Showing posts with label Traffic problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traffic problems. Show all posts

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Worst Drivers in the World

Keith Obermann has his nightly segment of the "Worst Person in the World". I thought I would take off from his idea to describe the worst drivers in the world. Today, on the way back home from the golf course, I was shocked by a woman driver who blew through a 4-way stop. Within a mile, an SUV approached my vehicle, lapping over the double yellow stripe. As I proceeded, I became trapped behind another SUV doing 25 in a 40 mph speed zone. A little further along my route home, while traveling in the left lane of a busy 4-lane arterial, the driver of a small sedan crossed in front of me to reach the left-turn lane at a signalized intersection, causing me to brake to avoid a collision. Almost home, on the same 4-lane street, I attempted to move into the center left-turn only lane to turn left into the entrance street of the subdivision where my home is located only to be surprised by a dark sedan that pulled into the same center left-turn only lane from a side street on the left, wrongly using this dedicated strip and causing me to brake quickly to avoid a collision. All of these driver's had one thing in common: they were talking on a cell phone, making them the Worst Drivers in the World. Someone please deliver us from these mobile menaces.