this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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I am so sorry for your friend.
Too many people live in la-la-it-cant-happen-to-me-land and take that attitude with them behind the wheel. I think that to qualify for a drivers license one should be required to watch car crash footage and see pictures of the aftermath like you do in a good forklift safety video, because people really do not understand the relative forces involved with moving at a high rate of speed.
Does it look like your friend will ever recover his mobility?
Northern Ireland's driving safety PIFs are something else
I dont like to swear on this platform but holy shit! That goes hard!
There were a few UK PSAs that hit hard https://piped.video/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E&t=4
We need this stuff on YouTube ads nowadays and such.
I think he's gonna get a prosthetic soon :) it's very painful at first but it gets better.