Slow Down, Move Over Video-It's the LAW!

[Looking4new]

^^^^ Ditto.. very sorry to hear that!

One of the problems I see is that people don't look ahead enough. I travel I71 every day 90 miles total a day. I have for over 20 years. I have learned to look at least 1/8th mile ahead for lights or anything unusual; when visibility allows. Even before there was the law I would get over when I saw a disabled anything.

If visibility is poor or lower I slow down. Driving home from TN on Saturday I was amazed at how many people would not back off the gas. I was passed by many people doing over 90 on wet roads. I think a couple had to be approaching 100 mph. I kept telling my wife, I just want to get off this interstate before these crazies cause an accident. The North bound freeways were fine all the way to Ohio. The South bound lanes were not so lucky. We saw multiple accidents and miles and miles of stopped traffic on the South bound lanes. I have no doubt due to people not slowing down or paying attention.

I'm telling you TN drivers are the most unsafe drivers I think I have ever experienced. They were lane changing unneccessarily and just driving very aggressively and unsafely. It got a little better in KY and the further North I went it seemed the driving got better. Sorry if that sounds like I'm bashing the south but I spend a lot of time on the road and observing people's driving behavior and that is just what I experienced.

I think what makes it bad is that you have some southern drivers that drive really slow and other drivers driving really radical. The two do not mix well. In the north we all drive the same; maybe a little fast for some but not as radical and aggressive; just fast. Michigan is even faster : )

Any Truck Drivers on here have any insight?

Come on up to Ontario. God help you when you get on the 401 or 402 or 403 all 3 come from the US border and that is the hwy number, NOT the speed limit like some Ontarians think.
Here if you want to win the human race you gotta drive at least 30-40 mph over the speed limit in your car/pickup.
Big trucks are regulated to 65 mph, like it or not.

 

[k0ua]

Thank you.One of the main reasons I retired before I was 60 years old.The gentlemen who got killed was my journeyman line worker we were a crew for 10 years.Worked day & night Safely in about every weather condition and some then some idiot rear ended the truck while he was behind it.His safety vest was on and beacons flashing in daylight conditions.It was my off day & could have been me just as easy.To this day it still bothers me on a daily basis..

That was really a bad deal Coobie, Who knows what that driver was thinking or drinking or smoking. I have a LEO friend that almost got it the same way, but it was at night, of course the beacons were on. He managed to jump for the ditch and the driver plowed into his patrol car throwing it into the stopped car. It totalled the patrol car. If I remember correctly this drive was intoxicated.

 

[Citydude]

That was really a bad deal Coobie, Who knows what that driver was thinking or drinking or smoking. I have a LEO friend that almost got it the same way, but it was at night, of course the beacons were on. He managed to jump for the ditch and the driver plowed into his patrol car throwing it into the stopped car. It totalled the patrol car. If I remember correctly this drive was intoxicated.

A drunk driver killed a tow truck driver while he was retrieving a disabled car off the interstate here in our town. The tow truck driver was a good friend of mine. The driver that killed him was so intoxicated he didn't know he had hit him.

 

[coobie]

That was really a bad deal Coobie, Who knows what that driver was thinking or drinking or smoking. I have a LEO friend that almost got it the same way, but it was at night, of course the beacons were on. He managed to jump for the ditch and the driver plowed into his patrol car throwing it into the stopped car. It totalled the patrol car. If I remember correctly this drive was intoxicated.

The guy who hit him was the water director of the local board of public utility company.The SOB was using unprescribed (OXY-conten(spelling ?)They fired him the next day.Never spent a day in jail and he paid $12,000 fine to my co-workers spouse.In fact the court stated he could pay her $200 bucks per month until it was paid in full because he went threw a traumatic experience.What the H-LL..

 

[Looking4new]

The guy who hit him was the water director of the local board of public utility company.The SOB was using on prescribed (OXY-conten(spelling ?)They fired him the next day.Never spent a day in jail and he paid $12,000 fine to my co-workers spouse.In fact the court stated he could pay her $200 bucks per month until it was paid in full because he went threw a traumatic experience.What the H-LL..

HE went through a traumatic experience? WTF! What about the dead guys' wife!? What is she? Chopped liver?

 

[coobie]

HE went through a traumatic experience? WTF! What about the dead guys' wife!? What is she? Chopped liver?

Could not agree more.I sat in the court room with this clown and his lawyer and got so pi$$ed had to get up and leave on several occasions..

