Please make up your mind, guys
Some of you are saying @Clueless33 IS making broad generalizations
And some of you are saying he isn’t
It is often assumed a person is generalizing when mentioning a specific gender regarding a matter of interest. And as noted previously, generalizing is something I deemed childish and immature, and I try to avoid being tangled up in such a practice. However, pertaining to my experience with being swiped off the road, I can’t help from noticing that majority of the time when I’m swiped off the road it would be by a woman.
Others have said it’s men in their experience, particularly bmw drivers.
I think we can and/or should agree that ALL types of people are capable of being bad drivers
young and old, men and women, and so forth
The act of being behind the wheel and operating a motor vehicle seems to bring out something in certain people, imo
There are some really nice people at work . . . yet when they drive, they are fast, aggressive, flash their high beams, honk the horn, cut people off and even worse
It’s weird that you’re talking to someone and having a good conversation, yet not 5 minutes earlier, you personally observed them being “that guy” when he was driving
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… or, in reverse!
A few weeks ago, I read an account (possibly fictional, but still… humorous and ironic) about a guy who was badly cut-off on the way to work, and who honked at the aggressive driver. The aggressive driver cursed-out the guy who he cut off, and gave him the one-finger salute.
Fast forward a few minutes, and the aggressive driver was being interviewed for a customer service job by the guy who he had cursed-out and “saluted”.
No, he didn’t get the job.
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I see more men, and male teenagers , engage in speeding and racing, and cutting off other drivers off the road.
But with lane changing, when there is no racing and speeding going on, I see that it’s female drivers skipping multiple lanes at a time and causing others to be swiped.
My comment was addressing drivers skipping multiple lanes at once.
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You can safely change multiple lanes. Three lanes in same directing, gaggle of vehicles in center and right lanes, you get past the gaggle, then when multiple car lengths ahead, switch back over to the right lane.
Yes, it can be done safely… but it seems that few drivers can manage to do it w/o endangering others. Doing it safely requires a bit of planning and a lot of consideration for others on the road, but–more often than not–it turns into a sudden/last-minute impulsive act.
In the case of the accident that was the original purpose of the thread, the offending driver began at a stop sign, entered the right lane–very briefly–and then crossed 2 lanes in order to reach her intended goal–the left lane of a somewhat-congested highway where the prevailing speed is 55-60 mph.
Considering the tiny distance from the stop sign to the diner parking lot on the other side of the highway, where she wound-up upside down on top of other cars, even in a Jag she was probably not able to get up to more than 30 mph before she cut in front of fast-moving traffic on the highway.
This is the original news article. I couldn’t post it a few days ago because it was “subscribers only”. Now that it has “aged” for 3 days, that paywall restriction has expired. In the second photo, please take note of the gas station on the other side of the road. The Jag driver entered the highway from the local side road that runs past that gas station, so she drove straight across the highway in her mad dash to get into the left lane of the highway.
There are many maneuvers that would be legal, but are dangerous and extremely ill-advised
In these situations, I simply take another exit, find some intersection where I can SAFELY somehow turn around, etc.
Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD
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In the case of the accident that began this thread, simply taking the side road 3/4 miles West of the side road that she used would have allowed her more space to maneuver to the left lane in order to access I-287.
In the rare situation (thanks to GPS) where I am not in the correct lane for an upcoming exit, I simply drive to the next exit, and then the SatNav system will guide me on a slightly-altered route to my destination.
There are some situations where making a left turn is dicey. As they teach you in Defensive Driving courses, simply make a right, another right, and then one more right turn in order to go in the desired direction.
Yep, we were taught that in drivers ed, in the 60s our city did not have left turn arrows or left turn lanes. Nice square grid system streets. Just do three right turns.
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The article states that the errant driver hit the Jaguar, sending it into the telephone pole. After hitting the pole the Jag went airborne, flipped and landed on other cars. Fortunately the Jaguar driver was not injured. The driver cutting across three lanes came to rest on the shoulder without hitting anything else it seems.
The article might not be either clear or accurate. The errant car was the Jag, and whether it was hit by the car that impacted the utility pole, or the Jag hit the other car, the bottom line is that the errant Jag wound up upside down in a parking lot, striking 3 vehicles in that lot.
It comes with the territory, I suppose.
My experience is the same. Both cause the bulk of accidents though.
This has been my experience as well. Both are the bulk of accidents though.