Yari's fling with guardrail

[Loren]

I didn't want to be overly harsh, but I definitely agree that while stuff like this does "happen", it shouldn't be taken lightly. As has been said, he was LUCKY that he didn't get hurt or killed and that nobody else did, either. A close friend of mine (and not a kid, he's in his early 50's) got into an accident that wasn't even his fault. Someone else screwed up and he did what he had to do to avoid them. But, he had been driving "agressively" in the minutes before that, and many witnesses were ready to testify to that. What happened? He got the side of his Miata mangled sideswiping an armored truck (which was at fault, illegally merging before the beginning of a merge lane). The problem was that the driver of that truck overcorrected and ended up overturned in a guardrail... would have been funny, but the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene. My friend was charged with manslaughter, spent 3 years fighting it, almost ended up in jail, is a couple hundred thousand dollars poorer from legal fees, and STILL doesn't have his license back.

It can happen that fast.

Yes, these things happen. An unexpected situation ending in a crash is bound to happen to everyone at least once in their life as a driver. If you're SMART, it will happen only once. If you're REALLY SMART, you'll make sure it happens in a controlled environment where you can learn from it and not endanger other people.

I only wish someone had told me about testing the limits of a car in a closed environment 25 years ago... maybe I'd have avoided 7 car wrecks and totalling 2 cars in my first 2 years of driving!

Don't drive on the street like you're invincible people! You're not.