🚀 go-pugleaf

martin@praxis.co.uk (Martin Croxford) writes:
> I spent yesterday (Sunday) afternoon in casualty with the friend referred
> to above. He wrote off his Peugot 205 1.9 GTi (bought 4 weeks after
> passing his test) attempting to drive round a corner too fast.
> Fortunately he didn't kill anybody, though he'll be paying for his
> mistake for a while - the car was only insured 3rd party; he couldn't
> afford more than the 1,000 odd quid that that cost him !

I wonder why they wanted to charge him 1000 quid, eh?

> He isn't a reckless driver (despite the boy racer image of his car),

Come off it.  What sort of driver do you think buys a 1.9 litre GTi
immediately after passing his driving test?  Is it (a) a careful considerate
one, or (b) a sad git with too much money who wants a macho metal penis
extension and thinks he's Nigel Mansell?

> just a bad one - he recognises that his driving needs improving
> (especially now !). The accident was his fault and nobody else was hurt
> and my first reaction was "he had it coming - he shouldn't have bought
> the car, he should have taken more lessons" etc. But what concerns me is
> that he could have wiped out a family. He was driving to the best of his
> ability - an ability that was enough to pass the driving test. 
> 
> I question a system that allows bad drivers on the roads, especially
> in powerful cars.

Delete the words "bad" and "powerful" from that last sentence, and you have
my sentiments exactly.

You probably think I'm being unnecessarily harsh.  If so, try being a cyclist.


mathew