And another bad driver will not be looking at the road and plow into multiple people.
Here’s a source from People magazine.
Drivers involved in the crash suffered bumps and bruises but no life-threatening injuries, [Fox 8] reported. Their vehicles were extensively damaged.
“My job here is done! Farewell fellow travelers!” – Idiot in car
I especially enjoy this comment with that Buc-ee’s logo as your avatar
For my kids, I stressed that while knowing your way around is critical, it’s also beneficial to always use GPS because it will always calculate a new route. Just miss any turn or exit and it will get you there either way minimal impact
I missed my exit once and it was like 15 minutes before the next one to turn around but that’s better than killing someone.
The Florida turnpike did that shit. Last free exit (that I wanted) was unmarked (absolutely no signage). The next (legal) turnaround was 10 miles and tolled.
tolled
So sorry you live in a place like that
Florida is a freedum state after all. Can’t have them commie taxes pay for things like public infrastructure and shit.
That’s great ODOT put out a psa not to do this. Could they put one out about people swerving into the exit lane way after the exit.
Why didn’t they just take people’s licenses when they do something like this?
Because we live in corporate dictatorships and fossil fuel corpos made everything car-centric. Now we have to allow the negligent and incompetent to drive or else we’ll damage “the economy”.
This is true, but it’s more than the economy. While driving is a privilege, we’ve created a world where living without it is incredibly difficult and in some cases impossible. While it could hurt the economy it also starts to become a cruel and unusual punishment, even though it shouldn’t be it is due to the car centric environment society has created.
Did they seriously just drive off after that?!?!
They usually do
I think I’m a good person but I’m not gonna think, “I caused all this, I’m sticking around to tell the cops”, y’know?
You catch me on camera and then show up at my door and I’ll be like “Oh was that what all that noise was? Damn.” and wish them a fine evening as I close the door. /j
E: Added humor training wheels. My bad, don’t shoot
That is not only immoral, but also illegal. That is called a “miss and run”
Obviously I’m exaggerating to tell my point lol Good god people, lighten up
That wasn’t at all obvious. Sounds more like Schrodinger’s asshole, talking shit until you get called out then falling back on “it was just a joke”. No you’re just an asshole.
I think I’m a good person…
Well you aren’t.
Thank you for drawing conclusions about my person off one tongue-in-cheek comment. What would this place be without people like you here, I always wonder.
You aren’t helping your case
For what, calling them out on their bullshit? I don’t quite care for it, much less with your aggressive mob mentality. But jump in why do don’t you, your comments are invaluable and sorely needed.
I’d love to jump in yo say you sound like a horrible comment.
The more you comment, the clearer it is.
Yep, replying is a terrible thing and makes you a terrible person. Thank you for pointing that out.
That is one of the lowest things you can do.
People who make those statements and mean them should be preventively banned from driving for life.What, not tell on myself? Yeah, I’m a low life like that. Lucky for you, I don’t drive and don’t intend to.
Lucky for everyone indeed
I watched someone drive off after hitting a cyclist and breaking his arm. Driver even stopped for a moment to look, then sped off.
Many hit and runs are done in panic. Lots of them turn themselves in later
Were you that driver??
No, I’ve never done a hit and run, but the point is that if I got into an accident one day, I might become one whether I want to or not, because it’s an unconscious reaction.
unconscious reaction
What a cop out. Just pathetic behaviour.
So you’re completely unaware that you are panicking for having hit some one? 🤔 I don’t buy it. Fear of consequences? Yes, unconscious decision? No way
Went to the dispensary today and I had so many people pass me just to swirve back ahead of me to take an off-ramp and get off the highway instead of waiting 2 fucking seconds to reach the exit without being a fucking piece of shit driver.
Tbf a stopped car in the middle of the road on a sunny fucking day also shouldn’t cause a collision, either. Guy in the grey van fucked up worse than anyone but they’ll be blaming the stopped car instead of their own inattentive driving
Guy in the gray van was blocked in on at least one side, possibly both.
No. The moron in the first car fucked up the worst; NONE of that would’ve happened without that dork stopping.
Guy in the gray van could’ve seen the cars in front of him stopped and then also stop. It’s still also his fault.
There’s a minimum speed on highways because it is dangerous to slow below that limit, the stopping distance for 70mph is around 240 feet and 2.5 sec for perception & reaction.
The red car is still the cause here.
The gray van is a consequence of that cause. It would happen regardless. Even if the person in the gray van was paying attention, someone else would not be paying enough attention and still wreck.
You’re confusing proximate cause and root cause. The van is a mechanism of failure, the red car is the cause of failure.
This is still the red car’s fault, entirely. The van of course is holding my ability for being the proximate cause, but at the end of the day blaming the van for not paying attention doesn’t actually prevent situations like these from occurring.
Right, zoning out for a second is definitely way worse than selfishly illegally stopping like that /s
One is illegal and the other isn’t, for good reason. Willful mistake versus moment of distraction
Psst, there’s a third possibility if you think critically.
! Both are wrong.
No shit?
Overconfidence is a huge problem, but man so is under confidence. People who freeze up will cause bad things.
My underconfidence tells me I need to be in the right lane 2 miles away and if I’m not in the right lane when my turn is coming up I’m looking at a hopefully short drive to the next offramp.
You’re my wife. And worse, she didn’t start driving until she was 50. One thing I figured out, she thinks a mile is about a kilometer. So when the sign says, “1 Mile”, she thinks it’s close.
That’s still less than a minute at highway speed, and if the right lane is clogged you’ll have to shop for a gap. 1 mile is a perfectly fine distance to get ready to exit IMO.
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Just take the next fucking exit and turn around.
not sure turning around on the highway is safe. might be better to take the next exit and find another road.
and yes i’m being a smart ass.
you use the exit to “turn around”, you don’t make a fucking u-turn on the highway
