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Unfortunately I believe the driver of that car was killed in the accident in Coral Bay.

Pia wrote:Unfortunately I believe the driver of that car was killed in the accident in Coral Bay.

Thanks for the reminder Pia... although these stories can be entertaining the consequences of driving on unfamiliar terrian, in a rental car in combination with "adult beverages" can be very serious.

Question about those cement trucks?

We've had 2 encounters with them driving like maniacs on STJ roads. Going up and around one of the switchbacks on STJ one hit the rocks on the side of the road and almos tipped over onto us.

Another time on STT we saw one going so fast near Coki beach, that I swear, I thought it was because he lost his brakes.

Do they always drive that way?

Pia,
Thanks for the info... we were there late June, early July in 2005. Is this the same accident? And what happened do you recall?

We overloaded a jeep wrangler once (5 not small adults) and almost died (possibly all of heart attacks) coming down the switchback around Trunk. It wasn't even raining. The poor brakes didn't stand a chance with us.

Lesson learned we upgraded to a Jeep liberty.

About those cement trucks. Our encounter with the one we met up with was fortunately parked on our road to our villa. Maybe that was a good thing, I guess it could have been worse buy the sounds of some of the others posts regarding Jeep's.
Mricco

On an early morning ride down into Coral Bay to meet White Wing I got bullied on the road by a VITRAN bus that came up right on my bumper and filled up my rear view mirror.

OK. I really hate tailgaters – got enough of them at home. But by now I’m feeling pretty comfortable in the Wrangler so I say bring it and just concentrate on going into the apex of the curves a little deeper and coming out of the apex a little more quickly.

Soon enough he sees that if he keeps on my bumper now, he’ll flip. He backs off. I ease up too and enjoy the rest of the ride.

After all, as I always tell my brother Raymond, I’m an excellent driver.

jmq wrote:OK. I really hate tailgaters – got enough of them at home. But by now I’m feeling pretty comfortable in the Wrangler so I say bring it and just concentrate on going into the apex of the curves a little deeper and coming out of the apex a little more quickly.

I read this and instinctively looked at your little icon and location.

Yup...New Jersey.

For me, you can take the driver out of NJ, but you can't take the NJ out of the driver. I still drive like I'm living there...and I sometimes have to tell myself to settle the heck down while on island time.

I only flicked the switch for a few minutes, then went back to cruising the views on that drive.
Actually may be more of a frustrated rally racer thing than Jersey thing for me, although yes indeed, we can tend to not suffer fools well, and tailgaters certainly fit that category.