next time someone revs at you at a stoplight...
03-31-2010, 09:39 PM
#21
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: South Florida
Posts: 566
Thanks man, now I'm not going to sleep for a few days. My eyes are leaking, this past August, my dad woke me up crying saying my sister was hit and killed while training for a marathon. She just turned 44 and just became a grandmother. Her husband posts to her under her account on facebook every day telling her what they did that day. Why did you post that here? My Brother in law saw it as he was jogging too running towards her. The driver drove into a pedestrian zone and killed her. http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/...ek-263172.html
04-01-2010, 02:04 AM
#26
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: California
Posts: 500
when i first started driving, my main fear was to hit someone. if i were to cause a fatal accident, i don't think i'd become traumatized. the one that got me was the guy that rear ended the jeep that lurched forward and killed the mom.
sure the videos were over dramatic but they were things that COULD happen in real life. you're driving your car with your kids, gf, wife, or friends, these are ALL distractions that take your mind off the road. perhaps you're changing your radio station, CD, song, turning off the AC or heater, and for that one second that you're eyes are off the road and there's a child standing in the street.
about pedestrians, i do believe more often than not they do cause many of the accidents and sometimes their own death for not paying attention, but will your conscience accept that excuse when you try to catch a red light and bash a pedestrian? society isn't always with you, but your conscience is.
sure the videos were over dramatic but they were things that COULD happen in real life. you're driving your car with your kids, gf, wife, or friends, these are ALL distractions that take your mind off the road. perhaps you're changing your radio station, CD, song, turning off the AC or heater, and for that one second that you're eyes are off the road and there's a child standing in the street.
about pedestrians, i do believe more often than not they do cause many of the accidents and sometimes their own death for not paying attention, but will your conscience accept that excuse when you try to catch a red light and bash a pedestrian? society isn't always with you, but your conscience is.
04-01-2010, 02:28 AM
#27
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: va beach va
Posts: 293
were coming to the time in Va beaches life (summer) which I love and hate. Love it for teh weather, hate it for all the damn rude tourists who never follow the dont walk or walk signs and walk when the please. I love using my air horn and watching them get pissed.
04-01-2010, 09:31 AM
#30
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NY
Posts: 334
i went to school with 3 people that were killed from street racing or drunk driving it was their fault but to act that alittle drag race here and there isnt a problem is pretty f*cking stupid theres a track for a reason paul walker
there was also a woman with a small daughter that used to come into my deli all the time a week after we sold it we found out a kid lost control of his car at high speed and pinned her and her little kid into the side of a block wall the driver lived don't know what happened to him
take it to a track
there was also a woman with a small daughter that used to come into my deli all the time a week after we sold it we found out a kid lost control of his car at high speed and pinned her and her little kid into the side of a block wall the driver lived don't know what happened to him
take it to a track