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As to the article Murder Machines, you can see in the last video in the article that nothing has changed with the majority of driving habits. Pushing the stop, speeding, passing, etc. I would have been the one in the car with the camera, except for that idiotic stopping in the street to let another cross over instead of letting him wait his normal and proper turn.
ReplyDeleteNothing will change until we change the verbiage. An accident is what has occured when a woman dampens her panties while sneezing. Car wrecks are not accidents - ever.
Many years ago the State of Indiana passed a law that, based on fact, when there is a collision someone was to blame and that someone shall be cited or arrested according to circumstance.
Now both the guilty and the injured parties are just sent on their way without acceptance that the injured party can be injured without having a limb torn from body.
I have been driving for 50 years, most of it professionally and have never been at fault but a victim three or four times a year by others who are busy eating, messing with the dog in their lap, looking in one direction while moving in another and of course the cell phone.
I have come to the conclusion that most drivers think the speed limit sign refers to a minimum not maximum speed. In my neighborhood, just off the interstate, people are still driving at interstate speeds on the 35 mph posted street they are now on. Several are killed each year, I know of none who are charged.
I have also had people who have collided with my vehicle say "don't worry about it, the insurance company has always paid it". If an at fault driver were only covered for the other, injured (injured legally speaking, as in innocent) but the insurance did not repair nor replace their own vehicle, would they slow down and pay attention when faced with the loss of a vehicle that they would still have to pay for? Probably not, my life means nothing so the mortgaged vehicle probably does not either.
Just my thoughts on a subject I am most familiar with and witness daily through my windshiled amazed.