I think that you may be missing the point.. the question :
> Do I get a safe modern car and no motorbikes for my daughters and tell
> them
> never to take up landscape gardening or go near trees?
is not about any given task, but rather taking advantage of all that
science has to offer about making any given task safer. All of this,
IMHO, pales when one tosses in experience. But the only way to get
experience is to drive for many years and moreover, many miles. The
only way to get there is to survive your first 5 or 10 years of
driving.
Lester
> On Apr 25, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
> I've had a 70mph+ motorbike accident when I finished up sliding up
> hill, up
> the road on the wrong side on my ar**. I did barrel roll in my Mini
> which
> wrote it up and which I walked away from. I had a bigger barrel roll
> as the
> passenger in someone else's Lancia Beta which I walked away from with
> a suspected
> fractured skull and amongst other things a small piece of glass in my
> finger
> which came out about 20 years later. I spun my Sprite and went into
> the crash
> barrier backwards which worked out very expensive for the insurance
> company.
>
> On the other hand my Dad never had any kind of automotive accident and
> never
> drove at the speeds at in a straightline that I've done through
> corners. He
> was generally sensible (that one time practicing a parking brake turn
> that
> while missed the lamp post was never practiced again). He was a
> professional
> gardner to an American billionaire who had a British residence. Yet
> after a
> Hurricane swept throught this country in 1987 he died helping clear up
> fallen trees
> when one fell the wrong way and crushed him to death.
>
> Go figure??
>
> Do I get a safe modern car and no motorbikes for my daughters and tell
> them
> never to take up landscape gardening or go near trees? Or do I get
> them a
> Spridget and send them on advanced driving courses and put my trust in
> God rather
> than ABS and airbags?
>
> Daniel1312
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