"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
07/28/2015 at 22:49 • Filed to: None
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"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
07/28/2015 at 22:49 • Filed to: None | 2
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In similar context to SM70’s post. Driving home today in the right lane following a car with no one else in front of him cruising at about 65, suddenly, he swerves off the road, completely, and violently. Then I see what he was swerving from, a 1 foot cubed box sitting in the middle of the road.
I know by this point in time if I swerve left, I’m hitting a car, right and I’ll run over whatever’s in the box, possibly damaging my wheel / tire. My only option is straight on and hope that my lift kit has provided enough ground clearance.
It wasn’t. Whatever was in the box pegged right off the corner of my rear diff.
Luckily, whatever it was was quite rubbery and it didn’t even cause any damage to my skid plate other than some scuff marks, as it shot out from under my Jeep across the highway.
Mr. Distracted Driver on the other hand, had run himself so far off the road he landed in some rocks. He was okay and out of his car but I'm pretty sure he had flats. I didn't stay to help. Neither of us would have been in that situation had you decided to look down the road rather than down at your phone.
desertdog5051
> CAR_IS_MI
07/29/2015 at 05:00 |
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Unfortunately, they probably weren’t even looking at their phone. Most drivers, it seems, don’t look much further than the end of their hood.
Slave2anMG
> desertdog5051
07/29/2015 at 14:09 |
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This. In spades. I look past the car in front of me if I can. Crest a hill, look down into the valley/swale and on to the next upslope. Across curves if I can. Way way ahead...not just so that I have space to slow, but I have space to slow gradually enough that I don’t get rear ended by the knucklehead behind me....and try to leave space to evade him if he can’t stop.