Thread: It happened again!

It really pi$$e$$ me off when people do stupid, dangerous stuff on the road and here's why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKikoLPZWLs

This happened just about 5 miles north of my house. Driving is so dangerous to begin with without adding to the danger. Turns out this was a medical tragedy for the driver but they were originally saying it may have been road rage. People just act like they don't understand what they should know instinctively.

I don't drive anything big like you guys do. Just a 3/4 ton service van but it is loaded until the leaf springs are going the wrong way. These stupid little jokers playing some dettatched little game on the road cut me off and pull out in front of me and that van of mine could demolish their little beer can on a roller skate with a RC engine and it means nothing to them to put me in that position let alone the risk they put their own life in. Problem is it's not just kids. Grown people with kids in the car do it to me all the time. I'm sure you guys see it too. It sounds like this poor guy in the video was dead before he blacked and crossed the median but I can only imagine what that would be like to have to live with that if he wasn't. And they are so cavalier about throwing 3000-10,000 lbs of steel around at 60...80... sometimes 100 mph as if it were a game. It makes me sick.

Wow, that was tragic!

Yep. And it happens without your permission and with no take backs or "wait a minutes," or "on second thoughts." You can't unring the bell and people just act like they are invincible and have no regard for other people's lives either.
I think it should be a lot harder to GET a license and a lot easier to LOSE it.
I am a fine one to talk because as a young man I had a heavy right foot but fortunately I have learned my lesson before it turned into something tragic.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Yep. And it happens without your permission and with no take backs or "wait a minutes," or "on second thoughts." You can't unring the bell and people just act like they are invincible and have no regard for other people's lives either.
I think it should be a lot harder to GET a license and a lot easier to LOSE it.
I am a fine one to talk because as a young man I had a heavy right foot but fortunately I have learned my lesson before it turned into something tragic.

Back in the day, I had my 1966 Impala over 110mph on I275 in Cincinnati. Last time I did it, I narrowly outran an Ohio State cop. Only pulled it off because I knew the back roads like the back of my hand.

As you said, thankfully I grew out of that behavior.