 

[Code54]

The guy who hit him was the water director of the local board of public utility company.The SOB was using unprescribed (OXY-conten(spelling ?)They fired him the next day.Never spent a day in jail and he paid $12,000 fine to my co-workers spouse.In fact the court stated he could pay her $200 bucks per month until it was paid in full because he went threw a traumatic experience.What the H-LL..

WOW - around our parts you are going to jail for killing some one while under the influence of a Schedule 2 narcotic! Rightly so!
Thats a real shame!

 

[coobie]

WOW - around our parts you are going to jail for killing some one while under the influence of a Schedule 2 narcotic! Rightly so!
Thats a real shame!

IMHO,it was the good old boys club in my local county.Sad but true..

 

[Looking4new]

Sorry, public forum. I can't say what I am thinking in retaliation. But can she sue for wrongful death?

 

[coobie]

Sorry, public forum. I can't say what I am thinking in retaliation. But can she sue for wrongful death?

The SOB filed for bankruptcy following the accident.I am sure on the advice from his lawyer.

 

[rd_macgregor]

Maybe drifting OT here, but this discussion reminded me of this:

The Senior Driver

As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang.
Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I
just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on 280.
Please be careful!"

"****," said Herman, "It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"

************************************************

I wonder if I'll be self-aware enough, when the time comes, to know when I am no longer competent to drive...and give it up willingly.

 

[rd_macgregor]

You would hate South Florida, people might as well start buying bumper cars.

BigCountry, I thought of your comment when I saw this comic today:
The Devil's Panties - 12/22/216

In Canada, there is a lot of argument over whose drivers are the worst. I lean toward Montreal, but there is a lot of craziness anywhere folks get behind the wheel of a vehicle.

 

[Looking4new]

BigCountry, I thought of your comment when I saw this comic today:
The Devil's Panties - 12/22/216

In Canada, there is a lot of argument over whose drivers are the worst. I lean toward Montreal, but there is a lot of craziness anywhere folks get behind the wheel of a vehicle.

I have found that in Montreal, the car drivers will cut you off, but they are doing about 80mph and so get out of your way in a hurry. Also in Montreal, if you put your signal on they (the drivers of cars) will make a hole for you.

Now Toronto is a 'horse of a different colour', you will get cut off then they (the drivers of cars) will pile on the brakes. When they see you put your signal on, they will move into the space you were looking to get to and block you from getting there. they will sit beside you whether or not your signal is flashing until you use your size to squeeze them over or out of your way.
I absolutely hate driving anywhere near Toronto. Also, in Toronto if you want to get from the east end to the west end (Ajax to Milton) you had better do it at 2-5 in the morning.

 

[BigCountry1689]

BigCountry, I thought of your comment when I saw this comic today:
The Devil's Panties - 12/22/216

In Canada, there is a lot of argument over whose drivers are the worst. I lean toward Montreal, but there is a lot of craziness anywhere folks get behind the wheel of a vehicle.

I have found that in Montreal, the car drivers will cut you off, but they are doing about 80mph and so get out of your way in a hurry. Also in Montreal, if you put your signal on they (the drivers of cars) will make a hole for you.

Now Toronto is a 'horse of a different colour', you will get cut off then they (the drivers of cars) will pile on the brakes. When they see you put your signal on, they will move into the space you were looking to get to and block you from getting there. they will sit beside you whether or not your signal is flashing until you use your size to squeeze them over or out of your way.
I absolutely hate driving anywhere near Toronto. Also, in Toronto if you want to get from the east end to the west end (Ajax to Milton) you had better do it at 2-5 in the morning..

Well I guess we now know where people in Montreal and Toronto go to retire............South Florida :laughing:

We have a healthy mix of both those type of drivers, then add in the lady in the Mercedes who drives 40 miles with her right turn signal on then turns left.

Cant wait for flying cars then the issues with bad drivers will be settled faster.

 

[Looking4new]

Well I guess we now know where people in Montreal and Toronto go to retire............South Florida :laughing:

We have a healthy mix of both those type of drivers, then add in the lady in the Mercedes who drives 40 miles with her right turn signal on then turns left.

Cant wait for flying cars then the issues with bad drivers will be settled faster.

Northerners go to S. Florida to die.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I just got home. Coming home along a dark two lane highway, first an Ambulance came up from behind. A short while later, I came up to an accident scene. It was in the other lane, and my lane was open. There had to be ten emergency vehicles with maybe thirty high power strobes. I was blinded, and although I was going very slow, just about ran into a cop dressed in clothing more suitable for a Navy Seal. Driving though salt all day, didn't help my visibility.

