What is the dumbest manuever you've ever seen executed on the road?

[drpootums]

oh, also, i saw a girl not yield to a yield sign while pulling onto a bridge...she came about 6" from broadsiding a police car. She almost started crying and took about 2 minutes to pull out from her lane

 

[Engineer]

Guy was driving behind another car. There was a gas station on the same side that had in incline up a small hill into the gas islands and another incline on the opposite side back to the road. He took off, sped up, pulled the car into the gas station while accelerating, through the gas pumps (didn't hit them, between them) and then back onto the road to pass the car in front. Damnest thing I've ever witnessed!

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Guy was driving behind another car. There was a gas station on the same side that had in incline up a small hill into the gas islands and another incline on the opposite side back to the road. He took off, sped up, pulled the car into the gas station while accelerating, through the gas pumps (didn't hit them, between them) and then back onto the road to pass the car in front. Damnest thing I've ever witnessed!

wow...just wow

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Everyone should get one of these and do as they say

Im sure that helps the tailgaters case in court.... or with insurance companies

It's not illegal to drive the speed limit.

being an a-shole isn't illegal either, doesn't make it right.

If you are purposely in the left lanes slowing down traffic, you are contributing to gridlock, and actually helping to cause accidents not prevent them.

If you watch most major highways you'd see they usually could easily provide good traffic flow if slower traffic kept right.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420

Originally posted by: dug777
meh, probably overtaking on blind corners...

but people collectively speeding up when you get to a straight/overtaking lane after sitting 20kmh below the speed limit until then, then dropping to that speed again after the straight annoys me the most :|

yeah that sh1t is annoying...or when someone stays 3 feet off your bumper in traffic on the interstate and when you finally move over they move up to the next car 30 feet ahead and proceed to ride them just like they did you...i always get the urge to just slam on the brakes and claim whiplash :evil:

QFT

also, the ppl who speed up to fastest possible speed then brake hard rather than take an easier pace. guess what, 9 out of 10 times, i end up right next to you at the next intersection.
gg buddy.

 

[flot]

I think the dumbest thing I see on a regular basis is people making U-turns on train tracks. IE the road is divided by a grass or concrete median, and then there is a set of train tracks perpendicular to the road, so idiot driver thinks that's a convenient place for him to make a U-turn.

I won't get into details, but the jackass drivers I see all the time don't fall into male/female as much as they do various ethnicities of driver. They seem to gravitate towards 1980s Sentras, Corollas, and minivans.

 

[fetcher]

i pulled a pretty sweet one the other day. SLAMMED on the brakes and skidded to a hault when i saw the light go yellow. i sat there for 30 seconds or so, then my phone rang. my mind somehow registered the phone ringing as the light turning green and i just went through the red light. didn't pay any attention to the honks. just drove.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: flot
I think the dumbest thing I see on a regular basis is people making U-turns on train tracks. IE the road is divided by a grass or concrete median, and then there is a set of train tracks perpendicular to the road, so idiot driver thinks that's a convenient place for him to make a U-turn.

I won't get into details, but the jackass drivers I see all the time don't fall into male/female as much as they do various ethnicities of driver. They seem to gravitate towards 1980s Sentras, Corollas, and minivans.

i actually considered posting a race section of the poll, but i figured it would turn into a race flamefest in here, and the point of this thread wasn't to point fingers, just to see what other dumbfvcks are doing out there.

plus that would have made for a hell of a poll that i'm too lazy to fvck with

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: fetcher
i pulled a pretty sweet one the other day. SLAMMED on the brakes and skidded to a hault when i saw the light go yellow. i sat there for 30 seconds or so, then my phone rang. my mind somehow registered the phone ringing as the light turning green and i just went through the red light. didn't pay any attention to the honks. just drove.

wow...at least you have the balls to admit it :beer:

 

[Stumps]

Dumbest thing, I've ever seen, was In fact something I done a few years back, Attemping to out run 3 highway patrol cars while on my way to a servo to put fuel in my nearly empty V8 fairlane, i managed to get maybe 30kay's out of town before running out of fuel.
the really dumb thing was I was on my way to the servo to get fuel so I could harass the local coppers, If I had of gotten fuel first I would have gotten away, I had already lost sight of them before the car ran out of fuel.
the things we do when we're younger.

