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Old Nov 22, 2006 | 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by thezeppelin8
how the hell did she win????
The first mistake the lady did was buying a freaking SUV to move her family around... eat up your **** pride and buy a minivan, which is safer and meant to carry a family around!
SUV's are supposed to be for people that need them for work, off-roading, safaris, and such. Not for driving around town like a freaking moron. They're big, and we have people like this lady driving these behemoths around town, not paying attention on the road. Theyre a danger to the people inside the SUV and the people around her.
I can't count all of the times there has been some freaking idiot in front of me in their bling bling SUV swerving, stalling traffic, or just plain cutting people off (get off that cell phone *****! Turn down that **** music! Turn your head back, get off the road, and discipline your children with the vehicle parked you **** soccer mom!). You drive an SUV, you better **** well be paying attention to the road. SUV's arent the easiest vehicles to maneuver around. Oh, and when these people get a freakin' tax cut for buying an SUV because they are "using it for work"... my *** you are using it for work.

Sorry, a bit off topic, but I just can't stand people that buy an SUV for what they aren't meant for and then drive it without out caution.

And for the people that drive SUV's for what they ARE meant for, or drive them cautiously, totally nothing against you. SUV's are needed, no doubt about it. They are not supposed to be in the hands of people like this lady.
There is nothing wrong with using an SUV for family duty. What IS wrong is trying to drive while not looking where you're going. This action can be directly related to a person's intelligence. What is the VERY FIRST THING the drivers ed instructor tells you when you start???? "KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD". I believe that is the rule she ignored in this situation. And oh, by the way...she could've been in a M1 Abrams and she still would've crashed. She wasn't watching where she was going.

People transport kids, families, dogs, cats, stuff and limitless other crap in SUVs every day. Don't blame a vehicle for a brainless human's mistakes.
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Old Nov 26, 2006 | 09:48 AM
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she still would have crashed of course, but the car wouldnt of had flipped over and caused more damaged, imo... numbers prove that SUV's are very unsafe once put in a situation like this lady put her SUV in.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rollover/

Again, I'm not blaming the SUV (everyone should know by now the "risks," buyer responsibility), I'm blaming people like this lady that should not be allowed to purchase an SUV.
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