> 
> SUV's... they just don't see you, and sometimes it seems like many of them
> don't care even if they do.
> and in this area practically everyone has one, so if you're in a passenger
> car you're definitely on the endangered species list.
> 

Heh.  Agreed.  Though I must admit, y best friend's Isuzu Rodeo (not the
biggest SUV, but still) was a blast to drive... *because* I could sneer
eye-to-eye at the other SUV lunatics and know I was less likely to die. 
Loren's little Dodge Shadow got totalled a couple years ago by an Xterra
rearending him, and they weren't even going fast enough to deploy the airbags. 
I cringe to think of a high speed collision between a car and an SUV. Hell, up
here we have people driving Hummers as luxury cars (gag).  I think they'd leave
both our cars as grease-smears on the road.


> 
> And too... right or wrong, I hold her age partly to blame for it... though
> she seemed fairly responsible, stable etc etc "on the
ground" once she was
> out of the thing
> 

Yeah, well, I did my Truly Stupid Driving Tricks at that age, too.  But I had
(and still have) a Ford Tempo, so I wasn't *too* dangerous.  

darkelf, who empathizes mightily with Kestrel's road woes

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