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[discussion] Another preventable accident near our home (jlai.lu)
submitted 6 days ago by Hadriscus@jlai.lu to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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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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[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 days ago (12 children)

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.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I agree although i will say not every collision is caused by negligence or malice, at least by the driver. Negligence to make roads safer by changing their design, speed limit, or other factors is an important distinction. For example a road that 80km/h with many curves hills and bends in it should have certain areas with a reduced speed limit, such as where hills or curves dramatically reduce sightlines or have intersections close to those tight sight lines. This negligence is ultimately on what ever government agency is designing and maintaining roads and less on the driver.

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