 

[vitoprimo]

South Florida at a traffic signal with one left turn-out lane. The fourth car back in the turnout lane is a bit impatient with the lack of progress of those ahead. This driver turns into the lane on the right cutting off a car, drives around the three cars ahead waiting to turn left, and turns left into the intersection cutting off oncoming traffic.

Drivers in south Florida are the worst - bar none. There's a bumper sticker you see here that says it all "Horn Broken - Watch For Finger".

 

[yourdeardaniel]

drove 60 onto traffic, skid outa control, manage to not hit any car

 

[amicold]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
A woman backing her fvcking Nissan Xterra right onto the hood of my Galant in a movie theater lot. And then try to blame me for it, when I wasn't even in the car. Dumb bitch, she got scared when I started to call the police and hit me off with $500.

The car cost $300 to fix. I bought a Pentium 4 and Soyo motherboard with the rest. Haha, the best part was, she hit a part of the car that was already hit.

Shoulda made her whack you off and then give you $500.

 

[oogabooga]

a woman swirving... eating a burger, smoking a cig, and on the phone.

*shudders*

 

[hemiram]

Dumbest thing I ever did:

I'm driving my friend's beloved 70 Camaro, and thinking the shifter was like the one in my car, where you had to squeeze a button to put it in Reverse or Park, I hit the shifter, and go from 2nd to Park at 45MPH! The parking "pall" made this "rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr" noise and the rear wheels locked up, and we almost crashed. He was really upset, callig me a moron, but both of our cars at home with console shifters did the same thing as my car did, and I thought all cars did it too.

It didn't cost all that much to fix. He had that car for almost 20 years, it finally got scrapped after his brother hit a pothole filled with water at 35 and tore the front right suspension off.

Dumbest thing I ever saw or was involved in:

I'm going on the "Old LA highway" about 5 miles past the end of the Las Vegas strip. I'm going 55, and in front of me was one of the cheaper Toyota cars from back then. I'm driving my 77 Dodge truck, and it doesn't have the greatest brakes in the world. For some reason, I don't know why, he suddenly stops in front of me, and he has no brakelights! He must have shifted into first, because the only reason I didn't hit him was I saw his tires smoke at the last second. I was going to hit him, and the only thing to do was run it off the road. I almost rolled it over as the drop off was pretty high. My poor dog somehow jammed my 4WD transfer case into low, and I stopped in a hurry about 50' away from the road.

Car after car is slamming the brakes on behind him, he's just sitting there! My truck is flooded and isn't starting. The guy is looking at me, and I'm yelling at him, telling him all the stuff I am going to do when I catch his scrawny ass. I was about as pissed as I have ever been in my life! Finally, my truck fires up, and I'm trying to get the transfer case back into high, and I'm still yelling at him, and cars are still coming up behind him, and almost hitting him. He just sits there, looking at me.

I get my transfer case into high finally, and tell him, "You better run, A*****E!" His eyes bugged out, and he makes a U-turn, right in front of a car going the other way, and they ran off the road like I did. I'm moving now, I have to get to the closest intersection so I can get back on the road. He isn't moving all that fast, until he sees me fly up onto the road and punch it. My truck was loud, and when it was nailed, it sounded really impressive. He had a couple of cars in between us, and he blew the light at Tropicana and the Strip, and I lost him. A few blocks down the state troopers pull me over, asking me what happened, someone had called them on the CB on channel 9. I was still really upset, and for the life of me, forgot his plate totally. The couple in the other car that ran off had minor injuries. They never found him. I couldn't remeber the plate, but I bet I could still pull him out of a crowd all thses years later..

