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Gene-ius at work

It’s a dark day for competent motorists everywhere. According to a recent study, ineptitude behind the wheel may, in fact, be genetic.

The results of the study, posted on Live Science’s website, reveal that some of us may possess a bad driving gene, making us prone to automotive dodginess and car accidents.

Perhaps this is how Mother Nature weeds out the genetically inferior in the modern age, one bingle at a time.

Has the world gone mad? Have we slipped into some sort of parallel universe where down is up, Kyle Sandilands is skinny and Daryl Somers is funny? How else do you explain news reports today in which people are campaigning to increase the speed limit on certain roads?

According to a growing crowd of pro-speed campaigners, it's not speed that'll kill you on the road. Apparently it's boredom, and a subsequent lack of attention, that's responsible for most fatal, rural accidents.

And, at the risk of being inundated with furious letters from Harold Scruby and his band of merry men, we agree.

Death dodgers

The news networks were showing the following reel on repeat this morning, and with good reason.

Basically, a lucky Russian is jogging across the road when a bus slams into a stationary car, sending both careening over the crossing, missing the man by millimetres. And it got us thinking about these death dodgers. You know the type; the Hindenburg pilot who called in sick that day, or the WTC worker who ducked out for coffee...

So check out these cracking examples of the power of luck.delivered the perfect race from second spot on the grid, untroubled as the drama unfolded behind.