It caught up to me during last week's trip. Just above the speed limit with the CD player blaring and coffee nestled in the cup holder next to my lap, talking on the car phone while trying to light a cigarette I lost site of the road. Suddenly the tires wailed against the rumble strip and I screeched to a halt inches from the guardrail. Bad luck prevailing the car stopped just in time to miss the jackpot.
Liability is all the rage now.
Had I hit the guardrail I would have suffered at least emotional scars, if not grievous bodily injury, even death. It would have easy to pick the deep pockets clean. The auto company that made the car with the engine that tempted me to exceed the speed limit gets the same subpoena as the maker of the CD player. After all the CD player caused a distraction while making the call on the cellular phone. The phone shouldn't have been there in the first place, so whoever invented that gets to go to the grand jury.