The driver of the road train bringing groceries up the west coast highway flicked a cigarette out the window that blew straight back in and into his eye causing him to over steer a roll a prime mover and two trailers.
You're correct that it didn't kill him, but it was a close call that could've gone that way.
Ah the endless interactions between between vehicles and cigarettes. Don't know why this came to me but in Taiwan, a massive rail tragedy was caused when a utility truck for some kind of maintenance rolled backwards down an embankment and onto a rail line at the mouth of a tunnel. The train was either entering or exiting (I forget which) and dozens of people were killed. All because a much smaller vehicle parked unsafely or forgot the handbrake!!!
I mean, if you told me you were doing a defensive driving course i’d be like hell yeah!
You know that would keep your skills sharp, and the accidents would be a result of those stressors.
Haha. I suppose the obvious difference is a car “accident” depending on how controlled it is could kill you. Whereas a handful of cigarettes is not going to kill you.