Bad drivers in Louisiana beware!

[jasonl]

It's about DAMN time they crackdown on the speeders and mean drivers. If I were a cop I'd pull you over just for owning a Silverado because you probably sped in it at one time or another LOL.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS01/606060321/1002

 

[hoover1060]

yeah baby!

last year there was an accident in a burb a few miles away, three people died, a mom and a 4 year old in one car, and the driver of the other car, who in fact was speeding way over the limit. It later surfaced that the guy had 90+ speeding violations since he'd gotten his license. He was in fact driving on a ticket when he died.
People scratch their heads at how such a senseless accident could have happened. The guy with 90+ speeding tickets should not have been on the road at all.
Illinois is looking to toughen their laws as well, to hopefully get the bad drivers off the roads.
People don't understand that driving is s privelege and not a right!

 

[jasonl]

I did notice a difference, people were still changing lanes and stuff but it wasn't like they were bats out of hell. I actually saw people use their blinkers. The general speed this morning was about 65-70 which is what it should be. There were a few over but just for passing.

Our interstate were modeled after the autobahn but it ain't. That's because most people are too retarded to drive safely enough for it to be an autobahn.

I see they upped the speed limit in west Texas to 80mph. Well, as if people don't drive that fast anyway. Night is still 65 and you better belive it. I saw a few pullovers on the way back from Bellvile after the wash-in.

 

[jasonl]

Most wrecks I've seen here involve a small ricer and an 18-wheeler. Lemme guess, the shithead in the rice rocket tried to cut between the 18-wheeler and another car OR he rode in the 18 wheeler's blind spot. Loser.

 

[mixfinder]

90%

Recently, the WSP had a program putting State Patrol Officers in 18 wheelers, with radar device and cameras. The thought was they would catch road ragers and aggressive drivers causing accidents. The result of the survery was 90% of the accidents on the I-5 corridor through Seattle were caused by improper merge. Drivers are entering the freeway too slowly, causing everyone in the merge lane to swerve or slam on the brakes. Exactly the opposite of what the Washington State Patrol expected to find.
Kelly

 

[sudsmaster]

Right place, wrong time

Some idiot was racing his '67 corvette in a local cemetary here, and wound up crashing into a marble mausoleum. He died from his injuries. Reports variously say he was racing another car over a road rage incident that started outside the cemetary, and that he was also bringing some flowers to his mother's week-old gravesite.

The other car is still at large.

 

[petek]

I've driven in most of Canada and probably 40 US states and without a doubt the worst drivers are found in British Columbia Canada. They don't have much of any freeways and what bit they do have they can't merge, they drive in the left lane religiously almost. Oddly when they cross the border into Washington they all move over to the right lane but they still can't merge properly, preferring to slow down or stop. Anyone from Washington ever notice it coming back from Vancouver?

 

[jasonl]

Kelly, I see you have retards on your interstates as well. The thing that really pisses most people off are the people going to slow in the merge or in the left lane, causing the aggressive drivers to act more aggressively.

What tickles me is when some bully swerves, cuts me off, swerves, tailgates, tries to get ahead, I stay in my own lane and he gets left way behind because someone had to make a turn. And I just keep on Buggin' (or Pri'in if my dad ain't using it).

Also, I can laugh twice when I'm in the Prius because I know I'm doing 60mpg and he's doing what 10 when he stomps it and tries to act bad.

 

[westytoploader]

Wow, that bad, huh? Glad they're cracking down on it. I agree with you, aggressive drivers are a nightmare and unless you're driving a truck, make you feel extremely vulnerable/insecure on the freeway, highway, or whatever. Out here near Brenham, Bellville, Sealy, etc. isn't too bad as far as aggressive drivers are concerned, but once in a while there will be a swerver or tailgater. Katy & Houston on the other hand are just downright horrible.

The real problem here is the slow drivers on the highway who think they can get by with 55 in a 70 and DON'T MOVE OVER. I'll admit, I do drive around 75-80 normally, and as soon as I can pass or get in a 4-lane I'm blowing right by them.

Another problem I have are people who feel like they have to brake they're going through a green light...I've even honked at a few to get them to step on it. There's an EXTREMELY short light in Brenham that you have to go through right away (probably 15 seconds at the very most), and it figures that's where most of the problems are. It wouldn't be so bad except that the red light following this is mind-numbingly long, and that I've had to sit through two of them because the idiots in front of me didn't know what the word "move" meant.

--Austin

 

[westytoploader]

Oops

I meant to say "when" instead of "they're"...another case of "fingers-going-faster-than-your-mind", LOL.

I've mentioned this before, but one of our seniors that would have graduated this year died in a similar accident last October. He was coming back to Bellville from Sealy in his Honda rice-burner when his hat blew out of the window. He turned around in the middle of the highway TWICE and didn't look either time. The second time around a Wal-Mart 18-wheeler was coming the other direction and broadsided the car. Not to mention the fact that he hadn't been wearing a seatbelt. What's the deal? Do people feel "invincible" in these things or something?

