Safe and Sound

I was driving down the highway way past mid-night, as I usually do, when I was struck with yet another horrific sight. I say ‘yet another’ mainly due to the familiarity by which it occurs. A mid-sized car was stationed at the side of the road with every possible part of it tattered badly out of shape.

The legal nature of the incident was a road accident and its consequence, fatal. The headlights of the car nearly met each other with the bonnet symmetrically bent at the centre. The glass on the windshield was quite obviously not on it. The occupant’s compartment was heavily pressed which meant that the impact was not head on. Whether or not there were any passengers or survivors I’d never know. Probably the spectators might have a better clue.

But it really worries me. The sight of these accidents. And the afterthought of how it might have panned out. It was probably not the drivers fault. But he shouldn’t be faulted with a car that isn’t crashworthy. We need safer cars, or rather smarter cars. Like the one being dished out by the name of Ritz in the month of May. It incorporates a collapsible steering column in case of an unavoidable collision, an electronic stability program amongst a host other of safety technologies. In all honestly, it would have probably been able to save that drivers life and granted me some sound sleep.