On the road, disaster struck in the form of heavily armed gunmen, who dragged them into captivity.
There are inevitably some high-profile holiday accidents, like a devastating road disaster last Christmas Eve in Las Vegas in which alcohol was allegedly a factor but do the statistics back up the notion that the most wonderful time of the year is also the most hazardous?
While driverless cars could offer many benefits, from bringing independence to the elderly to reducing the number of road accidents, disasters could still happen.
But down the road, these disasters may be remembered as the time America stopped shouting slogans past each other, and took up the serious conversations we must have, unless we're willing to watch our country go down in flames.
This is a road to disaster.
Are we not on a road to disaster?
Instead, they forged stubbornly ahead on the road to disaster.
Add an icy road and disaster can ensue.
"We're going down a road to disaster," said Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, who appeared on CNN with Mr. Schumer.
