09-25-2006, 10:05 AM
Chris, you bring up a good scenerio with skiing and being in control. But you can be in complete control and have an incident. Taking your skiing example, you see a fallen skier and do what you have to do to get around the skier in a safe manner. Now, you're skiing in control but hit a patch of ice and your skis slide out from under you - are you skiing out of control? I think not.
Taking the example to the track, on Sunday we had a car blow on oil line and drop oil from T3 - T5. The corner workers had the debris flags out, but you don't know what's on the track and you slow down safely. You drive slowly through a turn and hit oil and slide off the track. Were you driving out of control? I think not.
I think that Jack was trying to say something similar in his post, too. You can be prepared for things to happen but something unexpected may still happen. Maybe that's why it's called an accident rather than an on purpose.
Steve
Taking the example to the track, on Sunday we had a car blow on oil line and drop oil from T3 - T5. The corner workers had the debris flags out, but you don't know what's on the track and you slow down safely. You drive slowly through a turn and hit oil and slide off the track. Were you driving out of control? I think not.
I think that Jack was trying to say something similar in his post, too. You can be prepared for things to happen but something unexpected may still happen. Maybe that's why it's called an accident rather than an on purpose.
Steve
Steve Mankowski
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2003 996