glaring typo

[Benjamin Barrett]

My Mac dictionary has

move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction : the car careered across the road and went through a hedge.

BB

On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:

> Could this use of "career" be an instance of the OED's second meaning
> for the verb, "to gallop, run or move at full speed"?
>
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:54 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Officials say three carriages of the 14-car Nevsky Express,
>> travelling from
>> Moscow to St. Petersburg, careered off the tracks Friday night as
>> the train
>> approached speeds of 200 km/h in a rural area.
>>
>> (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/28/russia-derailment.html)

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