just think of how many unsafe vehicles were pulled over by the OPP on this good friday+weekend.
Doesn't matter where you are, when you run out of luck your best bet is wits, reaction and effort.
The problem with CP24 is that it just says "Wooo, big accident!" but doesn't bother following up on a lot of their articles. They're not bad, but honestly some of it is like a tabloid giving you "shock and awe" of the incident, but there's not much effort into the journalism part.
The funny thing is, it's my home page, I use it for weather.
Now go to that page, scroll down the safety section and see just how many "bike accidents" are listed compared to "car accidents". Here, I found some car accidents.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_20418.aspx
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_20183.aspx
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_19781.aspx
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_19705.aspx
Here's a nice graphic that illustrates how poorly people gauge risk
Notice the rather large circle (2004 statistics) for motor vehicle accidents, the smaller but still sizable circle for pedestrian accidents, the still smaller circle for motorcycle accidents...everyone
knows how dangerous they are and then the tiny circle for bicycle accidents...about the same chance as dying in an air/space accident
We kill over 45,000 people per year in the US in car accidents (the number 1 nonmedical cause of death!) and think not a second thought about getting in a car. But the news will run 12" headlines about the risk of dying in a bicycle accident, boating accident or
getting squished by a stingray . Lots of concerned looks and hand wringing followed by calls to ban jumping stingrays
Print out the chart, macteacher, and ask your co-worker if he's going to stop driving the death trap