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> [...] due to some dipshit blonde not paying attention [...]

Wow, instantly stopped reading after this. I can't comprehend how someone would even remotely have the courage writing such in a public posting.

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Same, stopped there. One of those odd pieces where the author is completely full of themselves and hostile, yet somehow decries other people’s attitudes (“as attitudes have degenerated, I found the ability to blind people driving behind me to be a critical safety feature”).

Weird bit of self-righteous misanthropy.

I clicked on the link for the "Yuppie button" and confirmed that the guy is a nut. The amount of effort required to create and install a device that flashes all of your tail lights at a tailgater is not something an average person is going to do.

This guy should get a medal for having the balls to fight ass hole drivers.

Elsewhere in the site he publishes her name and address.

Yeah. I thought “dipshit blonde” was in poor taste; posting her name and address genuinely shocked me and I stopped there.

No doubt that driver inattentiveness leads to loss of many lives year on year. But publishing the personal details of someone you got into a car crash with won’t do anything to improve road safely.

If you're talking about the newspaper clipping, isn't the problem the newspaper that published it in the first place?

It’s both

me too. It's like it was written in 1980.

Yeah, scrolled down to that and closed the tab, it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Maybe a dipshit blonde wasn't paying attention and caused the problem? Sometimes facts really do follow stereotypes.

It's possible, but my anecdata is that the four people who have run into the back of my car in the past ten years have all been middle-aged men distracted by phones.

Two Audis (one of them written off to the point it had to be lifted onto the breakdown truck with a Hiab), one Hyundai of some sort, and one bicycle.

The cyclist was the only one I felt in any way sorry for, because he did actually hurt himself pretty badly and obliterated his carbon wheel and forks, but he shouldn't have been dicking around with his phone while riding down a steep hill at what I can tell from his Strava trail was around 35mph.

At no time did my car suffer any more than a bit of scuffing and damage to the old tennis ball over the tow hitch to stop the grease getting on my trousers.

wow, I can't believe you called the middle age men who hit your car middle aged men instead of just people. Stop adding more detail to your stories!!!

I'm a middle-aged twat with far more bicycle than I really need for what I do. No lycra, though.

So I can slag off others in my demographic all I want. Yeah, male white middle-aged crabbit auld bastard privilege, if you like.

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