Wrong Way lady? Honk!!!!

[Cobalt]

Originally posted by: intogamer
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You haven't been banned yet?

 

[arcas]

A coworker and I have lunch at a sports bar/grill downtown about once a week. Besides the good hamburgers, the primary attraction is watching the occasional car go the wrong way down main street (which is one way, 5 lanes). It occurs with surprising frequency.

 

[Boze]

A study was done to find out statistics on elderly drivers. Their accident patterns and accident ratios between genders. It was found that the accident ratio of females is 35% higher than that for elderly males of the same age group. Both genders below the age of sixty five showed similar accidents patterns. Elderly over the age of 75 have a greater accident ratio than those younger. The gender differences could be due to the fact that their were lower amounts of these females driving in their youth and that they could have recently gotten drivers licenses in the later years of their lives.

Stamatiadis, Nikiforos. Gender effect on the accident patterns of elderly drivers. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 1996, v15 n1 P8.

I'll see if I can dig up any more facts or studies...

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: kstu

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
On my drive to work I got a little scare this morning. For those of you that know the area I will describe the roads.

So I?m driving northbound on the Meadowbrook Parkway and I?m about 100-150 feet from the exit to get on to the Southern State Parkway east. I make my approach to get off when suddenly I see this green car driven by a WOMAN coming the wrong way against traffic. I honk my horn and swerve the car to the right to avoid it and she keeps going. I look at my rear view mirror and I see all the cars avoiding the lady and also swerving in both right and left sides. Luckily it looked like no one got hurt and the lady driving the car made it into the emergency side of the parkway.

I don?t understand how she could have got on the wrong way.

Cliff notes.
-Going to work driving in parkway.
-A Woman got on the parkway driving wrong way.
-I avoided a head on collision
-She luckily didn?t hit anyone.

Glad you and eveyone is OK.

I grew up there on Long Island.

I Miss the Parkways because no Trucks on them :thumbsup:

In case anyone wondering, they were designed that way by Robert Moses to keep a suburban flavor to the region.

Trucks run on the Long Island Expressway (I-495), Jericho Turnpike, Sunrise Hwy and Montauk Hwy.

actually we discussed this in my history class.

Robert Moses designed the overpasses to discourage the presence of buses on the parkways. Automobile owning whites would be free to use the parkways, but poorer minorities who use public transportation were kept off the roads, limiting acess to public parks like Jones Beach.

Wow, I'm impressed :thumbsup:

That's is even more correct, brings tears to my eyes.

I'm shocked a History class and that detailed is actually still being taught anywhere in the U.S. much less from a Red South State. :thumbsup: Ol Virginia

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: psiu

Originally posted by: PowerMacG5

Originally posted by: franksta
Perhaps the on-ramp wasn't clearly marked? Or divided highway that's hard to tell that it's not 2 seperate roads?

Believe me, those ramps are very clearly marked.

And all those crazy people going the wrong way! My word! These whippersnappers today!
/end crazy old lady voice

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