So I tried to break up my ranting with cute animal pictures, but then following landed in my inbox, courtesy of the BBC:
“Police say a number of people are seriously hurt in a crash involving 30 cars which was caused by fog.”
I can’t think for the life of me how a crash can POSSIBLY be caused by fog. Did the fog wrap its icy claws around everybody’s accelerator pedals? Jam the brakes? Topple a bridge? Fuddle their brains? No. Driving ‘faster than they could see’. Stupid bastards. Of course, as is usually the case, the casualties will probably not be restricted to the stupid ones.
I want to know who said the so-called accident was “believed to have been caused by dense fog and rain”. Hopefully just some webmonkey working late at the BBC, and not the Chief Constable quoted later in the article.
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Well well. Overnight they’ve changed it to “…is believed to have happened in dense fog and rain.” Hurrah.
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With all these animal posts my first reading was that the crash was caused by a frog and I was thinking of how slippery and slimey a frog could be and yes a big one could get stuck under a break peddle. On a more serious note though road accidents are a big problem. I psychologist that I once asked for a main reason that road accidents occur. His answer was “people driving like wankers”. In the UK since 1992, many accidents involving lots of vehicles and casualties do occur in fog. Given the capabilities of modern technology this should not still be happening.
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Mr T! Welcome to my world of randomly mixed topics. Good point about technology, but really a pair of eyes (in fact one will do), a foot and half a brain is all that’s needed isn’t it?
Eye can’t see far enough…
Brain say slow down…
Foot release accelerator.When I’m King, I will send out double the usual number of Cardboard Child units on foggy days.
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