Lorraine Explains: Is there anything you can do to avoid dangerous drivers?

Carnage headlines are the worst, but like most situations too horrible to wrap our heads around, it’s usually easier to conjure up reasons it couldn’t happen to us. Except, sometimes you can do everything right and still pay far too high a price due to someone else’s actions.

Last Sunday night, 9:30 pm. A horrific collision on highway 401 in Mississauga, Ontario. A 34-year-old man in a Corvette allegedly following too closely, and made the last unsafe lane change he would ever make and clipped a transport truck. That truck driver lost control, entered another lane and hit a Mazda, then the guard rail.

A 77-year-old female passenger in the Mazda died. The driver of the Corvette died. Both cars were destroyed — it’s hard to look at the scene. It’s brutal to calculate the sheer stupidity and selfishness of that Corvette driver. Not supposed to speak ill of the dead? Too bad. I will reserve every ounce of my sympathy for that poor woman in the Mazda, whoever was driving that car, and that trucker.

We’ve all been on the road with an idiot like that ‘Vette driver. Maybe they’re riding your rear bumper, pulling out and cutting you off and leaving you shaking. Maybe they’ve come up behind you out of seemingly nowhere and blasted past you. You shake your head, maybe your fist, and curse how easy it is to get a licence, how lax the policing is.

I will get letters now asking why manufacturers have to make cars that go faster than speed limits, and I will explain that cars are not guns. Millions of us use cars every day, safely and for their intended use: to take us where we need to go. They become weapons in the hands of the reckless, and a car that can only go 100 km/h can still go 100 km/h in a school zone. It’s the behaviour, not the vehicle.

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