The nerve...

[Lyndis]

I had a pretty good scare on the way home from work. It's scary to think that my life could have ended, or I could have been seriously injured thanks to the idiot I ran into (or almost ran into, rather).

I was driving down the open road, and I see a large truck pull up to the intersection. He stops at the intersection, waiting to turn onto the road I was currently driving on. When he stopped, I assumed he was waiting for me to pass before making the turn. But that wasn't the case.

The truck began to turn before I get to the intersection, and I had to slam on the brakes as hard as I could to avoid crashing into it. Only after bringing my vehicle to a complete stop did I even think about honking on the horn, which I did. Afterwards, I pretty much cussed out the truck until it was out of my sight. What the hell was that guy thinking!? I know he saw me coming. And it's not like I was driving slow; I was cruising at 60 mph (while the speed limit was only 50 mph). And he was driving a big truck, and those trucks usually don't accelerate very well at all. Think, people, think!

The moral of the story: Always drive defensively.

[Benaire]

Who had right of way?

[Shadowknight]

What's fun is when people almost hit you because they decide the stop sign/red light is optional.

I though living in Raleigh was bad, but I've seen some of the worst drivers in North Carolina right here in Charlotte.

[Arctic_Slicer]

You were speeding and your complaining about the way other people drive? You probabally drive drunk or while talking on your cell phone too.

[Snake eyeS]

Ye sometimes people do strange things while behind a wheel. my girlfriend said some true words when i was driving pretty fast with my car trough town..."An accident doesnt always has to be your fault" in other words she ment that even if im the best driver(something i often boast to her about ;) ) There can always be some asshole who fucks up and takes you down with you.

People that shoudnt be allowed to drive: Elderly people, Certain woman(depending their personality), angry men, belgium people.

examples:
Elderly people: I drove home from my holiday cruising with 140km/h, i went uphill and had to stomp my brakes because 2 elderly people were driving 95km/h on the left side of the road.. near accident. Granny got the finger.

Certain women: My girlfriend doesnt have her drivers licence that long so shes new to the road. but if i try to give her pointers she flips out and stomps the gaspedal creating all sorts of dangerous situations while she tries to prove me wrong.. the second i tick her off in the car, you can notice it in her driving. needless to say, we dont talk that much when she drives :D
Her twin sister is a bit relaxed behind the weel, but she doesnt like to look.. for cars... also creating SUPER dangerous situations on the road. she rather avoides the trouble by having to look on both sides and sometimes just hopes for the best.

Belgium people: Cmon! they pratically give drivers licences away for free there, they hardly get any real training, although i like to add in holland you get an extreme drivers training) belgium people always cut in when your on the highway, without looking they push their way to the left and expect everyone behind them to break and dont get signals like a gently middle finger.

Its because im such an awsome driver that i may comment on others ;)

[Calz]

You were speeding and your complaining about the way other people drive? You probabally drive drunk or while talking on your cell phone too.

you must be joking...
People who don't go at least 5 over in regular speed zones are considered
"slow" or "elderly" by 2/3 of the population
and if you don't go at least 10 over in high speed zones you're a traffic hazard

[Praetorian]

Did you see his face? How did he react?

[Nights_into_dreams]

Wow...

You haven't been driving long, have you?

The fact is...there are a lot of people in the US that can't really drive, or shouldn't be on the roads for they create a danger to themselves and/or others.

Not that the state is doing anything to help...

Belladonna can prolly back me up on this when I say that the Tennessee driver's test is a joke. When I did it, I wound up only having to take three right turns in an empty neighborhood, not having to parallel park or back up or anything. Heck, I even ran a stop sign and I still passed. (That was awhile ago. I stopped running stop signs by now.)

Get used to it Lyndis, it ain't gonna get any better.

[Lyndis]

Well, aren't you the friendly, caring people. Let me clear up a few things here.

Benaire: I had the right of way. When you come to a T-intersection, waiting to make a turn, you'll see either a stop or a yield sign. This particular intersection had a yield sign. The guy knew I was coming, yet waited until I was much closer to it before he started to pull out in front of me. That bastard...

