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Quick-Thinking Hero Saves Children by Pulling Hummer in Front of Speeding Car

Sep. 9, 2012 4:41pm Erica Ritz

Hummer Hero Darrell Krushelnicki Crashes into Speeding Car to Save Four Kids in Canada

(Photo: CBC News)

The “environmentally friendly” have targeted Hummers for years. The gas-guzzling vehicles are too loud, use too much energy, and produce too many emissions– but they also make pretty effective roadblocks.

At least that’s what Darrell Krushelnicki of Alberta, Canada thought last month after seeing a man speeding towards a group of children in a crosswalk.

After he realized there was a strong possibility of disaster, Krushelnicki risked his life by pulling his 2006 Hummer in front of the speeding car, which was estimated to be going roughly 50 mph in a 30 mph zone.

“I could just see…I just had the feeling that something bad was going to happen if something wasn’t [done] to stop that vehicle,” he explained. “There was really no one else, I just had to do it. I had to do what I did.”

Here is a news report of the incident, which also shows how the other vehicle fared:

The Huffington Post has the latest:

Krushelnicki made the front page of the Edmonton Sun this week and already has a fan page on Facebook: “Hummer Hero.”

Surprised by the attention his quick thinking has earned him, Krushelnicki told CBC that he doesn’t think he did anything extraordinary. “I don’t feel like a hero at all,” he said, “I believe anyone would have done that.”

The Edmonton Journal is reporting that in recognition of Krushelnicki’s actions, his insurance company will not hold him liable, even though he instigated the collision.

Police in Edmonton have since recommended Krushelnicki for an award, CBC reports, with police spokesperson Scott Pattison remarking that if not for the Good Samaritan, “We could have been talking about a very different story today, that involved potentially the serious injury or death of four children.”

MSN Now summarizes: “Forget the Batmobile: Apparently, real heroes drive Hummers.”

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Comments (91)

Rent A Yenta
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:53am
Who knew guardian angels drive Hummers?

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- Macman1138
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:18am
  The Hummer, a glorified Tahoe, was a loner.
  Guardian angels really drive Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty!
- routnom23
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:45am
  Macman, your jeep would have been flattened like a tin can.
  
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- Macman1138
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:05am
  ROUTNOM23,
  You keep telling yourself that.
  
  Have an interesting day!
  
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- bobdog19006
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:17am
  Thank God he wasn’t driving a Smart Car. It would have been totalled when it hit those paint stripes, and we’d be reading about an entirely different story today.
  
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- TexasHunter
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:58am
  BOB The smart car would have gone up in flames before it even got hit. That is the volt in action.
  
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- UBKidding
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:56pm
  Nothing like a Hummer. The lives it has saved.
  
  Hope we vote Obama out and GM will get out from under Government control and can create the Hummer again as there is nothing else like it.
  
  Imagine if this was a Jeep? Would have been torn in 2 and still would have killed the kids.
  
  Thank you to the driver and to Hummer.
  
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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:42pm
  Lets see what his insurance company thinks of guardian angels crashing Hummers into other vehicles. And lets see what the other drivers lawyers have to say about the guardian angel going off the rails to prevent something that he “thinks” “could have” “maybe” happen. Following the rational of the story, I could punch you in the face and say ” I had this gut feeling that you were going to attack and maybe kill me as you walk in my direction on the street.
  I believe the man took the correct action, but the lawyers are going to have a great time in court with this one.
  
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- slade37
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:02pm
  @Captain Crunch
  
  If you read the article, you’d know that his insurance is NOT holding him liable and will not increase his rates.
  
  Also, it’s fairly easy to tell if someone is driving too fast and showing no signs of slowing down. The reckless driver was going 50 when the posted speed limit is 30. There would have been less damage if the other driver had started to slow down. Follow the link about the insurance and there is a photo of the front of the Hummer – head-on. That bumper was moved to the side more than a few inches.
  
  Your analogy of punching someone would apply if you saw the person’s arm going up and back.
  
  It helps to read the entire article before writing comments. At this moment, I didn’t see anything about the other driver’s lawyers so you may still be right about that, but it will be like defending a drunk driver with an almost empty bottle of whiskey in his hand when he was pulled over and he offered a sip to the officer writing the ticket.
  
