"A DRIAN CROOK, a father of five from Vancouver, has always known what danger looks like: it's a boxy stamped-metal contraption, with four wheels, a transmission, and a hood. When Crook was a teenager in the '90s, his high school friend Sheri was killed in a car crash. She was coming back from a party with three friends when the driver lost his bearings and wrapped the vehicle around a pole."
"Over a decade later, in 2006, Crook's grandmother was walking home from a shopping mall in Burnaby, British Columbia, when a truck ran her over at a crosswalk. She went into a coma and died in hospital. Crook's first son was born two months after that accident. From that moment, Crook carried the certainty that if the boy met an early death, it would almost certainly involve a car."
Adrian Crook, a father of five in Vancouver, associates cars with fatal danger after multiple family tragedies: a teenage friend's car crash and his grandmother's death under a truck. His eldest son was born two months after the grandmother's accident, and Crook believed early death for the child would most likely involve a vehicle. Vehicular accidents rank as the leading cause of death for Canadian children and teens. Crook dislikes driving because he finds cars expensive, dirty, and dangerous, relying on public transit for daily travel and avoiding weekday driving challenges when coordinating school commutes.
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