Whats the worst thing you've seen someone do while driving?

[Sumguy]

Surely turn signal ignorance isn't the worst thing you guys see.

By far the worst thing I've ever seen was a man eating cereal while driving (from a large plastic cup). He was on a major highway doing 70 and driving with his left knee. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, and decided to let him go ahead of me just in case his knee slipped and he caused an accident from his sheer stupidity.

 

[DnetMHZ]

There was a guy next to us the other day on a major highway clearly smoking a bowl.

 

[Xavier434]

I saw some kid who must have been 16 or 17 driving with the seat really far back, his left leg was hanging out of the window, only one hand on the steering wheel, and he was smoking a cigarette.

*palm face*

 

[ViviTheMage]

I have a picture of this--but a guy reading a full fledged newspaper in traffic....

 

[CPA]

Not worst, most likely, but it happened over the weekend so it's fresh on my mind:

Woman with cell phone in left had, writing something down with right hand and looking down as she's writing. We were going about 65-70 on major highway.

 

[K1052]

A guy snorting lines of coke off his dashboard on the Edens expressway at 60mph in bumper to bumper traffic.

 

[NatePo717]

Today (during morning rush hour) there was some dumb hoe trying to cut the line to an exit off the highway by driving in the breakdown lane. I was behind a jeep and we were slowly sliding right to take the exit. This lady thought it would be a good idea to try to squeeze past myself and the jeep to cut in front of him. Well of course the guy in the Jeep had no idea the lady was there and ends up nearly driving over the front of her car as the breakdown lane ended. Then they decide to stop and get out of their cars blocking the entrance to the off ramp making me 20 min late to work as no one could get around them thanks to traffic. :|

PSA: Don't drive in the fvcking breakdown lane.

 

[aesthetics]

Let's see... there's always the classic woman doing her make-up in the rear-view mirror in heavy traffic. I wanted to honk my horn and scare the bloody Jesus out of her. But also, I've seen a guy smoking pot while driving, and seen another man with a book propped up on the steering wheel, reading while driving.

 

[interchange]

Originally posted by: aesthetics
Let's see... there's always the classic woman doing her make-up in the rear-view mirror in heavy traffic. I wanted to honk my horn and scare the bloody Jesus out of her. But also, I've seen a guy smoking pot while driving, and seen another man with a book propped up on the steering wheel, reading while driving.

Accident #1 - chick rear-ends me while putting on her makeup while I'm stopped at a red-light
Accident #2 - man rear-ends me while bickering at his kids in the back seat while I'm stopped at a stop-sign waiting for traffic

In both cases, I was watching them do this in my rear-view mirror while my car was prone. Fun.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I watched someone drive into a lake. The road clearly turned to the left, the guy just completely ignored it and *SPLASH*, right in he went. He wasn't talking on a cell phone or reading, he was apparently day dreaming. Talk about a rude awakening.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Here in Philly, there is a guy named the 'Drive By Jacker'. He drives a yellow dodge neon on I-95. By his nickname, I guess you can figure out what is known for, but to spell it out. He would drive up next to you in heavy traffic, then lift his pelvic, and starts jacking off. There are pictures of it somewhere since the local P&S show made it a mission to find him and photograph it happening.

Worst thing i can think of.

 

[imported_Section8]

The driver doing a massive bong hit. Unfortunately, I was in the passenger seat. Just as he was lowering the bong, a CHP passed on the right. :shocked:

 

[2Xtreme21]

My highschool had a really steep hill leading up to it and after school let out, it would get really congested with students driving home. Well I was behind this girl and she was texting while driving. She rear ended the person in front of her not once, not twice, but three fucking times going down this hill. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but you'd think after the first one she'd put her damn phone away.

Worst part was, the guy never pulled over or got out of the car...

Stupid kids.

 

[KeithTalent]

A driver putting on mascara, driving down the highway at about 90 KM/Hr. What the hell was he thinking?

KT

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I watched someone drive into a lake. The road clearly turned to the left, the guy just completely ignored it and *SPLASH*, right in he went. He wasn't talking on a cell phone or reading, he was apparently day dreaming. Talk about a rude awakening.

Maybe his GPS was telling him to do it...

