Red light runners compilation

[kerzain]

New Jersey has a bunch of these walls, and this is one of the reasons why I hated every minute I've spent in New Jersey.

[FoRmaT]

Those walls save lives, you know.

[WarrenM]

You'd hit a woman?

If she deserved it, sure. That's not being abusive, it's called repercussions for being an asshole.

[unbongwah]

Originally Posted by kerzain

You'd hit a woman?

No.

But I would smack a bitch. Does that make me a misogynist?

[Dravalen]

I've done it once, not proud of it either. It was the 2nd week of 100 hour workweeks with a ton of hours the months previous. Luckily it was a backroad light and no one was around, I'm damn glad to not be working that job anymore though.

[WarrenM]

I thought you were going to admit to punching a woman. I was disappointed.

[Bahimiron]

I was once making a legal left and had a group of kids not paying attention drive through a red and strike me in the rear left quad of my shitty, first-car-I-bought-myself Chevy Blazer. When I got out of my car and went to see if the high school kids were okay one got out and her guts were hanging out of her stomach and she was screaming in agony. I nearly lost it right there, but then I realized my mind had originally seen as a horrible mass of innards was, in fact, a strawberry sundae she'd spilled all over herself. Her shrieking was anger that she'd ruined her suede jacket.

I went and sat on a curb and waited for cops to show. The girl's mother picked her up and shouted at me that I was a Nazi and worse than Hitler. To this day I don't really understand the comparison.

These days I see people run reds all the time in Boston. Not people in cars, though. People on bikes who assume that being on a bike will mean that people will have to stop for them. As if bikes project some sort of force field or turn them into highlanders. I've never seen a car-on-bike accident, but if I did I don't think I'd shed many tears for the bike.

[Morkilus]

I hate driving in cities and crossing streets.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by WarrenM

I thought you were going to admit to punching a woman. I was disappointed.

My first thought as well--stressful work situation, had to put her in her place, but luckily no one was around to see it...

[nlanza]

Originally Posted by Bahimiron

These days I see people run reds all the time in Boston. Not people in cars, though. People on bikes who assume that being on a bike will mean that people will have to stop for them. As if bikes project some sort of force field or turn them into highlanders. I've never seen a car-on-bike accident, but if I did I don't think I'd shed many tears for the bike.

On the way to work a couple months ago I saw a bike-on-bike accident caused by a guy on a bike sailing through a red light and not seeing the other bike crossing the intersection on a green.

I don't think anybody was seriously hurt, but I kinda wished the douchebag running the red had been.

[Zylon]

The framing of the one at 5:25 tickled me. He's gonna make it... he's gonna make it... denied!

[Pogo]

Originally Posted by FoRmaT

What I find indcredible is how many American highways seem to not have any kind of wall or fence to prevent people driving into ongoing traffic. That must cause some pretty nasty accidents, I guess.

If there's a middle turning lane, or no lane and no divider, the road is probably 45mph max. Otherwise, it's rare to see a 4-lane 55mph highway without either a concrete divider or a grass median. I honestly can't even think of one.

[kerzain]

Originally Posted by Pogo

If there's a middle turning lane, or no lane and no divider, the road is probably 45mph max. Otherwise, it's rare to see a 4-lane 55mph highway without either a concrete divider or a grass median. I honestly can't even think of one.

Oregon is jam packed with twisty curvy 55mph two lane roads separated by nothing but a yellow stripe.

[Calistas]

Note to self: SUVs flip easy, do not buy.

[Pogo]

Originally Posted by kerzain

Oregon is jam packed with twisty curvy 55mph two lane roads separated by nothing but a yellow stripe.

I should have clarified. 55 mph 2-lanes are everywhere. I can't think of a 55mph 4-lane road that doesn't have a median, divider, or middle turning lane.

[Karen]

Originally Posted by JoshV

The ones that astonish me are the ones that ram into stopped traffic at high speed. Did they not see the wall of cars with brake lights on in front of them? Or who run thru the middle lane while there is a line of cars on either side.

I'll be cringing as I look through my rearview mirror at stoplights today.

On the phone...

Seriously - look at the worst drivers on the road, the ones weaving and going 10 miles per hour under the speed limit. Chances are, they are on the phone and oblivious.

[RyanMichael]

Originally Posted by Athryn

Except for the fire trucks. The fire truck one makes me laugh for some stupid reason. Hope everyone was ok in that one. ><

I was just about to post how awesome that one was.

[ElGuapo]

Having just .... ahem . . . taken a defensive driving class (I was going 86 in a 65 on an open highway with no one around and just happened to get caught by a speed trap ... in Va that's 6 points! so I was just avoiding points) . . . we covered stop lights in detail. Apparently the vast majority of traffic light accidents are drunk people, second to distracted people (makeup, cellphone, texting, etc.). I'm betting a lot of people in this video were drunk.

Not that I'm going to always follow this, but the thing they taught us about crossing intersections was to take your foot off the accelerator and cover the break while maintaing speed. Gives you a tiny bit more reaction time, I guess. Kind of a pain to do that through every single intersection, but there you go.

Of course if you are blind t-boned, there is nothing you can do, really.

[Lunch of Kong]

Having grown up in Turkey, I don't trust anyone to follow stop signs or traffic signals, so until I see them stop, I proceed cautiously. That kind of cautiousness has prevented me from getting t-boned twice in the past 10 years.

On the one occasion it did not, it was because I didn't see a stop sign heavily obscured by tree foilage until I was 6 feet from the intersection in a residential neighborhood. Stopping at that point would have just put me in the middle of the intersection, and come on, what are the chances of a car coming through at that very moment?

A pickup truck smacked me in my rear quarterpanel about 2 inches from my rear bumper.

Oops.

[MattKeil]

Originally Posted by ElGuapo

Not that I'm going to always follow this, but the thing they taught us about crossing intersections was to take your foot off the accelerator and cover the break while maintaing speed. Gives you a tiny bit more reaction time, I guess. Kind of a pain to do that through every single intersection, but there you go.

That's ridiculous. Might as well say to accelerate through every intersection because you get out of the intersection quicker that way. In fact, assuming you're not going to hit the car in front of you doing it, that's probably a better plan.

Of course if you are blind t-boned, there is nothing you can do, really.

Exactly. When I was T-boned, I didn't see the Escalade until it was halfway through me. And then it was gone by the time I got out of the car, so there you go.

[Staff Sergeant]

Originally Posted by MattKeil

That's ridiculous. Might as well say to accelerate through every intersection because you get out of the intersection quicker that way. In fact, assuming you're not going to hit the car in front of you doing it, that's probably a better plan.

You get better traction if you need to swerve if you aren't accelerating or braking, just letting the wheels turn, so that might have something to do with it. I agree that not everyone is always on full guard while driving (I hardly ever am), but considering the stakes while driving it isn't unreasonable to expect people to be.