| NeoTuri |
02-07-06 07:29 PM |
A losing kill? FD vs C5
I figured I could share this little story:
One day, I'm driving the FD down a 3-lane street which runs over a hill into an intersection about 1/2 mile away. I noticed a C5 that was getting kind of itchy but got caught at a red light one intersection back. A few moments later, I look up in the visor and notice the same car flying down the road trying to catch up with me. I pick up the pace a little and he's still coming in fast! We are the only two cars approaching the next intersection and I'm about to take a right.
The turn is one of those which takes a curved path rather than a 90deg bend, and I usually take this particular one pretty hard. There's 100% visibility and the lanes are still separated before they merge with other traffic. I do so and right when I reach the apex of the turn, the radar lights up. Just to be safe, I let off the gas and end up on the adjacent street at the posted speed limit (which was probably too fast anyway, but I maintain the speed to appear stable).
I'm assuming that the C5 saw no brakes on my part, and followed suit. He enters, exits and proceeds to do a fly-by (I did nothing as the radar was showing 8 out of 9 LEDs). After he passes me, a police cruiser waiting in traffic in the opposite direction turns on the light rack, rolls through the center ditch, races past me and pulls the vette over.
I guess he didn't have one.
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