Loud Pipes Save Lives

ThaFlash · 08-09-2012, 07:14 PM

To use an old bikie (or motorcyclists) adage... "Loud Pipes Save Lives".

Here I am driving along, minding my own biz, coming out of a roundabout, I begin to accelerate to the speed limit, when a mid teen boy takes some quick steps and jumps out onto the road without looking.

All of a sudden he stops dead in his tracks, looks at me straight in the eyes.

Moments later I thought about why he stopped like that and it occurred to me my loud exhaust system on my 8 pretty much saved him from a serious injury.

My loud pipes caught his attention. (Maybe the drone, quite annoying really.)

That is the closest I have come to hitting a pedestrian in 22 years of driving and to think my loud pipes prevented a serious accident!

To that boy, if you were my son I would teach you how to cross the road without fiddling with an electronic gadget.

To the nannies, that's one possible life saving statistic that won't grace any pages of the ABS website, reports or data.

Thought I'd share that with y'all and I hope to hear about some similar stories back.