You can't fix stupid

1. If you witness a reckless driver, call 911. Make sure you know the highway you are on, the direction of travel, and the milepost.

2. Never attempt to catch up to a vehicle to get it's plate. Just have a good description of the vehicle ready.

3. Try to keep the vehicle in sight for as long as possible, watching for it to take an off ramp.

4. Let your passenger do the talking if possible.

5. Be patient, out west the nearest unit may be a hundred miles in front of you.

6. Give your name and cell phone number to the dispatcher. If you call 911, you will be transferred to the Highway Patrol dispatcher, and your information will be relayed to an Officer directly. It's common procedure for the Officer to call you directly, to get updated information.

7. One final note. Please understand that with budget cuts over the last six years, most Highway Patrol agencies have taken huge cuts. But if an Officer is available, your call will become priority one. Taking reckless, dui, and sleepy drivers off the road before the crash is priority.

AprilWhine wrote:

usmohls2@yahoo.com wrote:
Had to take a road trip by car last week. A Prevost MH towing a 7 series BMW 4 down passed me like I was parked. I sped up just to see how fast He was going. Twenty seven MPH over the speed limit! That right,102 miles per hour! If the driver of the Prevost reads this post, I want to give you two thumbs down!!!

Troll post and you guys are feeding him till he's nice and fat. ;)

1. There is no base plate made for a BMW 7 series, only the 3 series and the Mini Cooper can be flat towed.

2. As a Prevost owner and driver, I know they are geared to be over-the-road busses. I have a Detroit Series 60 engine, 475 hp and 1400 ft/lbs of torque. I have plenty of power but with the gearing, I'm at redline near 80 mph.

So basically, the OP started a Prevost envy thread and you guys all fell for it. LOL :B

I think you are right Bro, but never mind we are on the cell phone thingy now. Can you imagine a Mod having to pilfer thru all this stuff? :R

mlts22 wrote:
I remember, when looking at the footage of my dash cam (before it gave up its magic smoke), how many people were either texting or had their phone up to their ear when they did very dangerous driving maneuvers.

I will say it is definitely under-reported because as of now, the police or insurance companies won't check with the telco to see if the phone had a voice connection active, or an outgoing SMS message recently sent at the time of impact.

Must be just where you are. In my area, police immediately check the cell phones of drivers in involved in accidents. It is very easy to just check the "previously called" numbers and times on the phones.

I am not sure how the "hands free" cell call is handled legally (in Connecticut, it is illegal to use a handheld cell phone, but legal to use "hands free"... which is silly to me).

Around here the person calling the police sometimes gets in more, or as much, trouble then the person they were calling the police on. In this case for example; if he tells the police that he sped up to there speed to get there license plate number he is confessing to driving the same speed over the limit that they were and the police would rite him out a citation. Best off to just shake your head and sigh and enjoy the rest of your trip.

If you call, you might save someone's life. If you don't call, you never will help anyone.

From my experience if there is a LEO in the area, they will do their best to respond. If not in the area, there is not much they can do to get to the offender in time. In the case there is an accident, your recorded call can be used for evidence. In legal and also civil cases.

Francesca Knowles wrote:
Sorta puzzled at the folks that evidently think the O.P. is concerned here about something that's "none of his business"-? I frankly think a call to the Highway Patrol was in order since the idea of sharing the road with a massive, grotesquely speeding "guided missile" is unappealing to me.

But maybe that's due to my Mother's having been passed by a speeding vehicle one fine morning, and in the next moment she saw the within-the-speed-limit pickup he next slammed into from behind (at "only" 80mph or so) go sailing straight across the freeway right in front of her. It tumbled fifty feet down a bank to land upside down on some railroad tracks. The driver of the struck vehicle and her 12 year old son were killed.

So, yeah- it IS our business!

Pardon; but think about what you just said. The same kind of envy or nannyism of that declaration is seen all the time by drivers of nice cars. I've had cops called on us because the little black car looked like it was speeding apparently. Wife drives it like a taxi. I have probably exceeded the magic number on the sign a time or two. People will speed up to get your license number or try to forceyou off the road or other idiotcy.
I certainly won't drive our coach at 102 mph even if it could do it.
Won't drive the car faaster than anyone in front, of me either.
I won't call anyone to report someone tooling down the road safely. If they are driving dangerously, then yep gotta call. guess what. It don't do any good unless the cops see it. However, if you report a high dollar hot rod they will look for you, hoping you will race away from them. They love a good chase, and they can get away with it.
To the LEO's I know, I didn't mean you or any ne around here. :)

usmohls2@yahoo.com wrote:
Had to take a road trip by car last week. A Prevost MH towing a 7 series BMW 4 down passed me like I was parked. I sped up just to see how fast He was going. Twenty seven MPH over the speed limit! That right,102 miles per hour! If the driver of the Prevost reads this post, I want to give you two thumbs down!!!

I wonder how long it takes to stop a 38,000# Prevost pulling a 3700# BMW, traveling at 102 MPH?


Probably about 200 feet after it hits a bridge abutment. And a debris field about 400 feet wide.

RayJayco wrote:
In years past it was playing with the radio, conversation inside the vehicle, smoking, eating, site seeing, day dreaming... Now we add the cell phone... All are distractions... Most can only concentrate on 1 thing at a time, although they are incapable of admitting or understanding it.

absolutely understand what you are saying.
add the cell phone with voice and TEXT which is worse.
BUT, if ya can't say the others are wrong, what is wrong in adding another? I know it is ALL wrong, but honestly just having a passenger in the car with ya is a distraction, even without every single other thing :)
can't win, never will

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It is not nuts!

What phone call or text message is more important than someone's life?

BurbMan wrote:

darsben wrote:
Ease up enjoy your trip do not let what others do affect you enjoyment.
Life is to short.

We should all take this to heart!

Agreed