[PRCo] Re: Braking Systems and ACCIDENTS

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Fred Schneider wrote:

> We all recognize that the young know they will live forever, and the
> elderly have somewhat different thoughts on the word perpetual.   Our
> teenagers can drive at 90 miles per hour because they will never get
> hurt.   And I too will admit to finding out how fast my dad's Mercury
> would go when I was 17.   I think I chickened out at 103 and then I
> feared that somehow he would find out.    How does this relate to
> trolley accidents?

I got a minivan up to 115 on route 60 in Beaver County. These days I keep 
it below 100.

> was an infant industry.   Late on evening of August 13, 1896,
> Pennsylvania Traction Company had a rather bloody accident at Laurel
> Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Pa., in which an 18 foot bodied closed car
> was rolled ass over tin cup.  There were at least 68 people on the
> car if the sum of dead and injured equals the total.  It came down

But over 100 bodies were found, some apparently buried to a depth of 
several feet from the impact.

Sorry.

Derrick