Drivers are idiots

There's an old story that most crashes happen within something like 400m from home. Well I was about that distance from home this week, and I saw the aftermath of someone elses crash.

There is a street on the home stretch that is long, straight and wide, and some drivers have a tendency to zoom along it well over the speed limit. It's a great place to do it, apart from the fact that it is a quiet suburban street and there are plenty of cross streets and lots of cars pulling out of driveways etc.

I always keep well out into the middle of that road as cars coming from the left and right have a bad habit of not giving way. They've all got to stop at stop signs, but when they see a bike coming, they just say "screw it" and pull out. If I hit them, they won't get hurt, so they don't care. It's a road where both hands have to be kept on the brake levers and you need to be ready to take evasive action at any moment.

What I came across this week was a classic two car prang, where one car had been going down the hill and a car had pulled out from the left and been collected around the front wheel. Both cars were a right mess, but both drivers were out of their cars talking to tow truck drivers when I got there. Both cars were still in the middle of the road, and they had hit each other with enough force to bend the front wheels inwards at funny angles.

The car that had been going down the hill was one of those mini-Lexus models. The type that seem to be favoured by Lebanese drug dealers. I imagine that he was going way too fast, and the chick who pulled out simply didn't see him as he belted around a shallow bend.

What is it about Lexus and drug dealers?

Do you think their marketing department was sitting around back in the early 1990's trying to figure out the target market, and they thought, "Let's target rappers and drug dealers - they have plenty of money and no taste". I think not. Poor bastards. They struggle for years to produce a car that will knock Mercedes off their perch, and it is taken over by people who think that 10 chunky gold chains around the neck are just not enough for a trip to the shops. I bet the most requested after accesory is an awesome stereo.

Wankers. May they all die in fiery pile ups.