Back when I lived in Montana about 6 mi. S. of the Canadian border (long
before my Triumph days), one thing about the beautiful "Big Sky" state
always stuck in my mind... instead of posting any sort of speed limit,
they placed little white crosses by the roadway anywhere anyone died in
a highway traffic accident. Seeing a cluster of a dozen or so in a blind
corner was pretty effective discouraging speeding.
I wonder if they still do that?
A happy and safe New Year to everyone on the most helpful group on the
Internet!
Guess I'd better get back to work making the TR go faster!
Alan Myers
San Jose, Calif.
'62 TR4 #CT17602
(Safest passenger car in the world! ...whilst up on jack stands)
Arthur H. Smith wrote:
> For the HP road testers.
> =46rom the Jaguar e-mail list.
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> The following is the ENTIRE text of an article in the Tallahassee =
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> paper for Xmas Day, 1998:
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> MONTANA - State now has no daytime speed limit at all
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> The state's high court has taken the brakes off Montana's
> famous =
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> speed limit, or lack thereof.
> Montana lost the last vestige of a daytime highway speed limit
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> Wednesday when the Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional a vague
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> requirement to drive at "reasonable and proper" speed.
> The 4-3 ruling said the law fails to fairly warn motorists
> when =
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> they are driving fast enough to get a ticket.
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> Besides the obvious implications about driving fast, it seems to me =
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> that a couple of interesting precedents might be set. If you can't =
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> get a ticket for driving beyond "reasonable and proper" speed, what =
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> about charges of "reckless driving"? Does good judgement have no =
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> legal standing whatsoever?
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> Followed by:
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> We had a rather more substantial article in the Washington Post. The
> way=
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> it
> works is, because the law was struck, there is currently NO daytime
> speed=
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> limit at all. It is truly Montanabahn. But, the attorney-general is
> pushing
> the legislature to spoil it with a 75 mph speed limit. So get out
> there
> while
> you can.
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MZ
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