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A Model for Metro, in Romania

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Dear Dr. Gridlock:

In addition to your advice about staying away from a broken-down vehicle on the side of the highway, I will add that it is worth anything, including a ruined tire, to pull way off a road.

I will never forget when I visited a buddy at Walter Reed hospital 50 years ago while I was in the Army. In adjacent beds were two soldiers who had lost legs.

Both had been standing behind their vehicle by the side of the road when they were hit from behind.

J.D. Miller

Gaithersburg

Also, there have been incidences of motorists struck and killed while changing a tire on the roadside. If you can, get well off the pavement. A wrecked wheel is a small price to pay for life or limb.

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