GMAC Says: Georgia drivers among nation’s worst (Atlanta, Douglasville: gated, live in)

[personalensign79]

Originally Posted by graywolf73

Then they've never driven in Florida. OMG, the worst drivers ever....

absa-freaking-loutely!

[kayrob]

Do they teach using a signal when you're turning or changing lanes here? It was often bad in NJ but nothing like what I see here. No wonder there are so many accidents.

[Shagbark Hickory]

They may teach it but there is no law saying you have to do it.

The problem I have is with people that do use their turn signals...
Just after they slam on their brakes and start turning.

[JasonPaul]

If people would just put the damn phone down it wouldn't be as scary to drive here.
It's also the speed limits, they really need to be adjusted. Try going 55mph on 285, the eighteen wheelers will run you over.

[jeffreda30238]

GA has bad drivers, but ALOT of people are transplant up north and out west and even down south so....hmm..

[IMISSNY]

Originally Posted by Shagbark Hickory

They may teach it but there is no law saying you have to do it.

The problem I have is with people that do use their turn signals...
Just after they slam on their brakes and start turning.

LOL how true this is

[IMISSNY]

Originally Posted by jeffreda30238

GA has bad drivers, but ALOT of people are transplant up north and out west and even down south so....hmm..

sure blame it on those northern's

[YAZ]

Arizona is kinda in the middle.

You're taking your life in your own hands driving in the Phoenix area.

It's amazing....the amount of "red light runners" out here.

I've driven in the Atlanta area and while sometimes hectic, I survived.

Cool town.

[jeffreda30238]

Originally Posted by IMISSNY

sure blame it on those northern's

lol...i just call a spade a spade....but northerners were not the only ones included in my post so....

[neil0311]

Originally Posted by Shagbark Hickory

They may teach it but there is no law saying you have to do it.

Sorry...but you're wrong. It was law in my previous home of Massachusetts and it is here in Georgia too.

GEORGIA CODE
TITLE 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 6. UNIFORM RULES OF THE ROAD
ARTICLE 6. TURNING, STARTING, SIGNALING

O.C.G.A. § 40-6-123 (2008)

§ 40-6-123. Turning movements; signals required on turning, changing lanes, slowing, or stopping

(a) No person shall turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway as required in Code Section 40-6-120 or turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway or otherwise turn a vehicle from a direct course or change lanes or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. No person shall so turn any vehicle without giving an appropriate and timely signal in the manner provided in this Code section.

(b) A signal of intention to turn right or left or change lanes when required shall be given continuously for a time sufficient to alert the driver of a vehicle proceeding from the rear in the same direction or a driver of a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction.

(c) No person shall stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided in this Code section to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear when there is an opportunity to give such signal.

(d) The signals provided for in subsection (b) of Code Section 40-6-124 shall be used to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes, or start from a parked position and shall not be flashed on one side only on a parked or disabled vehicle or flashed as a courtesy or "do pass" signal to operators of other vehicles approaching from the rear.