I've often commented that properly-written law and properly-designed
roads try very hard to make it take two mistakes to cause a collision.

That was illustrated this week. I'm sure that the driver who crashed
into the funeral procession will be blamed, and rightly so. Anyone
who "didn't see" a police car with its lights flashing is not paying
attention.

BUT

The driver in the procession should have glanced to each side to make
sure the cross traffic really had stopped before barrelling through.

I was rather paranoid about looking at the side streets for several
days after I read the story.

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