Rural car wreck

[MossRoad]

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).

Just keep in the right lane and get outa my way.... :laughing:

 

[robbyr]

The powers that be, TxDot, ( I've heard big wigs from Austin ) really screwed our small town recently. The main intersection here is an intersection of two highways a couple blocks from the town square. One was two lane on one side of the light and included a turning lane on the other side. The other highway was four lanes both ways. The morons decided those four lanes should be two lanes with a really wide turn lane and a shoulder. They don't know our driving patterns very well. The schools are south of intersection. Now instead of traffic moving ok like it used to, there's few in the turn lane and a long line in the other. Wife had to go through 6 or 7 light cycles before getting to turn right. Also, many locals will just blow by on the shoulder if they wanna turn right. If I hadn't looked in mirror before turning one would've hit me recently. Ok rant over. :shocked:

 

[turnkey4099]

Oh no. I ain't that old.

I am and I survived 2 trips coast to coast under the 55. You haven't lived until you get up in the morning, drive 55 and can see near to your stopping point all day out in the flyover area. I don't ever want to see that again!!

 

[turnkey4099]

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

I follow the safety burus advice. Drive whatever speed the flow of traffic is doing...That is usually about 5 over whatever is posted.

 

[turnkey4099]

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:

I spent 6 years in Germany (Air Force) and learned to drive them. I love them but...They installed one in Lewiston, Id that I navigated successfully but one day managed to get going the wrong way on one of the exits. I still dunno how I managed that. There is a definite learning curve when one is installed.

 

[bunyip]

Is it legal to eat a hog dog and drive?
#1
I love this quote - "The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that when taking your eyes off the road for just five seconds at 55 mph, you will travel the length of a football field. Think about that as you reach over to dip your French fry in some ketchup while driving".

#2
My key question is who takes their eyes off the road for 5 FULL seconds?

1. Who dips fries in anything, yuck!!!! Ban ketchup, problem solved.

2. Of course you can and safely, I see it in movies all the time, the driver having a protracted conversation with a passenger, even in the back and maintaining a straight line and even going around curves.

 

[lman]

Just keep in the right lane and get outa my way.... :laughing:

Unfortunately your previous mayor, who thinks he should be president, ruined the traffic flow in South Bend by eliminating one lane each direction of the major streets in South Bend, so there is no longer a right lane. I love it when I get stuck at a stoplight behind a line of traffic two blocks long. Before the mayor spent millions to ruin the traffic flow you could get to downtown South Bend with 3 lanes and synchronized stoplights and never have to stop. Those days are gone. I avoid South Bend as much as possible, thanks to mayor Butt.

 

[ovrszd]

I follow the safety burus advice. Drive whatever speed the flow of traffic is doing...That is usually about 5 over whatever is posted.

If needed I will too. I normally drive just under. I often bump up to avoid stacking traffic behind me.

 

[Sigarms]

Kind of hit home only because this guy seemed a lot like me when I was younger always coming down 81 after visiting my parents.

Police identify 3 people killed in I-81 multi-vehicle crash

The guy was from Hagerstown MD and living in Winston Salem. Most likely coming back to Winston after visiting his folks.

I never think about all the truck traffic on I-81, but in a blink of an eye, 3 people killed, all in different vechicles.

 

[goeduck]

In the stretch of I-5 between Seattle and Portland the truck traffic has gotten horrendous, I dislike driving it. All while there are train tracks paralleling the freeway, crazy that more freight is not transported on train cars. In this day of delivery tomorrow, that is not likely going to happen.