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Drive like hell and you'll get there, we guess
By adamg on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 11:52am
MrsRoyKent posts some dashcam video of the result of some bad driving decisions in Medford this morning:
@universalhub wild accident on Rte 16 off ramp to Main St in Medford. Don’t know how many cars the driver hit behind me, but made no attempt to honk and warn others. pic.twitter.com/VcQ18oOliC
— MrsRoyKent (@eastiestrong) March 26, 2022
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It’s bad out there
I was driving in Everett today and some dope was in the right turn only lane then as the lane was ending, jumped the curb and got into my lane. Then continued to drive like nothing happened. Wtf?!
I feel like people lost their manners and ability to drive during the pandemic
Lots of drivers in the Bay State have always been rude.
It doesn't have anything to do with the pandemic. Discourteous, aggressive driving has always been part of the way many drivers here in the USA, especially here in the Bay State, generally.
It's possible, however, that many people have become ruder and more aggressive during the pandemic, which has magnified a lot of bad behavior.
Hmm...
Source?
New York Times article
I’m not the OP but I did recently read a New York Times article that said that the US is currently experiencing the largest surge in driver deaths since the 1940s:
“Vehicle Crashes, Surging
Traffic deaths are surging during the pandemic.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/briefing/vehicle-crashes-deaths-pande...
Yet another graduate of the
Yet another graduate of the MassHole Driving Academy.
Let's not jump to conclusions
Let's not jump to conclusions.
Magoo sez
Magoo practices defensive driving. Magoo.
Instant Karma's Gonna Get You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLy2SaSQAtA
We need a "broken windows"
We need a "broken windows" approach to driving like that used in NYC in the 1990s to decrease crime. Violators who don't stop at stop signs, speed, drive or park in bike/bus lanes, run red lights, drive intoxicated, or use their phone while driving driving need to have their vehicles impounded and licenses taken away for a month. The honor system approach that MA uses, where virtually nothing but the most egregious violations are actually punished is not working.
One issue with this approach.
One issue with this approach.
One very huge issue
It doesn't work.
Yes and no
Broken windows policing doesn't work, as you pointed out, and it results in disproportionate policing.
I think what's being suggested wasn't actually a broken windows approach though. Broken windows policing applied to motorists would be ticketing perfectly safe driving that technically violates laws, like not signaling when no one is around, or not coming to a complete stop and letting the car settle back before proceeding at a stop sign. What's being suggested is enforcement of people flying through stop signs, weaving through lanes, etc. People drive like that because they know it isn't enforced.
Pedantic pandemic drivers
I’ve noticed many more drivers south of the city going exactly the speed limit even hitting their brakes to adjust to a slower speed limit. What’s sad is that most of these Sunday drivers weave back and forth in their lanes.
Driving the limit with angry
Driving the limit with angry aggressive drivers behind me on surface streets is my fetish.
Thank you for indulging your fetish.
For being a traffic calming device.
You’ve probably saved lives. At the very least you made streets more livable.
What is sad
Is that certain jackasses think that they are entitled to others breaking the law because their time management sucks ... and mommy said they are special.
If you don't like following the road rules, stop driving. Please.
The most dangerous crossing I know...
...is on a side road coming off a state highway and leading to an elementary school. It's on my daily walk, and almost every day without fail there's a parent with a kid who missed the bus coming in hot off the state road.
Brake failure perhaps?
with driver veering left off the pavement to try to get a friction assist to stop?
I just watched that footage
I just watched that footage on a laptop screen (it's probably barely visible on a phone screen), and it seems pretty clear that the left front wheel of the vehicle is actually missing before it enters the field of the camera. It's surprising that the car made it this far into the exit on 3 wheels. This may not be what it appears to be at first glance.
It looked like the wheel was
It looked like the wheel was still there to me but it was at a 180 degree angle. It's really amazing they got that far.
Knowing that merge?
This is far more likely to be a breakdown involving the liver and brain.