The salesmen tell them it’s safe and they can go anywhere in any kind of weather.
Most of the people who buy SUVs think driving across the grass to drop off a T-ball team is “off-roading”.
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]]>There was an 11 car pileup on a freeway here last week. It snowed for the first time anyone could remember! Her excuse was, she thought it was starting to hail, and she hit the brakes (on a freeway in peak hour doing 100km/h) and went sideways and the cars behind her piled into her car (since they had no traction either). I’m amazed it was only 11 cars!
Might be nice to actually teach people to drive properly and check every couple years at least before turning them loose too wreak havoc and become potential killers. IMHO, anyone who hasn’t bothered to lean to drive properly and kills someone, should be up for murder, not reckless driving (or whatever it’s called there) or even manslaughter. Just because it wasn’t planned or premeditated, doesn’t make it any less bad in my book. Of course, if it can be proven to be a genuine accident that couldn’t be avoided, that’s different.
Stupidity and ignorance (and carelessness) should be it’s own reward.
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