More On Agressive Driving

[Franky67]

As we stand poised on the threshold of the third millennium of our Lord's era, a new spiritual plague has come to besiege the earth: It is known by various phrases: road rage, traffic rage, driving rage, aggressive driving, driving under the influence, reckless driving, urgent driving, and so on. These forms of impaired driving, whether chemically or psychologically induced, kill thousands of people every year on a global scale. In the United States during any year, about 177 million drivers crash into each other 6 million times killing over 40,000 people and seriously injuring over a quarter of million men, women and children. Similar figures apply for the year before, and the year before, and before for several decades. And it will be the same next year, and the year after that, and the year after that--unless we gather the spiritual energy to overcome this social plague.

Polls around the country indicate that people are scared of the highway. The daily commute home for hundreds of millions of people around the globe has become a risky, scary, unmerciful daily stress they must endure. Some people feel it

[Gerioke]

Let's not forget those drivers who make the mean drivers enraged

The 20 clicks under the speed limit drivers

The "oh I forgot to signal" drivers

Tourists at rush hour

Gawkers

Cell phone enthusiasts

and so on

These people have to take some of the heat too.

[Franky67]

Let's not forget those drivers who make the mean drivers enraged

The 20 clicks under the speed limit drivers

The "oh I forgot to signal" drivers

Tourists at rush hour

Gawkers

Cell phone enthusiasts

and so on

These people have to take some of the heat too.

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This is not to find blame, if we Christians can't make it better, who can?

That's the point of this post. We can forgive the short comings of others, and love our enemies,.............. can't we?

I live in a tourist town.........10 MPH right down main street

[Gerioke]

Let's not forget those drivers who make the mean drivers enraged

The 20 clicks under the speed limit drivers

The "oh I forgot to signal" drivers

Tourists at rush hour

Gawkers

Cell phone enthusiasts

and so on

These people have to take some of the heat too.

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This is not to find blame, if we Christians can't make it better, who can?

That's the point of this post. We can forgive the short comings of others, and love our enemies,.............. can't we?

I live in a tourist town.........10 MPH right down main street

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I live in a tourist area as well. I don't consider these people my enemies but they do raise my Ire when they don't pull over to look at the scenery and let the people with agendas by. It is a common curtesy to pull over if you want to go slow and let the working people pass All I can do as a christian is pray I don't burst a vein.

[O'Dannyboy]

Just think how interesting it will be when video phones "arrive". We have phones that take pictures. Shouldn't be long now. Maybe then they will finally outlaw them while driving. No doubt thousands of people will have to die as a result before lawmakers find a need to outlaw them. When I was stationed in Spain i was told that the "Guardia Civil" (police) could shoot first and ask questions later and that drinking ANYTHING while driving was illegal.

I tell you, at this point I will be happy when SUV's go the way of the DoDo. These vehicular monstrosities don't belong on the road. I drive a full sized car and still I am fearfull that somone will run me down because they were too preoccupied with their cell-phone. These days I finbd myself counting the number of people i see chatting on the cell phone while I am at red lights. At least once a day I see one of these same people blow through a red light trying to catch the yellow.

The way I see it. All I can do is pray these people will be blessed with more sense that they might understand the risks they are taking.

[PwrInTheBld]

When I was stopped behind a car turning left, Friday night, I looked in my rear view mirror and braced myself for what surely was going to be a very nasty collision into the back of my car by the driver speeding up behind me

He must have taken defensive driving lessons, he braked and avoided......but only "avoided" the right rear corner of my car by a couple of inches. I thanked the Lord for His protection and then watched that same driver blow through the red light at the intersection ahead and heard his tires squeal as he rounded the corner

Careless, careless, careless

[Franky67]

When I was stopped behind a car turning left, Friday night, I looked in my rear view mirror and braced myself for what surely was going to be a very nasty collision into the back of my car by the driver speeding up behind me 

He must have taken defensive driving lessons, he braked and avoided......but only "avoided" the right rear corner of my car by a couple of inches. I thanked the Lord for His protection and then watched that same driver blow through the red light at the intersection ahead and heard his tires squeal as he rounded the corner

Careless, careless, careless 

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Every time we go out, we pray the Blood of Christ Jesus over us, and ask God to make us alert, and watchful. Great is HIS Faithfulness.