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Faulty brakes are always made the scapegoat in accidents

- The Ear -
July 6, 2010 | 12:00am

FAULTY BRAKES AGAIN. An automotive engineer shook his head while reading a news story about another bus accident where 15 were killed. “Faulty brakes again,” he quoted the news story where the driver blamed the tragedy on his bus’ faultry brakes. “Scapegoat nasad si faulty brakes,” he said.

FAULTY DRIVER. The automotive engineer said: “Kon mabuhi ang driver himoon dayon nga ‘whipping boys’ ang preno sa iyang gimaneho nga bus. Di man gud kamao mosulti ang preno labi nang makiglalis,” The engineer said many of the highway accidents are not caused by faulty brakes but by faulty drivers.

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