At least that's how drivers manuals must read for some people.
Imagine this, you come up to a red light, you see crossing traffic proceeding. So you know that the people across the road from you also must have a stop sign. Your light turns green. Logically, the people in the left turn lane across from you have a red light. Yes?
Well, this was a situation I drove up to a couple of days ago. I drive up to the light in the situation described above. Across from me in the left turn lane (oncoming) there are three cars lined up. Seconds after I came to a full stop at my red light, my light turns green. The instant that it turns green I see the second car in the left turn lane drive around the first car and make his left turn. Somehow this driver must have gotten a different drivers manual than I did. I swear mine informed me that I must stop at ALL red lights, and may only proceed through them if they blink or I am turning right.
The traffic I see every day amazes me. I swear, drivers seem to forget the laws of the road when they are an inconvenience to them. I can't believe that they have so little regard to the safety of themselves or the people around them that they willingly and blatantly ignore the law. *sigh*
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Ya, stupid drivers!
You should see European drivers. The dutch got their drivers license out of a cracker jack box, the French are plain crazy, the Germans like going really fast, the Belgians can't drive and even though it was invented here nobody can figure out the freakin round abouts.
Thank goodness I have a bike with great bike paths.
It gets better, this past Sunday I saw a white truck, in the same left turn lane that looked similar to the one I mentioned in this blog. I said to my wife "That truck right there looks like the guy I saw run that red light" no sooner had we gotten half way through the intersection after saying that, the guy ran the red light AGAIN and made his left turn.
I'm thinking of getting a drivers manual, highlighting the part about stopping at red lights, giving him some message about being a complete jackass, and leaving the manual, open to that page, on his windshield.
I doubt he'd get the clue though.
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