Same here. Using your turn signal on the expressway is more of an invitation for people to speed up to keep you from being able to change lanes
That happens around here as well.
Glad some people around here aren't idiots. To those that support the ticket or the cops or what was done. FU just like that cop.
This weekend was a royal pain for me. This ticket, a light accident, and a near miss accident.
Light accident was because I was coming off the highway. Access road has to yield to me, but it was backed up from the light. No spot to move over. So I wait on the ramp. Light turns green and I move forward. A guy in a mini-van doesn't move as the truck ahead of him pulls away so I see a spot I can finally get out of the off ramp and into lane at. So I pull in front of the mini-van with the blinker going. We are about 20 car lengths before the light, so a good 600' or so. I start accelerating to follow behind the truck in front of me and the van behind me starts to move to follow after me. As we come up to the light it turns yellow. The truck starts to speed up to make it through. I know I can make it in behind him through the yellow so I start to speed as well.
Soon as the truck enters the intersection, while the light is still yellow, he slams on the break. I was far enough behind and my little car I was able to react. I brake and do not hit the truck who is not at a complete stop in the middle of the intersection while the light is STILL yellow. The van behind be isn't as fast as stopping. He hits me from behind. Lucky it was a light tap. Still I was as a bit upset. So I get out of the car to see if there was any damage to my vehicle and the guy gets out of the van. First thing the guy does is start yelling at me as if it's my fault for pulling in front of him.
WTF? I said, "Dude I have right of way for exiting the freeway while you have a big yield sign. You were not initially moving when I pulled in front of you 600 feet back there. The only reason you hit me was because you thought you could get through the yellow light and sped up without knowing your stopping distance. You hit me mother fucker and if you don't shut the fuck up I'm going to kick your ass in front of your girl there in your joke of a minivan."
Luckily I had no damage to my car really, and he had some black marks on the front of his white van from some paint coming off my car I think. That was the "light" accident.
The second almost accident came this morning. On my way to work I enter a 2 lane per direction road. The road though has only markings for lane distinctions at certain points. It is kind of a back road area, but the road is easily wide enough for more than 4 cars abreast at all points along the road. So this lady who is in the "inside" lane is coming up to an area where there is a left and right hand turns offs. I see her start to slow down and drift off to the right. She gets to going real slow and I think she is turning to the right at the side street entrance there. As I go to pass her on the left, she pulls a hard turn to the left instead to turn there. I'm guessing her drifting off to the right as her "swinging out" for the left turn? Either way she had no blinker going and was talking on the phone. If I hadn't been paying attention I was have been slammed into the side. As it was I barely managed to avoid being hit with a hard break and left hand turn on a slippery wet road. She then proceeds to honk and cuss me out while still talking on the phone. Speaking of which it is illegal by city ordinance around here to talk on cell phones while driving. So she cuts across lanes, doesn't use a blinker, talks on the cell phone while driving, and thinks this is my fault for the near miss? fuck her!
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