Stop signs in the neighborhood are also poorly observed by many people. I see people roll through them, steal a turn at a 4-way stop, or if they're behind me, and I take a full stop, they nearly run into me, or get irritated, and go around me at the first opportunity they see.

You forgot to add than many of these people are the ones sitting at the traffic lights, and are still sitting there after the lights go green until someone honks their horn because they're too busy playing with their phone to notice that the lights have changed.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I look forward to the day when people aren't driving anymore.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

My phone stays in My pocket, I don't text much, when I do it's not in a car.

Glad to hear it, Vic.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

At his age he should just stick with driving around the estate these days and leave the public roads to chauffeurs.

Or, as a letter writer in today's New Scientist suggests, get an autonomous car.

I'm sure some enterprising developer will be glad to sponsor a 'By appointment to...' badge on the side of their self-driving offering. Perhaps even Land Rover needs a new crash-test dummy?

The following is the main issue why Safety within the Transportation profession will always be debatable:

Speaking afterwards, Ms Walker said the A149 had been discussed at "virtually every meeting" of the committee but the topic had been "pushed to the side".
"I think the fact that it was the Duke of Edinburgh involved yesterday, it has brought this right to the forefront, and I think we will now see some speedy work done," she said.
"I wouldn't say it was an accident waiting to happen, but it is something we have highlighted previously.
"Unfortunately it was who it was, and I hate to say this, but if it hadn't have been him would we be discussing this today?"

Safety measures to be implemented

He rides alone again.

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I bet he's in the doghouse over this -

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/20/uk/duke-of-edinburgh-philip-car-crash-seat-belt-gbr-intl/index.html

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Driver who tried to destroy a 9-foot snowman rams car into the stump at the snowman's base

Would-be vandals trying to destroy a snowman in front of a Kentucky home get a nasty surprise when they hit the tree stump that made up the snowman's base.

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I bet that driver was surprised when he came to a sudden stop. :D

Cheers.

Body odor? American Airlines kicks couple, infant from flight

A Detroit couple and their infant daughter were kicked off an American Airlines flight from Miami this week.

The flight crew booted the family after passengers complained about body odor, a Miami ABC affiliate reported.

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A French light plane with three people aboard while attempting to land on skis on the Rutor Glacier in Italy crashed against an Italian helicopter carrying skiers to the same glacier. The Heliski practice is forbidden in Switzerland and the skiers were all Swiss. Seven dead, plus two wounded, a French man who was the plane pilot instructor with two students actually piloting, and a Swiss skier. Landing on a glacier is only allowed to helicopters in Italy but the French do it frequently.
Tullio

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A French light plane with three people aboard while attempting to land on skis on the Rutor Glacier in Italy crashed against an Italian helicopter carrying skiers to the same glacier. The Heliski practice is forbidden in Switzerland and the skiers were all Swiss. Seven dead, plus two wounded, a French man who was the plane pilot instructor with two students actually piloting, and a Swiss skier. Landing on a glacier is only allowed to helicopters in Italy but the French do it frequently.
Tullio

Sigh. Failure to see and avoid, root cause of too many accidents. Is there a CATF (Common Air Traffic Frequency) rule over there? e.g. "Rutor Glacier Traffic, helicptor ID landing Rutor Glaicer" "Rutor Glacier Traffic Skiplane ID landing Rutor Glacier"

Of course there is several communication systems like the CATF here as well.
But they doesn't work so well in mountainous regions like La Thuile.
It could have been a pilot error or a communication error.
I guess no one knows for now.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47004710

BBC video - Drink-driver jailed after father and baby near miss

Yep saw that one & posted it on social media. Did not go down too well. :-) For that offence under Sharia Law entails 80 lashes. Had issues with him in 2013 - He's literally 4 minutes away. Back then he had no seatbelt on & on his mobile. The stench of booze on his breath was unmistakable. :-( He got out of the way PDQ. His car, not my lorry. :-)

They fly on Visual flight rules. Helicopters have rules about hours in which their are allowed to fly. The French pilot, wounded in an Aosta hospital, has been incriminated.

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Of course there is several communication systems like the CATF here as well.
But they doesn't work so well in mountainous regions like La Thuile.
It could have been a pilot error or a communication error.
I guess no one knows for now.

Actually it doesn't have a problem in mountains for that kind of operation. If you aren't line of sight with the other airplane, then there is a mountain between you and you aren't going to hit each other before you hit the mountain.
However if you are trying to talk to a ground station some miles away in the flat land, say to get a weather report, that is when there can be issues, same with radar, so that is why the weather must be VFR or better to operate.

The weather was perfect. Time was about 16 PM. It was certainly a pilot error, done by a student. The teacher was in a back seat.

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They fly on Visual flight rules. Helicopters have rules about hours in which their are allowed to fly. The French pilot, wounded in an Aosta hospital, has been incriminated.

But it was two planes that collided.
The helicopter was carrying six people -- the pilot, an alpine guide and four passengers who were heli-skiing.
Three people were aboard the light aircraft, all of them pilots who were training in mountain flying.
I'm not quite sure what a light aircraft is but it seem to me that there is two pilots in question.