The year of the truck, I guess
Regular readers know of the truck in the yard, a couple of weeks ago.
Our family had another close call with a truck last night. Son Brendan was driving home from work last night when a truck lost one of its wheels somewhere in front of him on Hwy 99. The car just in front of him saw the tire and swerved at the last second, but Brendan went over the top of the damn thing. He’s fine, but the undercarriage of his Focus is much the worse for wear. The car was not drivable, and it was leaking its little life-force away on the pave.
A quick search of a local news outlet confirms what my feeble memory recalls from this past summer: This story recounts 5 incidents of tires coming off trucks in the area, and one resulted in a fatality. Despite the likely loss of Kegel (Brendan named his car), we are feeling very lucky this morning.
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September 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Wow. Sorry to hear about your continued truck issues. Are you flinching on your bike every time a truck drives by?
Phil
September 26th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Thanks, Phil. I am not flinching at trucks in particular, but there have been several cyclist-truck incidents in the Seattle area, including a recent fatality involving a dump-truck. Between those, and the general anti-cyclist vibe around here lately I am checking the rear-view way more often that I used to.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Oh, please, do not ever tell me why your child named his car that. Thank-you.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
I thought that was the “stop light exercise”.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:18 am
So glad Brendan is okay. Scary stuff. Tell him next time to name is car something else. Those are girl exercises anyway…is he trying to tell his girlfriends something?
September 30th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Nice try John . . . I’ve been told, or so the story goes, that Kegel’s christening was a joint endeavor on Brendan’s & your parts!! Maybe its time to break another bottle of wine on her hood for a safe re-launching into the endless sea of highways
His girlfriend thinks its a great name thank you very much . . .
Cat