Drive safely
02 Jul 2008 
around lunchtime 
Matt Winckler
Some safety propaganda at my workplace claims that 1 out of 4 vehicle accidents happen while backing up. Having firmly established the hazardous nature of reverse (using only these numbers), the propaganda piece then goes on to explain the various ways in which you can increase the safety of your vehicular backing (up to and including “get someone else to act as a spotter for you”–a first-rate suggestion which I plan to employ in the parking lot at my earliest convenience, perhaps next time I’m backing my motorcycle out).
However, if my math (and their statistical representation) is correct, this means that three out of four vehicular accidents happen while moving forward. Following this line of reasoning, it quickly becomes evident that driving forward is three times as dangerous as driving backward!
The solution to having safer roads seems obvious. I may write them a letter.
It’ll be like Corey Haim racing to get his pregnant mother to the hospital on time!
Yes!
And if I had a clue who Corey Haim was, I would doubtless agree even more.
:-(
hehe… consider yourself blessed. He was a teenage actor star in the 80s, and I was referencing his movie, License to Drive.
Hahahaha! Good point. :-) You should do a mass e-mailing about this before you leave. ;-)