Subj : Re: Dash cams
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Tue Jan 12 2021 06:10:54

  Daryl wrote --

>  JM>   People are in their own little cocoon and oblivious to the outside world.
> 
>   That might have been what happened to me on Thursday.

  Glad to know you are ok.  A bit shaken up but able to move on your own.
  I've been involved in a few accidents over the years, never my fault.
  When I was in produce, 15 years of driving, I was hit three times I can
recall.
  Two were while I was stopped at a light.  Hit on the left side by a woman
in a VW who wanted to make a left turn but I was in her way.  She "didn't
see me".
   Another time a couple of women with several dogs loose in the car who
rear ended me, again at a light, and pushed me into the car ahead of me, and
that one into the one in front of it.
   There were a couple more but don't recall off hand.
   Never hurt and the company van didn't need repair.  (Some damage but the
boss pocketed the insurance money).
   There was a time or two there were near misses with squealing of tyres
and quick reactions.

> head on, with the vehicle that hit me (it had a portable trailer in tow) careening into a power pole.

   I recall seeing the aftermath of a car pulling a Airstream trailer that
made a too tight exit off the freeway, the trailer tipped and rolled along
the freeway a distance, till it had completely disintegrated, with the items
scattered all over the place. 
 
>   My radio was OFF at the time of the wreck, and the cellphones were in
> the passenger seat, but out of my reach.

  When I was on my big trip in '19, my phone was on the passenger seat or
the console, close at hand if I wanted a snap of something.
  Usually by the time I stopped, got the camera working and all whatever it
was that got my attention was done and/or gone.
  It was on the seat so if it rang I could glance if important or not.
  Joe
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