(12-07-2017, 11:58 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: When people pull out in front of you, sometimes not even coming to a complete stop at the stop sign or traffic light, and you end up t-boning them because you can't stop in time. 

This happened to my husband this morning. Some douche bag pulls out in front of him and he can't stop in time and hits the guy. He ended up in the ER with 11 stitches in his forehead, bruising on his torso when the seat belt locked up on impact and a totaled car we JUST had a new radiator installed in. On Tuesday. And the car was paid for. 

People need to slow the hell down and pay attention to what they're doing behind the wheel. DO NOT EXPECT PEOPLE TO (BE ABLE TO) STOP IF YOU PULL OUT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM. You don't even know if they're paying attention to what they're doing, much less what you're doing, and may not see your dumb [BLEEP] breaking the law and try to avoid a collision. I see this happen a lot around here. People don't bother stopping at stop lights or signs, they just roll out expecting you to slow down. Or they're in a middle turn lane and take that left right in front of you, expecting you to slow down or stop for them. 

Thankfully my husband is religious about doing the speed limit or this could have been a lot worse.

I'm glad to hear your husband is okay, but I have to say, you live in North Carolina, right?   I've driven in a lot of places, and I've driven in North Carolina a LOT, and in my opinion, the drivers in North Carolina are the worst anywhere I've been.  So many of them are completely oblivious to the other drivers on the road.   Several times, I have narrowly escaped accidents there.   It's the country folks in the pickup trucks that are the absolute worst. They act like there are no other cars on the road.

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