Malt_Hound wrote in news:z56dnX0O_oCvkO snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.com:
Are you usually the only car on the road? I live in a city. On the interstate through downtown, particularly at rush hour, any openings between cars are quickly filled by other cars or by someone who thinks they can get somewhere faster by weaving in and out of traffic and tailgating the person in front of them. I would like to leave gaps, but there aren't any. When I got hit, I was traveling at 20 mph in a school zone. Any slower and I would have been rearended by the car behind me. Some accidents cannot be avoided no matter how careful you are because it depends on everyone else driving in a sane manner and that just does not happen. The two accidents were the first I've had in 25 years -- and hundreds of thousands of miles of driving. I don't think it's a coincidence that both involved cell phone users.