Crash Into Me

Between the rain and the holiday, accidents were up this weekend. Way up. The total this weekend, in fact, was over ninety accidents. That's a lot of accidents. Luckily, most of them weren't very major and there were no deaths reported on the highways (there was a death, however in Palo Alto, but that was mainly a case of Driving While Old). Most of them were like this one in Marin in which a couple of cars collided and then some cars collided into those cars.

Being from the East Coast originally, we've always felt that Californians were lousy at driving in the rain mainly because everyone treats it like it's no big deal and drives the way they normally would. Meaning just as fast and with just as much tail gaiting. Thus accidents and scary moments on the roads. We have heard, however, from other people who say the opposite, that people in California are great drivers in the rain precisely because they treat it like it's no big deal.

So maybe we don't know what we're talking about. Or maybe we do.