Wacko drivers tis the season again!

[subiesailor]

Be careful out there folks! Getting dark earlier - bad weather etc

Had my first ever head on wrong way driver experience last night on a large 40mph parkway two lanes each way with large landscaped center strip. Very few places for a car to make a wrong turn and end up going the wrong way but this clown figured it out.

My first indication there was something very wrong - the pickup on the inside lane and about even with the first car in the outside lane which I was following with a SUV between us. Pickup slams on his brakes and proceeds to jump the large center strip curb and go between two large pine trees (no cars going the other way in the other two lanes)- I started slowing down thinking What the heck? Thats when the SUV infront of me stopped as if he hit something. I managed to stop the OB short and facing the outside curb little cockeyed in my lane. Cars behind us all stopped farther back. I couldn't see what the deal was got out of the car walked around the corner of the SUV to see a Jetta facing me driver side fenders locked with the SUV. The guy in the car sporting a tie and suit is trying to get the car going again! "What the ****?" I duck back behind the SUV and as I'm getting into the car he goes by spewing sparks from a busted driver side front wheel. He goes up the street behind us about 60ft and stops no place to go facing two solid lanes of stopped traffic. I get back out of my car the two guys he hit infront of me are out of their cars. The driver of the SUV says - hey your cool right didn't hit me or the curb? I tell him yes fine managed to miss it - then he points at the wacko dude up the street just sitting there and says you might want to get out of there before he throws that thing into reverse ha ha. So I bailed out of there two small kids in the car no idea what this dudes issue was.

Anyone hop a sizable curb in the OB yet? I was very tempted to head for the bike path but the industrial sized curb had me thinking not. Had I been driving our Sequoia for sure the bike path given no way the truck would have stopped quick enough.

[upflying]

Originally Posted by subiesailor

So I bailed out of there two small kids in the car no idea what this dudes issue was.

Ummm, drunk?

[subiesailor]

Originally Posted by upflying

Ummm, drunk?

Could have been - first thought was an angry Republican LOL - he was maybe mid 50's sporting a tie and suit

[upflying]

Originally Posted by subiesailor

Could have been - first thought was an angry Republican LOL - he was maybe mid 50's sporting a tie and suit

Doubt it, Republicans are scarce in the SF Bay Area.

[subiesailor]

Originally Posted by upflying

Doubt it, Republicans are scarce in the SF Bay Area.

ha HA

[bheinen74]

election day, always the second most dangerous day of they year to drive, after New Years Eve night.

Election day brings OLD people out, who may never ever drive any other days of the year. It is these old people who drive "grandma type cars" so they can get out and vote, then they park the car the rest of the 3 years......

[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.

[subiesailor]

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.

Must have been the free drinks handed out at the polling booths.

Wrong way driver your options to avoid them are pretty limited based on my experience last night. Exiting the road seems like the only chance you might have which case leaving the road might be just as bad. I still can't figure how the guy in the truck missed the two pine trees when he jumped the center median. Pretty sure thats why all the cars behind us stopped cold in their tracks -that and they could probably see the goof ball driving the wrong way headed at them. LOL

[jp1203]

We're getting our first snow tonight and tomorrow, so I fully expect I'll encounter a bunch of morons in the morning. Somebody should tell them 2WD and worn out all seasons don't really cut it--especially if they've got a lead foot and no common sense.

[upflying]

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.

That's the one that killed 4 people.
I've encountered wrong way drivers twice, both were headed at me in the fast lane. Drunks think the "fast lane" is the "slow lane" in the wrong direction.
Never drive in the #1 lane late at night and early morning hours.
I-5 crash kills four, injures seven in Elk Grove - Elk Grove News - The Sacramento Bee