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It's okay to rant and glad you saw this subject close to my heart and I am glad there is a Rant section.
Did you say you asked for CHiPs? Did you have FISH with the CHiPs?
Sorry about that awful joke.
Glad you okay and pity that I wasn't there to wreck THEIR car.
While I was a studend at the Royal National College for the Blind (RNC or RNCB for short in Hereford), ther is or was a road between the student halls and the college itself and there was a crossing and I have seen drivers just going past the lights AFTER they turn red, which is very stupid if you accidently kill paritally sighted and blind people and even guide dogs, as they actually don't see the danger of the cars until it's a bit late.
Further down the road is a very dangerous place to cross as you would have needed 4 paris of eyes and one of them in the back of your head to cross safely the corner to go to the Fish & Chip and local shops further out from Hereforc centre.
Hopefully the silly woman was arrested and charged for dangerous driving or whatever and you can claim compensation.
| quote: | Originally posted by Barrdwing
Wandering through the topics here, and the title of this one caught my eye all right, because right now I have rather personal reasons to rant about idiotic drivers. Two days ago some bloody unprintable moron blew through a red light and smashed the holy crap out of my car. I'm kinda stiff and sore, but the car is beat all to hades and I'm really upset about that. I'd only had the thing for eight months! It's my first new car! Dammit! And right now I don't know if the agent is going to tell me it's a write-off (which will upset me because it's freakin' tragic to see a car go to the junkers when it's practically new) or try to convince me to get it fixed (which will mean that I'll never really trust the frame again, and of course kills the resale value down the road).
There was no reason for that sharding woman to run that light. She was headed north, no sun in her eyes. The light had been red for at least two seconds, long enough for me to look both ways before pulling out. And she was on a freakin' overpass, on which there are ALWAYS stoplights at either side because of the off-ramps! I wish I'd gone over and sniffed her breath, because her passenger sure had been drinking. (And with my nose, they have to be pretty sloshed for me to notice.) But I was too shook up and scattered to think about that. I did call out the CHP to document the scene, and one of the witnesses was an off-duty police officer; I can't say enough nice things about those two guys, because they were really supportive and the wife of the off-duty officer helped me calm down and think a little more clearly. But I'm scared that something will go wrong with the insurance claim, or that I overlooked some critical detail.
I live in California; worse, I live in Sacramento. 'Nuff said. All the nasty things they say about driving in CA are true, they really are: California drivers have to contend with some uber-idiots who a) can't drive in rain or snow, b) are always in too much of a hurry to pay attention to little things like traffic signals or safe following distances, c) think that everyone should make way for them, d) have no concept whatsoever of how a large vehicle needs a much greater stopping distance, e) think that running errands in a Hummer makes good sense, and that they can drive said Hummer like it was a freakin' Volkswagen Bug, f) are apparently blind, and g) are just plain stupid. Oh Lord, they're stupid. So bleeding stupid. Not a day goes by that I don't see some kind of execrable idiocy happening on the road, and it scared me before, but now it's going to bug me a lot more.
Anyway, thanks to all for this opportunity to rant. I didn't really want to start a new thread for it, but running across this one was just too tempting an opportunity and I feel better for getting some of this off my chest. |
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10-09-2008 19:46
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I'll sure be glad to have the whole mess settled!
There's no excuse for someone putting other people at risk like that: there is simply no justification for behaving that way. I'd give 'em one of these 
