[Nikki]

I had a very stressful drive home today because apparently it was graduation or something and there were a bajillion people trying to leave my school when my class got out. I finally got through the traffic and got into a stretch of 50 mph (on a 50 mph road, not the highway) and then it came to a dead stop again. I'm sitting there stopped and all of a sudden some girl comes flying from behind me going 60-70 mph and then can't stop in time and swerves off the road so she doesn't plow into my rear. She was on her cell phone and immediately afterwards I saw her laughing. This is why I need to leave Florida.

[geeslice]

Lord, that is terrible.

it's like a nightmare.... Please make it stop...

[ska///235i]

Originally Posted by Nikki

I had a very stressful drive home today because apparently it was graduation or something and there were a bajillion people trying to leave my school when my class got out. I finally got through the traffic and got into a stretch of 50 mph (on a 50 mph road, not the highway) and then it came to a dead stop again. I'm sitting there stopped and all of a sudden some girl comes flying from behind me going 60-70 mph and then can't stop in time and swerves off the road so she doesn't plow into my rear. She was on her cell phone and immediately afterwards I saw her laughing. This is why I need to leave Florida.

No...more like..this is why we need bluetooth...lol

[Nikki]

Eh they drive bad enough without cell phones anyways. I don't know if that's why she almost hit me, but it doens't help.

[ska///235i]

Originally Posted by Nikki

Eh they drive bad enough without cell phones anyways. I don't know if that's why she almost hit me, but it doens't help.

I hear you....

so which is worst?
a 70 yr old driving or some idiot with cell driving

I hate old folks driving, more dangerous IMO

[Nikki]

the college students here are the worst. the old people just drive slow and don't use blinkers.

[ages944]

I feel for ya Nikki.

I swear, it feels sometimes like I'm slowly working on an ulcer every time I'm at a stoplight...

Dunno if this necessarily will make you feel better, but it's not just FL, anywhere with a higher population density can get dicey

[ward]

LA traffic seemed to be like that to me when I lived down there

it would go from 50 down to 0 and back up to 50 over and over and over

can't people just drive 20 steadily?? apparently not down there!!

[MoreCowbell]

Bluetooth baby...I love it...

[ADHD]

Gotta love bluetooth!!

[e90rocks]

In a study several years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine, users of cell phones were found to be definitely more prone to accidents. Unfortunately, subpopulations with hands-free phones did not vary significantly from the general cell phone cohort with regard to accident propensity. I guess the idea is that one is still distracted.

Redelmeier D. A., Tibshirani R. J. Association between Cellular-Telephone Calls and Motor Vehicle Collisions
N Engl J Med 1997; 336:453-458, Feb 13, 1997.

[shragon]

Originally Posted by Nikki

I had a very stressful drive home today because apparently it was graduation or something and there were a bajillion people trying to leave my school when my class got out. I finally got through the traffic and got into a stretch of 50 mph (on a 50 mph road, not the highway) and then it came to a dead stop again. I'm sitting there stopped and all of a sudden some girl comes flying from behind me going 60-70 mph and then can't stop in time and swerves off the road so she doesn't plow into my rear. She was on her cell phone and immediately afterwards I saw her laughing. This is why I need to leave Florida.

scary shit. i was stopped at a light once, and the guy behind me wasn't paying attention rammed into my toyota truck at like 40 mph. not fun.

[aljlin]

I just got rammed the other day at like 30-40 mph, on onramp. Metering lights are on (For those of you not in CA and metro areas, metering lights are traffic flow control lights to keep traffic entering freeways at a decent pace.. usually one or two cars let past a light at a time) and I was stopped briefly, just as I let go, i get slammed into at 30-40 mph. The guy was trying to send a call to voicemail!.. He didn't want to talk on the phone (like a good driver) so was going to send the call to voicemail, but that split second of look away time. *SLAM* ugh Car's out of commision for 3 weeksish, and over 4k in damage.. if only i had the money for a deposit ... I would go for my e90 now! but .. alas.. not yet.

[rchanou]

Originally Posted by ska

I hear you....

so which is worst?
a 70 yr old driving or some idiot with cell driving

I hate old folks driving, more dangerous IMO

i remember there was a study where they discovered that a teenager on the cell phone driving is the equivalent to an elderly driver. scary stuff.

[timzerofive]

Originally Posted by ward

LA traffic seemed to be like that to me when I lived down there

it would go from 50 down to 0 and back up to 50 over and over and over

can't people just drive 20 steadily?? apparently not down there!!

Ya, up north, EVERYBODY drives 20 steadily ALL the time, even when the speed limit is 65 and there's no one in front. And the roads suck up north.

[Nikki]

The roads up in Ct are so nice and windy and fun and people actually know how to drive there. The highway speedlimit is 55-65 and everyone does between 65-80 and they drive a constant speed. Sigh I miss driving up there. I haven't seen a curve or a hill in years.

[LEDZEP]

Glad to hear she missed you! Too bad that bitch didn't hit a pole or something and eat her steering wheel. Nothing like some good disfiguring scars to remind you every time you look in the mirror that perhaps while driving you should DRIVE.

Sorry... got into rant mode there.... but glad she missed you!

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by LEDZEP

Glad to hear she missed you! Too bad that bitch didn't hit a pole or something and eat her steering wheel. Nothing like some good disfiguring scars to remind you every time you look in the mirror that perhaps while driving you should DRIVE.

Sorry... got into rant mode there.... but glad she missed you!

hahaha i was going to add in my original post that i wanted to punch her in the face when i saw her laughing but i thought that was kind of a violent and inappropriate thing to be thinking hahaha.

[jsapir]

You're always welcome to come to Toronto!!!

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by jsapir

You're always welcome to come to Toronto!!!

Everyone in Toronto drives very civiilzed as well. I would love to live in Toronto if it didn't get so cold. It's such a beautiful diversified city with nice intelligent people. I felt really safe there, like a big city with a small town atmosphere, kind of similar to Seattle.

[rchanou]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060524/...driving_city_1

5 out of 10 safest driving cities are in the midwest

[shimshimhada]

I remember my first van ride in FL. It was this black guy who called everyone "boss"; pretty amiable guy. But he drove the thing like it was a Ferrari.