I’ve slowed down in the car a lot since I’ve started cycling more. People drive way to fast, I’ll admit I’ve done/do the same thing but it only takes a fraction of a second for #### to go south and your speeding car can hop a curb and take out somebody on a sidewalk or at a light.
Two weeks ago I watched a car speeding get clipped at an intersection and go into a skid. It rolled twice and threw the passenger out the window 25 ft in the air. She had enough time in the air that I could turn to my son and tell him to look away before she landed in the middle of the road 100ft from where I stood. If they were doing 10kph less that crash wouldn’t have been as violent and maybe she would have lived.
Moral of the story, slow the #### down, you may think you are a superstar but you are not.
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