Rural car wreck

[robbyr]

I agree. No 55 for me. And I don't speed.

Yessir. It's a matter of trying to be a good driver, not a slow driver.

 

[ovrszd]

Yessir. It's a matter of trying to be a good driver, not a slow driver.

I've got some slow drivers in my neighbor hood that are most certainly not good drivers.

 

[wheelbuilder]

Other than track day trainings, are there any good, hands on driving schools that aren't aimed at new drivers ?
I'd love to do a Skip Barber school, but maybe there's something more practical.

 

[MossRoad]

Be forwarned, in NC, on an off ramp, yield means to come to a complete stop.

Don't even get me going about roundabouts, it can be complete mayhem.

They started installing roundabout around here about 10-15 years ago... everywhere in the country roundabouts reduce accident rates.... except here! :laughing: They went up here.

At one intersection, there were 7 accidents in the 4 years before they installed a roundabout.... in the next 7 years there were 43! Other parts of the state, accident rates went down, but not here. Possibly the worst drivers in the entire state live here. No doubt about it.

https://wsbt.com/archive/roundabouts-bring-a-sharp-learning-curve

We've got a couple roundabout near here that my wife and I walk near. We lost count of how many times we've been walking, heard screeching tires, then BOOM! accident. Turn around and cloud of dust. Cars go airborne over them like the Dukes of Hazard! The cars took out the landscaping in the centers in the first few weeks they were open. There used to be a sign just past one round about that said Welcome To South Bend, a 21st Century City.... a car went airborne over the roundabout, landed on the other side, and went right through that sign. The never replaced it.

The newspaper put a drone over one of the roundabouts and it showed only 4 out of 15 cars navigates the roundabouts correctly!

Good grief. :laughing:

 

[Dftodd]

I had a friend that had an elliptic seizure while driving, witnesses said that his truck accelerated quickly above the speed limit, wobbled across the center line a couple of times, then ran off the road and centered up on a large tree, killing him. The coroner said that during the seizure, he must have mashed the accelerator to the floor and had little to no control over the vehicle. I'd never known of him having any elliptic fits during my friendship with him, so stuff does and can happen.

While with the Sheriff's office, we worked too darned many personal injury accidents, most where caused by stupidity on someone's part, very few were attributed to mechanical failure.

Some times those seizures pop up out of the blue. Had a friend who had no history of seizures. Totalled her truck on the way home from work. Had a seizure just before a 90 degree corner in town and cleaned out a light pole. Could have been really bad if she missed the pole. There was a convience store/ gas station behind it.

Had another friend who had a history of seizures. Would get into a fit and decide he didn't need to take his meds. Would usually result in a wrecked vehicle at some point in the near future. Thankfully it was just trees, telephone poles, rock walls, and one parked vehicle that took the brunt of his ignorance. Nobody got hurt besides him.

 

[robbyr]

Not gonna lie. If I came upon a roundabout I would probably be confused. It's been many years since I've seen one.

 

[k0ua]

Not gonna lie. If I came upon a roundabout I would probably be confused. It's been many years since I've seen one.

Oh, come to Branson. We have several here now, as well as the diverging diamonds at all of the overpasses

 

[goeduck]

Not gonna lie. If I came upon a roundabout I would probably be confused. It's been many years since I've seen one.

The roundabouts that I do not like are the two lane ones. I Have seen some that are part 2 lane and part 1 lane. Your regular 1 lane ones are the best for moving traffic compared to stop lights and stop signs.

 

[Dftodd]

Oh, come to Branson. We have several here now, as well as the diverging diamonds at all of the overpasses

We've got over 30 round abouts in Conway. And more added every other month. worst is off exit 129. There are two back to back. You come out of one into a second one.

The city planners need to be kicked in the berries for that one. Just me personally, I had near misses almost weekly when that was my commute to and from work. Someone would either not yield to the folks in the round about or cross I to the rlwrong lane.

Just last night there was a couple kids parked off to the side with damage to their rear corner panel. Looked like a hit and run.

 

[Sigarms]

They started installing roundabout around here about 10-15 years ago... everywhere in the country roundabouts reduce accident rates.... except here! :laughing: They went up here.

At one intersection, there were 7 accidents in the 4 years before they installed a roundabout.... in the next 7 years there were 43! Other parts of the state, accident rates went down, but not here. Possibly the worst drivers in the entire state live here. No doubt about it.

https://wsbt.com/archive/roundabouts-bring-a-sharp-learning-curve

We've got a couple roundabout near here that my wife and I walk near. We lost count of how many times we've been walking, heard screeching tires, then BOOM! accident. Turn around and cloud of dust. Cars go airborne over them like the Dukes of Hazard! The cars took out the landscaping in the centers in the first few weeks they were open. There used to be a sign just past one round about that said Welcome To South Bend, a 21st Century City.... a car went airborne over the roundabout, landed on the other side, and went right through that sign. The never replaced it.

The newspaper put a drone over one of the roundabouts and it showed only 4 out of 15 cars navigates the roundabouts correctly!

Good grief. :laughing:

And this is EXACTLY why I get ticked off when people say "southerners" don't know how to drive in snow giving "northerners" a feeling of superiority driving in snow / bad weather.

The reality is there are as many idiots up north as there are down soth that can't understand that when the temperature drops below 32 degree F, when going over a bridge, you have to be particularly careful if there is water on the road. I've seen more cars hit their breaks on a bridge in winter up north than I ever had seen in the south.

No different than understanding a roundabout and the concept of yielding and not having to come to a complete stop (unless traffic is so backed up of course).