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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3522716" data-attributes="member: 41321">I had a friend who drove like a maniac to the point where I was afraid to get in the car with him.&nbsp; I was told that he got into two accidents in the span of something like a month, the first he admitted was his fault but the second was when a motorcycle ran a red light.&nbsp; He said he didn't want to talk about what happened at the second accident, but he was sent back to driver retraining after that and became a whole new person in regards to his driving attitudes.&nbsp; I never pressed him on it, but before he went to retraining he was the type of person who would yell angrily when the light turned green if the line of cars at the light didn't jump forward immediately.&nbsp; Personally, I always wait a moment before moving if I'm first when the light turns green, because 4 out of 5 times someone will decide to sneak through the early red.&nbsp; I have a feeling my friend was first in line in this case when the light turned and he impatiently gunned it as soon as the color changed, not seeing the motorcycle trying to sneak through.&nbsp; Motorcycle versus car accidents are never pretty, and I hate to imagine what he did to the motorcyclist if that accident prompted him to get sent back to driver retraining when technically it was not his fault. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />My father always taught me that your car is a weapon.&nbsp; Something that big moving that fast can very easily kill a human being, and anything capable of causing death should be treated with the utmost respect.&nbsp; Driving like a maniac is like spinning a loaded gun around on your finger in a room full of children to show how &quot;cool&quot; you are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 3522716, member: 41321"] I had a friend who drove like a maniac to the point where I was afraid to get in the car with him. I was told that he got into two accidents in the span of something like a month, the first he admitted was his fault but the second was when a motorcycle ran a red light. He said he didn't want to talk about what happened at the second accident, but he was sent back to driver retraining after that and became a whole new person in regards to his driving attitudes. I never pressed him on it, but before he went to retraining he was the type of person who would yell angrily when the light turned green if the line of cars at the light didn't jump forward immediately. Personally, I always wait a moment before moving if I'm first when the light turns green, because 4 out of 5 times someone will decide to sneak through the early red. I have a feeling my friend was first in line in this case when the light turned and he impatiently gunned it as soon as the color changed, not seeing the motorcycle trying to sneak through. Motorcycle versus car accidents are never pretty, and I hate to imagine what he did to the motorcyclist if that accident prompted him to get sent back to driver retraining when technically it was not his fault. :( My father always taught me that your car is a weapon. Something that big moving that fast can very easily kill a human being, and anything capable of causing death should be treated with the utmost respect. Driving like a maniac is like spinning a loaded gun around on your finger in a room full of children to show how "cool" you are. [/QUOTE]

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