How do people go the wrong way on a freeway?

[FuzzyDunlop]

I will admit that I have accidently driven on the wrong side of a freeway. After breaking up with a girlfriend I was driving and not paying much attn. I turned the wrong way onto a four laned highway, mind you I quickly realized my err when there were no signs facing me. There was no traffic luckily, and I only went for about 50 yards. Quick pull of the E-brake, and a damn near heart attack sobered me up quick. Goes to show the different ways one can be impaired while driving.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: rh71
no parents in this thread? I know people die everyday, but to lose all your kids like her brother did to a mistake like this has to be inconsolable.

updated story with pics

Yeah, this story is completely awful. For the brother to tell her to pull over, for her not to heed his warning, and for all 3 of his children to die is just terrible

 

[God Mode]

I feel sad for the innocent. However, in a cynical way, I'm glad that such an idiot of a person isnt around to raise and mold more idiots.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Whisper

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: bigdog1218
She had to be completely out of it to not realize she was driving the wrong way, there were plenty of cars on the road.

That's the part that amazes me. The children and other adult in the car must have been absolutely terrified; they had to have realized what was going on well before the accident occurred.

ZV

The only scenario I can imagine in which they wouldn't freak out is if the driver happened to get on the freeway when there weren't many cars around, and the passengers weren't paying attention until they saw someone coming at them head-on.

The article mentions that several other cars passed the van before the accident. People were flashing their lights and laying on their horns in futile attempts to get the driver's attention. Those 1.7 miles had to have been absolute hell for the passengers.

ZV

 

[MotF Bane]

Woman driving. The end.

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: funkymatt
sad, but reminds me of this joke:

As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful!"

"Hell," said Herman, "It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"

:laugh::laugh:

 

[reallyscrued]

Originally posted by: Number1

http://www.quickcarquote.co.uk..._drivers_15144994.html


For every billion kilometers driven among 33-year old women, only four fatalities occur, compared to 40 among 20-year old males, reports the Times, highlighting the advantages for women of taking out specialist women's car insurance policies.

Accident data studied by the research team also found that male drivers are at their safest between the ages of 33 and 54, with fewer than eight drivers killed per billion kilometers in this age group.

They're comparing middle-aged women to testosterone filled boys who just got out of highschool? No shit there's less fatalities, I'm willing to bet they are married/have kids/etc and not showing off their new rides.

Did a woman write that study?

Either way, I don't believe women cause the most deaths on the roads, but they are responsible for the smallest accidents, backing up into people, scraping someone's door while parking, or letting your foot off the brake at a red light. It amazes me how little of the surroundings around their own car they care to take into account when driving. Sometimes i feel like they think they are the only ones on the road except for when crossing intersections. I can't remember the last time I got a ride with a female driver and felt safe.

/sexist

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.newsday.com/long-is...-on-roadside-1.1336455
As Warren Hance desperately tried Sunday to call back his sister, Diane Schuler, her cell phone lay useless on the side of the New York State Thruway. It had been inexplicably abandoned after she told him she was disoriented and having trouble seeing, State Police said.


Investigators said Wednesday they believe Schuler, of West Babylon, had crossed the Tappan Zee Bridge into Westchester County and stopped the minivan in a pull-off area just after the tolls to call her brother.


That's apparently the last contact anyone had with Schuler before she drove her Ford minivan the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway, causing a fiery crash that killed eight people, said State Police Investigator James Boyle.

 

[Fayd]

once i saw someone pull out the wrong way onto a street. into my lane.

must have been a real confused old person. it was a medical center they were pulling out of.

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: Svnla

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: zerocool84
It had to be a woman driver.

wonder if she was asian...

Of course we always have idiots to chim in with their stupid close mind stereotype generalization.

BTW, the driver was WHITE <Schuler is her last name>

Ok genius, a MARRIED woman's last name tells you absolutely nothing about her race or ethnicity.

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Whisper

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: bigdog1218
She had to be completely out of it to not realize she was driving the wrong way, there were plenty of cars on the road.

That's the part that amazes me. The children and other adult in the car must have been absolutely terrified; they had to have realized what was going on well before the accident occurred.

ZV

The only scenario I can imagine in which they wouldn't freak out is if the driver happened to get on the freeway when there weren't many cars around, and the passengers weren't paying attention until they saw someone coming at them head-on.

The article mentions that several other cars passed the van before the accident. People were flashing their lights and laying on their horns in futile attempts to get the driver's attention. Those 1.7 miles had to have been absolute hell for the passengers.

ZV

That woman must have been completely out of it. Sad.

 

[Raduque]

That's a very sad story to read.

It reminds me of an incident in WV several years back, a coked-out guy driving a large dump truck jumped the lane divider on the highway just outside Martinsburg and drove the wrong way for like 3 miles. I think he hit like 10 cars and killed 12 people, including himself, when it slammed the truck head-first into a overpass support pylon.

I had driven past that section with my family on the way home just a few minutes before the accident. If we had been 10 minutes late leaving town...

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: God Mode
I feel sad for the innocent. However, in a cynical way, I'm glad that such an idiot of a person isnt around to raise and mold more idiots.

We don't know what the cause of her delirious state was. She might have had some sort of illness that impaired her judgment, reasoning, and mental capacity. She could've had a mental illness that just decided to flare up. It doesn't sound like it was a case of her being an idiot. It was definitely idiotic to continue instead of pulling over and waiting for her brother, but her judgment was likely already impaired enough that she wasn't in her right mind and able to make the right choice.

 

[Svnla]

Originally posted by: JD50

Originally posted by: Svnla

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: zerocool84
It had to be a woman driver.

wonder if she was asian...

Of course we always have idiots to chim in with their stupid close mind stereotype generalization.

BTW, the driver was WHITE <Schuler is her last name>

Ok genius, a MARRIED woman's last name tells you absolutely nothing about her race or ethnicity.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_...asnt_feeling_well.html

http://www.newsday.com/long-is...arkway-crash-1.1328669

Did you read the story and look at the picture? Of course you didn't.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: zerocool84
It had to be a woman driver.

Local news here confirmed it was indeed a woman driver that caused the accident. All would have been well if she just stood home and made sandwiches.

http://www.quickcarquote.co.uk..._drivers_15144994.html


For every billion kilometers driven among 33-year old women, only four fatalities occur, compared to 40 among 20-year old males, reports the Times, highlighting the advantages for women of taking out specialist women's car insurance policies.

Accident data studied by the research team also found that male drivers are at their safest between the ages of 33 and 54, with fewer than eight drivers killed per billion kilometers in this age group.

WOW way to sensationalize it by comparing 2 completely different age brackets. You must write headlines for CNN.
Males may have more death in traffic accidents, partially because men drive more than women.
Women on the otherhand typically do the stupidest things you can imagine one doing in or with a car.
Ever watch wolds dumbest drivers on Spike? It's pretty sad how the majority of them are women.

 

[akshatp]

Drunk. And high.

Jeez I felt sorry for her until today.

 

[Cal166]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22...1/vp/32356493#32356493

BAL .19 and High on Weed. Broken Volka bottle found in the car.

The husband is more of a idiot...

 

[LTC8K6]

I don't think you would get very far in court attempting to sue for something written on a warning label that you agreed to.

That warning goes away by itself on my Garmin. So I never agree to it.