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That is frightening. I barely survived, and I mean that in the strictest sense, barely surviving and years long recovery from being struck by an intoxicated dr
by naishoya 8d ago
That is frightening. I barely survived, and I mean that in the strictest sense, barely surviving and years long recovery from being struck by an intoxicated driver in a station wagon while crossing the street at a well marked intersection while on a bike riding to school when i was 13. Te driver was operating a vehicle, on a suspended license for prior intoxicated driving while still under the influence from the prior "night's" drinking which had not ended until less than three hours before the collision. I spent several weeks in a 'vegetative state' in addition to over 21 broken bones including a crushed pelvis and a ruptured spleen. So, I have a bit of first hand awareness of how important is is for drivers to be fully aware and in control of a vehicle. If you found yourself at about par for operation after 3 hours of training, the annualized risk of collision and number of traffic fatalities per 100k people is probably quite extreme. Hopefully the traffic is dense and road speeds are kept low by the density of traffic and frequency of intersections, instead of my case where very low traffic density and long straight stretches of road permitted an impact speed of about 65kph. Accident reconstruction and the marks on the roadway show that I went about 20m downrange before hitting the pavement, the bike traveled about twice that distance. Slower would certainly have been a real help in both avoiding and mitigating the damages.