A couple years ago I was rear ended by a young woman (23) at 45 mph. I was stopped and waiting for a turn. She was texting.
“A couple years ago I was rear ended by a young woman (23) at 45 mph. I was stopped and waiting for a turn. She was texting.”
I try to keep my eyes on the rear view and have avoided an accident by swerving off the road. (I don’t know what the driver was doing but he wasn’t paying attention.) I’ve seen drivers I thought were drunk only to discover they are paying attention to their phone. Trouble is, events change in seconds and even if you do see a hit coming, often all you’ll be able to do is brace yourself.
Last week on I 81, I encountered a woman in al old green pontiac weaving into my lane
as I cautiously passed her I noted that she hat a large burger in her right hand and was thumbing her phone with her left hand that was also steering
I think women proudly refer to it as multitasking
“A couple years ago I was rear ended......”
A couple years ago I was rear ended by a young woman (23) at 45 mph. I was stopped and waiting for a turn. She was farding. Or, yelling at the kids, changing the radio station,
retrieving a dropped cigaret, looking at a billboard, etc... I know that rear-end collisions didn’t exist before the
cellphone was invented but since then we have found that
they are not the only reason this new phenomenon of
running into other cars happens.
“A couple years ago I was rear ended by a young woman (23) at 45 mph. I was stopped and waiting for a turn. She was texting.”
This is precisely why I am reluctant to ride my motorcycle any more... I miss riding every day, but I don’t want to bet my life on someone that doesn’t give a s##t.
I almost experienced the same thing about one year ago. I was waiting to turn off a busy highway close to my home when I looked into my rear view mirror and saw a car approaching.
My wife and I hate this turn because it's on a fairly busy two lane highway. I saw the car approaching at a high rate of speed, and it did not brake or move into the by pass lane. As it came near I moved my car ahead about fifty feet.
The oncoming driver eventually must have looked up and braked so hard because his car was turned sideways facing the street I wanted to turn into when he finally stopped. I'll bet he was looking at his cell phone and just saw me at the last moment. If I hadn't moved ahead fifty feet, he would have slammed into me.