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cazalea
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In the past 2 weeks, 2 drivers have hit parked cars near my house

Luckily not on our street, which is a dead-end but still gets 40 mph maniacs driving through.

Each of the accidents was due to reaching over to the passenger seat to get something, and veering into parked cars.
Naturally each poor parked car was punted up into a front yard.

Neither of the drivers was hurt and both expressed astonishment that such a thing could happen! "I was only going about 30-35 mph, when I reached over to get my sweater off the front seat, and suddenly the airbags went off in my face" the first lady told me, not knowing me from Adam and with no thought of the consequences. Imagine the surprise of the owners of the minivan she hit, when they came back from the store and found their car in a neighbor's front yard.

The second driver had been drinking and had two small children with him in the car. Ironically, he'd been looking back at the children telling them to be quiet while they were shouting to him to stop driving... he said all this in front of a crowd of witnesses. His right front wheel was ripped off in the impact, complete with brake, spindle, steering rod, etc. The right rear was punctured and he had tried to drive off without those two wheels. Didn't do the pavement any good either.

I need to move to a neighborhood with safer drivers!

Mike