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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 94345" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p>You can't have this discussion unless you first acknowledge that defensive driving does prevent accidents. If you always maintain a safe following distance then you will be hard pressed to ever have a hit in rear accident. Defensive driving begins with accepting responsibility for being able to control most situations. There will always be freak events such as you describe that are the exception. Many posters here try to say we label everything as avoidable. This is a popular defense to deny taking responsibility for your driving as Trick shows again and again. My district is probably about 60 / 40 in coding accidents avoidable / unavoidable. I have sat on enough region calls and seen enough reports to know we are far from coding everything avoidable. </p><p> </p><p>I can honestly say I have seen accidents labeled avoidable that I disagreed with. I can also say I have seen many drivers deny their accident was avoidable because they did not want to admit they did anything stupid. I have one now where all the evidence clearly points to the fact that the driver fell asleep. Yet he continues to lie through his teeth and does so arrogantly. He will be the guy out there in the background like Trick crying the woe is me the company is trying to screw me pitch. </p><p> </p><p>I stand by my original statement. If trick believes he cannot control his vehicle through defensive driving then he needs to DQ immediately before he goes out and kills someone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 94345, member: 1912"] You can't have this discussion unless you first acknowledge that defensive driving does prevent accidents. If you always maintain a safe following distance then you will be hard pressed to ever have a hit in rear accident. Defensive driving begins with accepting responsibility for being able to control most situations. There will always be freak events such as you describe that are the exception. Many posters here try to say we label everything as avoidable. This is a popular defense to deny taking responsibility for your driving as Trick shows again and again. My district is probably about 60 / 40 in coding accidents avoidable / unavoidable. I have sat on enough region calls and seen enough reports to know we are far from coding everything avoidable. I can honestly say I have seen accidents labeled avoidable that I disagreed with. I can also say I have seen many drivers deny their accident was avoidable because they did not want to admit they did anything stupid. I have one now where all the evidence clearly points to the fact that the driver fell asleep. Yet he continues to lie through his teeth and does so arrogantly. He will be the guy out there in the background like Trick crying the woe is me the company is trying to screw me pitch. I stand by my original statement. If trick believes he cannot control his vehicle through defensive driving then he needs to DQ immediately before he goes out and kills someone. [/QUOTE]
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