Twice in less than two weeks, I don't believe it!

My wife is driving me to a doctor's appointment yesterday (back injury from being red light rear ended on my VTR on 3/21), when we get rear ended while stopped 10 cars back from a red light. Fortunately I chose to leave the trailer hitch on our '07 Tacoma Double Cab 4x4 full time. The 30 something woman who hit us had her front bumper skin almost punched through on her '09 Lexus IS250. Without the hitch she would have dented our rear bumper.

No damage to our trailer hitch, and no further damage to my back. It was just a bump really, but jeez poeple...PAY ATTENTION!!!

With the iPad coming out today, I think we are in even more jeopardy as people will drive while watching movies or something on those things now.

 

it sure seems like an epidemic of rear end collisions, in our area too at least one serious one every week. I think its the phone/texting thing. until someone does something big to hold people responsible its hard to see people changing. The whole 'multi-tasking' thought process baloney has people thinking they can do it despite a lot of studies to the contrary. I want them all to operate a chain saw or a rip saw with one hand whille texting and talking - if they do that for 2 hours and still have all their body parts they can do it in the car.

 

Too bad it didn't punch through her AC condenser, radiator and transmission cooler leaving her bleeding car stuff all over the road.

I don't miss riding on traffic. People in cars can be assumed to be doped up on excess sugar and fryer fat and minimally conscious. Not to mention the controlled substances. At least have of that diminished mental capacity is consumed with obsessive communication syndrome, as mentioned.

Sure miss the mountain roads, though...

 

Um... nope... To make it realistic there has to be at least two of them in the room...

The thing is, most of it is common sense... BTW that's an oxymoron if there ever was one... Texting while driving... A three year old can figure out that that's a bad idea... In Sweden if you text and drive you loose your license... That simple... They still haven't agreed on the talking on the phone and driving thing... But texting is an absolute no-no...

 

daaaaaammmmmm! WTF! Play the lottery, you'll hit that sumbitch fer sher. In my car, you wouldn't want to be in front of me stopped at a light cause if i see i'm gettin rear ended, I'm pullin up on you ***. I learned dat da hard way. Just about had my neck snapped off. hahaha