Driving worries

[Flipzandchipz]

I’ve put it on parenting as I don’t think I really thought about this as much pre kids. Anyone else worry about driving?

Just thinking about the poor baby Zachary and his auntie Karlene who were killed on the A1 by a vile individual, drink driving/speeding.

I was driving from work yesterday and need to use the motorways/A roads. The weather was bad and there was a near miss just ahead of me due to speeding drivers.

I have just heard a honking of horns and looked out my window to see some idiot bloke driving down the road with his phone in his right hand, half texting/half driving.

One of my friends lost their lovely dad to a speeding driver around the corner from ours.

Last year when out with DH and DC we heard a speeding car on a 30 road, he lost control, started swerving left and right, genuinely thought he was going to take us all out and somehow he managed to stop, ended up facing oncoming traffic on a roundabout before speeding off

I’ve started to have intrusive thoughts about driving, either me being wiped out by a shit driver and not being around for DC or worse DC being wiped out by a shit driver.

I’m not really an anxious person but it’s definitely getting to me, the amount of terrible driving that goes on

The thing is - on a logical level - any of us can be killed or injured by anything at any point. As you said in your OP, you had a near miss when you were walking.

Sadly, there are victims of crime who are just sitting in the park or walking down the street. There are people struck by lightening every year. People get crushed by falling masonry or walls collapsing. Apparently, a surprising number of people get trampled by cows every year. People who do sport to stay healthy, sometimes have terrible injuries doing their sport.

Yes, selfish pricks can cause tragedies behind a wheel, but if you look at it statistically, the benefit of us being able to travel to where we need to be far outweigh the small risk of something terrible happening to you when driving.

I mean logically you’re right. And they’re not intrusive enough to prevent me driving. I can’t tell if I’m noticing it more now I’ve more to lose or if driving standards are getting worse.