--Austin

 

[toggleswitch]

To hell with memorizing facts. teach people how to THINK!, a

Sadi: Drivers are entering the freeway too slowly, causing everyone in the merge lane to swerve or slam on the brakes.

Response:I love that people don't understand that they should start off as far BACK on the extrance ramp as possible to get to speed, and be able to merge at nearly the right speed.

I LOVE the ones that go so far up it before they merge that they are practically on the highway. They get on and Then start traveling from zero.

Do we not undertand applied physics AT ALL?

 

[jasonl]

Austin, I'm sure you probably would pass me up on the highway since I go slower than that. But I do my part by staying out of the way. But you can't help it sometimes when you're in traffic and you have some rude a-hole swerving and cutting around you because your lane isn't moving and the other one is. Passing someone is one thing. Being an ass is another. There's a short light in Opelousas at Cresswell Ln and I-49 onramp. You have to either floor it or just wait. The lights crossing Hwy 90 in Lafayette are bad, too, but that's so it doesn't impede the traffic on 90. Hwy 90, The Evangeline Thruway (90/167 eventually turning into I49) is where you'll find the angry truck drivers.

Houston is pretty miserable to drive through because of the jerks, especially in that narrow part downtown.

 

[jasonl]

PS, just to make things clear, I wasn't referring to you as an ass, I was talking the other rude people.

 

[toggleswitch]

Still nothngs beat someone doing 20 mph in a huge SUV taking two lanes during rush hour with obnoxious misbehaved rug-rats in the rear, the TV on, a cigarette in one hand and a coffee in the other. oh and phone surgically attached to ear.

Is this not a tragedy WAITING to happen?

 

[jasonl]

Well, that causes road rage and aggression. Once people get pissed off on the road, they stay that way until they get home. I've been there.

 

[jasonl]

Usually the large SUV's here are the bullies. Some insecure a-hole that thinks he can push others around on the highway

 

[toggleswitch]

EXPEXTATIONS- Dropping them is the key to success.

Why assume the world is a nice place? Just assume some @$$hole will kill you on the road. Then, you can only be pleasanlty surpised wheen they simply endanger your life,and their own.

and remember anger and expectations cause illness. LET IT GO!

 

[jasonl]

The world is a nice place is you make it a nice place. Unfortunately most people don't make it nice place and ruin it for everybody.

 

[sudsmaster]

I have noticed that when I drive my Neon in rush hour freeway traffic, the drivers of SUV's that rudely shove themselves in front of me, violating my right of way, most often are of the middle-aged female persuasion. They seem to take some sort of delight in doing that to a middle aged man in a small car.

I also recall a study a while back that showed that female drivers are most likely to speed up, not slow down, when they see a male pedestrian. They are most likely to slow down when they see a female or child pedestrian.

But to be fair, the real aggressive drivers are generally male. I've run across a couple of pyschopathic drivers who appear to be on permanent road rage. One was a drunk who tailed my motorcycle throughout rural Marin country, at one point passing me in the face of blaring and swerving oncoming traffic and then slamming on his brakes. I anticipated the move and managed not to rear end him. I had the pleasure at the next gas station of calling the police - he had the stupidity to follow me there - and I had the further pleasure of issuing a citizen's arrest for him with an officer present. It was at the policeman's request, since they had determined he was as drunk as a skunk.

Another notorious psycho driver was a local psyhiatrist who apparently had a grudge against motorcycles. He'd drive his big BMW 7 series recklessly on tight local mountain roads, threateing local motorcyclists with hairball manuvers. The last I heard (and this was more than 10 years ago) was that he'd managed to wreck his car big time. We didn't see much of him after that. Evidently it was a good case of doctor, heal thyself.

I will say though that the biggest hazard on the road these days is the cell phone. It causes drivers to be inattentive and promotes road rage amongst others.

 

[toggleswitch]

ME first, SCREW you ..............

As I said, the rules of the road are the rules fo the road. I don't care how big your _______ or your ____ is. No one is special, chosen, elite or above-it-all.


*vehicle or wallet/purse.

 

[jasonl]

It's almost like two different forms of driving from the different genders.

Female aggressive driving, whip around and pull in front of you.. me me me... You go girl, izz all about me.

Male aggressive driving, mash the pedal as far as it will go, lots of intimidation of bullying type driving.

We have both down here and hopefully, the state cops and Lafayette police will get it under control.

Well, time to go home. I'm Pri'en today so let's see who burns the least amount of fuel going home. MUHAHAHAHA. And no, I"m not a smug Prius driver that blocks up traffic by going annoyingly slow to get gas mileage. The best way to operate a Prius and get good mileage is stay in the right or center lane, switch lanes only to keep momentum going (like when someone's turning right and you don't want to brake), or to pass slower vehicle.

