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Old 10-07-2013, 08:34 AM
 
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TG3, I apologize on behalf of my wife, who I am trying to get to stop talking on the phone in the car. Even without the phone, her driving decisions are not that great. She is what I would consider a "curb scraper." Though she hasn't done that in years (got her a thinner car.)
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Old 10-08-2013, 07:24 AM
 
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My wife got into a wreck yapping on her cell phone. Actually it was hooked into speakerphone through the car and she still wasn't paying enough attention to the road. After that day she quit giving me grief about driving home from the pub after a couple of drinks after a hard days work.
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Old 10-10-2013, 06:46 AM
 
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School buses and railroad tracks. Safety is great but in some places it is total overkill.
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Old 10-10-2013, 09:35 AM
 
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School buses and railroad tracks. Safety is great but in some places it is total overkill.
Huh? I've seen the fancy lights and gates fail at crossings before. School buses should stop at all crossings and I really don't think it'd be smart to leave the decision at the discretion of the driver.
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Old 10-11-2013, 11:28 AM
 
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Huh? I've seen the fancy lights and gates fail at crossings before. School buses should stop at all crossings and I really don't think it'd be smart to leave the decision at the discretion of the driver.
I agree it is annoying but I like the idea of drivers being REQUIRED to stop at ALL railroad tracks.
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Old 10-14-2013, 09:53 AM
 
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When people stop on the interstate for no reason or rubbernecking.
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Old 10-14-2013, 11:27 AM
 
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When people stop on the interstate for no reason or rubbernecking.
Yeah especially on a four lane road and th accident is well across the median and your lane is at a standstill due to the rubbernecks
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Old 10-14-2013, 03:45 PM
 
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Someone in the south-bound Memorial Parkway off-ramp (across from Parkway Place), stopped with their blinker on to turn into McDonald's . I had to lock-up my brakes to avoid rear-ending her.
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Old 10-15-2013, 06:35 AM
 
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Last Saturday we traveled from the Mad Square area to Costco. In that few minutes, we had 3 different cars either cut us off or almost merge directly into us because they were not paying attention to the traffic around them. Two of them were on their phones and one was just in their own little world. When we got the green arrow to turn left onto Pulaski from University, the car in front of us came to a dead stop about halfway through the turn. We were stuck in the intersection as the light changed. They finally moved on, only to turn in at Costco and stop again as soon as they made the turn. The driver calmly put his car in park and pulled out a map while he sat less than a car length beyond the turn, backing up traffic that was trying to turn in.
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Old 10-15-2013, 09:30 AM
 
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Riding behind a pickup truck overstuffed with pallets doing 20 mph on a two lane road.
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