Man, I wish I saw something like that happen. I would first make sure he didn't die, and then proceed to bluntly point and laugh in his face.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Funniest thing? Someone was driving a ford escort while playing a full size acoustic guitar. Neck was sticking out the window.

Scariest thing? There was a left turn lane, two lanes wide. Someone about 3 cars back in the outside lane decided to make a U-turn, and cut off the other people on the inside lane. Couldn't believe my eyes.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
A driver putting on mascara, driving down the highway at about 90 KM/Hr. What the hell was he thinking?

KT

Indeed. Typically, mascara is reserved for the ladies .

 

[Sumguy]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
Here in Philly, there is a guy named the 'Drive By Jacker'. He drives a yellow dodge neon on I-95. By his nickname, I guess you can figure out what is known for, but to spell it out. He would drive up next to you in heavy traffic, then lift his pelvic, and starts jacking off. There are pictures of it somewhere since the local P&S show made it a mission to find him and photograph it happening.

Worst thing i can think of.

:laugh:

 

[Capt Caveman]

A woman that appeared to be grading papers. Steering Wheel and Paper in one hand and marker in the other. I've seen her on multiple mornings doing this.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: ducci

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I watched someone drive into a lake. The road clearly turned to the left, the guy just completely ignored it and *SPLASH*, right in he went. He wasn't talking on a cell phone or reading, he was apparently day dreaming. Talk about a rude awakening.

Maybe his GPS was telling him to do it...

Man, I wish I saw something like that happen. I would first make sure he didn't die, and then proceed to bluntly point and laugh in his face.

I was a kid when this happened, so I'm pretty sure it was pre-GPS days. The lake was only a couple feet deep at that part; if he drowned in that, he deserved it. We didn't get to see the aftermath because we were leaving on a long drive back home, but apparently it just happened again a few weeks ago (it's right in front of my uncle's house down on the coast). Apparently it took them a full day to get the equipment in to extract the car. This is why you don't speed on rural highways you don't know at night.

 

[interchange]

Actually I'm going to say that txt-messaging is the stupidest thing I've seen anyone do while driving.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

I saw, with my own eyes, a guy shaving with a disposable razer and a cup of water at the crowded 680/24 interchange during rush hour.

My friend had a guy expose himself to him from a car once which I guess is worse, but not as dangerous.

 

[BoomerD]

I've seen stupidity at its best while driving truck. Women putting on make-up, guys reading novels or papers from work, couples engaging in several different types of sexual activity, people driving with the seat leaned all the way back and both feet out the window...then, some of the stupid shit people try to haul in/on vehicles obviously not meant to be used that way...sofas on top of small cars, boats stuck in the back of pick-ups, (not just small aluminum fishing boats...large boats that hung out of the back so far they had to be tied down just to keep them from tipping out, (yep, you guessed it, they often don't stay put) all kinds of crap that's not secured in ANY way, which usually ends up in the roadway, where the idiots may try to run into traffic to save Aunt Myrtle's pillow.
Sadly, commercial drivers aren't exempt from stupidity...in the bay area, a large percentage of the truck drivers are immigrants, and have ZERO idea how to drive at all, let alone drive a big rig. I worked in one gravel pit near Milpitas, and it was very common for them to pull into the pit to get loaded, then pull away with a belly-dump trailer full of rock, gravel, sand, whatever, and the dump gates on the bottom are still open or only partially closed...We used to get called a couple of times per week by the CHP to send someone to clean up 40 tons or rock that one of them had dumped all the way down Scott Creek road and onto 680. We billed the driver about $400/hour for the clean up. If they didn't pay, they were banned from all the company's gravel plants...and we had 75% of them in the east bay...

I've seen semis stuck under overpasses, gas station canopies, in viaducts, on railroad crossings plainly marked "NO TRUCKS," loads dumped all over the shoulder, main traffic lanes, on off/on ramps, trailers sitting in the middle of the road where they fell off the tractor because the moron couldn't be bothered to actually check to see if the fifth wheel had latched...


People seem to leave their brains at home when they get behind the wheel of a moving vehicle...

 

[ggnl]

I only use my turn signals about 30% of the time when traffic is light. Judging by the response in the other thread, that probably is the worst thing I can do while driving.

 

[Ns1]

Guy on his phone taking down notes with no headset. Phone on shoulder/ear, notepad on steering wheel, pen in hand.

60mph near the fastlane on the freeway.