One of the videos on the news tonight was of an SUV, tag # ccz7335, being swallowed by a sinkhole in Detroit, Michigan. Now,if the car had been parked and a sinkhole just appeared then I would feel sorry for the owner but it is obvious the driver of the SUV made some stupid decisions. For one, common sense says never drive into standing water but people do it all the time. If one is lucky they get through but in case they can't, the best they can hope for is a flooded out car but sometimes there are swift currents that carry the vehicle away and sometimes the driver becomes trapped and even drowns.
Second thing one notices is the part of the payment is sticking out of the water. The concrete is high enough it is clearly visible. Another obvious thing is that the driver was not paying attention to what was in front of the vehicle. Talking on a cell phone or texting perhaps?
The third thing one notices about this incident is that the divider mnarkings on the road are clearly visible, a solid yellow no less, but the SUV is clearly straddling the line. Actually it is almost completely in the opposite lane.
Somehow I doubt that the driver sees where he did anything wrong.
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