I just read about a terrible accident in Ohio which claimed the lives of three young girls. In the article I read it said that the truck los control and hit a tree.
I realize that when the article was published, perhaps, evidence was not conclusive and so facts were not known. But I think it is dangerous territory we wade into when we say things like, "the car lost control." A more recent report from the Huffington Post says that speeding from the young driver was involved.
I cringe when local newscasters talk about 3 car pileups that will soon be cleared. In fact, I appreciate 91.5 FM's for that fact that their morning on air personality Dennis Bartel will note that he hopes the people are OK who are in the accidents. He is the only news figure in LA I have heard regularly acknowledge that there are people inside the "piled up" cars that prove to inconvenience us so much.
Cars do not lose control.
We have lost control.
We are driving around powerful, heavy, dangerous modern inventions that we are killing each other with.
That is the way the car should be talked about right now.
I wonder what the inventor of the car, Mr. Benz, would think if he knew how many people now die daily in cars?
