Sounds like there are too many pickups with green lights on the dash in your town there Green.

It's doesn't sound like any of those 'accidents' were related to Fire work, they were caused by the same thing I've been on about for years now, a 'loose nut' behind the wheel.......

A local contractor here has three boys, they all drive tri-axle dumps, same make, model and year. One of the boys has such a bad driving record several insurers refused to write a policy and he has written off 3 trucks and has wrecked a half a dozen times more on top, the latest being last night.

4X4's are the most notorious, but only beciuse there are more of them, but big trucks also, peopl driving them don't undestand the physics involved.

$ wheel drive or 30 tons of gravel will get you rolling MUCH faster than you're able to stop or steer that weight.

Last night's accident was just such a case, a car stopped to allow oncoming traffic to clear so they could make a left into their driveway. The dump truck driver was going too fast and when he tried to stop he realized, too late, that the road was covered in black ice, he rear-ended a full-sized van so hard it's rear axle broke free and went to the right, the van went to the left and into the ditch. Miraculously nobody was killed, only two people with minor injuries.

Bottom line, just like I tell my employees, "Drive according to the weather not the clock.".

Best of luck.

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