 

[iliopsoas]

some idiot passed a bunch of cars (us included) on the shoulder on the way back from Vegas in excess of 60 mph. A few minutes later, we found his car rolled over.

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Everyone should get one of these and do as they say

Im sure that helps the tailgaters case in court.... or with insurance companies

It's not illegal to drive the speed limit.

It might not be illegal, but it isn't safe. From page 43 of the PA motor code...


Traffic Flow
Crashes often happen when drivers change direction or when some drivers go faster or slower than other vehicles on the road.
Since traffic movement is often confusing, you must stay alert and make many decisions in a short amount of time. Try to drive with the flow of traffic within the posted speed limit. Each time you pass another vehicle, you increase your chance for error. Keep in mind that going slower than other vehicles can also be dangerous.

It's actually funny, they updated it to include "within the posted speed limit." When I took my test that wasn't included.

 

[Crappopotamus]

my ex SWORE she saw an advance green. and turned before the oncoming traffic.

 

[Ephemeral]

I was driving home from work about 5 years ago going down a main road. There was a female driver behind me, about 17-18 years old, driving an old white LeBaron. I come to a stop at a light, just relaxing and listening to some music, and all of a sudden she runs right into me. She couldn't have been going more than a few mph, a little startling but no big deal, so I stick my arm out of the window and motion for her to follow me.

We pull off into a parking lot at a pharmacy and I get out to assess the situation. She steps out of the car and is just shaking, I mean exceedingly timid, barely makes a peep while trying to apologize. It was understandable though...I don't exactly look like a happy-go-lucky guy...6'4" with a shaved head, black leather coat, black pants, and black boots on. So I just do what I normally do, I speak gently and I'm polite, I look at my car, nothing there, look at the bumper on her car, just a smudge from my license plate holder. I then asked her what happened, and she explained to me that her brakes were going out and that she just couldn't stop in time.

I tell her that there wasn't any damage and that she shouldn't worry about it. I ask her where she is headed, and she says a few miles up the road. I tell her to be careful and leave a good amount of space between her and other cars on the way home, and to get the car to the shop in the morning. She thanked me and gave me a quick hug (which was kind of weird) and I reiterated for her to be extra careful. She gets back into her car and starts it up.

I get back into my car, turn the ignition, and look around before backing out. I then see her starting to back out so I wait, a second later I see another car leaving the parking lot and at the exact moment the car is behind her she hits the gas to back out and slams right into the passenger side door. It was a complete jaw dropping OMGWTFBBQ moment.

She gets out of the car and just falls to her knees on the ground in a full on hands to the sky, ?Why god why!? bawling. It took every ounce of restraint to keep from bursting out laughing right then and there. (Not trying to sound like a jerk, but come on, that was some funny sh!t)Wanting nothing more to do with the situation I promptly left the parking lot, and was in tears myself from hysterical laughter all the way home.

 

[MasterAndCommander]

This guy
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[exilera]

Literally 90% of the stupid things I've seen on the road were executed by asians, mostly asian women.

Conclusion = asians can't drive. Sorry to those asians out there; reality sucks.

 

[MasterAndCommander]

Originally posted by: exilera
Literally 90% of the stupid things I've seen on the road were executed by asians, mostly asian women.

Conclusion = asians can't drive. Sorry to those asians out there; reality sucks.

So they should stick to building cars?

 

[CRXican]

last one I can remember was a woman

On my way to work. Of course she was on a cell phone. First bad move, swerving into my lane, I honked, she moved back. Second bad move, she stops at a green light, almost gets rearended, car honks and swerves around her.

 

[eakers]

it was an elderly man..

We were driving down a three lane very very busy ONE WAY road when this elderly man in front of us decides to pull a u-turn and start driving in the other direction!!!!! Everyone is swirving out of the way of this guy and then he decides to switch lanes! There was so much traffic coming. I never did see what the end result was as we were driving away from this when it happened.

 

[bleeb]

Person not looking in their side view mirrors while merging onto the highway

Person driving across the concrete median barrier.