  I’m curious if he was texting or on the phone. …or did I miss that?
  
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- slade37
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:06pm
  OK… Video said he was on the phone.
  
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- sasquatch08
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:57am
  Pfft. Pontiac Vs. Jeep at this speed? The Jeep wins in most cases. A Wrangler might get flipped, but it’s not going to get “crushed”.
  
  My Rubicon would sustain severe damage and would probably be totaled out by my insurance but I would be alive as would the kids, my 1991 Cherokee Laredo survived a worse accident than this and was back on the road in weeks.
  
  Talk trash about Jeeps all you want, just don’t expect me to break out my recovery kit when you need help.
  
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Mickeyd
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:19am
Good to know there are still real men out there who give a flip. Thank you, Mr. K!

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valleyfever
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:58am
A Californian would have whipped out his cell phone and videoed the car hitting the kids.

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- Wilahelm
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:36am
  I am a born and raised Californian, and I would have done no such thing. Your assumptions make you look like an ASS! :)
  
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- laserblast92
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:45am
  The driver of the Hummer would have charged with assault in Kalifornia.
  
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- kindling
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 2:29pm
  Valleyfever has been cooking in his or her own sweat for a bit to long. When you talk about Californian’s acting like idoits please direct your comments to the Liberals that have moved to our beautiful state and turned it ugly. Those of us that are true Californians are the best. We want our state back from the whack jobs that have taken over Silicon Valley, LA and SF. I am thinking we need something like the electorial college here so every county gets a vote and not the coolaid drinking majority in 3 or 4 counties. We pray for a big quake that will shake the skum into the ocean and we can get back to farming and producing most of the oil and food for the country.
  
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- WardMD
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:23pm
  PROOF Obama ISN’T from California!
  
  He’d STILL be trying to figure out how the iPhone CAMERA APP works (while the kids got killed)!
  
  At least Obamacare would have covered their funerals!
  
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audiemurphy
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:43pm
Gotta love Albertans ! Canada’s version of Texans !
And he was probably insured by either wawaneessa or the cooperators and Canada is not nearly as litigious as The states so I would highly doubt any law suit other than the one his insurance company might file against the distracted driver who is really at fault .

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- gosutag
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:48pm
  You’re kidding right? A nice guy in Canada is considered like a Texan, and not just flat-out American?
  
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- dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:05pm
  “American” can mean a lot of things now, so you have to be more specific. Not many people in deep blue states would have done this, they would have blamed authorities for not stopping the disaster.
  
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Hickory
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:23pm
Sometimes ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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Cosmos102
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:20pm
May God Bless the Hummer Hero for his quick thinking, courage and sacrifice for others.

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swimologist
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:15pm
Well, sorry, Mike, not just ANYONE would have done it. Most likely it would have been a male– males who are better at judging speed, coordinating that to spatial relationship, don’t dither, and take immediate action. That’s why you don’t see women being successful at flying high speed fighter aircraft, racing cars or hitting homeruns in professional baseball.

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- addie
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:45pm
  Dude, it is NOT a male verses female thing! If you want to talk about dithering, the current MALE president is the king of dithering! Boys grow up dreaming of race cars and jets, girls dream of ponies and princesses, its only natural boys would gravitate towards those careers but it certainly doesnt mean they are better. Not enough female professioal to even render a scientific study. In this case, It IS however more about who is paying attention to thier suroundings, male or female!
  
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- trinklefinder
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:07am
  women dont play professional baseball….so HOW could they possibly hit a homerun? non-sequitur. does not compute! INCONGRUENT!!! try again swim.
  
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- trinklefinder
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:15am
  also, my female cousin races cars at the local track….she can also rebuild an engine. so what do YOU do? my cousin is a paramedic who DRIVES an ambulance. WHAT do YOU offer society swim?
  
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- Threeve_Texas_With_A_Dollar_Sign
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:16am
  Wow…women have been shown to be exceptional at flying military, both attack and lift, aircraft. Not only are their synapses nanoseconds faster than in men because of the general body build difference, but women have been shown to withstand g-forces as well or better than men.
  
