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Just driving to work you are taking your life in your hands. At least 20 times so far this year I have seen stupid and dangerous driving. People run stop signs, change lanes without signaling or looking and ignore traffic signs. If you get a little snow or ice on the road a bad situation becomes a disaster. Drivers in the D.C. area are incapable of operating a motor vehicle in snow or inclement weather.
Of course, they are all brain dead.
Ever been embedded within gridlock in DC when a political motorcade is behind you and getting by, and then getting ahead?
I was AMAZED when it happened to me last... it’s stop-n-go, and a motorcade, with cops on cycles, cops in cars, sirens a wailing away, and then maybe two limo’s with a US flag on them WHIZ by, in the oncoming traffics bare left lane, weaving in and out of whatever they come across... Real chutzpah and entitlement (to the roads) mentality.
Why don’t they claim what that Kennedy guy made a few years ago blaming Ambien for the car crash he was involved in?
Government Car Insurance is needed now!
But if you like your current insurance, you can keep it......
20 times this year? How about 20 this week. I know why MD drivers are so bad. New drivers get their permit, learn to drive, amass 50 hours THEN take driver ed.
Just stupid.
Had a close call on the Beltway this summer and could easily have been called out as an idiot driver. But I did manage to change 3 lanes and exit within 500 feet starting at 40 mph and accelerating to 60, barely missing a cop who had a gaggle of miscreants quarantined to my left as I hit the ramp onto 95 south. I hate that exit. [heart in throat]
As someone who lives just oustide DC, the problem is that no-one who drives in DC is FROM DC. There’s a constant churcn of newcomes, bringing with them the customs of the states they’re from. Some see a snowflake, and drive 15 MPH; others see the open highways caused by the ridiculous easily pronounced federal snow days as a license to drive 80 MPH. Some always take the right of way; some always give it. And clever traffic flow techniques (reversing lane directions; metered entry flow, etc.) push traffic volumes far above natural levels.
I commuted on the beltway until 1992, and saw the most freaky driving until I moved to New Mexico. Not the same sort of bad, but really amazing stuff. First, having driven in Anacostia (DC war zone) I thought I’d seen the worst of bad weather driving... until NM, when there’s snow on the ground, the gas pedal is a full-on or full-off switch... nothing in between. And then there is the “roll over” were the car ends up on it’s roof (I saw a guy do this turning into his driveway).
2 words..... Diplomatic Tags.
The answer is in the demographics of DC.
Let those individual drivers assume responsibility for the damage they have caused to themselves and to others. Enough of this insurance/ponzi garbage stealing from the responsible, the productive.
They’re all busy getting texts from Anthony’s Weiner.