Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Safe driving. Safe speed.

I read that people are racing around cities in the USA as if they were race tracks.
The speed limits are there for a reason. In built up areas you stay below 30 mph because a person hit at that speed will be injured but may survive. Drive faster and you will kill any pedestrian you hit. (In addition to endangering yourself.)

Some reckless people speed around in cars at night.
Just watch the Singapore video or the slide show of the Ferrari racing across the lights, hitting a taxi and flipping, killing the mainland Chinese Ferrari car driver, the Singaporean taxi driver,  and Japanese taxi passenger.
Comments include (I paraphrase for grammar, good taste, and sense), 'Your car is not the only car on the road." Another comment says, pause at a green light to be sure the road is clear, even if you have right of way.
   
Have you been to Disney and seen the video of the car racing downhill as the woman steps out with the
pram?

If this a speeding driver is out, keep your cat locked up at home at night.What happens when a pedestrian who is drunk or high on drugs lurches out?
Ever if Speedy were an expert (which I don't accept as an excuse) what happens if some other driver copies the trick next week and kills one person, or twenty?

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