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Dying for the light to change
I just can’t figure it out. Why don’t we ever read about people dying while waiting for the stop light to change? While sitting in my car waiting, I did the following calculation in my head: There are probably 25 or more major stop lights in Davis where there probably are at least four cars, averaged over the day, waiting for the light to change.
That means 100 or more people sitting there all the time. So you would think that at least one of them would die every year. But I’ve lived in Davis for many years and never read anything in The Davis Enterprise about anyone dying this way. The obituaries never list this as the cause of death.
I was in Sacramento last week and they must have 25 times more stop lights with twice as many people waiting at them, so there must be at least one person a week dying there while waiting for the light to change. Yet there is nothing in the Sacramento Bee about it.
Could this be some huge government cover-up encouraged by lobbying from the USSR (Union of Stop Signal Replicators)?
Robert Walraven
Davis
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