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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Assholes and Education
- Message-ID: <930121.180052.4j6.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:00:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.164724.13896@praxis.co.uk>
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- martin@praxis.co.uk (Martin Croxford) writes:
- > I spent yesterday (Sunday) afternoon in casualty with the friend referred
- > to above. He wrote off his Peugot 205 1.9 GTi (bought 4 weeks after
- > passing his test) attempting to drive round a corner too fast.
- > Fortunately he didn't kill anybody, though he'll be paying for his
- > mistake for a while - the car was only insured 3rd party; he couldn't
- > afford more than the 1,000 odd quid that that cost him !
-
- I wonder why they wanted to charge him 1000 quid, eh?
-
- > He isn't a reckless driver (despite the boy racer image of his car),
-
- Come off it. What sort of driver do you think buys a 1.9 litre GTi
- immediately after passing his driving test? Is it (a) a careful considerate
- one, or (b) a sad git with too much money who wants a macho metal penis
- extension and thinks he's Nigel Mansell?
-
- > just a bad one - he recognises that his driving needs improving
- > (especially now !). The accident was his fault and nobody else was hurt
- > and my first reaction was "he had it coming - he shouldn't have bought
- > the car, he should have taken more lessons" etc. But what concerns me is
- > that he could have wiped out a family. He was driving to the best of his
- > ability - an ability that was enough to pass the driving test.
- >
- > I question a system that allows bad drivers on the roads, especially
- > in powerful cars.
-
- Delete the words "bad" and "powerful" from that last sentence, and you have
- my sentiments exactly.
-
- You probably think I'm being unnecessarily harsh. If so, try being a cyclist.
-
-
- mathew
-