Speed Kills
By maevic
@maevic (819)
Bahrain
May 6, 2007 7:18am CST
May 1 is the international labor day but now we may celebrate this with different thing in mind. We have a family friend. THey are very nice people and part of a prominent family in Bahrain. Their brother died on May 1 involving an accident. He is using a very nice ford mustang. He died after 4 hours. He suffered major injuries on his head. He is very young and until now we cannot believe that he is gone.
So those parents who are blessed with money, please don't buy your son a sports car. U are putting their lives in danger.
What's your opinion about this?
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3 responses
@Norstar (694)
• India
6 May 07
I perfectly agree with you. If the son is very young, it is potentially harmful to give him a sport/ powerful bike or car.
Driving for pleasure requires that we should first learn to have control over our emotions, ego and immaturity. We must be always alert and do every thing not to meet with accidents so that we remain alive and fit to drive for pleasure fot the next time.
Rich parents often are unable to refuse to give to their children potentially dangerous devices or motorised machines. That is how the children are brought up.
In the end all suffer. It is sad but true.
@11BIGATOM11 (196)
• Australia
23 Jun 07
Speeding is lethal.
The reason is, because the faster you go the more deceleration you have to do to come to a stop.
We know that the force exherted depends on acceleration. So the faster the acceleration or deceleration the higher the force becomes. So when you're speeding and crash your car slows down a lot faster from a higher speed to 0; and so you experience a large force on your body which results in injuries.
@AD11RGUY (1265)
• United States
1 Oct 07
I disagree. Speeding is speeding. Hitting a stationary object with enough velocity and not enough protection can be lethal. If speed kills, then no one who ever has gone speeding would be alive today. That includes those who fly. There is too much focus on the arbitrary item of speed and far too little attention on how to properly use tools in there respective work environments. For example: Mario Andretti has been speeding for years. He has also crashed numerous times. But thanks to proper training and sufficient protection, he is still alive today. If we took driver's ed. more seriously in this country we would all be much better off.
@AD11RGUY (1265)
• United States
1 Oct 07
I am VERY sorry about what happened to this very young man! I hope that you will be able to remember the greatness of him having been in your lives instead of the pain and suffering you now feel. I truly am sorry.
As far as the sports car issue, I see no harm in owning/driving any type of vehicle at any age. After all, it is not the vehicle that causes the mayhem. The problem is the lack of proper training on how to properly and responsibly utilize this tool. Very few people are allowed to fly the space shuttle. It requires very specific training. Yet it is just another form of people mover as is a car. People take it for granted that they can drive a car. Fact is, cars require specific training as well. ALL new drivers should have someone of distinguished ability teach them the finer aspect of using this tool. And for those who can afford it, send the new driver to a real driving school, i.e. Skip Barber's school of driving. If all of us were properly trained on how to use these tools, we would greatly reduced the number of accidents, let alone deaths, from use of these otherwise wonderful tools.I hope in the future you will be able to help those who do not know yet how to use a car proficiently. Please be well and take care.
