After swimming with the Triathletes this evening I was sat at the traffic lights in Ely, waiting to turn right, listening to the excellent John Peel. “Why’s that bus sat there with its hazards on?”, I thought to myself. Minutes later I turned, and saw the remains of a dead dog behind the parked bus. Oh jeez. I guessed it was a dog by the size, and the black and white “fur”, but it could have been anything. It looked like it had been through a mincer – crushed by the bus.
Now, you see something like that, and it slows your driving right down. Who couldn’t see that and think, “What if that had been a kid?” Or, “What if I had been driving?” That’ll slow you right down. It reminds you that driving a car is a method of getting from A to B, and we’re all doing just that. So cut out the aggresive driving, the speeding and the lack of attention when you’re in the car, and just get where you’re going without incident. You don’t want to be sat in the car at the side of the road with your hazard lights on and a bloody mess crushed on the road behind you, do you?
