Put Some Space Between You And The Car Ahead, Please

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  1. Kitty Carmel

    Kitty Carmel Veteran Member
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    Thanks for your replies. This accident was on the bridge where the speed limit is 35 I think. And those cars were all just smashed into each other.

    @Babs Hunt I know what you are saying about those cars cutting in front of you. I get this a lot. That's what you get for leaving space between you and the car ahead. Today an old SUV type vehicle passed me on a regular 4 lane town road, cut right in front of me and continued to weave in and out of cars in front of me. I wish a cop was around. I can't imagine this is legal. They used no signals either of coarse.

    Hwy 99 is notorious as a dangerous highway.
     
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  2. Chrissy Cross

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    Yes @Kitty Carmel. Hwy 99 is very dangerous but I know of no other way to get to the coast.

    It's the worst in the winter when we have killer fog.
     
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  3. Ken Anderson

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    I hate it when people do that to me, particularly since it only happens in a large city where I feel uncomfortable anyhow. I used to drive offensively when I was in the 20s, but I was used to Southern California at that time. Now I'm used to very little traffic.
     
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    The vast majority of accidents in our area are not "accidents" at all, but are driver-caused, due to "tail-gating". Folks just seem to have no clue that at the speeds being driven around here, 45+ mph, a tap on the brakes by a driver being tail-gated guarantees a rear end collision.
    Frank
     
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    This is one of the reasons why we very, very seldom go downtown here. We just aren't the "downtown" type. However, we do go downtown, to the Landing that is, when we are on our boat. The Landing is the only place here to dock a boat that has restaurants.
     
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    That about sums it up Frank. People continue to drive like idiots. Like that guy right on my back bumper at the light after passing that 4 car involved accident. Had HE been hit hard from behind he would have been pushed into my car. People just don't get it. I've never been in that big of a hurry on the road.
     
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  7. Cody Fousnaugh

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    An area's pace can dictate how people drive. Southern California is ver fast pace a people's lifestyles are the same, so that's how they drive.

    A lot of drivers today simply don't care what others think of how the drive. "Keep up or get out of my way" is what they say.
     
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    Familiarity has a lot to do with it too, I think. I drove tow truck for a few years while I was living in Southern California, so I felt very comfortable driving in Orange County and in parts of Los Angeles County. I'd get frustrated when people drove slower than they needed to, especially when that meant I was going to hit every light red, and I'd especially get frustrated when someone would stop while entering an on-ramp, since I learned that the only way to get on the freeway in Orange County was to not even look at the traffic you were merging with.

    But I was younger then too, and far more impatient. When I encounter someone who is driving like an idiot today, I try to remind myself that that could have been me forty-five years ago.
     
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  9. Chrissy Cross

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    If I looked when I have to merge, I'd never get on. :)

    So far I've been lucky.
     
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