Sharing a thought might save someone?

[Duke]

I've read thousands (literally thousands) of dollars worth of books on investing in property and shares. I buy them knowing that if I get just one good sentence out of the entire book it can make me, or save me, tens of thousands of dollars. Sometimes it's just one small word of advice that makes all the difference... And so, with that in mind...

I witnessed an accident last night - made me think about a few things;
2 young fella's in a table top ute lost control 1/2 way through a corner. They did a 180 into the gutter which flipped the ute into the air and then it slammed into a light pole. The rear of the ute was torn off the chassis and flew off onto the road and the impact was dead centre in the middle of the petrol tank, located just 60cm behind the driver.

The ute bent around the pole and then, completely airbourne, spun off to do another 180 with the contents of the petrol tank spewing out and splashing down all over the vehicle and surrounding area, coming to rest on the nature strip.

Amazingly the two 18 yr olds got out of the car immediately. The passenger stood next to the car and didn't move whilst the driver ran, with very wobbly legs, onto the road and started yelling "where am I? - what happened?".

I pulled him off the road and sat him down. He gathered himself a little and then tried to explain that he'd been cut off and forced into the spin by another car. Unfortunately for him this just isn't possible and the skid marks indicate a very long sideways slide.

• Excessive speeding caused this crash
  Lack of ability to handle a slide contributed
  Pure good fortune saved his life
  Pure good fortune meant no one else got hurt or killed
  They were on their way to a party and were rushing to get there
  The only person who believed his story about being cut off, was him.
  His brother showed up and was very peeved at the waste of money spent on the ute - he very nearly lost his brother, he didn't even think of that.
  Perhaps just 10k's slower and nothing would've happened, not worth it to get to a party so you start drinking faster.

You don't have to be young fella to get into trouble like this but maybe someone might read this and maybe they might slow down a tad and maybe that might save their life - you never know how much one sentence or word of advice can save you.

**note** this isn't intended to be a "holier than thou" lecture, I'm just sharing and hopefully haven't offended anyone. Cheers.