I'm sure many of you can top this one, but it's good for starters:

Yesterday, I'm in a center turning lane, waiting for a break in the oncoming traffic so I can make a left turn. After the last car goes by, I start my turn & suddenly, out of nowhere, a car is broadside in front of me! He slams on his brakes, I slam on mine & the driver behind me does as well....all three cars are just inches apart...a very close call.

Where did this car come from? It was passing me, headed in the same direction, but as the driver noticed the light turning red at the upcoming intersection, he suddenly decided to turn where I was turning to avoid waiting at the light. However, he also wanted to avoid the three or four seconds it would have taken to pull into the turning lane behind me, so he tried to drive just past me & then do a "U turn" in time to cut me off, but his timing was off. SO...in trying to save himself a few seconds, he very nearly caused a three car collision.

Lets hear your stories.....

 

here in NYC you get drivers like that at every intersection

 

Daddio360, story's like your's is the reason I don't carry a gun in my truck anymore. I'm dead serious too. It's like the older I get the less patience I have for stupid people.

 

Lets see,aside from my thread about driving over a firehose,how about the stupid people who dont get out of the way when they see flashing lights and hear the sirens?Or how about the idiot who is pulling into a parking lot,and stops half way into the driveway leaving half of his car stopping traffic!Or the moron who gets to the 4way stop sign AFTER you do,but goes before you.Man,I could go on,and on,and on,and on,and,,,,,,

 

I like the guy that pass' on 2 lane state roads just to pull in his driveway 100 or so yards up the road. I always feel like stopping and punching them in their adams apple.

 

how about the rectal orifice that sees a loaded tri-axle dump truck coming down the road in the left lane, and blows the stop sign to pull half way across the left lane and stop, because he does not want to wait for the truck to go by.
then when you do your best to stop before hitting his passenger door with less than 2 inches to spare, he gets out of the car screaming at you for almost hitting him??

this is a regular occurrence.
lucky for me, i don't let these rectal orifices get to me.
but the Fairview NJ police Sergent that witnessed the whole thing on Thursday thought it was pretty funny.
and i thought it was even funnier when he started writing tickets to the dipstick in the poor mans Bentley.

 

Come to Florida! Where we have drivers the make Left hand turns from the Right lane. Where older folks drive into houses and storefronts because they can't tell the difference between the brake and gas pedals. Red light runners that run the light when it's been red for 5 or 6 seconds (I had an 18 wheeler do this to me, if I didn't waited at the light he would have killed me.)

Where every crappy driver that has the money to be a snowbird thinks they own the road. Where is it possible for someone who is 80 to get their license automatically renew, by mail, until they are 96. Where illegal aliens drive without licenses or insurance and routinely cause accidents. Florida has the highest rate of hit and run accidents in the country.

 

oooo.. we get so much of that here... especially on backroads... they'll shoot past you only to be turning onto a road up ahead, driveway, or worse come up to a stop sign...

and about the gun thing... I hear ya... I wouldn't be here right now typing this if I carried my gun in my truck (do they allow internet access in prison?)

 

I feel you with this being from Arizona....

Also you can add the fact when you are behind a car and cannot see a head you are going to be in trouble.

I was pulling into the store and an "old" man was on the left side of the road. He got all mad at me for being where he wanted to be and I would not move out of HIS way. The lady behind him was just shaking her head. I felt sorry for the people behind me being stuck in traffic because of this man.

 

Yep. When I lived in Ft. Myers, we called them frogheads. All you could see from behind was two hands up on the wheel and a little poof of blue hair sticking up above the headrest. Fortunately, the drivers around here are pretty considerate for the most part. However, with the influx of illegals, it's getting worse.


Pete

 

The Las Vegas Strip!!..............I' been here for 23 yrs now, I sure I haven't seen it all. (yet!) 100,000 California's converging on a strip of asphalt 10 miles long every weekend. It takes 4 hour to go the length on a Fri or sat nite. And everybody wants to do it NOW!!! Let there be a special event in town like New Years or a major Fight Nite and its total Bedlam......But then again "WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS.......STAYS IN VEGAS!!! (No I don't hate cal visitors....as long as they bring there money............. )

 

the small towns around here know how to drive but you get to one the size of the one i'm living in now and common sense goes out the window. it's going to get even worse cuz they're putting in those damn red light cameras so we're going to have a LOT more rear end accidents. i'm SO glad i drive a huge chunk of steel instead of a tiny chunk of plastic. i promise, the same idiot won't hit me more than once...

the worst i've was a two lane turning lane and i was in the outside lane, no horn in my old blue truck, (the clips that hold it on broke and i hadn't put the shoestring on it to hold it on yet) and a blue hair turned into my lane from the close lane nearly taking out his whole back quarter panel on my front bumper cuz even old blue is solid metal instead of his plastic car... i hit the brakes the clutch the gearshift and my steering wheel that was missing the horn at the same time.. that HURT! those plastic edges suck! i chased him down at the gas station he was going to and told him to PAY ATTENTION cuz someday it won't be someone who knows how to pay attention beside him and he's gonna get killed turning into the wrong lane like that. i was 17.

my gramma doesn't drive anymore and i'm thankful for it. i think old people shud have mandatory testing behind the wheel every year after a certain point. i know there are some old people that are just fine but perhaps if a cop pulls them over for driving like a blue hair, then start the testing. that'd put an extra burden on the cops but after a while they'd see less of them driving i think cuz they'd be getting their licenses revoked.

dumb idea but it's better than doing nothing at all i think.

 

MAN!!!
Driving a truck over 22 years ,,,, GOD,,, some of the stories I could tell!

SO DON'T GET ME STARTED!!!