A Good Reason To Have A Back Up Sensor

You have probably heard large trucks or lorries making a beeping sound when they are backing up. This is to warn any pedestrians or even those driving other vehicles that they are moving in a certain direction and to pay attention and take heed. The reason that large trucks have these back up sensors is because the drivers are not always able to see behind them. 

In some cases, people who are backing out of their driveways cannot always see behind them. Some of us glance in the rearview mirror before backing out of a driveway without giving it a second thought. We do the same thing when we are backing out of a car park. 
 
One family found out the hard way a good reason to have a back up sensor in their car. They were pulling out of a church lot when they heard a thud. The family had just gone to Sunday service and everyone was in a good mood, chattering away and thinking about their Sunday meal. The thud was the sound of the Vicar who they hit. 
 
Fortunately, the vicar was a younger man and was not hurt. The family, however, was very embarrassed. The vicar was knocked down but soon dusted himself off and was helped to his feet. 

He suffered some minor bruising but nothing serious. It was a good thing that the family in the car was not peeling out of the church lot like some people do after Sunday service or the vicar could have been badly injured or killed. 

 
When you are backing up your vehicle, you probably operate your vehicle just like most people and only take periodic glances in the mirrors. 

Once you are sure that no one is behind you, you pull out. In some cases, such as the one with the family leaving church, a person comes up behind the car without paying attention themselves and may even go into the blind spot of the car where you cannot see them. 

The vicar was busy chatting across the lot with other members of the church or else he would have noticed the car moving towards him. By the time he did see the car, he did not have time to get away. He thought that the car would stop, but the family in the car was so busy laughing and chatting that the driver was not paying attention to what was going on around him. 

After this incident, the vicar spoke to the church about the importance of having back up sensors on the cars. He never mentioned the family by name, but most of the congregation by that time had already heard the story. 

Most people actually found this sermon interesting, however, as few knew that they could purchase back up sensors for their cars online at places such as Parking Dynamics for only a little bit of money and easily install the devices themselves. Best of all, back up sensors are available for any make or model car.


May 6th, 2008
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