A couple of years ago in late spring I was heading toward sunrise on a medium-travelled 2-lane road, near home, going to the city to catch a bus to TO airpoort to travel with daughter to Edmonton for nephew's young wife's funeral (seizure in bathtub, drowned). A bit of haze on windshield, I thought I should clear, turned on defrost ... ... when there was a van parked just at the side of the road! I'd miss the van ... but if there were someone standing beside it, who hadn't moved ... s/he'd be dead meat! Yanked the wheel to the left, car responded, started to skid, wheel to the right, skid straightened, skid the other way, then recovered, and back the first way, only worse. I figured that I'd be rolling, and no trip to Edmonton that day ... but recovered. Sitting facing somewhat back toward the way that I'd come, with front wheels down over the lip of the ditch on the far side. When I took foot off brake ... rolled far enough down into ditch that I couldn't back out. Drove down into the ditch, down the ditch a ways, then drove out and went my way. Leaving a space where people may be moving on the roadside is important. We are required to move over here on multi-lane roads, as well. ole joyful

I never heard of *Bell Mobility* as a company. The #77 does not connect to anything. That being said, it has been in the newspapers in my city, and I'm sure in others, that people often do impersonate police officers. It is also a good idea NOT to just open you door to someone claiming to be a police officer without calling the station first to see if you should let them in. Here is a link that might be useful: Snopes

I sometimes roll down my window at a red light, give a light "beep" on the horn, hold up my hand with fingers working like a talking mouth, and when the other driver rolls down the window, tell her/him that there are three brake lights in back, looking like all is in order. Usually get a "Thank you". But if one (or two) lights are out, I usually try to give such a message, and if I know the light ahead is likely to be going for an interval, and I'm not beside but behind the other diver, have been known to run ahead and tell the driver. Seldom have held up the traffic behind me. Safety on the road is important ... and being down to one brake light is one light short of a (potential) disaster. ole joyfuelled

Years ago my sister-in-law was doing some last minute Christmas shopping, and was driving the short way home and saw blue lights flashing behind her. She pulled over the the officer came up and informed her that the sticker on her license plate was expired. She apologized and said she'd take car of it first thing when the DMV re-opened after the holidays. He responded "No you don't understand. I can't allow you to continue driving with the expired tags. You'll have to get out of the car, and I'm going to have it towed to the impound lot. You'll be able to retrieve it after the holidays, but will have to pay the towing fee and the impound fee, as well as the ticket." She got out, got the large bags of gifts from her trunk, and stood by the side of the road, in foot-deep snow, as her car was towed away. She walked along the road, carrying the bags of gifts, through the snow, to the nearest payphone, and called several people trying to find someone to come pick her up. And on top of all that, she was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Probably due to the stress of the incident, later that night, she went into labor and was taken to the hospital and delivered the next day, Christmas Eve -- two weeks early.