Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:40 am
Rubber_Johnnie wrote:TripleS wrote:...Even so, I still have the feeling that we could make a very useful improvement in road safety without a huge effort in formal training and testing, merely by the delivery of a few key messages via TV presentations.
I would support that wholeheartedly.
People generally are under the impression that "it will never happen to them" and have very little idea of it will be like when it does happen. As a Johnnie, I have seen a little of what happens when it goes wrong. I'm sure that for the emergency service drivers on this forum it will be all too familiar. Of course, it's usually the young males who think they are invincible that are the worst (Regretably, speaking from personal experience )
I was very lucky a time or two in my first few years of driving. It still frightens me now to just picture some of the things I did. There were one or two minor mishaps without anybody getting hurt, like me getting rear ended twice, but I could also have had a couple of highish speed nasties of my own making. <big shudder>
Take care all,
Dave.