highway 17 Traffic Collisions Skyrocket

San Jose Mercury News ^ | April 14, 2017

[Axenolith]

I used to do it about once a week before the barrier. After barrier, during dot com boom, I saw 2 car accidents that had 250k damage. A lot of people apparently though buying a 100k+ car conveys Earnhardt driving capabilities...

[clamper1797]

Did 120 around dead mans in the Corvette racing my brother in his Porsche 911 once ... in the Los Gatos to Santa Cruz direction. Whipped his ass. OH the old days ... young dumb and full of piss and vinegar

[spokeshave]

I don't know so much about Hwy17....

But I recall a lady zooming past me on 101 flossing her teeth

Had a box of floss wedged under the sun visor and used the mirror to see the flossing.

[Robert DeLong]

Doesn't surprise me a bit. But actually I have seen women do all kinds of crazy things while driving, no matter what part of the country I may be in at the time. 8>)

Some men are just as bad too.

I do remember when I first got a cell phone and paying too much attention to it one day and almost wrecked. But it took only one time and said it isn't worth getting in a wreck to try and use the cell phone. Even hands free now I still cut calls short because even talking can be a distraction.