It would be a wee bit slower yet better on fuel mileage and I doubt these incidents are related.

From the article of part 2:
The car then hit a utility poll, knocking the poll and traffic lights down.
Were these places where people were gathered to agree to disagree on something??
People are either IGNORANT or INCOMPETENT anymore with their spellings of words and there are NO PROOFREADERS either since all the mistakes are overlooked or just not considered incorrect.