Famous Quotes & Sayings

The reason we're using the zipper lane barrier is it gives a little more than the regular barrier, so we don't want a car, when it impacts it, to ricochet back into the other lane of traffic. While we're trying to prevent head on collisions we also don't want an accident on the same side of the highway.

There has never been a major accident there, but because of the angle of the tracks, it's certainly a candidate for one.

There has been no place for families in investigations of mining accidents, and that day is over.

There has been a number of fatal car accidents and it needs to be controlled by a traffic signal,

When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired firefighter and Christopher had seen and heard a lot about accidents and what happens to people, and he was very aware of what problems there are and that is something he wanted to do. So he is still helping people.

Tom Fitzgerald

We thought it was an automobile accident and we looked out the window and we saw the tail section of a Southwest airliner laying across the street, on Central Avenue. People were running and ambulances were coming down the street.

We didn't declare the intersection unduly hazardous based upon the accident experience or the details surrounding the accident. The city still finds it a very tragic situation.

Ed Markey

I remember when I was a boy, my father used to walk around without one of his fingers that he lost in an accident in the workplace.

Pennsylvania companies are not only reducing workplace injuries, they are saving hundreds of millions of dollars by focusing on safety, ... As a result, fewer accidents translate directly into improvements in productivity and further reductions in workers' compensation costs.

Our immediate focus is reduction of speed, enhanced enforcement and center-safety barriers to reduce serious and fatal accidents.

Our purpose is to give people a realistic snapshot of what happens to people in alcohol-related accidents. People always think it's not going to happen to them.

Our folks began within a few weeks after the accident looking at all possible causes which then led us to all possible solutions.

Our game wardens do collect information on hunting accidents as a matter of routine procedures. There typically is no formal investigation, if it's just a straightforward accident.

Our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one left its print on a soil alien tot him, but on which human kind will germinate along with an infinity of other worlds.I think that the loss of the sacred self by the man on the roulette of history was due to the Matrix Word of Knowledge, or more precisely to the Mirror, that changed the meaning of the Self Love of man with the sense of the self Knowledge!

Scott Kelly

We notice there tend to be more accidents when there are patchy dense spots.

It is a safety project and it is linked to accidents.

It is an accident waiting to happen. We have seen an enormous increase in backcountry skiing and snowshoeing over the last five years. It is only a matter of time until we see an avalanche triggered by these explosives that ends tragically.

I remember when I knew she was going to have to testify in the grand jury and I felt terrible because she'd been through the loss of her sister, this horrible accident at Christmas that killed her brother, and her mother was in the hospital. I was trying to make her understand that I didn't want her to be untruthful to the grand jury and if her memory was different than mine, it was fine, just go in there and tell them what she thought. So that's all I remember.

Erin O'Connor

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.

Some of our guys, they get skittish working at night after what happened on the zipper lane accident a couple of years ago. And we don't blame them.

Richard Hawley

Somehow that gap has got to be closed, ... Until it's closed, we will continue to find units that are under stress like the 66th and will continue to have the problems surface and tragedies occur like the accident two years ago.

My situation is not unique as far as the accident is concerned, ... The circumstances are what's unique, and that's what ended up burying me. They didn't want to fix the problem. They wanted to fix the blame.

My philosophy in this business is that bad things can and do happen to good people. So whether it's an auto accident or a marital problem or somebody just not telling you the truth, there are a lot of things that people hide from each other. There's a way to find those things out.

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

Looking at national studies, one of the key issues in accidents involving teens was being distracted. One of the primary causes of distraction were other teens in the car.

Paul Deacon

Look left. Look right. And look left again. Careful drivers prevent accidents.

Maryland has a fairly high accident rate as well as high insurance rates.

Lindsey caught an edge coming into a jump and then she fell off the jump. The accident occurred because her legs split on landing.

Robert Crawford

I will take some of the information I learned from him (Dale Jr.) and take it back to the police department, items such as cornering techniques. We always want to prevent an accident from happening, taking the safest approach to the situation. We learned a lot about positioning today, be it on the track or the highway. But with him being in a sports car, it was easier. The police car was like driving a tank compared to the Corvette.

Robert Graham

I was in an accident about six or seven months ago and he helped me out.

Michael Strahan

It felt like we were in a heavyweight championship fight, too. It was just a punch to the face. There are other ways to block people. He said it was an accident and I'll take him at his word. But it's the kind of injury that ends careers.

Carl Edwards

I think from the outside, things look worse than they are. But those of us on the teams and working on it everyday know how close we have all been to having a completely different season up to this point. You get in an accident that wasn't your fault. Or get caught speeding down pit road. Or have a mechanical problem that wasn't really anyone's doing. Every team is going to have their share of those types of things before the year is over with. If it does, then everything will balance out, and we'll be back in it in no time.

Mona Simpson

I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.