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* USA - Anti-Icing Goo Causes Ind. Crashes
Fort Wayne,Ind,USA -Layover/AP -7 Dec 2006: -- Anti-icing chemicals meant to prevent crashes were blamed for sending trucks and cars sliding all over the road after too much of the slippery goo was shot onto interstate exit ramps in preparation for a storm... Workers spread sand on the ramps to soak up the chemical and create better traction, said Robert Newgent, operations manager for the Fort Wayne INDOT subdistrict... The Transportation Department had the right idea. On Thursday, whiteout conditions on Interstate 69 about 20 miles southwest of Fort Wayne were blamed for a pileup of about 30 cars and trucks, Indiana State Police said. The crash caused minor injuries... * USA - Law? What Law? This is just hubris - arrogance gone wild
Chicago,Ill,USA -The Sun Times/Comment: Second City Cop -8 Dec 2006: -- City Hall has raked in more than $200,000 in fines from trucking companies over the last five months by having compliance officers in the Department of Consumer Services pull over trucks that appear to be overweight... Once again, a police function being carried out by civilians. First of all, this is a violation of State Statute - a rather LARGE violation. It certainly looks like someone from City Hall decided to get cute with compliance violations and tried to get away with what they could until they got caught at it. Secondly, this would appear to be a violation along the lines of the recent grievance won by the FOP when the City attempted to "civilianize" the security around Soldier Field for large events...
* USA - Endingly... 5 mysterious deaths at Texas truck stops worry drivers
San Antonio,TX,USA -Associated Press, by ELIZABETH WHITE -Nov 28, 2006: -- When two bodies were found in a rig at a truck stop on the well-traveled route to Houston, some drivers figured it was an accident maybe carbon monoxide poisoning... When another body was discovered there weeks later, they called it a mystery... But now that two more bodies have been found at two truck stops, they are getting worried... "You're scaring me now,'' said trucker Steve Fancher of Tulsa, Okla., when told of the grisly discoveries. "I'd better get on out of here.''... So far, investigators have not established what killed the five or whether the deaths are related. But police said they might have been victims of a bad batch of drugs... Jimmy Holguin, chief investigator for the medical examiner's office, said no causes have been determined in any of the deaths...
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