 

[thor]

Some while back I met a judge at a friend's birthday party. He was a very nice guy (aren't all judges nice?, LOL), and I will never forget what he told me that night: most fatal car accidents in highways are caused by SLOW drivers! One of the larger highways leading south from Buenos Aires fell under his jurisdiction, so I guess he knew what he was talking about.

He told me story after story where the culprit had been a slow driver. Some were close to unbelievable! He insisted that most fatal accidents are caused by slow drivers, during the day, during the night, during rainy days, during foggy days, during frost days, and so on. The second cathegory to cause accidents were drunk drivers, the third sleepy drivers and the fourth speedy drivers! Way back in last place came the accidents caused by mechanical failures (i.e., a blown tire, faulty brakes).

One of the stories that struck me most was a driver that because of a very heavy night fog had just stopped (braked) his car in the right lane of the highway, but very cautiously had turned on his 4way emergency flasher! It was a matter of seconds before another car (driving at an appropriate speed given the weather conditions) had slammed into the rear of the first car, killing all people in both cars.

 

[jasonl]

There was a slow driver in the left lane today on I-49. THAT will only make aggressive drivers even more aggressive and possible road rage. Slow people, get in the right lane or get off the interstate. Hwy 182 parellels I49 and I use it often when I don't feel like messing with the traffic, so there's no excuse to not use a back road if you have to go slow.

 

[jasonl]

Female drivers

Many women today are hateful towards men. That's no secret. Thank women's lib/feminism for that. It's kind of disconcerting to know that women will only slow down for female or child pedestrians, and the attitude carries while driving... Cut the man off and fuel her insecurity.

Helen isn't like that but she's one of those go slow in the left lane drivers. I'm like, "Honey, you're going slow in the left lane" and she moves over lol.

 

[thor]

Yea, with time, age and wisdom I convinced myself that people who drive slower than me are a bunch of a$$holes and those who drive faster are a tribe of savages!

 

[petek]

I saw a good one the other day. On the divided hiway near me where there are still occasional stoplights. I pulled up to the red light, a woman sitting about 30 ft into the middle of the intersection waiting to make her left turn when the lights turned yellow..instead of proceeding thru her turn when the opposing traffic stopped, she put the car in reverse and backs up into the left turn lane, all the while chatting on her cellphone. How do people like that get a license, that's an instant fail on the exam here. What makes me even madder is those people who when making a left turn will not under any circumstance move out into the instersection but sit and wait till they can make a complete left without stopping thereby making everyone behind them miss the light.. grrrrrr.

 

[tolivac]

I remember a "soccer mom" in a SUV--the kids romping in back and the "Baby On Board" stickers on her car-tailgating me on I-66 at 60MPH-she wanted around me in most aggressive way-in trhe DC area the worst ones seem to be the females with kids-in their 30's--got to get those kids to their soccer match on time!!And on other trips--see those same types being pulled out of a ditch!.
Out where I am now its the SLOWPOKES that are the problem-esp during hunting season as the deerhunters cruise the backroads out here-near where I work looking for deer.They go so slow!!Folks out here don't know what the turn signal handles are for in their cars-at intersections--you don't know!!and they LOVE to stomp on the brakes at green lights-never could understand-in other areas you would get hit from behind if you did that(DC)Oh well driving anywhere is a challenge these days-its to the point I let my cellphone ring and call back whoever was calling when I can stop.And oh yes during the harvest-some slow moving farm equipment that won't pullover to let the car "trains" they made go by.the country streets here are quite narrow and no paved shoulders.Also here there is frequent accidents of speeders hitting roadside mower tractors.Some mower operators post signs where they are operating-very good for them and the cars.I like to give those flail mowers wide bith in case they hit something or throw a flail.

 

[jasonl]

Everyone has that "me 1st" attitude that's what causes the aggressive driving.

Good news. I saw a few cops out on I49 and a whole bunch of them on Hwy90 outside of Lafayette, and they were on the move catching speeders. YEAH! Get 'em!

Slowpokes, yeah we have them, in the left lane on the interstate. Stupid asses. Get in the right lane or go on Hwy182 if you wanna go that darn slow.

 

[toggleswitch]

I had to laugh...

My father is in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.

The older folks have clung to the thought that the I-10 major highway (I think that's what it is!) is a sure death-trap.

This is PERFECT. Keeps the slower drivers off the highway!
The local service road runs parallel for miles and miles, so people can figure out how to get where they are going, no prob.

Whoever publishes these types of newpaper articles down there is sure a sharp one!

I was thrilled to break 40 mph for once down there!
I came home and did 70 (keeping up with traffic, here) on the Long Island Expreswway just for fun! LOL

TE HE HE HE

 

[jasonl]

Except for a few crazy people that still want to drive stupid, looks like people are watching their manners a little better. People are driving at or around the speed limit and alot of the tailgating/aggressive driving is gone. Makes it more enjoyable for me to have my Starbucks and not have to put up with aholes. Now if they can get rid of the slowpokes or make them drive on the service roads and country highways then it will be ok.