Car Accidents Quotes

“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.”
― Anthony Liccione

“If you haven't been this close to superhumans, you don't understand what it's like to fight them. Even when you've got powers yourself, the predominent impression is one of shock. The forces moving around you are out of human scale, and your nervous system doesn't know how to deal with it. It's like being in a car accident, over and over again. You never feel the pain until later.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

“Suddenly, a car zoomed out of a side street to their right, slamming into the side of the car with a loud metallic crash. Tires screeched. The passenger window shattered, showering glass over Pam as the other car’s momentum pushed them towards the opposite side of the road. Pam shrieked as the car tumbled over the edge of the road into the embankment. The car rolled until it came to a rest in the bottom of the ditch with creaks and groans. Neither Pam nor her mother stirred.”
― C.B. Cook, Paralyzed Dreams

“The steering wheel is turned by the driver, not the indicator, or the road sign.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Speed does not always kill. And not only that, sometimes speed saves a life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some car accidents are caused by the ignorance or disbelief of the fact that a driver’s eyes and mind can be thousands of kilometres apart.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A more serious consequence of the illusion of control is revealed in our preference for driving over flying. At least part of this irrational—from a survival point of view—habit is due to the fact that we “feel in control” when driving, but not when flying. The probability of dying in a cross-country flight is approximately equal to the probability of dying in a 12-mile drive— in many cases, the most dangerous part of the trip is over when you reach the airport (Sivak & Flannagan, 2003). Gerd Gigerenzer (2006) estimates that the post-9/11 shift from flying to driving in the United States resulted in an additional 1,500 deaths, beyond the original 3,000 immediate victims of the terrorist attacks.”
― Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“More than half of all auto accidents occur within five miles of home, during a local trip—going to the grocery store, the laundromat, or any of the countless stops in our own neighborhoods. Of course, we have accidents mostly close to home, because that’s also the locale where we do most of our driving. Still, we should be most familiar with the blind corners and challenging intersections in our own neighborhoods—we should be safest there. But in familiar surroundings, habit takes over. We stop paying attention and start ruminating about today’s events or planning tomorrow’s.”
― Wendy Wood, Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick