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The naivety of youth
There's a young blackbird in the garden. I spotted it yesterday. It scratches around on the path looking for food and pays me little attention. I have to keep an eye out for it lest I tread on it.
There was an item on the radio this morning about speed limits in rural areas. They are too high. Crashes are due not to speed limits being too high but to brain power of drivers being too low.
As I marched back from my early morning walk I passed the scene of a crash. A small J reg Peugeot had overturned on a narrow double bend. The driver, a young man, must have come down the steep hill too fast, braked, hit a post on the bank which overturned his car. A car travelling uphill had stopped as had a van travelling downhill. Two young men stood forlornly by the upside-down car. The young men in the car, with the road and recent fall of rain, were an accident waiting to happen. As I passed, I heard one of the men in the van say to another that there had been three so far that morning. I presumed he meant crashes so I remarked, crossly, that it had just rained so roads would be slippery, and added 'God, there must be some wallies about.'
I must remember to avoid that road particularly when it could be slippery. However well people drive round those bends they can do nothing to avoid vehicles whose paths are controlled by the laws of physics rather than by their drivers.
Thought for today
There are no dangerous roads, only dangerous drivers.
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