<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>"<span id="misspell-0" class="mark">ISP</span> Capt. Lonnie Richardson said the accident was purely the result of error on the part of the driver."</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>I so disagree with this! If the police and the pilot car told the driver to go, it is also their fault. It sounds like they are trying to scapegoat the truck driver. The <span id="misspell-1" class="mark">ISP</span> did not <span id="misspell-2"><span>safeguard</span></span> the public. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px;
padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Jeanne McHale <jeannemchale@hotmail.com>; Lois Blackburn <loisb@q.com>; Kathy Judson <ponysnpups@gmail.com>; Borg Hendrickson <chicory@wildblue.net>; Friends of the Clearwater <foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org>; Fritz Knorr <fritzknorr@gmail.com>; Helen Yost <helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu>; aaron ament <aaronament@moscow.com>; Brett Haverstick <bhaverstick@yahoo.com>; Marilyn Beckett <marilynbeckett@gmail.com>; Cheryl Halverson <basketmakeart@yahoo.com>; Jacqueline Bradish
<jbradish@roadrunner.com>; Friends of the Palouse Ranger District <fprd09@gmail.com>; Wild Idaho Rising Tide <wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com>; Emily Poor <emilypoor@gmail.com>; Dr. Dinah Zeiger <dzeiger@uidaho.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:57 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Van was no match for <span id="misspell-15" class="mark">megaloads</span><br> </font> <br>
<div id="yiv1147575807"><div><div></div><div>Courtesy of today's (December 14, 2011) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><span style="line-height: 24px; font-family: Times, serif;" class="yiv1147575807Apple-style-span"><h1 style="border-width: 0px; font: bold 24px/27px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Van was no match for <span id="misspell-16" class="mark">megaloads</span></h1><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">James <span id="misspell-17"
class="mark">Urquidez</span> obeyed his first instinct when he realized a <span id="misspell-18" class="mark">megaload</span> was coming right for his head: duck.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"When I realized he wasn't going to make it, it was too late to do anything else," <span id="misspell-19" class="mark">Urquidez</span> said Monday.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align:
baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last Tuesday night, <span id="misspell-20" class="mark">Urquidez</span> was waiting with several other vehicles on U.S. Highway 95 just south of Moscow for three giant Imperial Oil shipments of refining equipment to pass. One of the <span id="misspell-21" class="mark">megaloads</span>, which was supposed to wait in a staging area, struck <span id="misspell-22" class="mark">Urquidez's</span> 1996 Chevrolet <span id="misspell-23" class="mark">Astrovan</span> on the upper driver's side.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px
0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"It exploded the side window from the pressure," <span id="misspell-24" class="mark">Urquidez</span> said. "It crushed the windshield. I don't know if it would have hit me or not, but I was able to duck out of the way."</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span
id="misspell-25" class="mark">Urquidez</span> said he is upset that the oil company, the hauling company and the Idaho State Police have "minimized" his ordeal.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"They said it was '<span id="misspell-26" class="mark">noninjury</span>,' but what they failed to mention is that the guy almost killed me," he said. "And my van is destroyed. It just kind of ticked me off."</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And while he wasn't taken to the hospital - technically classifying the accident as <span id="misspell-27" class="mark">noninjury</span> - <span id="misspell-28" class="mark">Urquidez</span> said he suffered a contusion to his leg and is experiencing back pain.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;"
class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I'm not looking to make any money," the Moscow cabinetmaker said. "I just want it to be made right. And I think part of making it right is not minimizing it."</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An insurance adjuster was supposed to visit his home Monday, <span id="misspell-29" class="mark">Urquidez</span> said, but he still felt like the companies involved were dragging their feet.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The accident resulted in the suspension of <span id="misspell-30" class="mark">Imperial's</span> license from the Idaho Transportation Department to ship its modules to the <span id="misspell-31"
class="mark">Kearl</span> oil sands extraction project in Canada.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="misspell-32" class="mark">ISP</span> Capt. Lonnie Richardson said the accident was purely the result of error on the part of the driver.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;"
class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="misspell-33" class="mark">ISP</span> cited Vladimir <span id="misspell-34" class="mark">Purgar</span> of Calgary, Alberta, for inattentive driving. <span id="misspell-35" class="mark">Purgar</span> had driven the route several times before, and was at the <span id="misspell-36" class="mark">pre</span>-trip safety briefing.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif;
margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="misspell-37" class="mark">Purgar</span> told investigators the pilot car and the <span id="misspell-38" class="mark">ISP</span> trooper assigned to his load left the staging area, and he mistakenly followed.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Imperial Oil spokesman Pius <span id="misspell-39" class="mark">Rolheiser</span> said the damage to <span id="misspell-40" class="mark">Urquidez's</span> vehicle is a matter for <span id="misspell-41" class="mark">Mammoet's</span> insurance company to settle, but Imperial is cooperating with the investigations into the incident and takes it "very seriously."</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"There is a specific transportation plan," <span id="misspell-42"
class="mark">Rolheiser</span> said. "There are procedures and protocols, and we're working with <span id="misspell-43" class="mark">Mammoet</span> to measure how those processes and protocols were followed."</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="misspell-44" class="mark">Mammoet</span> did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.</div></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style:
inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <span id="misspell-45" class="mark">megaloads</span> have stirred controversy in communities through which they pass, sparking frequent protests in Moscow especially. But <span id="misspell-46" class="mark">Urquidez</span> said he is not among the naysayers.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span
class="yiv1147575807Apple-style-span"></span><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I'm not against the <span id="misspell-47" class="mark">megaloads</span>," he said. "I'm against getting hit by a <span id="misspell-48" class="mark">megaload</span>."</div></div></div></span><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;"
class="yiv1147575807encrypted-content"></div><div>------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class="yiv1147575807Apple-style-span"><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline-width: 0px;">So, this is what "driver error" looks like.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline-width: 0px;">And just who is responsible for ensuring that these drivers are sufficiently trained before they are turned loose on public roads behind the wheel of a <span id="misspell-49" class="mark">megaload</span>?</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px
10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline-width: 0px;">Maybe the fault rests with the people of Idaho for trusting our elected officials to look after our safety. I guess everything does have a price tag, huh?</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline-width: 0px;">As Johnny Cash so appropriately asked, "How high is the water?"</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline-width: 0px;">Let's hope subsequent responses to Mr. Cash's query are not found in the obituaries.</div></span><br><div><span id="misspell-50"
class="mark">Seeya</span> round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> <span id="misspell-52" class="mark">mailto</span>:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>