Arctic_Slicer: Bullshit! Going ten miles over the speed limit is pretty much unanimous among drivers, in case you haven't noticed. I don't drink, and I don't use cell phones. Hell, I don't do anything except concentrate on the road. Had I been drinking or using the cell phone at the time, I wouldn't even be here right now. Now there's something to consider before making smartass remarks like that.

Calz: You hit the nail right on the head. That's all I have to say on that.

Praetorian: I didn't see the guy's face or his reaction. Yet I still wonder what was going through his mind.

Nights_into_dreams: You're talking like it's wrong for me to vent my frustrations. No, I haven't been driving very long, only three years. Of course life is going to suck. Why is it so wrong for me to vent?

[Deadhead]

Tell that to a cop.

Go the speed limit, quit your bitching.

[Chuplayer]

I love it when, at an intersection, the other people have a stop sign and stop to seemingly let you, who has no stop sign and the right of way, go, only to pull out at the last possible fucking moment and cause you, who had the right of way, to come to a complete screeching halt just to avoid hitting the person who had no business moving out from behind their FUCKING STOP SIGN in the first place.

Also, nobody, and I mean nobody, understands the concept of yielding to your right. Didn't you learn that when you were teenagers? If more people would just grasp that concept there would be less awkwardness and dumbassery at intersections.

[CNagy]

Doesn't matter if she was going 80 in a 50 (which would qualify her for reckless driving,) when you do not have the right of way, you wait until the coast is clear to pull out. "Well, officer, she was speeding like a demon so I figured if she hit me it'd be all her fault." Yeah, right. Assuming this wasn't rounding a bent or anything similar, how fast she was moving has absolutely nothing to do with the fault in the case of an accident. If she had to brake to a complete stop, 10 miles per hour over the speed limit doesn't mean jack in the scenario, anyway.

[harper]

I had something similar happen a couple of days ago, but it was somebody in a van who pulled out in front of me while I was doing about 45 mph. The lane to my left was open and he could have pulled into that lane and no problem, but he pulls right in front of me. I was able to slow down, change lanes, and go around the idiot.

[Deadhead]

I'm not saying what the other guy did was right, I am just saying that its hypocritical to complain when you yoirself are going 10 miles over the speed limit

[CNagy]

Hypocritcal? Going 10 miles over the speed limit is hardly the same as endangering yourself and others through negligence, because speeding by itself (especially such a low amount) does not cause an accident, it only raises the severity of an accident should one occur.

Pulling out into oncoming traffic in a slow vehicle is negligent and dangerous, and even worse than normal because a large truck has little to fear for a standard sized vehicle. "I'm bigger so I can do what I want" has no place on the roads.

[Lyndis]

Deadhead, you're not a driver, are you? If you are, you'd know that not one soul drives at the speed limit. I go ten over to keep up with the traffic flow. Hell, cars are still flying past me when I'm at that speed. Trust me, if you drive at the speed limit, you will get run over. Period.

This fool was just looking to cause an accident. That's the only logical explanation for it.

[Arctic_Slicer]

Hypocritcal? Going 10 miles over the speed limit is hardly the same as endangering yourself and others through negligence, because speeding by itself (especially such a low amount) does not cause an accident, it only raises the severity of an accident should one occur.

Pulling out into oncoming traffic in a slow vehicle is negligent and dangerous, and even worse than normal because a large truck has little to fear for a standard sized vehicle. "I'm bigger so I can do what I want" has no place on the roads.

Yes it is hypocrital. Both parties are breaking the law. There is no excuse for speeding. If the original poster was practicing defensive driving like the are preeching they would have been going the speed limit not 10 miles over. There is no justification for speeding, ever. Ask any highway patrol man and you will get the same answer.

[Deadhead]

I am a driver, and I know that saying 'nobody else was' is no excuse for not driving the speed limit.

[setrict]

The most important thing is keeping with the flow of traffic regardless of the speed, anything else and you are a hazard to yourself and those around you. In an ideal world, that flow would move at the speed limit. Trust me when I say this isn't an ideal world.

<geezer>I've been driving longer than a lot of you have been alive.</geezer>

As for legal... laws are the necessary lubricant of civilization, not something to be mindlessly worshipped.

