Near miss
Coming home from my annual SD bird hunting trip, I always stop in Chesterton In for the last chance at White Castle. Growing up in Chicago its like going to Maine and not picking up a lobster if I do...
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SRT wrote:69 Avion wrote:rickeoni wrote:
Enforcing low speed limits is not the answer, 90% of traffic finds the correct speed for the road and the current conditions. Slow drivers are a bigger hazard than speeders. We need to enforce all around good driving habits and have society as a whold realize that driving is a privilege not a right. Bigger penalties for repeat offenders, bigger penalties for certain offences as a first punishment. Family members are getting killed everyday with little or no consequence to the offender. A death of a family member is a life altering event, losing your licence for a year is an inconvenience.
Very well put.
Yup! Each year it seems that there are more poor drivers on the road. Also there needs to be more personal responsibility instead of blaming others for their mistakes.
I couldn't disagree more.
Driving the roads and highways does not give you the right to operate your vehicle without due regards of the rights of others, just to meet your own needs. There are hazards everywhere and one of the first rules a race car driver learns is; "the overtaking driver must yield to the slower vehicle and pass when it is safe to do so." This is true to the roads and highways.
What if you followed this logic and you encountered a Farm Vehicle, a bicyclist or a young child walking along the side of the road with his dog trailing behind him. A driver MUST be aware of all situations that they may/might encounter, regardless to the lanes, widths and grades of the roadway and adjust their driving accordingly.
NO. Just because you can and do drive faster, than others you might encounter, does not allow you the privilege to have them pull to the side of the road and allow others. Essentially get out of my way, cause I'm coming through, because you choose to disregard the maximum and minimum posted speeds. While these hazards are present, for the slower driver or pedestrians/animals encountered on the road, they too need to operate their own vehicles or actions with caution for those that are speeding and driving, well, in a reckless manner; essentially the same attitude; "well they can just suck on my bumper." Both received my attention, equally and often.
The best strategy? Drive as if others have the right to the road you are operating your motor vehicle on, because legally they do, so get over yourself.
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