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DoubleThrowDown
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:00pm
After all thee years I thought Bill Clinton was the “hummer hero”

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- Shasta
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:17pm
  nice
  
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Panix
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:50pm
The Pontiac was going faster than 80 km/h, Pattison said. When a crosswalk’s lights are flashing the maximum speed allowed is 30 km/h.

Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Police+praise+drove+Hummer+into+speeding+toward+kids+crosswalk/7188254/story.html#ixzz261Wc39Ho

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perry1980
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:26pm
good job hummer man

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TerryDo
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:01pm
Bravo to you Darrell Krushelnicki and a great demonstration of your innate knowledge, of the value of life over material goods. And another person you safed was the inattentive driver, who would have had the death of one, if not all four of those children..

And ‘Intact Insurance’ the postive advertisement from your action of a no charges to the repair on Krushelnicki’s hummer was a valuable move in many ways also!

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anOpinion
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:37pm
“The Edmonton Journal is reporting that in recognition of Krushelnicki’s actions, his insurance company will not hold him liable, even though he instigated the collision.”

He must not have Progressive Insurance,

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- Impudence
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:44pm
  Most, if not all, insurance policies exclude “intentional acts.”
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:23pm
oops.. wrong thread. i saw “hummer” in the title and though it was the sandra fluke story. my bad.

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- FstEti
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:35pm
  Hee, hee……..
  
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- REVerse
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:47pm
  *snickers* :-)
  
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- Yeah_Buddy
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:19am
  Sandra would need less free contraception if she drove more hummers :)
  
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- Enough is Enough__Oath_Keeper
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:25pm
  ROFL, That was great!
  
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DragoonChris
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:14pm
Darrell Krushelnicki, You didn’t save those kids…The government did. Without the government funded road you would not have been able to pull your hummer into the path of that distracted driver. Now to give you local bureaucrat the credit.

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- FstEti
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:22pm
  God, I love sarcasm……….
  
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- C.S.Patriot
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:00pm
  Are you sure that hummer was not built by Government Motors??
  lol
  
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hades3
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:20pm
Any red blooded guy would rather have a Hummer !

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- ScreaminEagle
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:47pm
  You can’t do that with an Aprius. Aprius, is that spelled right?
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:34pm
  @ Screaming Eagle
  
  Prius is the Toy(ota) green vehicle. And I’d be afraid to drive one out of my driveway, lest the potholes in rural Ohio cripple it.
  
  Oldsmobile: 4-wheel tanks FTW!
  
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RickTheLDSRocker
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:07pm
He is a quick thinking HERO!!! I’m not sure I would have thought that fast.
I salute him.

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Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:00pm
Chevy Volt would have burned up 1st.

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- Sparhawk
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:04pm
  And that would just be from hitting the gas pedal. The impact would have caused a battery explosion that may have hurt the kids anyway. j/k. This dude deserves an award.
  
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Thedadde
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:53pm
Hummers Smummers… did you know that the Earth, Yeah, you actually live on one of the planets, creates oil natually? They told US it was from dinosours. Really? How much oil would we get from a dino dying here,… or there… Really? Lies. Pretty much everything you know is a lie. Google everything you know is a lie.

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- Zipit
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:04pm
  Yeah boy, I tell ya! Them dang Chinese cars come in handy fer sumthin!!!!!
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:27pm
  Holy Cow Dadde. You’re not one of those who think Google is a truthful and honest search engine are you?
  
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- DragoonChris
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:08pm
  You didn’t pay much attention in science class, did you?? So here’s the skinny on oil. Over the course of hundreds of millions of years tiny sea creatures known as phytoplankton and zooplankton die and fall the to ocean floor…an oxygen deprived environment, so they do not decay in the same way that a terrestrial organism would. Next, as a result of plate tectonics, the ocean floor where these dead critters are resting gets subducted into the lowest portion of the earths crust, here they are exposed to high heat and enormous amounts of pressure…A process not all that unlike the production of charcoal. After several millions of years of this “cooking” the result is what we know of as crude petroleum, being a lightweight substance this stuff slowly filters into the upper reaches of the earths crust there humans can then extract it and make all sorts of awesome stuff.
  
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- TulsaYeeHaw
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:39pm
  Is that the “abiotic” theory of oil? I know the russians have taught it for years. They’ll go back to wells that were left down to 20 percents after a few decades, and they’ll be full again. Damn soviets.
  
