FATALLY STUPID DRIVING

It happens every day on the roads and it's nothing but luck that more people don't die as a result. Last Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Driver who stopped for ducklings found guilty". This incident occurred in Quebec close to where my sister lived decades ago. Inexperience, immaturity and just plain stupidity caught up to this young woman who didn't have the common sense not to stop in the fast lane of a multilane highway to try and save some ducklings who had wandered onto the roadway. Accounts differ as to whether she had her fourway flashers on but it really makes no difference. Other stupid drivers think that four way flashers are just dandy. Well they are for literally the first car immediately behind. But when that car veers off into another lane the next car is way too close to have time to avoid crashing into the rearend while driving at highway speeds. The possible penalties include fourteen years for dangerous driving causing death or even a life sentence for criminal negligence. These penalties quite frankly are almost as stupid as the driver herself. They won't make her any smarter or bring back the two people she killed. A more legitimate penalty would be a lifetime driving ban. That would denounce her negligence and stupidity and make the driving public safer. It's just a shame that more drivers can't be removed permanently from our roads before they kill someone.