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I wonder how many of you would want to see your, (wife,daughter,son,etc) hung, or sent to prison for life if they happened to be the ones who didnt see the motorbike. Accidents do happen. Me personally I think banning cell phone use from moving vehicles would do more to make us all safer on the highways.



If your wife or kid is acting in a reckless manner in careless disregard of the lives of others should they get off with a slap on the wrist? If someone is seriously injured or killed because your wife or kid either couldn't be bothered to look or looked and ran over someone anyhow, should they get off lightly?

Just a few days ago I had some idiot on a cell phone change lanes into me because she couldn't be bothered to look. Blasting her with the Stebel horn and the sound of the TOR pipes were not enough to get her attention off her phone, and she had her window open! Luckily I had room to maneuver and when she finally noticed me she gave ME the stink eye! I'm sure she is someone's wife and child, but so what? She acted in wanton disregard for my safety and I’m sure I’m not the first.

If a person is injured or dies through the wanton indifference or carelessness of another in a situation not involving a motor vehicle there are usually serious consequences. Why shouldn’t killing or injuring someone with a car be treated the same way?

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.