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Old September 23rd, 2007, 04:32 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
proffsl
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Default Driver Licensing not about highway safety

Dave Smith wrote:
proffsl wrote:

The question isn't if they CAN drive safely, but rather if they
WILL drive safely. More than 98% of all highway accidents
are due to WILFULL acts of negligence, not due to an inability
to drive safely. Not having a driver licenses doesn't mean you're
driving dangerously. And, having a driver licenses doesn't mean
you're driving safely.


Is that 90% a figure that you can provide a source for or just one that
you pulled out of the air?


"some 98 percent of the accidents reported involved a single
distracted driver" -http://www.mercola.com/2003/mar/26/car_accidents.htm


"Over 95% of motor vehicle accidents involve some degree of driver
behavior" -http://www.smartmotorist.com/acc/acc.htm


As for negligence being, by far and away, the leading cause of
automobile accidents, a simple Google search will most surely affirm
that fact.


But you said "WILFULL acts of negligence". Your first cite led to a page
that doesn't even open without signing up for something, and the second
is an incomplete quotation that goes on to say that it is combined with
something else. Fer crissakes, your cites do not support what you
claimed and you don't even quote them accurately.


You're deliberately trying to avoid what's right there before your
eyes. Here is the entire chapter:

"Over 95% of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs, in the USA, or Road
Traffic Accidents, RTAs, in Europe) involve some degree of driver
behavior combined with one of the other three factors. Drivers always
try to blame road conditions, equipment failure, or other drivers for
those accidents. When the facts are truthfully presented, however, the
behavior of the implicated driver is usually the primary cause. Most
are caused by excessive speed or aggressive driver behavior." -
http://www.smartmotorist.com/acc/acc.htm

Every accident due to an act of negligence is going to be combined
with something. If you're looking at the zipper on your paints while
driving, and you colide with an oncoming vehicle, well, that's
negligence combined with an oncoming vehicle. DUH.

Bottom line is that it goes on to say that Drivers always try to blame
something else other than their own negligence. And, that when the
facts are truthfully presented, it is the negligent behavior of the
driver that is the primary cause.


To the contrary, negligence is always committed willfully. It's not as
if some force of nature, out of somebody's control, reaches out and
causes them to neglect their duties. They neglect their duties because
they WILL not apply themselves to their duties.


Then they are negligent, not wilful.


They are negligent of their duties because they WILL NOT apply
themselves to their duties. Negligence is a behavior exhibited by
people, a behavior for which they can be prosecuted. If negligence
were not a Willful Act, it would be doubtful people could be held
responsible for their negligence.


If someone is driving down the highway, and becomes destracted by the
volume control of their radio, they WILLFULLY choose to look toward
their volume control instead of the highway. If someone is driving
down the highway, and becomes destracted by a crying baby in the back
seat, they WILLFULLY choose to look toward the crying baby instead of
the highway. If someone is driving down the highway, and they begin to
rubber neck at an accident, they WILLFULLY choose to look toward the
accident instead of the highway.


No. They negligently allow themselves to be distracted.


No, they willfully allow themselves to be negligent of their duties.