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originally posted in:The Garage
3/31/2013 4:22:15 PM
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We need stricter driving laws and stricter drivers education.

Yesterday I witnessed a terrible wreck. I was in the left turn lane at the intersection, and there was a car next to me in the lane that goes straight. Our light turned green and I started off, but out of the corner of my eye I see a red suv speeding like crazy. I quickly slammed on my brakes, and honked. The suv missed me by a little bit, but the guy in the straight lane wasn't so lucky. The suv hit him on the drivers side, but that wasn't the worst part. The suv overcorrected or something, and flipped. It was crazy, the suv lady had children in there. To me this is why we need stricter driving laws, and education. If we improved upon laws and education then maybe this wouldn't happen.
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  • Edited by Wyldfyre: 4/3/2013 4:35:45 PM
    Driver education, yes. Driving-related physics education, yes. Stricter laws, hell -blam!-ing no. But I would say that because I'm extremely biased so I doubt anyone would even take it on board. Thing is, lack of enforcement isn't the problem, it's the situations in which attention of enforcement is applied. I always see family cars, old people, foreigners, etc... get pulled over and suffer legal and financial action all the time because they strayed over the limit by accident or they forgot to renew their tax/insurance or similar such minor offenses that the police use to fill quotas or whatever. But rarely do I see the show-off idiots in dangerously modified Corsas, Golfs, Saxos, BMWs, etc... get any police attention simply because they wait until police are nowhere about. Our police force is strained as it is, but their attitudes on coming down hard on borderline-criminal drivers only works on the old or unsuspecting public, often unknowingly breaking the law. As long as we have roads and laws, people will break those laws. The only way I see any progress to be made in this area is simply to educate and alert other "safe" (I use the word vaguely) drivers to be aware of unusual or [u]potentially[/u] dangerous other drivers. A speeder is only endangering the public if there are slower, stubborn or oblivious drivers around them. (Or they're being show-off morons, in which case I reiterate my previous points). Police only usually make the situation more dangerous, if they bring their attention to it at all.

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