warza bidul
07-18-03, 07:07PM
driving home from a night involving two girls, one a platonic friend straight back from the south of France and the other a more physical kind of girl... listening to radio on the motorway. I pulled off from the motorway to find a car with it's right side completely smashed up with the other car which had been hit on it's side...
The yellow car was a right off with the right side completely caved in whilst the German car was a little damaged, broken window and bent door.
I was asked to assist, put the breakdown sign to warn oncoming traffic of the accident and talk to the victim of the crash... he was in shock, shaking, looking at his arms... to make things more interesting he was hard of hearing.
He'd just been to a friend's house and was coming home when another driver forgot about the lights and crashed into him.
I'm writing about this because since I've had my driving license I see at least one crash a week and this has been for the past few months, worst of which involved a girl lying at the side of the road unconscious after a bmw had hit a bollard... seen a motorcycle underneath the wheels of a car, a car crashing into the back of another because of snow, a small crash involving a slight "pock" sound and those are the ones I remember.
It seems so easy to avoid having crashes yet it would seem car crashes are killing at least four or five people a week in Switzerland, in France the statistics say that around a 100,000 are hurt.
In one of the regional newspapers there's an article questioning whether old drivers should be allowed to drive or not.
I think there should be at least two steps taken, firstly an obligatory drunk driving simulation test (and one for fatigue) and secondly a limit on the power of the engine you're using on roads depending on your licence and how long you've had it. With a slow car you're far less likely to drive at suicidal speeds which may kill over people but at the same time it's through constant driving that your road awareness increases as you're thinking far less about the car itself and more about where you're sending it, mainly by reflex...
The yellow car was a right off with the right side completely caved in whilst the German car was a little damaged, broken window and bent door.
I was asked to assist, put the breakdown sign to warn oncoming traffic of the accident and talk to the victim of the crash... he was in shock, shaking, looking at his arms... to make things more interesting he was hard of hearing.
He'd just been to a friend's house and was coming home when another driver forgot about the lights and crashed into him.
I'm writing about this because since I've had my driving license I see at least one crash a week and this has been for the past few months, worst of which involved a girl lying at the side of the road unconscious after a bmw had hit a bollard... seen a motorcycle underneath the wheels of a car, a car crashing into the back of another because of snow, a small crash involving a slight "pock" sound and those are the ones I remember.
It seems so easy to avoid having crashes yet it would seem car crashes are killing at least four or five people a week in Switzerland, in France the statistics say that around a 100,000 are hurt.
In one of the regional newspapers there's an article questioning whether old drivers should be allowed to drive or not.
I think there should be at least two steps taken, firstly an obligatory drunk driving simulation test (and one for fatigue) and secondly a limit on the power of the engine you're using on roads depending on your licence and how long you've had it. With a slow car you're far less likely to drive at suicidal speeds which may kill over people but at the same time it's through constant driving that your road awareness increases as you're thinking far less about the car itself and more about where you're sending it, mainly by reflex...