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Re: The Need For Speed....

>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:10:58 -0400
>> Subject: The Need For Speed ... or Everything In Moderation

>> I am told that this is a true story!!  Make of it what you will.

>> The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal
>> embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex
of >> a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but
it >> was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.  The
lab >> finally figured out what it was and what had happened.

    Although amusing, this isn't true. There is no "Arizona Highway
Patrol". The state police agency is the Arizona Department of Public
Safety. When this story surfaced on Compuserve's Law Enforcement Forum,
an Arizona DPS officer pronounced it a pure "urban legend". When a
co-worker of mine, an accident reconstructionist, saw this he ran the
numbers through his equations and found nothing worked out.      Bob
Kegel '70 2002