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812602 2009-09-21 22:08:00 * Distractions on the road

Last year's statistics on road crashes show 40 people died as a result of diverted attention. Reading is not listed. Reasons for distraction:

Cigarette, radio, glove box etc - 223 non-fatal accidents, 6 fatal.

Cellphone or communication device: 116 non-fatal, 1 fatal.

Driver dazzled: 205 non-fatal accidents, 5 fatal.

Advertising sign: 4 non-fatal accidents, 0 fatal.

Emotionally upset - 92 non-fatal accidents, 7 fatal.

Animal or insect in car - 24 non-fatal accidents, 0 fatal.

Passengers - 146 non-fatal accidents, 8 fatal.

Scenery or people outside vehicle - 145 non-fatal, 1 fatal.

Trying to find house or intersection - 42 non-fatal, 0 fatal.

Other - 154 non-fatal 9 fatal


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Zippity (58)
812603 2009-09-21 22:43:00 Emotionally upset - 92 non-fatal accidents, 7 fatal.

Passengers - 146 non-fatal accidents, 8 fatal.


Ban passengers.
Ban being upset.
pctek (84)
812604 2009-09-21 22:57:00 Ban passengers.
Ban being upset.

+1 for those thoughts! :D
Chilling_Silence (9)
812605 2009-09-21 23:10:00 +1 for those thoughts! :D

Make that +2,for those criminal thoughts.

Lets hope we don't go down that path.
Cicero (40)
812606 2009-09-21 23:12:00 Can we ban people wanting to ban things? johcar (6283)
812607 2009-09-21 23:17:00 Can we ban people wanting to ban things?

Now you are talking of Paradise,and there ain't no such place.
Cicero (40)
812608 2009-09-21 23:22:00 Now you are talking of Paradise,and there ain't no such place.

I'm sure I saw it once... by the dashboard light...





(A Meatloaf reference for those musically-challenged or too young to have been exposed to the high quality music produced in the seventies, eighties and early nineties :) )
johcar (6283)
812609 2009-09-21 23:29:00 (A Meatloaf reference for those musically-challenged or too young to have been exposed to the high quality music produced in the seventies, eighties and early nineties :) )

You got this album? www.rhino.com
the_bogan (9949)
812610 2009-09-21 23:55:00 Hmm. Don't know that I'd admit to that, even if I did. (There are a couple of classics there though!!) johcar (6283)
812611 2009-09-22 00:18:00 I wonder if someone drives to work sucking on those space candies. You know, those cigarette shaped candy sticks. Will they be arrested? :rolleyes: bob_doe_nz (92)
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