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DWOA (Driving WithOut Awareness)

We have several roundabouts in Ladera. I personally like them and think that they're better than stop signs. I haven't had a problem navigating them, but apparently others do. Case in point:

This morning I'm walking the dog, it's around 6:15-6:30, and I'm just around the corner from a roundabout. From up ahead, I hear a noise like a collision. So, Ginger and I jog up ahead to make sure no one is hurt. However, there's no car at the roundabout. The center of the roundabout is a circle of rough cobblestones with a landscaped center. Starting on the cobblestones, and continuing straight to the next street, is a trail of liquid. Gasoline? Water? I take Ginger to the center to look at it. A jogger passes by and jokes that we're on the wrong side of the road. I tell him what I heard, and he says that explains the white minivan that passed him, smoking. I look closer at the liquid and determine that it's oil. So, it appears that someone didn't see the roundabout, drove straight up onto it, ruptured their oil pan, and just kept on driving. They won't get far because it looks like all of the oil dumped out. How someone is that unaware while driving is beyond me.

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Posted at 07:19AM Jul 30, 2009 by Gary Kephart in General  |