Basic life saving behavior
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Note: I realize this is a basic post, but I am amazed at how oblivious people are to the impact of their own behavior. I expect most of my readers are not oblivious, so I am not speaking about you.
The other day I was driving after a major thunderstorm had passed through the area. As is fairly common in the section of the city I was in, electricity had been taken out by the storm. Thus the traffic lights were not functioning and were completely dark. I had to negotiate my way through some major intersections. It was a stressful and life threatening ordeal. There was no need for it to be such. Drivers were just aggressively blowing through the intersections in their multi-ton death mobiles. Guess what, when you T-Bone another vehicle, you don’t get a chance to try again and make a better decision. Instead you get to live with the consequences for the rest of your life and the person you hit might not even get to live at all.
Anyway, in my city the law states that the intersection should be treat as a 4-way stop. It is crucial that everybody treat it the same way. Drive safely and I sincerely hope everyone you encounter is doing the same.