I told the cop, I couldn't see him on account of being blinded by all the lights. He said "Tough". I said, yeah for you, if you get hit!

Now, wouldn't it make a heck of a lot more sense, if they parked two brightly lit vehicles some distance in each direction from the scene and just had running lights on the other vehicles?

 

[Bird]

My AAA Texas bi-monthly magazine for January/February 2017 came in the mail yesterday. There's a short article on Page 4 by one of their vice-presidents, Rhonda Wilson, in which she says the International Towing and Recovery Museum recently had a somber ceremony in Chattanooga, TN. She says they added 22 more names to the "Wall of the Fallen", a memorial that honors towing operators around the country who have died in the line of service. Since this ceremony started 10 years ago, the Wall has listed the names of more than 400 men and women who paid the ultimate price in serving stranded motorists.

I didn't know such a museum even existed, although if I remember right, Chattanooga is where many wreckers are built.

 

[Looking4new]

I just got home. Coming home along a dark two lane highway, first an Ambulance came up from behind. A short while later, I came up to an accident scene. It was in the other lane, and my lane was open. There had to be ten emergency vehicles with maybe thirty high power strobes. I was blinded, and although I was going very slow, just about ran into a cop dressed in clothing more suitable for a Navy Seal. Driving though salt all day, didn't help my visibility.

I told the cop, I couldn't see him on account of being blinded by all the lights. He said "Tough". I said, yeah for you, if you get hit!

Now, wouldn't it make a heck of a lot more sense, if they parked two brightly lit vehicles some distance in each direction from the scene and just had running lights on the other vehicles?

That would make more sense but then they couldn't whinge and belly ache about car drivers running them over.

 

[TSO]

I just got home. Coming home along a dark two lane highway, first an Ambulance came up from behind. A short while later, I came up to an accident scene. It was in the other lane, and my lane was open. There had to be ten emergency vehicles with maybe thirty high power strobes. I was blinded, and although I was going very slow, just about ran into a cop dressed in clothing more suitable for a Navy Seal. Driving though salt all day, didn't help my visibility.

I told the cop, I couldn't see him on account of being blinded by all the lights. He said "Tough". I said, yeah for you, if you get hit!

Now, wouldn't it make a heck of a lot more sense, if they parked two brightly lit vehicles some distance in each direction from the scene and just had running lights on the other vehicles?

I think you should consider getting off the roads... If you are among the small percentage of people that can't get onboard with the concept.

Those people with bright lights are working. Their "office" is wherever they happen to be stuck on a scene at that moment. Their jobs are to protect us all (everyone, all walks of life and intelligence levels) and then clean up the messes when we do stupid things. (Not an easy job considering how many stupid people are out there). You might not like emergency workers (seems like you have a lack of respect for them anyhow) and you may not like the laws... But you probably wouldn't want anybody driving thru your cubicle, or buzzing your tower wherever you park your butt while on the clock either.

Their safety is more important than your convenience. You're not that special...

Not attacking you personally... This is how we all should look at it.

 

[BigCountry1689]

I just got home. Coming home along a dark two lane highway, first an Ambulance came up from behind. A short while later, I came up to an accident scene. It was in the other lane, and my lane was open. There had to be ten emergency vehicles with maybe thirty high power strobes. I was blinded, and although I was going very slow, just about ran into a cop dressed in clothing more suitable for a Navy Seal. Driving though salt all day, didn't help my visibility.

I told the cop, I couldn't see him on account of being blinded by all the lights. He said "Tough". I said, yeah for you, if you get hit!

Now, wouldn't it make a heck of a lot more sense, if they parked two brightly lit vehicles some distance in each direction from the scene and just had running lights on the other vehicles?

No it makes the most sense to surround the scene with big bulky vehicles so idiots dont run into us or the victim. If we have minimal light we get hit and the excuse is "we didnt see you", we have to many lights its " we cant see you". There is no making you people happy, its getting to be where I hate even going to work anymore. God help all of you when we quit. You think when were thre we are just sitting with a thumb up are a**, but maybe we just got done washing someones blood off our hands........ Sorry we inconvienence your little world. Sorry to be so rude but its getting tiring, every day listening to whining for the stupidest stuff.

"That would make more sense but then they couldn't whinge and belly ache about car drivers running them over. "

And this genius isnt even worth arguing with....