Someone drove into a family this evening. Two boys are severely injured. I’m shaking because it happened super close and it could have been anyone I know, or me.
There’s a big proportion of absurdly dangerous drivers here in Mayotte. Most people drive okay, and there’s a few fine & courteous drivers too. But this small demographic endangers everybody else.
On an island without curbs, where the rainy season makes every road muddy and slippery, where entire families routinely go to the mosque and back on foot twice a day, there’s also dicks in audis, cunts in huge jeeps, and neither get the hint. It’s small villages throughout, a few extended families, everybody knows everybody. The fucker is still being deincarcerated from his 2 ton metal box. You can be sure he will be shunned for the rest of his life. But that’s a meager consolation. It could have been me, it could have been my wife, it could have been any of the kids I know from the neighbourhood,…
I needed to get this off my chest. God, really, genuinely fuck cars.
Be safe,
Hadri
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I hate how the manipulative term “accident” is normalized. This was no accident. No automobile collision is ever an accident. There is negligence and there is malice, and this sounds like both.
A better word is “road murder”.
No. That is worse.
Murder is a specific crime that needs to be done with intent. Not a good replacement for describing all automobile collisions.
Collision is a neutral term. A good choice from being neutral. Negligence is another good one. The term is biased against the driver, but not in a way that is so vitriolic to stop the term being adopted widely.
I don’t know if it’s negligence though, if many car accidents are caused by drivers looking on their phones (that to me seems quite damn intentional stupidity) and crashing into pedestrians and bicyclists because the first named ones didn’t stop.
Driver inattention is negligence. Road design that allows a lapse in concentration to cause injuries or fatalities is negligent design. Drivers failing to follow the rules of the roads is a sign of negligent training. Unsafe drivers continuing to maintain a license is also negligence.
There is no way for an automobile to collide with something without there being negligence or malice on the part of some involved party.
All collisions are avoidable. Calling them accidents implies otherwise.
Here in my part of the US road design is usually decent for protecting pedestrians, and my family has been doing a lot of walking since pandemic.
But now my youngest is in college, and he’s continued the “long walk” tradition. But the town he’s in has no sidewalks outside of campus, has roads without even a shoulder. Now he’s at much higher risk of a moment of inattentiveness by some drunk or texting college kid