Why women shouldn't drive cars

[Str8 Jacket]

Just another day in the life of a female driver.... (from Stuff)

23-year-old woman has been taken to Wellington Hospital with moderate injuries after flipping her car on Tinakori Rd in Thorndon.

Lara Carson, a student at Victoria University, was shifting house when her Toyota flipped near the Speight's Ale House.

The car landed on the driver's side and moving boxes inside trapped Miss Carson till emergency services arrived.

Once she was out of the car she was taken to Wellington Hospital with moderate chest and neck injuries.

Wellington Free Ambulance team manager James McMeekan said it was unclear was caused the crash but no other vehicles were involved.

A parked car was damaged but no one else was hurt.

Members of Miss Carson's family arrived quickly at the scene after she called them while still trapped in the car.

[mattian]

apparently, getting the accelerator confused with the brake pedal is quite common among blondes that drive automatics.

[spajohn]

What's the bet it's a Rav? A hair dressers 4x4...urgh.

I'm in the school of believers that 4x4 vehicles should be driven by people who know how to use them and actually take them off road. (not that I would want to with a Rav)

[motorbyclist]

a Rav is FWD isn't it?

all they have to do is class any car with rims over 20-something inches a truck and problem solved.


or, of course, actual driver training to be repeated as part of your licence re-sit every 5 years. how doubling the length of the full test or getting 15 year olds off the road helps all the existing moron drivers is beyond me :(

[spajohn]

Either 2wd or 4wd...but basically the issue of being prone to roll easily is what I was getting at.

[Gone Burger]

apparently, getting the accelerator confused with the brake pedal is quite common among blondes that drive automatics.

I've heard that rumour too (hope you haven't seen the photo of my blonde hair). But to be fair, they are quite close together, and who really has time to think about left and right when you are checking out the hot guy on the bike infront of your car! Gees, the expectations out there are so high.

[mattian]

(hope you haven't seen the photo of my blonde hair)

no I haven't, but you're welcome to send me some for a more thorough consideration :msn-wink:

[EJK]

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[Scorp]

I love the way the report says...

"Lara Carson, a student at Victoria University, was shifting house when her Toyota flipped near the Speight's Ale House."

... like that kind of thing just happens at Speight's Ale House all the time! You know... one minute your car's tooling along quite calmly, then the next it throws it's head in the air, leaps off its wheels and lays down there in the road.

:rofl:

Mind you, us guys haven't got that much to brag about...

Woman v.s Man - Who's a better driver? (I love the way the report says...

"Lara Carson, a student at Victoria University, was shifting house when her Toyota flipped near the Speight's Ale House."

... like that kind of thing just happens at Speight's Ale House all the time! You know... one minute your car's tooling along quite calmly, then the next it throws it's head in the air, leaps off its wheels and lays down there in the road.

:rofl:

Mind you, us guys haven't got that much to brag about...

http://bookofodds.com/Accidents-Death/Transportation-Accidents/Articles/A0328-Woman-vs.-Man-Who-s-a-Better-Driver)

[motorbyclist]

http://www.bookofodds.com/Accidents-Death/Transportation-Accidents/Articles/A0328-Woman-vs.-Man-Who-s-a-Better-Driver

stats i read in NZ were that women crash into more stationary objects than men while men hit more moving ones. make what you want of it

[Gone Burger]

I guess it just proves that us women really shouldn't be driving at all.......... We should all be riding bikes! :) Right - that's me sorted.

[JR1]

i dont know how many of you know the area she crashed in, but its a strait road with no round abouts, traffic lights or any other dangerous obstacle anywhere in sight...LOL

[Genie]

maybe lipstick was being applied.....

[merv]

... and doesn't it have a ridiculously low 30km/hr speed limit along there too? We are talking a narrow city street with retail/commercial buildings along each side and no sense that you would want to be going fast at all, so I am sure she has achieved a miracle by flipping her car there.

[BMWST?]

its obviuos what happened...texting, hit a parked car,maybe tried to swerve at last moment,roll over

[avgas]

maybe lipstick was being applied.....
And now she is going to look like the Joker.

Why sssoooo SSSSERIOUSSSSSS?

[JR1]

... and doesn't it have a ridiculously low 30km/hr speed limit along there too? We are talking a narrow city street with retail/commercial buildings along each side and no sense that you would want to be going fast at all, so I am sure she has achieved a miracle by flipping her car there.

yep 30kph there now, to be honest im quite impressed with what shes done considering the situation.

[huff3r]

OMG haha. My cars fuel pump died Monday last week and the towie that picked me up was just telling me about someone who'd rolled a RAV4 on a straight road in the city :lol:
He said he had absolutely no idea how she couldve possibly done it...

[Clairsky]

its obviuos what happened...texting, hit a parked car,maybe tried to swerve at last moment,roll over

Na, the male that designed it and the other one that built it, stuffed up. No other explanation viable!

[Sentox]

I love the way the report says...

"Lara Carson, a student at Victoria University, was shifting house when her Toyota flipped near the Speight's Ale House."

... like that kind of thing just happens at Speight's Ale House all the time! You know... one minute your car's tooling along quite calmly, then the next it throws it's head in the air, leaps off its wheels and lays down there in the road.

:rofl:

The way crashes are reported always amuses me. The favourite media description is something like "...when the car left the road". I really hope my car doesn't just decide to leave the road some day while I'm in it. That would suck.

[Bald Eagle]

"...when the car left the road". .

and if the car does the leaving does it have to pay IRD Support

[motorbyclist]

well clearly raising the driving age one or two years and making the licence test longer is going to prevent this type of thing from happening so often.

yeah right.

[peasea]

The way crashes are reported always amuses me. The favourite media description is something like "...when the car left the road". I really hope my car doesn't just decide to leave the road some day while I'm in it. That would suck.

My fave is "the vehicle lost control..."
What the blazes was the vehicle doing in control? Shouldn't the driver be in control?