Driving dangerous roads

Retrieved many tourists minus friends and loved ones numerous times.
The statements are all sadly the same.
“ such good/experienced drivers blah blah
blah.”
Then the bits that prove them idiots.
The expected destination or speed answer any question.
Best yet. Two Euro couples on holiday.
Traveling at 110 in a hired vehicle on popular tourist unsealed road.
Took seat belts off to enjoy the freedom of the out back.
Lost control rolled several times.
One of each partner left to go home without the other.
Lessons don’t get harder than that.
It’s the same old story every time with only the participants changing.
Hard for grieving family to cope with and easy to call people like me cynical.
It is nothing to do with the road.
It is rarely a failure of the vehicle.
It is because the pace desired is unable to be processed by the driver for the actual conditions.
People just stuff up sometimes.

My guess would be swerving at speed to avoid an animal, oversteering and over she goes.

In Australia we take for granted our ability to expect and compensate for wildlife at dusk and into the night. We know it might get a little ugly to steer straight but we know that a sudden swerve is a whole lot uglier. In an instant this poor kid probably just wanted to save the life of an animal and in doing so lost his own.

Drive to the conditions peoples...
includes skill, vehicle capabilities and road conditions etc.

Unfortunately younger people who learn in modern cars with all the safety gear come unstuck when ABS, traction control etc get confused by conditions they are not really designed for. So when things go pear shaped it often gets ugly.

Gotta admit sometimes I wonder how I managed to get to the greybeard stage with the crap we used to do in cars.[bighmmm]

Agree that safety systems in modern vehicles may cause us to overestimate the ability of the vehicle and ourselves to handle dangerous conditions. We can cruise along over a terrible road in relative comfort in a modern vehicle, while in an old clunker it would have shaken our teeth out to do the same speed. Of course, underneath the modern vehicle is also being hammered and will eventually fail. So I guess the storel to the morey is to slow down and enjoy the scenery.