4wd versus Car Deaths

No matter what vehicle you drive, accidents happen and people pay for it forever.

We cannot make a rule to cover every possible accident situation, commonsence and due vigilence must always prevail.

I think the problem these days is there must always be someone or something to blame.

G'day Wilgadene ,
funny we didn't hear about that on the national news , ah , thats right , you did say it was a car not a 4wd , watched a segment on A Current Affair a few months ago where someone walked behind a 4wd and placed a teddy bare right behind it , like at the tow ball , never guess what happened , it got run over , why don't they do these tests on all other vehicles just to be fair , i'm sure the results would be the same , except you have a lot more clearence under a 4wd ,, but of corse , thats not the agender is it !!

Hear is one from the other end of the spectrum. With a happy ending

When I was young (really young Like 4) I was with my grandfather and he was unhooking the trailer from the back of his patrol in the driveway.

As I was walking around I climbed back into the Nissan and sat in the drivers seat and pretended I was driving, my grandfather would sometimes let me sit on his lap and do a lap around the block so I thought I was just getting in some more practises.

Any way he had left the key in the ignition with the radio going and it was I reverse so being young and always wanting to touch things I turned the key and being a diesel it started right away and the patrol took off in reverse taking my grandad underneath it.

Now because it was a 4WD and had the ground clearance as the patrol went back he hit the ground lying in the centre of the driveway and it went over the top of him not even touching him. The Nissan came to a halt as it hit a tree in his front yard. He was in shock and I was most upset.

My grandfather when ever he talks about it always said it was his fault as he left the key in the car and had it in gear and. the big one he said he should have been watching what I was doing around an automobile more closely.

When I think about it I can not believe I did something so stupid but like he says I was little and did not know.

Now if it had been the car and not the patrol i would of killed him, I get shivers just thinking about it!!

Gday

I just heard, a very short segment on a car (not a 4wd) bowling over 7 kids at a school, one apparently very serious. I hate hearing things like this happen, but my point is will this get as much media attention as the child versus 4wd did .

Clive