[JustTooCrazy]

Woot. Can't wait to drive.

[hahaman]

maybe someone called a hit on you

[Arctic_Slicer]

The most important thing is keeping with the flow of traffic regardless of the speed, anything else and you are a hazard to yourself and those around you. In an ideal world, that flow would move at the speed limit. Trust me when I say this isn't an ideal world.

<geezer>I've been driving longer than a lot of you have been alive.</geezer>

As for legal... laws are the necessary lubricant of civilization, not something to be mindlessly worshipped.

In a situation where the flow of traffic is faster than the speed limit you are supposed to go at maximum legal speed and keep to the right. Didn't you take driver's ed?

[CNagy]

Yes it is hypocrital. Both parties are breaking the law. There is no excuse for speeding. If the original poster was practicing defensive driving like the are preeching they would have been going the speed limit not 10 miles over. There is no justification for speeding, ever. Ask any highway patrol man and you will get the same answer.

And ask any highway patrol man if they'll pull someone over for going 3 above the speedlimit, or 5 above the speedlimit. Ten miles above the speed limit is enough to get them to roll out on a slow day and pull you over.

I think you are missing the idea of hypocritical. The original poster was not lamenting the fact that the man in the truck broke any sort of law. The point was that he was acting with disregard for the safety of others. If she had just cut someone off, or ran a redlight prior to this event, that would be hypocritical. If she had been speeding around a tight curve (and thus invisible to those around the bend) then it would have been hypocritical. As it stands? The speed is meaningless unless you just lump all lawbreakers in the same category (in which case I bet the truck driver committed a moving violation and rolled past the line a little before stopping and then making his turn.)

[Arctic_Slicer]

And ask any highway patrol man if they'll pull someone over for going 3 above the speedlimit, or 5 above the speedlimit. Ten miles above the speed limit is enough to get them to roll out on a slow day and pull you over.

I think you are missing the idea of hypocritical. The original poster was not lamenting the fact that the man in the truck broke any sort of law. The point was that he was acting with disregard for the safety of others. If she had just cut someone off, or ran a redlight prior to this event, that would be hypocritical. If she had been speeding around a tight curve (and thus invisible to those around the bend) then it would have been hypocritical. As it stands? The speed is meaningless unless you just lump all lawbreakers in the same category (in which case I bet the truck driver committed a moving violation and rolled past the line a little before stopping and then making his turn.)

Why do we have speed limits? To protect the people around us. By going above the speed limit you are breaking a law that was put into place for the safety of others. As such it is hypocrital for a person to be breaking a safety to be complaining about someone else who is breaking a safety law.

[Lyndis]

And who else is going ten above the speed limit? EVERYONE! Including you. Don't try to deny it. The cops are not going to pull EVERYONE over for going ten above the speed limit. Hell, even the cops are flying past me, even if they're not chasing someone or rushing to a crime scene. The cops drive above the speed limit.

As cnagy says, it wouldn't have made a difference even if I was driving at the speed limit. The truck still pulled out in front of me, and I had to brake to a complete stop. My point is that the guy in the truck probably thought I was going too slow, so he decided to turn before I passed him. Many people tend to think I’m going to slow, since they’re always passing me. So my speed is irrelavent in this issue.

Anyway, some of you people are just too closed-minded to listen to what I have to say. So I’m ending this.

[PopCulturePooka]

I really want to know, did you see his face?

Praetorian: I didn't see the guy's face or his reaction. Yet I still wonder what was going through his mind.

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[Calz]

Why do we have speed limits? To protect the people around us. By going above the speed limit you are breaking a law that was put into place for the safety of others.

Actually I'd have to say that it'd be pretty Irionic for someone to die because they were doing the speed limit on the highway while everyone else was doing 20 over...

But there is still a big difference between speeding and right of way...

Speeding is like taking two pieces of candy from a bowl even though the sign requests you only take one with the word "please" at the end.
Completely ignoring the right of way is like shoving through line and emptying the entire candy bowl into your purse/pockets

it's early... I hope that makes sense...

[Praetorian]

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Sorry. And thanks for pointing that out.

[Kass]

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