Thread: 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.

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.