why women are bad drivers

that you'd pick up on this one...

Incidentally, straw poll among the women in my building says she should have been fined more, had 3 months in jail, and her licence suspended for at least a year.

Breakfast news "reconstructed" this in a simulator yesterday, and the reporter drove off the "road" after only 10 seconds......

:D

GG

and between us, we have seen:

a woman putting on nail varnish whilst driving

a man bottle feeding a baby in a car seat (in the passenger seat) whilst driving

numerous people talking on mobile phones whilst driving

numerous people attempting to text on mobile phones whilst driving

unbelievably - a guy trying to reverse a lorry whilst talking on a mobile

and, finally, a lorry driver attempting to map read on the outside lane of the motorway, doing 80mph, with the map totally obscuring his vision out of the windscreen......

And yes, Mae, I'd like to do that with their mobiles phones, too!!

:D

GG

I had to spend 7 months in bed with a broken leg because of the freaking cell phones.

The jeep driver backed in the middle of the road while talking on a fone and ran over my leg !!!

Apparantely I had to scream at the top of my lungs before he even realized that his jeep tyre was sitting on my leg.

]:)

I want it made legal to shoot their engines out..with high explosive armour piercing rounds...I would shoot from the rear, so it goes through the gas tank. ]:)

it is illegal here to talk on cell phones* and drive.

* hands free & voice activated are exempted from restriction.

it was genetics? :O

As for Maes post about the guy reading the book, I spend two hours on the highway everyday, and I see people reading newspapers across their stearing wheels and everything.

I can't WAIT for the cell phone restrictions to go into affect! I am thinking more and more about getting one of those scramblers!

I will look to see who is calling me, generally I don't even answer until I get to where I am going. If I do, it is a quick "what do you want? call you in a bit"

While I HATE phones when I am out to eat, at least it doesn't risk mine and everyone elses lives.

Makeup. what a stupid thing to kill someone over. she is lucky no one stepped out in front of her.

work well together! :)

And yes, I have NO problem asking for directions.. My ego is JUST fine.

I was new to my time and 4 of us flew into a city I'd never been to before. We rented a car and head to the hotel, having used Microsoft's streets and maps to find our way. We ended up in the middle of a residential area with no commerical buildings within 5 blocks in any direction. We called the hotel for directtions traced our way back and found a commercial section, and drove along the strip until we spotted the hotel on the top of a hill.

MS had confused two similar street names, and it took us about 45 minutes to recover.

James

I've noticed, lately, that you no longer have to use $ signs for ass or its derivatives if you wish to use the word and there are a few others as well. Just thought you'd like to know.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

who are stupid drivers like that make a bad name for the rest of us.

I'd never try putting on makeup. And I use a headset when using a cell-phone.

Of course, I [b]have[/b] had my share of brain lapses when in a car. I'd elaborate but I don't want to bore anyone (although now, looking back, they're rather humorous)

will soon bring most idiots to a shuddering halt.

According to actuarial statistics, the group between ages 25 - 60 per 1000 miles driven is the safest, with a slight lead for women between ages 25 to 32, after which men ease ahead. Studies indicate that men put more miles on their vehicles than women do on average.

Males between 16 to 25 have the worst accident ratings although over the past 15 years that has improved slightly. Surprisingly over the past 15 years the accident rates of females in the same age group has been slowly advancing. The next worst group for accidents is the 70 to 85 group with women slighhtly leading the way. Perhaps because in that age group there seem to be more women drivers than men driving, maybe because so many men predecease their wives.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

too many accidents in my life, but one of them put my dad's car in a lake. (just the front end). I was in my teens, late for work, on wet pavement covered in leaves. Long story short, I went through someone's yard, down a hill and into a lake. At 6:00 AM on a Saturday. Daddy was not amused.

Oh, and once I knocked the sideview mirror off my car while backing out of the garage. But as far as I can remember, that was my only 'reverse' problem.

Actually I think they are awesome. They can reverse an SUV into a tight spot in a parking station while talking on the hand-held phone.

As for penalties, we have the same stupid rules in NSW, Australia. With double demerits during public holidays and long weekends, two instances of exceeding the speed limit by more than 15 kph, or driver and one passenger not wearing a seat belt and bingo -- you have lost your license.

I would like to see a fine of, say, $1,000 for the first instance of using a cell phone while driving, and automatic loss of licence for a second offence.

The fellow hit me coming over the hill and started to lock up. The traffic was stopped waiting on someone making a left turn 100 yards over a steep hill...

What caused that accident was the speed at which the fellow came over the hill he was doing 55 in a 55. I was stopped at the end of a line of traffic in Dayton, OH. His proclivity had nothing to do with the accident. He just had all assets protected by trusts. His insurance was a 25000.00 bond. The repairs to the car and medical bills ended up totaling about 75,000. That didn't include lost wages etc...