"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
04/04/2019 at 09:12 • Filed to: MOVE OVER AND SLOW DOWN!!!!!!
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
04/04/2019 at 09:12 • Filed to: MOVE OVER AND SLOW DOWN!!!!!! | 1
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16 Illinois State Troopers have been hit just this year alone, and three have been killed. Two killed in two days. What the shit is going on? This is maddening!
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facw
> shop-teacher
04/04/2019 at 09:35 |
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I really don’t how you end up driving the wrong way on an interstate. Even if you are spectacularly drunk or otherwise impaired, the ramps simply don’t work like that.
loki03xlh
> shop-teacher
04/04/2019 at 09:36 |
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As a resident Hellinoisian, it seems that almost no one moves over away from stopped cars on the interstates here. It doesn’t
matter if it’s a cop pulling someone over
or someone with car trouble. Move over people.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> facw
04/04/2019 at 09:41 |
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its not hard, just make a wrong turn and boom its not like there are barricades or anything
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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> shop-teacher
04/04/2019 at 09:42 |
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Ellis was an absolute Hero
i86hotdogs
> loki03xlh
04/04/2019 at 09:43 |
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Its bad everywhere, I grew up just outside O’hare, and those highways are lawless. Speed limits are 55...40 if construction (there always is), and everyone is collectively going 75 like its not an issue. Detroit was no better. But I’ve been impressed with Ohio drivers.
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facw
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
04/04/2019 at 09:45 |
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Seems hard to me. Either you are making a hard u-turn or you are driving the wrong way down the exit ramp. In either case, you should pretty clearly be on the wrong side of the road, unlike a surface street where someone could more easily mistakenly turn onto the wrong side of a divided surface street.
WilliamsSW
> facw
04/04/2019 at 09:52 |
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I think most of them are wasted to begin with, and go the wrong way down an exit ramp. Depending on ramp configuration, that part can be fairly easy to screw up. But you would have to be wasted to not realize it when you got to the highway. Fucking morons.
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WilliamsSW
> shop-teacher
04/04/2019 at 09:55 |
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Dammit. That’s awful.
I’ve experienced seeing a car go by me the wrong way on I57, and it’s a frightening experience - though it happens so fast with a closing speed of 130 mph +, it doesn’t even register until they have passed you.
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shop-teacher
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
04/04/2019 at 09:57 |
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Wow. I hadn’t seen that part of the story. He absolutely was a hero.
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shop-teacher
> WilliamsSW
04/04/2019 at 10:01 |
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Yes it is.
I saw a car heading the wrong way on I294 around Willow Rd many years ago. It was about 3 am, and I was in the right lane cruising along, when a silver SUV of some sort came barr e ling down the left lane the wrong way. Fortunately I wasn’t close to getting hit, but it really didn’t register until he was a couple hundred yards away.
I called 911 and reported it to the ISP.
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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> facw
04/04/2019 at 10:14 |
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when its dark and the roads are empty and the driver is inebriated i dont think theyd be able to tell
theres a few interchanges in the area where a wrong way driver literally just needs to make a right turn and theyre on the highway going the wrong way
Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness
> facw
04/04/2019 at 10:15 |
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Once you realize people are stupid, you realize how easily it can happen.
someassemblyrequired
> shop-teacher
04/04/2019 at 10:21 |
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This used to happen a fair bit near where I lived in CT. There are lots of these incidents between the Gold Star bridge (the last toll stop on the old CT Turnpike and the RI border). Because it used to be tolled, e
xit design in that part of
CT is crap in general and not helped by
the age of I-95 (it’s one of the earliest roads in the Interstate system). Some of the incidents were
drivers getting confused, others driving tired or
drunk
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But there’s been a big spike recently, mainly suicides. Two big incidents in the last six months.
It’s scary.
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shop-teacher
> someassemblyrequired
04/04/2019 at 11:27 |
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Oh man, that is scary stuff.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> facw
04/04/2019 at 12:12 |
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So, I’m ashamed to admit this, but this actually has happened to me once (I’m 41) , and recently. Was due to poor highway design, bad signage, low light conditions (it was late in the evening ) , and poor night vision (on my part ). I was confused at first, but quickly realized what happened (not quickly enough! - I figured it out once I was on the tight curve ). Scared the shit out of me, as I had one of my kids in the car with me... Thankfully, this is a remote area and no one was on the off-ramp at the time, and there was no nearby oncoming traffic. Clearly, it could’ve ended much, much worse...
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facw
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
04/04/2019 at 12:17 |
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See I can totally understand someone ending up on the wrong ramp there, but it still seems like it would have to be blindingly obvious that they were coming on to the highway from the wrong side. FWIW, probably even on a deserted night, I think I would have made a k-turn on the ramp, gone back and made a u- turn instead of making the right from the ramp to the highway (unless I didn’t notice until I was already on the highway exit lane, in which case I probably would have reversed onto the ramp ). Just seems like a bad idea to play around on the highway.
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> facw
04/04/2019 at 13:53 |
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In hindsight, I should have definitely stopped immediately , moved over to the shoulder of the off-ramp, and slowly backed up to where I came from. It all happened really fast...