Things you wish the other driver could hear, v3.0

If you’re going to be the only occupant of your car during commute hours in the carpool lane, at least go over 60 mph!

Fast driver.
Wet road. Overcast, raining.
Long curve to the left for me.
Uphill for me, downhill for him
Dual carriage roadway

Was in my own lane, pottering uphill. Road ahead was empty, and I was in the leftmost lane (in SA we drive on the wrong side of the road)
All of a sudden, down the road swoops a Merc. His speed was such that centrifugal force pushed him out of his lanes towards my lane.

Just saw it swoops past me, didnt know whether he made an accident back there or not, just proceeded.

Thinking back on that incident I am still glad and thankful that there wasnt a headon collision that day. Don’t know why this particular memory is coming back to bother me.

Edit : forgot to mention that this happened more than 20 years ago…

You are lucky. Because three nights ago that exact thing happened about 300 years from our house, but it did result in a head-on crash. Three adults are in the hospital in critical condition, and a 4yr-old little girl died. No bueno.

The radius of the corner on this freeway can be measured in miles / kilometres / light-seconds. You do not need to reduce your speed by 20% to safely negotiate it.

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Wherein our intrepid forumite, @MSUAlexis time travels…

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MSUAlexis is a Timelord? Awesome.

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Hardy har. Stupid new phone auto predictive text. Yards. Although, if that road is still there in 300yrs, people will still crash head on at that curve.

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Whilst on my way home yesterday I noted a guy in a big bakkie (pick-up) next to me repeatedly speeding up and slowing down behind the car in front of him.

He would start to speed up, approach the car in front of him at speed, then brake suddenly, fall a bit back, then lather rinse repeat.

One of these days he’ll have a nice incident where he’ll do the same - speeding up, but then the car in front of him will execute a sharp emergency brake manoeuver and he’ll have an uncontrolled crash…

Stupid. I just made sure I did not remained in his vicinity for long… in case a nasty accident really happens.

The speed limit is 65. I’m doing between 75 and 80 and you just blew past me like it ain’t no thing. If there is a cop at the bottom of this hill I’m going to laugh my ass off. (unfortunately there was not)

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Yeah, that happens to me a lot in the morning, except the stretch I see it on the limit got raised to 70 and people blow by me when I’m going 78.

Unfortunately, then you run into clumps that didn’t notice it was raised to 70 six months ago and refuse to driver over 66.

Happened to me once. Was on a long downhill, doing 120km/h (speed limit) when some doofus in a VW Up! blew past me at 150km/h

Of course there was a cop and he got pulled off :joy:

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There are several sections of highway around here in Indy where there is the “speed limit” and then there is what everyone drives. A section of 465 is 55 mph, but everyone goes at least 70… everyone, school buses whatever.

Parts of 69 are like the autobahn, nice straight road with nothing for miles.

Hundreds of miles of I70 are 80mph or bust sections.

And there are some smaller roads around where I live where driving the speed limit would get you shot and your body dumped in an unmarked grave. It says 55 or 45 on the sign, but just go 60 or 65 like everyone else.

On I-15 on the way to Vegas last weekend I was doing 80 and getting passed like nothing. Speed limit is 70. But most of the road between Barstow and the CA/NV line is only two lanes on each side. So if you drive in the left lane people will crawl up your ass unless you’re doing 90+ and if you drive in the right lane you get stuck behind all the semi trucks and RVs that aren’t even doing the speed limit.

Argh, that’s like driving in Florida. Left lane is 100 right lane is 50. And if there is a center lane it’s semis going 85.

It hasn’t been updated on their GPS, therefore it didn’t happen. To hell with what the actual signs say. Nobody takes those seriously.

Funny, we also complain about the lack of visible policing here. The cops love to sit like trolls underneath a bridge or tree and zap people that’s going too fast, they don’t want to address bad driving especially in cities.

It’s called Revenue Generation, @Ook

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Christmas Bonus Revenue Generation more likely :yum:

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Dear $idiot

It was pissing down, in fact you could only manage to see 10metres of road ahead of you.

And yet you still insists on sitting on my ass. Or overtaking at speed like a lunatic, because accidents “always happen to somebody else”.

Piss off, get a better attitude, kthanxbai.

Yesterday afternoon:
I’m approaching my street which is a right-hand turn off a two-lane back road.
Another car is approaching from the opposite direction, turning onto my street.
As is my habit, I quickly flash my hi-beams at them and wave them on.
Now I have had many reactions to this from absolutely nothing to a smile, wave and flash of hi-beams and every thing in between. I do not expect any reaction when I let someone proceed ahead of me, I do it out of common courtesy. What did the driver do yesterday?
She flips me the Bird the entire time she is turning in front of me!
WTF???
Anyone have any ideas on what might have upset her?
It was still daylight so I wouldn’t think the hi-beams blinded her.

Puzzled…

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