Drivers --- Arghhh (Road Rage would be to good for them)
I continue to be upset at the foolishness and stupidity of most drivers . Most of I-15 between here and Brigham City is 65 MPH. In trying to be a law abiding citizen, I set my cruise control to the speed limit. I am the slowest car on the freeway. Shortly after our accident where we were rear ended by a young lady going to fast and talking on her cell phone, we were nearly clobbered by two other people on cell phones within the next two days. Today, I again saw two near collisions and in each case the offending driver was pre-occupied on their cell phone.
My other pet peeve are those drivers that are going down the freeway in excess of 75 miles per hour and traveling less than a car length from the car in front of them. What is going through their brain???.....excuse me for making an unwarranted assumption. Of course they have no brain. Closely related to them are the ones that "shoot the gap". The gap is a vacant space usually one and a half car lengths long that is travelling down the road at 75+ miles per hour and these idiots decide they can hit the gap all the while traversing up to three lanes of traffic.
This insanity more and more makes me take some less traveled path where possible. We are approaching 1 rollover per day in the morning or evening traffic.
MY SOLUTION: 1) Start with the large trucks. All trucks should have a trailer number and a 1-800 number to call in their careless driving. 2) Crack down on speeding trucks. 3) Install auto-cams at overpasses that can detect speed and photo license plates. 4) Have more speed traps and fine the snot out of the offenders.
We are killing way too many people by auto and no one seems to care. Each year the killing on our highways increases. We get upset if an airplane goes down and kills 100 people. We get upset at the loss of life in Iraq for those who are protecting our freedom.
As of Jan 29, 2005 Irag war military casualties are 1429. Wounded are 10,770.
The numbers represent 23 months of the war.
Auto fatalities for 2003 were 43,220 and for 2002 were 42815. I could find no stats for 2004 but even assuming they went back down to 2002 levels we are talking in excess of 85,000 fatalities for the same period as the Iraq war. In Utah alone in 2004 there were 290 fatalities.
My point is that we rue the casualties of war and largely ignore the casualties of the automobile. We are willing to accept violent death only as long as it is delivered by automobile. Clearly, life itself has value only as to how we die. What is wrong with this thinking?
Well I could rant on but I am really bothered by this type of insanity.
posted by Kingpin @ 10:18 PM
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