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However, if you were to get rear-ended while sitting at a stop, I see that as un-avoidable.
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That's funny that you'd mention that, because that same incident happened yesterday. I wasn't in it this time, I just heard about it and went and saw the carnage just a block away. But one of my school buddies in a small red car of what appeared to be a quite small cavalier rear ended another one of my school buddies who was driving a rather large Chevy truck as he was sitting at a stop sign. his truck in turn rear ended one of my other buddies stopped ahead of him, and he was driving a small GMC pick-up truck. The Cavalier's front end was damaged pretty badly, almost taking off the front bumper and crunching the hood upwards into an accordion shape. The rear end of the Chevy was almost totally fine, the bumper appeared to be slightly bent upwards as the front end of the Cavalier was rammed under it, and the GMC was almost totally fine too, as it got the least of the force and the bumper just came loose on the rear drivers side and it's sort of hanging now.
I'd say that that accident was unavoidable to the two stopped at the sign. I knew all of them, so I kinda thought it was funny.
One type of accident that can't be avoided is if someone is hit by a drunk driver on the interstate. It's happened amany before. The perfect record driver is always cruising along the interstate at the speed limit being courteous and attentive and is suddenly slammed into the side by the drunk driver who is coming up fast behind them, looses control, and slams into the side of the other vehicle. That vehicle slides sideways into a skid onto the shoulder of the road, hits the grassy ditch next to it, does several flips and slams into a tree on the side of the road. That driver is killed, along with the drunk driver. You can try and be as aware as you can be, but you can't avoid things that happen in the snap of a finger. Hopefully it doesn't happen to anyone here, or elsewhere, but it always will happen to someone.