What. no driving and eatin a turkey leg-whats the world comming to

If drivers would just pay attention to driving their vehicle when they're in the drivers seat, give themselves plenty of time to get where they're going, and leave the booze alone, wow, a fatal free weekend. No police going to a residence at 0 dark hundred to give out the bad news, no shock to loved one, wouldn't it be great.

I can remember a time when ........ :-)

Newspapers in Ontario would report every time after a long weekend, the number of people killed by car accidents in the city and the province during that weekend. 2 ...6 ... whatever, but there was probably never a holiday weekend when it was less than that.

These kind of accidents, even with a large increase in population since then, have gone down quite a bit.

In fact, the above report mentions injuries, not fatalities. That does not mean we should stop working at it. What it means is that we have done something to make an impact. Safer cars, safer roads, perhaps even some safer drivers.

Gus:
Well said. The sad reality is, until drivers start concentrating on their driving skills and do their best to increase them, we're still gonna see that thing called accident.
Mostly driver error, some mechanical error, and yes road conditions, but if you're looking ahead you should be able to avoid problems instead of blindly following the vehicle in front.

A lot, if not most drivers seem to be completely oblivious to everything around them.

I couldn't believe it but I saw it. Tuesday night a passing driver, Saskatchewan plates, passed me on Hwy 16 going by the new Sandman looked very hard at my vehicle then grabbed his cell phone and started texting or doing something with it with both hands and head down while driving right through the Ferry intersection. Maybe now I should have given him a really good horn blast.

Those weekend stats are directly proportional to the road maintenance and repair in this Province.