Yeah, you. The guy behind me who sped past me in the left lane, doing 10mph over the speed limit. Then, immediately merged into my lane only to jam on the brakes to make a right turn. Why not just merge behind me and wait the two extra seconds, saving fuel and avoiding a dangerous situation? I mean, seriously, there was no one else behind me, and you probably didn’t even see the kids approaching on the bikes who were fortunate that they were not close enough to cross, yet.
Then there was the driver of the Audi TT who appeared to have a baby about 1 year old forward facing in the front seat of a tiny car, in what looked to be an infant baby bucket. I’m sorta glad I wasn’t close enough to get a better look. Hopefully the child was a bit older and was otherwise correctly restrained in a small convertible seat, at least…
So, what road hazard did you observe this week?
I was in the “fast” (of two) lanes and a woman pulled out in front of me on a golf cart doing about 10 mph. That was fun.
On Friday, on stop-and-go traffic on one of the busiest highways in our metro area, we saw a lady texting on her iPhone. And then a couple of minutes later, as we were exiting from that highway/entering one of the *other* busiest highways in our metro area, we saw her texting on her iPhone. At 60 MPH! I got away from her as fast as I (safely) could. Sheesh.
The lady on the cellphone on the freeway going 45 while the rest of us were going 65. Yeah, that’s safe. She may have been hands-free, but her mouth was still yapping enough for me to tell her brain wasn’t where it should have been. Other than that, it was a fairly safe week. Good job, Phoenix-area drivers! Your red light cameras and freeway speed traps have trained you well ;).
I hate it when people do that… if you can’t merge safely, for the love of god, get all the way in the left, make a u-turn (or turn in somewhere and come back out and turn back into traffic if a u-turn isn’t legal there), and take that extra 2 min. Totally better than risking lives and safety.
I saw someone decide they couldn’t wait for me to turn left so they went off road and almost took out a mailbox while coming within inches of my car.