<html><head><base href="x-msg://82/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Actually, for any given attention level, a rear-end collision always means that following too closely was a factor - if you can't stop, you are by definition too close.</div><div><br></div><div>Glad to hear Wim is okay though. Gotta ask though Wim, as you brought it up, what took your attention away?</div><div><br></div><div>Only one time did I ever rear end a car. It was on a residential street when a parked car that jumped out in front of me and stopped just as I was looking left at a very attractive young lady walking down the sidewalk Many years ago. Learned my lesson well. Now I never hit parked cars while looking at pretty women.......  ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Mike Kurta wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">    Wim:  May I suggest that following too closely to the car ahead might have been a factor?</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">    Mike Kurta, RPT</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">    (yea, Crystal Lake)</font></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="tnrwim@aol.com" href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:53 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[pianotech] Accident</div><div><br></div>I just rear ended a car on the freeway. All I did was look away from the road for second and the car in front of me was on top of me. I slammed on the brakes but I hit it pretty hard.  Fortunately no one is hurt. But I have major damage to the front end of my car.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Sent from my iPhone=</blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>