Collision confirms stereotype

uninjured? Fantastic! An ultra smart work colleague was permanently brain damaged from being rear ended at the lights.

SheepGroper said :

Could the rear-ended driver have at least saved the front of his car by standing on his brakes? Or would that be useless if the drunk was coming in fast enough?

The drunk driver was travelling faster than the posted speed limit and slammed into that back of a stationary car. There is no chance the victim had any chance of preventing her car from ending up in the path of oncoming traffic. (I know this because the person in the stationary car is an immediate family member.)

Skidbladnir said :

Apart from making articles like this, why mention he was Irish at all?

</defending a fellow Irish national>

Well, there is the whole St Pat’s day thing….

Only if he saw the car coming at him via a mirror, heard it coming, or had any clue it was about to happen. If he had a radio on and was looking forward then.. no probably not.

Skidbladnir said :

Apart from making articles like this, why mention he was Irish at all?

</defending a fellow Irish national>

Because everyone likes a laugh?

Apart from making articles like this, why mention he was Irish at all?

</defending a fellow Irish national>

Could the rear-ended driver have at least saved the front of his car by standing on his brakes? Or would that be useless if the drunk was coming in fast enough?

If you had the luck of the Irish
You’d be sorry and wish you were dead
If you had the luck of the Irish
Then you’d wish you were English instead

– John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1972.

I suppose the term ‘the luck of the Irish’ isn’t applicable in this case……………………………