Highway terror: Women's pleas unanswered by CHP

[benEzra]

Since the discussion has morphed into defensive driving techniques, my favorite way to deal with a pursurer is get him behind me and then slam on the brakes. If he has airbags he now has a face full of hot plastic and with any luck I drive away with rear end damage while he's dealing with a smashed radiator meaning in about two minutes he has an over-heated engine. Only for a seriously scary situation, of course.

And only if you're not driving any model of Ford with an inertial fuel shutoff switch.

 

[BigRobT]

I agree with dialing 1911. But disagree on the next statement. The police are paid by you, the taxpayer, to do their job --- part of which is protecting the taxpaying public.

Now back to the story ===> with drivers of equal and above-average abilities the Infiniti should leave the older-model Jeep Cherokee in the dust. Also, the passenger should be the one on the phone so that the driver can concentrate on the driving. But who knows, she may have been so panicked or the passenger was mute.

Moonclips, as Meplat stated, there have been numerous courts opinions on this issue of police protection.They have all stated that the police are not there to protect the individual, just the gerneral public. Here is a reference:
http://www.rkba.org/judicial/no-police-protection

Not very many people have ever taken a evasion type defensive driving course. I wouldn't have wanted to be in their shoes at the time. A gun may have or may not have diminished the situation. It sure would be tough to fire a round accurately at 70-90 mph. Let's not even consider the other vehicles , drivers & passengers along the roadway with rounds being fired and where those rounds are going.

 

[R.H. Lee]

I dunno. If it were me, I just take an off ramp when he was ahead of me. What's he gonna do? Stop and backup on the freeway? Even if he did, I'd have some distance between us.

 

[engineer151515]

Didn't Katrina teach EVERYBODY!


You are on your own. Period. End of sentence. Until or unless help arrives, you are absolutely relying on your own resources, planning, training and experience to survive. The police are not REQUIRED to respond to an individual plea for help.


I'm sure a lot of anti-gunners would convert if they ever got this fundamental fact through their head.

 

[No_Brakes23]

Since the discussion has morphed into defensive driving techniques, my favorite way to deal with a pursurer is get him behind me and then slam on the brakes. If he has airbags he now has a face full of hot plastic and with any luck I drive away with rear end damage while he's dealing with a smashed radiator meaning in about two minutes he has an over-heated engine. Only for a seriously scary situation, of course.

You ever been rear-ended?

Although, I have seen one fictional example clos to what you are talking about. In the BMW film series The Hire the victim backs into the pursurers van at a low speed and disables their own brake lights as well as the vans headlights, which the victim then uses to lose the van on a canyon road. Lotta big ifs there though.

But shouldn't we keep defensive driving in the S&T forum?

 

[tellner]

She did a great job. A guy with a gun and a Jeep tried to kill her. She prevented it. What else need be said?