How bad are your state's drivers?
 

Sorry in advance if I sound bad as I'm trying to keep my temper. This is nothing more than an attempt to blow off some steam so maybe you could skip over this.

I've been late to work two days ago and nearly again this morning because the stupid highway is the only way I can get to work. If I take a "back" road, I'll spend an extra 45-50 minutes waiting at mega-long traffic lights so, for me, there is no such alternate route to work. That would bring the total driving time to nearly an hour and 40 minutes ONE way. Seriously.

So where do I begin? Well, I nearly got stuck in traffic today because some moron decided to have an accident. It looks like he rear-ended someone. Yesterday - someone made a lane change and yanked the wheel so hard that the car hit the concrete divider!
Saturday - another car got hit from the rear about a mile before where this morning's accident was. Oh, and there was another accident not even 10 miles from this!
Friday - was late to work. Traffic backed up for two miles because someone crashed on the stupid carpool lane.

How bad was your week? I wonder if my state should make everyone re-take a driver's test every two years even if they whine. I don't think these people even know what they're doing and they sure don't care. Coming home, someone nearly hit me because he doesn't know when to wait until he finishes PASSING before getting in the next lane.

How bad are your state's drivers? How many accidents did you see in the last week? Sometimes, I just wish I didn't have to drive to work... If I could snap my fingers and be at work/home, I'd do it without hesitation. Driving my MINI would be a lot more fun without having to put up with impatient people who don't care.

From CT here...although I spend most of my time in MA. I notice a lot of tailgaters and people driving about 10 mph too fast on the highway. My opinion is that people don't know WHEN to drive fast. I like to have fun with my MINI but speeding on the highway is just dangerous to others and makes you more prone to speeding tickets.

By 10 mph too fast, I don't mean just 10 mph over the speed limit...

Sounds like you need to leave a little earlier! :lol:

Drivers here are bad, but not generally dangerous at highway speeds. A lot of people who don't shoulder check or use blinkers. No one keeps right when driving slow. If you're a decent driver and trained to watch "vehicle body language," a skill i picked up out of necessity riding motorcycles, it's not too bad. However, god forbid you find yourself at a four-way stop when it's busy, no one knows what the fu** is going on or who's turn it is.

It isn't so much our states' drivers. It's all the dang northerners who visit us for half the year.

It's the California Bay area traffic. Granted it's not Los Angeles traffic, but it's the closest thing around that's not New York. There's at least three or four wrecks a week. It's the 30 miles that take you an hour and a half to drive on the highway. The time the back roads takes you just as long to get to your destination (and with half the stress).

All this was when I worked 40 miles north of where I live and on average I took 1 hour 45 minutes to get to work. Now I can walk to work (20 minutes), but I choose to drive because I love my cars. Sometimes I'll take an extra long route to work because I just want to enjoy to car and not the work.

Ah'm from Massachusetts y'all.

I'm done talkin', and I'm done listenin'...

We're the worst!

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I'm in CT, and of all the places I have driven, I feel we are the worst. Stop signs and red lights are merely a suggestion here. But it's ok, everyone in CT is very very important, so the rules don't apply to them. Most of my peers, however, think MA drivers are the worst.

I just take it in stride, until I can afford to move out of here. No sense getting worked up about something out of my control.

They don't call us MASS-HOLES for nothing! :nod:

Every time I've heard that phrase, it was directed towards someone's driving.

For me, it's called defensive driving...because everyone in this state sucks behind the wheel.

I know I'll probably get some sh*t for this...but 90% of the time it's a woman on a cell phone.

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I take it none of you have been to Missouri in the winter, this morning it snowed about 1/2", in the span of less than two hours there were over sixty accidents in a town of only 20,000.

The summer months are not much better, idoits all...

I've always watched my rear view mirror and do get nervous whenever I see someone on their phone behind me. This took the cake though,, as I was coming home yesterday there was a 50-60 year old man eating AND talking on his phone, right next to me. As the light turned green I couldn't help but notice he took off with no hands on the steering wheel. My defense automatically kicked in and I deliberately stayed way back. :nod:

When I see someone applying eye make-up while driving (I don't discriminate based on gender, but it's usually a woman.) I try to pull up next to them and gun the engine or toot the horn. Maybe gouging an eye will make them think twice next time :lol:

It really is the distracted drive in most instances. Texting, calling, reading a NAV unit, makeup, make down, what have you I think I have seen it all.

I live 22 miles from work drive way to drive way and it sometimes takes me 40 to 60 minutes to get home on the freeway. If I take side roads I can do it sometimes in 35 to 40. If it snows around here your best getting a hotel room.

Quite a few years ago we had like 8 inches of snow and it took one of our employees 7 hours to drive 22 miles. He's a neighbor of mine. That is outrageous.

Our drivers for the most part stink. My biggest peeve are the idiots who want to be the speed police and drive in the fast lane at 58 when the speed limit is 60 and refuse to move to the right. Morons drive me nuts.

Now Detroit drivers will run you over if you don't haul. They drive fast but seem to know what the heck they are doing. I didn't recall seeing a lot of phone and texters on the highways. At least not like here. I don't mind driving in Detroit simply because they seem to pay more attention and really know how to drive. My impression anyway. The roads sure do stink though.

