If I were driving and someone dove in front of my car in the way in the video, I’d be tempted to run them over, not sure whether I would.  It was obviously not an accident.  Either he wanted to kill himself, or he wanted to stop me in a scummy scammy way.

Today he sent us one such video in which a brick came off a commercial load and went through the car windshield, crushing the head of the passenger, killing her instantly. Mercifully, you don’t see the carnage in the video but you hear the anguish of the driver. I won’t even link it because the sound still haunts me hours later.

This obsession with dash cams is more than a legal thing, its a morbid obsession with death and near-death experiences at the wheel. Its really dark stuff.

Driving is the most dangerous thing you can do – anywhere.

Actually untrue in parts of the US:  Gun Deaths Outpace Motor Vehicle Deaths in 10 States.

e.g.  Arizona: 856 gun deaths, 809 motor vehicle deaths

The more you know

After I moved to Poland I swore that when my wife and I finally bought a new car it would have every available safety feature offered.

Like RPGs and flame units?

After I moved to Poland I swore that when my wife and I finally bought a new car it would have every available safety feature offered.  So that’s exactly what I did and exactly what I got… and the shit I see here is not *nearly* as bad as the shameful stuff going on in Russia.  Nonetheless, I have seen some fairly fucked-up stuff here, most recently two dead bodies splayed on the side of a fairly busy road.  One of the guys clearly hadn’t been wearing a seatbelt (common) and had been ejected – he just looked like meat.  Cops/ambulance hadn’t shown up yet but as they were clearly dead I guess there wasn’t a huge hurry.