The distances above are based on a reaction time of 0.67 seconds, which assumes the driver is alert, concentrating and not impaired. Driving when tired, distracted or impaired significantly increases reaction times, so the thinking distances above should be regarded as minimums.
Vice-President Aaron Burr killed his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, NJ, resulting from a published letter that implied Hamilton had made derogatoryâ¦ comments about Burr's character.
Email. A U.S. Secret Service officer was arrested early Friday morning after police found him passed out on a Miami, Fla., sidewalk. The officer, Aaron Francis Engler, was in Miami as part of the advance team for President Barack Obama's visit to the University of Miami on Thursday. Engler is a member of the uniformed division of the agency and not assigned to presidential protection, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington told ABC News. The Miami police report noted that Engler became combative when an officer tried to rouse him.