, but I well remember their Moskovich cars from about that period. They got banned from the roads here after some government department did tests on them and found that they all had a braking defect which caused them all to veer away from a straight line under braking. -- Clive

... link failure. I was following a Transit van on the M4 a few years ago when it suddenly veered hard left across one lane (fortunately without hitting anything) and acros the hard shoulder where it bounced onto its two nearside wheels as it hit the bank. Then it veered hard right across all three lanes until it bounced off the crash barrier. But then it carried on...

... I also expect that the actual cause will be nothing that's been mentioned by the media so far. Temperature probe - yeah - right. Very unusual in my recollection for a (young!) a/c to veer away catastrophically from a dead engine in good conditions on t/o. Implies something very bad happened, and of course you're right - it would be a chain of events. Reminds me of the Concorde....

... he said. Can you provide links to prove what you've now claimed several times without proof? Fod To quote Brimstone from a few months back. "A squadron of pigs in tight "diamond nine" formation fly across the City of London, up The Mall and over Buckingham Palace veering off to land in Hyde Park where they await their next mission over Catford." -- Tony the Dragon

... board, an inquest has heard. Air traffic controller Kevin Carey today gave evidence he received two alarms indicating the Piper Cheyenne aircraft on route from Bankstown Airport in Sydney had veered 7.5 miles off its path before crashing into a ridge northeast of Melbourne on July 28, 2004. Mr Carey said it appeared the aircraft was making a safe approach to ...

... on board, an inquest has heard. Air traffic controller Kevin Carey today gave evidence he received two alarms indicating the Piper Cheyenne aircraft on route from Bankstown Airport in Sydney had veered 7.5 miles off its path before crashing into a ridge northeast of Melbourne on July 28, 2004. Mr Carey said it appeared the aircraft was making a safe approach to ...