It’s simple, they don’t. There are always cases where they do, but it’s not “almost always” overall.
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if you remove the ones that involved a “Stenhouse” or a “Bodine,” how many do you have left??
The guy that introduced my wife and I, died in a single car crash while drunk… Just like playing Russian Roulette, sometimes you win and well, sometimes ya don’t…
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When we were kids we would ambulance chase on our bikes. One guy drove his Mercedes down an embankment, hit a tree and died. Another guy missed the turn at a high rate of speed and slammed into the cemetery rock retaining wall and died. One of the adults and he didn’t have any pants on but for the benefit of us kids I suppose, another guy said it was probably the force of the crash. There are proper times and places I learned.
Driving drunk is never a win.
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I was a passenger in two. In the first, we were on a highway during a wet snow. The back end of the car started to swing. The driver tried to correct it but it just got worse. We did a 180 and hit the guard rail. Once we started to go around I put my arms up such that my forearms covered the side of my head and my upper arms covered my face. I was concerned about broken glass and fortunately no glass broke. Neither of use were hurt.
In the second we were on a cloverleaf entrance ramp. Another driver was exiting the highway too fast and spun out in front of us. The car ended up in our lane and we hit square on the rear. It shortened the other car several inches and our car’s front end was pushed in several inches as well. The other driver had a leg injury but we had no injuries.
Even my old 59 VW had safety glass as the window got blown out and glass pieces sprayed over me. Just picking pieces out of my hair, not shards like the days before ole Henry ford came up with the idea.
Yesterday, around 4pm traveling behind an SUV, an accident happened again right in front of me.
I’m starting to believe I should give the road a break.
After exiting taconic pky, the suv in front of me slammed into another SUV in front of him and tried to blame the other driver.
Because I’m deaf, I didn’t bother to engage with the two but I did really want to. I wanted to ask the driver who rear ended the other driver in front of him how did he come to the conclusion the other driver was wrong ? Sure, the driver in front of him stopped because of a stop sign. How would he be responsible for what goes on behind him?
My family is glad I’m deaf and didn’t get involved as they suggested putting my nose in other peoples business will get me shot.
The only time I’ve been asked to be a car-accident witness, a 16 foot panel truck was stopped at a stop sign, making a left hand turn across a through street. The truck was hit during its turn attempt by another car on the through street. The truck driver claimed the other car was hidden by a portable real- estate advertising sign placed on the sidewalk for an open house. I supported the truck driver on that one; the advertising sign placed on the sidewalk was a hazard.
Out of curiosity, is it considered rude to be a witness of a car accident here in the USA ?
Because I wanted to get involved with the Telsa running its red light and with this one rear ending another vehicle.
My family insists I keep out of peoples business with this matter but I feel as a witness I could potentially help a victim out there.
If the police ask for your help then yes, but otherwise you being disabled, you are not able to defend yourself, that could be very dangerous for you, you would be an easy target for someone with already rage issues… It could have been a scam or something also… Just let the Police do there job…
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Totally agreed. Thank you, friend
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Reminds me of a story told to me from a friend from Bradenton, FL. He was commuting to work. He was stopped at a red light, he was maybe 3 or 4 in line. A man driving a pickup towing a trailer rear ended him totaling his car. He was not hurt.
My friend gets out of the car and the hispanic man walks to him. “Hey, why does everybody stop?” My friend looks at the light “It’s a red light!”. The truck driver was clueless, probably distracted (do I have to say it?).
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You might recall an incident that I posted a while back. While exiting from the parking lot at the local P.O., I had to brake very hard to avoid being hit head-on by a car driven by an older woman.
She needed to back-up, as she was obstructing the exit lane, but instead, she rolled-down her window and shouted, “Can’t you read? The sign says no entry!”
The no entry sign was facing toward her, but rather than argue with that demented woman, I did a k-turn and used a different exit.
I had an irksome incident today but less of a problem than yours. An SUV was parked with the driver’s side on the line. I pulled into the middle of my parking spot. When I returned to my car the driver of the SUV was standing behind it. I said hello and she asked why I parked such that she couldn’t get into her SUV. I showed her that I parked in the middle of my spot and that she was on the line. Apparently it didn’t occur to her to look down at the parking spot lines. I put my groceries in the car, returned the cart, and then pulled away. At least she wasn’t belligerent.
Live off a narrow winding mountain road with hairpin turns. The locals drive too fast and cyclists, motorcyclists, and some sports car groups come up to see how fast they can go, so lots of accidents. Seen two sideswipings, one t-bone off a side road. SUV embedded into the middle of a trailer at a hairpin, guardrail end up about 3 feet into the passenger area of a sedan.
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It is fortunate that she wasn’t belligerent. The combination of belligerance and stupidity is really annoying. 
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I had similar encounter with a neighbor. Her car spot is next to mine and separated by a bright white line. For whatever reason, she always parks her car on the line next to my car, and sometimes her front wheel violates my territory. Needless to say, she would have a hard time exiting her vehicle.
So on my way out towards my car, she came up to me with a piece of paper with written paragraph on it telling me to move my car over some more so she could have some space. Instead of showing her that she was violating my territory, I chose to move my car towards the bushes some more.
It seems she liked that. However, every 2 or 3 days she would return to complain about the same issue, and each time I would apologize and go about my way.
I even took pictures of the situation and shared with family members and my family members said I have a lot of patience to put up with someone like that.
Interestingly, this went on for about 5 months and today her and I have became really good friends that my family find weird as heck. Lol.
I would never have the patience to put up with that.
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Maybe that’s what she wanted. A couple down the street worked at the same place. Shortly after they met she discovered that he liked donuts. She brought in donuts and put them out on her desk. Sure enough, he’d stop by for a donut and conversation, leading eventually to their marriage. In your case, she might believe that some negative attention is better than none at all.
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