Another senseless Tragedy!

Kia Ora,

Another weekend & another senseless tragedy.

Finished up the day shift of new service & living in a business area could hear & see the vehicles all leaving. As usual the traffic was backed up past the base, the roads were wet & then you hear the idiots leaving work in their souped up vehicles, trying to drift, do burn outs or just being idiots.

So as readied gear for the night it came over the news that a child had been killed. First reports included an interview with an eyewitness who said it appeared car had been drifitng.

The police of course have to be very careful in what they say as it is an on going investigation.

Claims are now been made that the driver would not drift in the amount of traffic around. Well they do outside where I am based with traffic at times nose to tail, so what is so different about him?

The other of course is that he is a nice person. Unfortunately NZ is full of nice people who are idiots when they get behind a steering wheel.

So the question needs to be asked is it this young guys fault or one of our society, where aggressive driving is the norm?

On the following night it showed that even if the person in question hadn't been drifiting, the lesson had not got through to the boyracer crowd.

Whilst driving to check out an area covered by the new 0900 service, I along with other traffic were forced to stop as an idiot decided to use a roundabout to go drifting around.

Well Buddy your personalized plate was easy to take down & is now in process of being reported to the police.

As I write this I have been adding to the left drivers education material from the US, I would say (I am not allowed to click those I add to stop fraudalent use of the system). When you visit places like the US you notice how good the driving is compared to NZ & I would say the main reason is the driver educaiton offered as part of their school system.

Probably the best driving overall I have seen was in Iraq, as there were virtually no rules & so the drivers had to be very aware of all going on around them.

That is not to say there weren't incidents as years of sanctions had resulted in many vehicle's being of dubious quality. One call over the radio was even to look at a car where the driver appeared to be using the Fred Flinstone method of stopping with his feet through the floor boards.

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