COLUMN: Live life to the fullest... within limits
Common sense is not a plant that blooms in everyone’s garden. Kyle Kock notes that it is especially rare when it comes to double-cab bakkies.
At first, everything went well and the vehicle did indeed perform, especially in a rally test over sand dunes. A highlight for many of us – myself included – was when we finally got to experience the double-cab bakkie’s jumping ability. I must confess the bumps in the road in front of us didn’t seem too scary, but that was the opinion of the exemplary driver in me, because I would never drive over them faster than 80 km/h under normal circumstances. However, the instructor in the passenger seat next to me told me to tackle the bumps at 120 km/h, and I somewhat reluctantly agreed.
His back pain was so bad that he was taken to a nearby hospital’s casualty department. Later we would find out that our colleague, a seasoned journalist and motoring writer, was not wearing his seat belt – a blunder that the car manufacturer did not miss when the hospital bill came into question. As an adult, the onus is on you to buckle up, but if I don't hear the clicking sound of a seat belt when my grandma or kids are in the back seat, I’m going to raise my voice. Why so strict? Because life is precious, that’s why!My car has a lot of safety features to protect me, but it can’t protect me from someone sitting behind me who forgets to buckle up. The body weight of the unrestrained passenger behind me is dramatically increased as the speed of my vehicle increases.
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