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Originally Posted by Vash
I have noticed that recently people are driving worse.
It's these new phones and all the texting and or phone use.
The other day I was in my Blazer and driving home on 2 lane country highway. I was going 5 miles over 60 on a 55 on way home. This truck comes up to me going about 85-90 and he tried to pass me and at the last second he saw the Cement Truck coming on the other lane. Then he flipped me off and passed me. Then he pulled on the side of the road as is to wait for me to stop. lol ??
Lot of idiot drivers out there.
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Many people have been driving like complete idiots for quite some time, in the last five years my wife and I have had several near misses, two minor accidents and she was t-boned by some fool while driving my favorite Jimmy, my wife was fine but the Jimmy was totaled. A big problem in my opinion is the seeming lack of effective traffic enforcement (at least in my area), sure they run some radar now and then and do "blitz" enforcement on running red lights at selected intersections, but that seems to be mostly a ploy to generate revenue and publicity. 30 years ago there seemed to be a pretty consistent effort to enforce traffic laws in the interest of public safety, today it seems to take a pretty blatant breaking of the law for traffic tickets to be written. And I'm sure there are some forum members in law enforcement that will disagree with my statements, I appreciate the efforts made by many in law enforcement (and I sure wouldn't want to have their job and the headaches and danger involved), but overall in my honest opinion traffic enforcement today is way underdone. When people are bold enough to make a left hand U-turn from a "go straight" lane and do so in front of two lanes of "left turn only" traffic when the light changes, there is a problem with law enforcement, there has not been enough fear generated to keep people from driving like idiots.
Clyde