Car Crash Video From Wisconsin

http://youtu.be/CHG4sh14Zw8

Have you seen the unbelievable footage of car after car after car run into each other on a snowy Wisconsin road in December?

It's ridiculous.

To me it just backs up the fact that pile-ups are inexcusable. That we travel too fast for road conditions and too close to one another.

According to the Daily Mail, "Twelve people were injured, according to Germantown police, who said they were amazed by the number of motorists who remained standing on the road. Officer Tim Miller, who was en route to another crash, said: 'If people watch Nascar, and they watch the Daytona 500 or Talledega, where they wait for what’s called the Big Crash, where all the cars crash because they’re all so close together, that’s what this was like..."

The way our highways are currently operated, if you crash, you will more then likely be hit by someone else. We are driving at too high of speeds and too closely to one another.

This is the way we want our modern society to continue.

This video looks like we are little ants.

A Ticket is all One Woman Received after Plowing Into Another Person, Killing Her Unborn Child

The woman who caused this young woman to lose half of her leg and lose her unborn baby, she was 6 months along, received a ticket. She plowed into this woman going around 70 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. She was texting and speeding.

All of that damage and she received a ticket.

If you want to kill someone in America, do it in a car. You'll probably just get a ticket. We need much stricter laws. Why are we letting people off the hook for killing or maiming others when they are speeding, texting, tailgating? If they don't understand that these actions kill then they should not be given a license or they are too stupid to be driving.

Wake up America.

http://youtu.be/FZHRyk4AbFw

Road Deaths Are A Global Epidemic

Road deaths are a global epidemic.

And the news is not good, it's set to get worse.

Some days I question myself for doing this blog but it's a way to try to fix something that drives me nuts. Even if it is only a handful of people I'm currently reaching.

I was hoping to get more mom bloggers on board, car crashes are the #1 cause of death to kids in America. I see so much campaigning for cancer and children who are hungry, which is awesome but we really do need to start focusing our attention on this very fixable problem.

Read this:

Every six seconds, someone is killed or seriously injured in a traffic accident. Every day, 3,500 people are killed in car crashes.

That means traffic fatalities are a global epidemic on par with malaria and tuberculosis, according to a new report issued by the Campaign for Global Road Safety.

"The epidemic has reached crisis proportions," wrote Kevin Watkins, a Brookings Institute researcher whoauthored the report, and the problem is "set to worse over the years ahead."

There are 1.3 million annual global road deaths, and they are the No. 1 global cause of deaths of young people ages 10 to 24. Approximately 260,000 children die in car accidents annually, according to the World Health Organization.

Air pollution also kills an estimated 1.3 million people each year, according to the report, and 70 to 90 percent of fatal pollutants, such as carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide, originate from automotive traffic, the report says.

"There are no surprises or hidden magic bullets for tackling the road traffic injury crisis," Watkins writes. "Vehicles need to be separated from vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists." (Autos AOL)

Watch Our New PSA

Shannon Noel, a fellow LA mom/singer/song writer/comedian wrote this original song for Fix The Toaster. We had a lot of fun filming it. It's a funny video with a serious message. We hope you enjoy it.

http://vimeo.com/71349597

You are 23 x More Likely to Crash While Texting & Driving

http://youtu.be/6q0lsNOGVa0

PSA to Veterans

This warns Veterans that the number one cause of death post being back home after serving is car crashes.Interesting fact I think.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCV1uAYFJW8]

Irresponsible Subaru Commercial

NODD just shared a Subaru commercial and commented that it was, well stupid. [youtube=http://youtu.be/E6Sjaq_QhRY]

After watching it I have to say I agree.

In the video a young woman admits she fell asleep at the wheel.

Then  she's handed a check from Subaru for $10,000 because she has been working so hard and she's having a hard time making ends meet. In fact she was working so hard that she fell asleep at the wheel, is what is implied.

The reason this is problematic is it perpetuates the myth that cars keep up safe and car crashes are just accidents that can not be helped.

People make us safe by driving the best we can and the majority of car crashes are avoidable.

Of course we are happy this young woman walked away uninjured but there is a problem in the message here.

Car Crashes Are The #1 Cause of Death To Kids Ages 1-12

Car crashes are the singular biggest event claiming the lives of our youth.

Car crashes are the #1 KILLER of American kids ages 1-12. 

We all go out while pregnant and make sure we invest in the best car seat, a lot of us go to the local firehouse and have them properly install it. Then we labor for hours, sometimes days and we finally drive our precious newborn home as safely as possible.

If only we always drove home like we do on that drive.

As a mother I of course am trying to encourage other mothers and fathers to help spread the word. Our children are dying in mostly preventable crashes. 

We need to slow down, get off our phones, not tailgate and drive with more care. 

Keeping our kids safe goes beyond the car seat. It frustrates me that the media focuses on freak accidents and we all start to live in fear of events we truly can not predict. But these car crashes, a lot, can be avoided.

Talk about tailgating and using your phone at the dinner table. It is important. 

Humans Are Mostly Good, Tailgating is Really Bad, So Why Are People Doing It?

Do you tailgate?

You shouldn't.

It's dangerous. Really, really dangerous. If the person in front of you isn't going fast enough pass them but better yet relax. 

Especially on the freeway when you are driving at high speed where injuries are a lot greater, due to speed. Can you imagine crashing at 65MPH or 80MPH? The thought horrifies me.

Women, on average, labor 18-24 HOURS with their first child. Your arriving 10 minutes faster to a destination or even 60 minutes faster is not worth compromising your life or someone else's.

If a true accident were to occur and the person in front of you had to quickly stop and you did not leave enough room and you hit them that would be a crash. 

You would seriously injure, perhaps kill someone and you could have avoided it.

Fix The Toaster's First PSA on Driving Distracted

Here is it.

Our first PSA.

Limited time and budget but the thought was there.

It may be stupid.

But driving while looking at your phone is far mas stupider.