Good to be back to Dallas from Arlington and Hayward. An Internet user who follows a major Topeka, Kansas newspaper came up with an extremely intelligent analysis of a recent Kansas fatal car wreck and of national driving habits, in general.
A 64-year-old Aurora, Colorado man was killed and his wife seriously injured two days before Christmas while on a Kansas highway. The culprit for the accident was a 25-year-old Austin, Texas woman. While coming to a significant slow-down and getting ready to get off the highway, the man was killed when the female driver wasn’t able to react properly to the slowing down of his vehicle and ended up rear-ending him while swerving to the left to avoid and pass him. I bet that was a costly repair on the whole. The man’s car was forced into a ditch on the side of the highway, where he was left dead after his automobile turned sideways in the trench. Someone may need a Arlington clinic as well.
After reading about this tragedy, a reader of the online Topeka, Kansas newspaper reacted, “A car going 65mph covers a little over 95 feet per second. If you give the car ahead of you a two-second lead, that would be a little over half a football field. When was the last time you saw a car following that distance back? Is it worth a person’s life to save 2 second travel time?”
The reader is clearly someone who wishes for public safety and speaks out violently against it in the name of saving and helping lives. He is not the kind of guy who wants to see a bunch of people end up at a cemetery or Arlington chiropractor because numerous drivers naively and selfishly drive close behind or even tailgate the cars in front of them. MY pal who runs this Hayward auto repair tells me about these types of auto accidents which need repair in his shop all of the time. We learned in our driving manuals as teenagers that the law requires us to keep a certain amount of distance behind each car we follow in case emergency stops or something of the sort take place in front of us. The reader enhances this knowledge with some simple logic that the driving instructors never taught us. That is, not only is there a law to keep a good distance behind the other driver, but there’s no reason not to follow this law since all you’re doing is saving a couple seconds of time by breaking it!
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