Cause: The roads sure do stink though.
Effect: [Drivers] seem to pay more attention and really now how to drive.



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Arizona is known for the worst red-light running. That's why Red Flex is making bank on installing red-light cameras.
And we are a retirement attraction.
But I think the lack of driver education, nationwide, is a huge problem IMHO. :mad:

Lolzzzz!!!! I wish I found this thread the weekend you posted it. That week I went to eat dinner on Firday with my local MINI club at the Mexican resturant we go to every Firday. I live about 10 miles from it. Well in that 10 miles I saw 5 accidents. Yep I said it five accidents. The sad part was that every one could have been prevented if the person that rear ended the car in front of them took a deep breathe and backed off by about 4 car links instead of tailgating. At first it was annoying then got sad (as in there is no hope for humanity)then by the last one I was just laughing at the people as I drove by. Yeah karma is going to get me and I am going to get in an accident now. Oh by the time I went to work that following Monday their had been 8 accidents that I knew of here in Jacksonville 7 of which I saw either happen or the aftermath.

Excuse me...Southern CA! Need I say more? All of the above is going on all of the time and always at 90 miles an hour! When I lived in NJ (which gets a bad rap for bad drivers, but they're 1,000 times better than the average So CA driver) when a car rolled over on the turnpike it was a news story. Here rollovers are a routine part of the traffic report every morning and the main focus is not who got killed or badly injured, but rather what lane is blocked and how long the delay is. This is the only place I'm aware of where cars going airborne is treated like a flat tire. The absolute WORST, most distracted, most unpredictable, and self absorbed drivers on the planet!

NC here. My commute is 49 miles through every type of road: two lane country roads, high speed interstate and finally to true city driving. That is why I leave the
yard at 5.20 am. The normal day is filled with rear enders, over turned vehicles, ladders on road, couches on road, and the occasional vehicle fire or pedestrian run over. There seems to be a fatality on average once a month, and a multi-multi collision once per month.

I can't blame it all on damn yankees either. There is quite a bit of idiot natives as well. Mostly cellphone talkers, texters, and tailgaters. I don't tolerate tailgaiting though. I'm too early in the morning to witness the newspaper readers and make-up putter-onners.

Kansas is not too bad, probably because there aren't as many people per square mile on the road, except on the eastern side around KC.

That said, I used to drive 20 miles to work, out in the boonies, on a wonderful lightly traveled, straight 4 lane highway, and almost everyday there was an accident or two, usually one car! Straight road. Limited access. No distractions, like scenery.....

i don't know if they fall asleep from boredom or simply are too busy talking on the phone/texting, applying makeup or whatever, but it amazes me that this road had such a huge accident/death toll when it had so little traffic and just went straight!

Kansas is the king of the driver who gets to the end of the hiway onramp and stops tho.....or drives in the left lane at 5-10 mph under the speed limit, even tho it's against the law and they claim to be enforcing it.

Of course, when the weather changes, all bets are off. And we do get weather changes around here. This morning it's sunny and 60* - on the 16th of January! - tonight it wil drop into the twenties, on the way it will start raining, then once it get's cold enough that will turn to sleet, then icy rain, then ice, then over the top of all the ice it will snow! And people will still drive too fast, tailgate, swap lanes with no signal, run red lights, turn left from the right lane and right from the left and on and on......there will be 40 or 50 cars in the ditch with their 4 ways on - all 4X4's of course, because 4X4's are immune to the laws of physics.......aren't they?

I'm over in Seoul South Korea. Just imagine a 65 year old asian woman...but on top of that a cab driver.

Anybody familiar with East Texas drivers? Honestly, Palestine and Tyler TX have some seriously STUPID drivers. When I was living there, I was rear ended twice in two years, both times sitting at a dead stop (first time yielding to a school bus, second time sitting at a traffic light) at 50+ mph. Year later, my neighbor backs into my parked car and then tries to blame me for it...:eek::no:

I was terrified I would end up dealing with the same thing on a larger scale when I moved to Austin but, aside from the occasional jerk (yes, I know you're very important but I promise it will not take up more than 5 seconds of your precious commute to let me into the turning/exit lane.) or idiot, I find that I feel the need to run my mouth a lot less since moving here. :razz:

Youre just an old fart and they should have taken your license away years ago :razz:

AZ drivers arent that bad. I grew up in LA until I was 20. LA drivers suck. I lived in Venice, Italy for 3 years and drivers there were chaotic but calculated. NOW, I have been living in Sicily for the last 7 months (have 3 left) and let me just tell you...some of the worst drivers EVA! It is too long to type out so I will Cliff Note it from FB...lol......I constantly have to avoid being run over or hit from out of control vehicles. We dont know what a Stop sign is or lane markers......SERIOUSLY....:no:

So I Was Running Down The Salt Road And See What Appears To Be An Out-Of-Control Citroen C3 Coming At Me Around The Corner At A High Rate Of Speed. I Jump Out Of The Way At The Last Second...Not Far Enough...He Impacts The Curb 2 Feet From Me....Swerves To The Other Side...Hit The Curb And Rolls The Car 3 Times. Driver And Passenger Were Fine (15 Years Old It Looked) But I Could Have Been Killed. They Drive Like Nothing I Have Ever Seen Here In Sicily....It's Great To Be Alive......
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