Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Have You Ever Been Served - handwritten, not dated

How many times have you stopped to pick up someone going to the (annex?) or to town.  This is a very good deed on your part, but have ever thought of the consequences if you shoudl have an accident.

Cars are thought of as a means of transportation of a medium for pleasure,  and yet they can be one of the deadliest weapons used to day (sic) in the hands of a careless or wreckless (sic) driver.

Not long ago some people I know took a trip to Southern Utah and invited a fried of theirs along.  It was about dusk, as as they rounded a turn in the road a car speeding in the opposite direction smashed into them.  Luckily no one was killed.

A few weeks after the accident these people received  a summons to appear in court.  You don't have to use your imagination to guess who this was from.  Yes, it was this friend.  He did win a judgement from quite a few thousand dollars.

You can't stop irresponsible people from driving a car any more than you can stop an unavoidable accident.

This doesn't mean you have to quit driving your car, or stop giving your friends a ride, but it does mean if you want to protect yourself against law suits, you may take a good deal of your life savings.  If when a car trys' (sic) to crowd you off the road you don't want to go through the agony of the condemned.  Insure your car against public libility (sic), property damage and collision.  The few dollars in cost is well worth the relief it gives you to know that someone else is carrying the responsibility.




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