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- C.S.Patriot
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:03pm
  Didn’t Al Gore invent oil?
  
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Kupo
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:48pm
Blaze metric system fail. He was going 80 kph in a 30 kph zone. Or 50 mph in an 18 mph zone.

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- Treaty
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:52pm
  18 mph zone? I mean, who even has those?
  
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- 82dAirborne
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:08pm
  Apparently Canada.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:42pm
  Well, it was also technically closer to a 49.5 mph zone than a 50.
  
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- bikerr
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 6:53pm
  It was the video that used metric. Blaze used English.Because several of you missed it here is the wording.—-After he realized there was a strong possibility of disaster, Krushelnicki risked his life by pulling his 2006 Hummer in front of the speeding car, which was estimated to be going roughly 50 mph in a 30 mph zone.
  
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- the_truth_or_not
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:04pm
  @ treaty,
  Really???… I dont know if you watched the news report, you may not have. They said that the distracted driver was doing 80 kilometers per hour in a 30 kilometer per hour zone. There probably was no sign that said 18 miles per hour, as in Canada, they use the better math scale of metrics. When you calculate 30 km into ASE, it is roughly 18 mph. If your car is one that is sold on both sides of the Canadian boarder and has an analog speedometer, look on the inside. there are numbers that dont reflect MPH, it is KMPH.
  
  And now for my comment.
  The Edmonton Journal is reporting that in recognition of Krushelnicki’s actions, his insurance company will not hold him liable, even though he instigated the collision.
  
  WOW!!! where do I get me some? An insurance company that understands in certain rare situations, you might need to create a crash for the better good? I bet they take care of their clients in much smaller more typical crashes as well.
  
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cdcats8
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:30pm
God’s blessings to this hero.

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762x51
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:07pm
Good thing he was in Canada, here the Marxist fascists in our government would have prosecuted him, unless he was here illegally.

That took some serious stones.

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:22pm
  Lofe Hummers…. SOMEDAY……
  
  Kudos to the driver of the Hummer! He is a brave man on many levels.
  
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- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Right on , a hero .
  
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Kevin M
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:04pm
*CLAP CLAP* Thanks. Needed a good news story.

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Angel_light
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:59pm
“Forget the Batmobile: Apparently, real heroes drive Hummers.”

Amen to that! I wish I had one….

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- Angel_light
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:10pm
  ok Obummy give up your Nobel prize for doing nothing to earn it and give it to someone who actually deserves it…he probably just uses it as a paper weight for those strong headwinds; that’s why he never gets any work done….
  
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COFemale
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:52pm
So the guy he hit will probably sue him for deliberately hitting him even though he was speeding and possible would have killed all four children while talking on his cell phone.

I think I would have laid on the horn first before putting my vehicle in his path or as I was putting my vehicle in his path in hopes of getting the idiots attention.

Glad the kids are fine and hopefully this will be a lesson learned by the idiot cell phone driver.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:56pm
  Sadly your right, the idiot driving the other car will probably sue him and win. However given the choice between what might have happened to the kids, and the choice to sacrifice my vehicle; I would tale the lawsuit and the lost vehicle any time.
  
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- HisNameWasRobertPaulson
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:00pm
  It was in Canada. They have a different tort system than we do. As the authorities found the Hummer Driver in the right, and the other driver in the wrong, there can be no suit.
  
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- FstEti
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:21pm
  SNOWLEPORD, not only that, but the parents of the children would sue the Hummer driver for causing stress to their children because of the ensuing collision, AND his insurance carrier would refuse coverage because he intentionally caused the accident.
  Great story, though.
  
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- FstEti
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 7:27pm
  Sorry, that would be snowlepArd………
  
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hi
Posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:45pm
He wouldn’t have been able to do that in a Prius.

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- COFemale
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:53pm
  You mean hit the other vehicle, of course he could, but his outcome would have been different.
  
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- zenothestoic
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:57pm
  Actually, with 4000lbs. of batteries in it the Prius would probably make an excellent roadblock.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:20pm
  ZENO:
  The toxic smoke from the huge fire would probable sent people to the hospital. Those green cars are the governments way of reducing the population.
  
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- pamela kay
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:46am
  LOL! Good one!
  
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