RE: [Harp-L] Driving While Blind (Blowing)?

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

Here's a nice stereotype, perpetuated by an episode of the immortal Fawlty 
Towers in the 1970s.  You guys over there have dead straight roads half a 
mile wide with no traffic and a speed limit of 55mph.  Steering wheels are 
virtually an option.   In Britain the widest road is two feet wider than 
your car and has more twists and turns than a barrelful of vipers, yet we 
all drive at 90 at least (and just try Italy).  Even if it were true, it 
still wouldn't be *entirely* safe on your roads to play whilst driving.  We 
all have an obligation to make our driving as entirely safe as possible.  
Coming up with the mobile phone argument is just downright fallacious.  You 
can't justify one not-very-acceptable action by hiding it behind one that's 
slightly worse.  Four people have been killed on the quiet country roads 
within a mile of my house this year.  You can bet your life that in every 
one of those crashes someone wasn't concentrating quite as much as they 
should have been.  Next trip to the shops and I might never go home again.  
You should have seen the wreck my wife was cut out of at 5pm on April 15 
2002, half a mile from our house.  She was hit head-on by a Transit van on 
her side of the road.  The driver was convicted of driving without due care 
and attention.  In other words, he had been momentarily distracted.  That's 
all it takes - a moment!

We need some clear thinking on this.  That's what I think anyway.  My wife's 
fine, by the way.

Steve



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Steve's CD of mostly traditional Irish,  "Blowing Through The Reeds,"  is 
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