I have driven with family members to the hospital in an ambulance.
NJ drivers very very often DON’T get out of the way.
EVERY FREEKING DAY I say, “if you were on the way to the hospital that would be differnt”.
50 cars on my way to work on NOT ALL GOING TO THE HOSPITAL.
NJ has a percentage of drivers WHO WOULD RUN OVER THEIR OWN GRANDMOTHER just to get to the store 5 minutes faster.
I have seen WAY too many NJ drivers practically run the elderly off the road.
Maybe the guy being run off the road is sick or has some car problems.
Why is it no one cuts the guy being run off the road a break.
Why do people keep making excuses for obnoxious aholes that feel ENTITITLED TO CONSTANTLY DRIVE AT 90.
I drive between 70 and 75 in a 65.
That’s because a 4-point ticket starts at 15 over, which is 80 in a 65.
Having a 4-point ticket means that the most you can do is get it knocked down to 2 points, but you’re still getting the ticket.
That’s why LE does not bother with 2-point tickets, i.e., less than 80, the prosecuter can’t back off from 4 to 2 points. If you’re nice and respectful and talk to the prosecuture ahead of time when you get to court, and you’re lucky, and you were nice to the police, you can get a break. But you’ll still have to pay some kind of ticket.
Now, if I’m doing 72, I’m already over the limit by 7.
The whole way to work, jerks want me to drive 85 to 90.
If I do - they TAILGATE. Tailgate at 90 in heavy traffic.
If I pull over and let them pass, they slow down to 75.
I know this because I’m always watching my speedometer, and if they get up in front of me about a few hundred yards, then they stay that same distance from me for miles, that means they’re going the same speed I am.
So they don’t really want to drive 90 with no idiot in front of them. They want to push somebody else. Maybe they think that person will get the ticket if they’re caught.
Mind you, this is all on roads that I’ve driven for 25 years and I know exactly where the police sit. But you can never be sure if they’re there on any given day or how far ahead they can clock you. So at a certain point, I gave up on being stressed out all the way to work, trying to speed then slam on the breaks if I saw the cop. After enough tickets, you grow up and leave for work a few minutes earlier. On the way home, no everyone is not going straight to the hospital from work, you learn that getting home 5 minutes faster is not worth weaving in and out of traffic at 85.
Most highways in NJ, during heavy rush hour, have significant what I call “lane inversion”, where the left lane is the slowest lane. This is because of traffic patterns - and the fact that most people never figure out that if they just change to the right lane in advance, they can keep right on gliding along instead of slowing to a standstill in the “fast” lane.
If there’s an emergency light behind me I get over.
If I see someone flashing their own lights, I get over. I assume they’ve got an emergency.
Guess what - no one has ever flashed their lights. They’ve never made any sign or gesture, “hospital”. They never looked frantic. They were just typical NJ swearing and looking impatient and nasty. Probably because Rt 80 has a couple exits for “hospitals”, and the jerks did not take those exits.
Hospital my @ss.
Maybe 10% of the people on the road in NJ at any given time are going to the “hospital”. Right.
There's an app called Waze for that.