Death Race 2007

Freeways are DANGEROUS! Bet you didn’t know. Well, read the LA Times and find out all the grim news. Almost as good as a driver’s ed film, “No Place for Pedestrians” gets down’n'gory:

The man who said goodnight to his 53-year-old wife can’t explain how she ended up hours later walking on the Antelope Valley Freeway three miles from their home. The man who stood up in a convertible to remove his shirt probably would have waited if he knew he’d be blown onto the 15. And the 22-year-old skateboarder who decided to cross the 10 near downtown might have reconsidered had he known what awaited.

Someone’s been watching reruns of Six Feet Under, I think. I learned: if you get an accident you’re supposed to stay in your car. Don’t take any offers of help from anyone but a cop. And don’t stand up in convertibles. I have to start reading the LAT more often.

Seventeen hours later she was dead, literally cut in half. Her torso smashed through the car’s windshield and landed in the back seat. The driver kept going, got off at the next exit and discarded the body in a trash bin. When police arrested him, he was covered in blood.