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Originally Posted by 94cobra69ss396
It was still an accident. She didn't purposely crash the car. Doesn't matter if she was speeding or not she still accidently crashed. I've flipped a car that was not mine at 120mph when I was younger. I didn't purposely do it, it was an accident. If she had totaled the car doing the speed limit do you think her boss would have been less upset? I don't.
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SCENARIO A:
You're stuck in traffic blocked in front and on both sides. Someone piles into you from behind. You had no chance of not being hit. This is reasonably beyond your control and the fault lies with the person who hit you. The boss has no grounds for being upset. I certainly wouldn't.
SCENARIO B:
Taking a ramp with excessive speed in a car that is not your property. It was your choice to speed. It was within your power to control the enviornment. The result was a consequence of your choice. Intent is irrelevant. The boss has grounds for being upset, though I would have questioned his motives for handing out the keys. I weep for neither of them.
Basically I think our society is way . . . way . . . way to loose with the term "accident" and it becomes and excuse for being a victim of the Universe. This doesn't mean she, or you when you were younger are bad people that should go away and die. Once when I was 17 I fell asleep while driving . . . on a Mexican desert Fwy. coming back from San Felipe. It wasn't an accident. I made the very poor choice of setting out to drive several hundred miles while being far too tired. Poorly reasoned choices lead to a higher probability of poor or non-desirable outcomes.