But he certainly was not thinking about the peril in which he placed others, not just himself, when he was driving.
A representative of the Maspero Youth Union, a Christian group, spoke to The Times about the scope of the week's violence and the peril in which his community finds itself.
Documented in The Cruise of the Rolling Junk, their hapless but good-natured picaresque is punctuated by moments of comedy, despair and mortal peril, in which the car proves to be every bit as recalcitrant and impulsive as its passengers.
Carolyn Fuentes, a young Latina resident who earlier this year held a pro-police rally in response to criticism from other protesters, said the peril in which Bakersfield officers are frequently placed is not sufficiently appreciated.
Put plainly, the political and legal peril in which health reform finds itself is directly attributable to the failure of the uninsured to visibly advocate on their own behalf.
I volunteered to go to Kenema Government Hospital (KGH), which had opened an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU), as a World Health Organization (WHO) short-term consultant at the end of July, when the media frenzy in the United States focused on the great peril in which the US population was being placed by the arrival of two sick missionaries from Liberia.
Mr. Liu, who has assailed the Bloomberg administration over technology projects, said the personnel system showed the perils of contracts in which consultants are paid by the hour, not a flat rate.
A good place to start is with A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation, in which industry veteran and quantitative fund manager Richard Bookstaber argues that the biggest risks our economy faces come from the very complexity of the markets and those "innovative" securities products he had a hand in creating.
She demonstrates an extraordinary gift for capturing peril: the sections in which influenza tears through Fox Corner are truly menacing, and the descriptions of Ursula's work in a bombed-out London are masterpieces of the macabre ("'Be careful here, Mr Emslie,' she said over her shoulder, 'there's a baby, try to avoid it.'").
Thinking about the long haul is a change for Amtrak, which has led a hand-to-mouth existence for the last few years, its recent history a "Perils of Pauline" saga in which the onrushing train, not the damsel on the tracks, is in danger.
(Ecco/HarperCollins, $26.95.) A cautionary tale about the promise and peril of biomedical research, in which a family of remarkable bold achievers attempts to create or discover a cure for one of their number who is faced with death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
