As I watched the car in front of me on Highway 78 swerve once to the left and twice to the right today (not drunk, just clearly occupied with something other than driving) - I thought about the fender bender I witnessed just yesterday at 78 and Rockdale Circle.
Clearly, people aren't paying attention to what they're doing while they're driving - OR, they are paying too much attention to everything else at the expense of their driving.
We would never want to get in an airplane if we thought the pilot was chit-chatting on his cellphone, reading a newspaper, text messaging, smoking,or eating. Why, we would be outraged! That would be grounds for a lawsuit.
We simply would not stand to have our safety compromised in such a way, would we?
Yet even the same people who would join us in our outrage will drive like this themselves - and there are a heckuva lot more objects and vehicles in close range of cars.
Too many drivers are taking their driver's license for granted. It's an everyday occurrence for them, like brushing their teeth - they think they can do it half asleep. It is a responsibility that we should all take seriously.
Oh, and if you see the young woman in the white Camaro that I saw a few weeks ago heading toward Loganville - she'll be the one speeding and doing radical lane changes, be sure to be nice to her. She's not going to live very long.
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