Posted on 04/13/2012 11:18:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
Accidents in which drivers mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake tend to involve older female drivers in parking lots, a new government study has found. One of the study's most striking and consistent findings was that nearly two-thirds of drivers who had such accidents were female. When looking at all crashes, the reverse is true — about 60 percent of drivers involved in crashes are male, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study noted. Another finding: Gas pedal accidents tend to occur more frequently among drivers over age 76 and under age 20. The age disparity showed up in both an analysis of more than 2,400 gas pedal accidents in a North Carolina state crash database and an analysis of nearly 900 news reports of such crashes. In the state database, accidents were almost equally likely to involve drivers under 20 as over 76, but in news reports about 40 percent of accidents involved elderly drivers — four times as many as young drivers.
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Who knows. You can always adjust the driver’s seat forward or back for a safe driving position before venturing out.
” Breaking Bad”
” Breaking Bad”
Sorry, should have included you on original.
I watched an old man run over some gas pumps without noticing. The policeman that showed up tore his license in half right there.
A great old rockabilly song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVTNcZZ1z98
Can you say Audi? People step on the wrong pedal and swear the thing just took off by itself.
Now,are they workin’ or stay at home women.We need further
study!
And they’re predominantly blonde!
One did t-bone me. She had an excuse--her brakes failed. But did she run the car into the curb, slam it in a lower gear, try the emergency brake? --noooooooooo, she kept rocketing through her red light until she made an accordion out of my Mazda. Luckily, no one was riding in my passenger seat or he/she would have been killed. That's also when I found out you're in a world of shiite with Allstate (her insurance company).
Just yesterday a women hit my wife’s car backing out of a parking space because she thought hit the brake and instead hit the gas.....I kid you not....
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