Poll of the Day > 23 y/o Girl was HORRIFICALLY KILLED after she got her HEAD stuck at a TOLL!!!

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23 y/o Victoria Strauss from Columbus, Ohio was HORRIFICALLY KILELD after she got her HEAD stuck between her CAR and the MACHINE at a tool booth parking garage!!

She dropped her credit card and was leaning down to try and pick it up when the accident happened.

Police said she leant down her foot pressed on the ACCELERATOR causing the car to jerk forward and hit her head when it became trapped.

A security guard found her still stuck at the exit toll booth yesterday morning and was pronounced dead

Police were called in at 5:40am and found her pinned between her car door frame and the door frame

CCTV footage caught the horrifying postgraduate student reaching out at 11:30pm after seeingly engaging the accelerator as the car jolts forward and strikes her in the head

Her friend wrote on facebook "Sweet Victoria Strauss, i cannot belive this news. You are such a beautiful, inspiring, amazing soul. Rest easy and fly high angel. I know you're happy now with your dad again. I want to thank you for being there for me, helping me through my grieving process while you were still going through it too and for all your kind words"

Another wrote "Forever fly and fly high angel. Please watch over us and guide us, i love you"

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Damn...

Oh my god, that is such a tragic accident.

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ArvTheGreat posted...

She paid the ultimate toll

Wow, arv actually living up to his name

ArvTheGreat posted...

Wait wait wait is the body still warm?

Never mind

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Arv Doesnt mind cold

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Hereditary.mp4

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What are you doing step-toll?

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mistakes were made

mrduckbear posted...

A security guard found her still stuck at the exit toll booth yesterday morning and was pronounced dead

Police were called in at 5:40am and found her pinned between her car door frame and the door frame

CCTV footage caught the horrifying postgraduate student reaching out at 11:30pm after seeingly engaging the accelerator as the car jolts forward and strikes her in the head

Wait, so how long did it take for somebody to actually find her? Because that's a pretty long span of time.

Also that's a kinda crazy accident.

BADoglick posted...

Wow, arv actually living up to his name

Never mind

I'm guessing the deleted messages weren't from ARV growing a sense of decency >_> tbh, Mead makes jokes worse than that all the time yet I've never seen him get in trouble.

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mrduckbear posted...

Have you ever used a toll booth before?

Nah.

Police said she leant down her foot pressed on the ACCELERATOR causing the car to jerk forward and hit her head when it became trapped.

Well that was silly. Shame. She was hot too.

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Are drivers in the US not taught to turn of their engine in certain situations?

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What a tragically sad way to die.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Are drivers in the US not taught to turn of their engine in certain situations?

They are. Also, to put the car in park/neutral.

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mrduckbear posted...

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Fatal accident is fatal.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Are drivers in the US not taught to turn of their engine in certain situations?

I doubt the tests cover toll booths in particular.
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Revelation34 posted...

I doubt the tests cover toll booths in particular.

True, but turn off engine signs do exist.

Maybe something for the toll booths to consider?

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Pfft, women drivers. So much better than men at driving they always say.

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So...no head?

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That's horrifying

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

True, but turn off engine signs do exist.

Maybe something for the toll booths to consider?

For normal people its common sense to put your car in park when you have to do something like this.

This girl did not have common sense unfortunately.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Are drivers in the US not taught to turn of their engine in certain situations?

It's not common practice to turn it off completely for something like that. In fact, it's a little silly under most circumstances. I somewhat wonder if she even had her car in park and whether it was just a matter that she had her foot on the brake (which then hit the accelerator) when she was trying that.

Nichtcrawler X posted... True, but turn off engine signs do exist.

Maybe something for the toll booths to consider?

Unless there's an enforcement mechanism, people usually don't really take signs like those seriously and kinda ignore them, if they notice them at all (which they might the first few times they go to a place, then not pay them any attention afterward).

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Zeus posted...

It's not common practice to turn it off completely for something like that. In fact, it's a little silly under most circumstances.

Even for train crossings or traffic lights it is becoming more common.

Zeus posted...

I somewhat wonder if she even had her car in park and whether it was just a matter that she had her foot on the brake

What does that mean? Having it on the hand brake?

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Wow, why wouldn't she put the car into Park? Sucks what happened, but she really should've known better.
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I hate these tragedies why, why did it have to be someone hot ;_;

dedbus posted...

I hate these tragedies why, why did it have to be someone hot ;_;

Well hey who knows, maybe she was a stuck-up bitch to people throughout her life and bullied people at school. We don't know.
On social media we only ever see what people want us to see, ESPECIALLY after death.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Even for train crossings or traffic lights it is becoming more common.

Wait, wtf? Nobody would turn off an engine for a traffic light. That's insane. And it'd have to be one fucking long train to turn off an engine during, but nothing is going to last 5 or 10 minutes in most places.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

What does that mean? Having it on the hand brake?

I'm not sure how cars work there -- I assumed they were the same as here -- but you usually have two pedals you push with your foot. One makes the car go, the other one makes it stop. She most likely had her foot on the brake (the one that makes it stop) and then removed it, which caused the car to start up again. A lot of people people who are just stopped at a toll booth won't always put their car into park, because they expect it just takes a second or two. Conversely, she could have put her car into park (via the... I guess gear selector lever either between the front and passenger seats or for some cars might be on the dash). Neither thing involves turning off the engine. People typically don't turn off engines unless their car is going to be sitting idle for a long time.

At any rate, I'm not sure what you're referring to as a hand brake.

