Its dark and you are going too fast, obviously if you weren't you'd have reacted in time to see the pothole. Jackassery on the road bites you in the ass in the end. I used to tear up the roads at my uncle's place, its the back woods with not a cop in sight until I over cooked a turn and nearly send myself along with the car I had at the time tumbling over a mountain into the valley below. Its not a lot of fun fighting a 3400 lb car thats going too fast and wondering how its gonna hurt when you hit the bottom.

Obviously common sense isn't too common because you'd probably not be going 88 mph on a road.