🚀 go-pugleaf

 Scott M. Kozel wrote:

> Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> >
> > It's not just paranoia, the other motorists really are out to get me.
> >
> > But they won't, not any time soon, not if I can help it.
>
> A few years ago, this happened on a Maryland urban interstate highway.
> This shows the dangers of speeding, tailgating, and reckless driving.

Yeah, yeah, yeah - how many times have I seen this damn thing...

> A motorist was tailgating other motorists, and flashing his lights, to
> bulldoze them out of the way.  Witnesses saw no sign of any emergency.

They coulda missed a child in the back seat, choking due to asthma...  but it
would still be OK to block up the left (PASSING) lane because they didn't see
it...

> Another motorist was in the left lane of a six-lane (3 each way)
> expressway, passing a line of cars, going at or just above the speed
> limit, according to witnesses.

With flashing lights, etc. he should got the hell out of the way....
Grrrrrr.....

>  The tailgater lost his patience, and
> zoomed around on the right.

So the jerk wasn't just passing cars - there was room on the right - obviously

>  He decided to express his road rage by
> cutting in across the front of the guy he had been tailgating.

Road rage that may not have existed if the LLB had got the hell out of the
way...

>  He cut
> it too close, and the rear bumper of his Chevrolet Lumina clipped the
> front bumper of the Chevrolet Caprice.

Coupled with poor driving skills equals disaster.


>  His car spun out of control into
> the median, rolled over the guardrail into the oncoming lanes of
> traffic, and was broadside when he hit a large pickup truck head-on (or
> head-side, whatever). He had two unfortunate passengers with him.

And we'll never likely know if maybe one of the passeneger _DID_ have a medical
emergency of some kind...

> The car was torn into three major pieces, and many minor pieces, and
> their bodies were strewn in pieces along the highway.

All of which likely wouldn't have happened except for the presence of a
pig-headed left lane blocker.

>  The Caprice
> driver was not injured, and the pickup driver was moderately injured.

Glad somebody survived, anyway.

> Very tragic, the motorist's impatience and reckless driving

The left lane blocker's obstinate compulsion to "CONTROL THE ROAD"...

> cost him

COST OTHERS

> his
> life and the lives of his two passengers.  They had to be shoveled up.
> He collided with two other cars in the process, and created a ten-mile
> long traffic jam.

Aw, somebody was inconvenienced by a traffic jam in which 3 people died?
Tragic.

Well, excuse the hell outa me, but I'm tired of this scenario popping up on my
computer all the time, to try to put the blame ONLY on the guy that got fed up
and couldn't/wouldn't/didn't take it any more.  THEY WERE B - O - T - H    W - R
- O - N - G !!!!!

<vent mode off>

DPH