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God this disturbs me so much and I dont know why because I hear of loss of human life all the time but still.....man-made machine death is scary. But why not put it in park, you were going to hold down the brake the whole time? I learned holding the brake down is what causes me to accidentally turn off the car in drive so I stopped doing that.

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Zeus posted...

but you usually have two pedals you push with your foot.

Definitely 3.

Edit: and a handbrake is the lever between the two front seats, but I know some modern cars have slightly different ones.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Definitely 3.

I don't even know if that's a joke.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Edit: and a handbrake is the lever between the two front seats, but I know some modern cars have slightly different ones.

You mean the parking brake? (ie, an additional brake you use while the car is already parked) Or is it something completely different?

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I just put my SUV in park unless Im driving it.

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Zeus posted...

I don't even know if that's a joke.

From left to right, clutch, brake, gas.

Zeus posted...

(ie, an additional brake you use while the car is already parked)

Normally yeah. I suppose you could also lift it ever so slightly to activate the brake lights, without actually braking. (Mainly to send a signal to tailgaters.)
I only know that as the handbrake.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

From left to right, clutch, brake, gas.

Oh, that's something to do with manual transmission?

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Normally yeah. I suppose you could also lift it ever so slightly to activate the brake lights, without actually braking. (Mainly to send a signal to tailgaters.)
I only know that as the handbrake.

Okay, that's not the same thing I was thinking of. If you tried moving the parking brake while driving, your car would potentially wind up in pretty bad shape >_>

Well, I mean, I *guess* you can drive with it on, but it's really bad for the car and it's not connected to a light.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Normally yeah. I suppose you could also lift it ever so slightly to activate the brake lights, without actually braking. (Mainly to send a signal to tailgaters.)
I only know that as the handbrake.

If you press the brake pedal just slightly, the lights will activate before any braking is applied. Also, some vehicles have the e-brake to the left of the clutch, for four pedals.

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Well, I never did it myself. My instructor did a handful of times.

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Zeus posted...

And it'd have to be one f***ing long train to turn off an engine during, but nothing is going to last 5 or 10 minutes in most places.

Protip: Never move to London, Ontario. Being held up by a train for 15-20 minutes was not remotely uncommon during my time there. I was lucky if I went a week without it happening. They had long trains, they had trains blocking the city centre during rush hour while they switched tracks, they had long trains switching tracks... Turning off the engine while waiting for trains was not only reasonable, it was pretty much mandatory if you didn't want to waste a buttload of gas (though I'd still turn it on for a couple minutes as needed to re-warm the car during winter). That's a city that very much has not been planned properly around its rail lines.

That said, I believe the magic number is 15 seconds for figuring out whether or not you should idle. If you're going to be stopped for more than 15 seconds, it's more efficient to turn the engine off, and even reasonable trains in well-designed cities can cause waits like that. Many modern cars will actually turn the engine off automatically if they're stopped for that long.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Even for train crossings or traffic lights it is becoming more common.

Usually that's more for environmental considerations than anything that would be relevant here. Idling is generally pretty bad for air quality and produces a bunch of unnecessary pollution, so signs encouraging people to turn their engines off when they're going to be sitting for a while are becoming more common. That's less applicable for toll booths, where you aren't going to be stopped for more than a few seconds in the vast majority of cases (if at all, given how common transponder-based booths are becoming).

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adjl posted...

That said, I believe the magic number is 15 seconds for figuring out whether or not you should idle.

I dont think Ive ever heard this. Nor have I seen anyone turn off their car waiting for a train or red light...
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LinkPizza posted...

I dont think Ive ever heard this.

https://www.edf.org/attention-drivers-turn-your-idling-engines

First result I could find, and even that's pretty old. The 15 second thing was second-hand information from my dad, years before I even started driving, so it doesn't surprise me that this more recent source is saying 10, nor would it surprise me if the magic number is even lower than that now. There was a time when starting an engine burned much, much more gas than idling it, but that was in the days of carburetors. Modern fuel injectors are vastly more efficient than those were.

LinkPizza posted...

Nor have I seen anyone turn off their car waiting for a train or red light...

Red lights are uncommon (unless it's a car that automatically shuts off and restarts, which is a thing now), but I frequently see people turning off cars for trains, unless it's obvious that it will have passed soon. It's just wasted gas not to (again, outside of keeping warm in winter). I've also sometimes turned the car off in lineups for drive-thrus or other such places where I might not be moving for a minute or two.

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Ill probably just keep it running. The trains here dont last long. Maybe a couple of minutes. I also wouldnt do it at a drive thru unless we were going to be stopped for a while because of something like someone getting arrested in the car in front of me. Other than that, I can usually wait like 30 seconds for the car in front to move...
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My default with trains is to turn it off if I can't see the end of the train. That pretty much always means it'll be at least a minute or two (again, I had many 15+ minute waits in London), which is worth turning the car off for. Drive-thrus and the like, it's really only if it's going particularly slowly, generally because somebody's got a big order at the front of the line. That can also be a couple minutes sometimes.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Even for train crossings or traffic lights it is becoming more common.

What does that mean? Having it on the hand brake?

Think of "park" as your gear lever being in neutral and the hand brake activated, simultaneously. The engine is on, but the car won't move.

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adjl posted...

That said, I believe the magic number is 15 seconds for figuring out whether or not you should idle. If you're going to be stopped for more than 15 seconds, it's more efficient to turn the engine off, and even reasonable trains in well-designed cities can cause waits like that. Many modern cars will actually turn the engine off automatically if they're stopped for that long.

By that rule, you'd be turning off the engine every time the light turns red >_>


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