Wacko drivers tis the season again!

[Novablue]

Originally Posted by FOX-

When I was 16 or 17 I ended up the wrong way on a 70MPH freeway. I decided to take a "shortcut" I had been the passenger on once before. It was close to midnight so the roads were pitch black. I followed a windy country road for 15 miles or so, decided I was dead lost and finally came to a stop sign. I couldn't see much but decided to take a left since I thought that was the general direction I needed to go. 1/4 mile down the road I see head lights in the distance in what appeared to be my lane. As they got closer I figured it out and hit the grass median and crossed over to the proper side. For some reason the rural road I was on linked up directly to the freeway with no real signage. I took a left into the oncoming lanes. If it was light out it would have been obvious.

When I was living in Ballard in Seattle there was a street that used to have a train track running down the center. They pulled out the rails and turned the center into park leaving two narrow one way streets on each side of the parking strip. One night I was driving south and saw car lights in my lane heading northbound. I slowed way down and flashed my lights. When they kept coming I flashed my lights again and honked my horn. They figured it out.

Another night I was heading to work, just coming off the freeway on an exit ramp. A girl in a WRX took a left into the exit ramp entrance going the wrong way, I hit the breaks and the horn. She pulled off to the side and flipped me off like I was in her way.

People are crazy.

-Tim

I drive about 200 miles a day in company vehicles around Seattle.

I see wrong way drivers at least once a month, usually twice a month on I5 and SR520 bridge. About half the time I call 911 they tell me that they are too busy and to call back if there is an accident.

[TNRat]

I had no idea there was a season on bad drivers. I almost get clipped by someone jetting in and out of traffic at least a couple of times per month.

[Subyblue]

Originally Posted by TNRat

I had no idea there was a season on bad drivers. I almost get clipped by someone jetting in and out of traffic at least a couple of times per month.

Daylight tends to hide the worst, but, around here it's a year-round festival. Bad driving knows no season.

[rico567]

Originally Posted by dianer

There was a wrong way driver up here last night on I-5 that involved three cars, they took two people to the hospital.

Evidently there's enough of a problem with this in Germany that they call them "ghost drivers." I'd rather not even imagine encountering one of these on the Autobahn at combined speeds of over 200 mph......

[rico567]

Originally Posted by Storkiln

Yikes...vehicles suddenly zipping across a division into oncoming traffic is one of the worst case scenarios. A few months ago I was on a highway whose median was just a 30 feet wide lane of soft dirt. Traffic began thickening and came to a crawl, with emergency vehicles in the distance. As we were filed past the accident, we saw a single late model Explorer on its roof next to our side of the road. There were deep, twisted gouge marks in the dirt leading from the wreckage, back across the dirt divider to where the vehicle first left the pavement coming the other direction. Not sure what caused it, and I didn't see any other cars involved at the accident scene. Good thing that wide dirt median did a good job of keeping the runaway car from making it to the opposing lanes.

This must be why why they're installing those cable barriers in the median like there's no tomorrow in our part of the country....

[scoobydoo2]

I think that there are wacko drivers in every season...they are just more visible at more times than others.

[dianer]

This girl crossed the median this morning on I-5 in Red Bluff and hit an Outback. I saw the Outback and will try to find a photo of it also.

http://www.krcrtv.com/image/view/-/1...wood-crash.jpg

I can't find any video online, even though they showed it on the news. But the Subaru driver was the only one uninjured.

http://www.redding.com/news/2013/jan...artner=popular

[sgott]

referencing the OP. exploring the city I now live in I was looking for an apartment that seemed to be next to impossible to find, my GPS wasnt cooperating and I couldnt read the map in traffic. well looking for a place to dive off to re-orient myslef, I found a low curb that cordoned off a small parking yanked the wheel and hoped over it like nothing, narrowly gettin rear ended by someone annoyed with my confusion. After sitting in the lot and figuring out where I was, I started to head for the exit only to find I had managed to hop the curb into a private parking lot with a gate and a gaurd.....so out the way I went