sourdough
12-31-2018, 04:18 PM
Want to wish all our members a very happy, prosperous and safe New Year. Please be safe and if traveling, watch out for the other guy.
I was coming back from Tallahassee today and fell in behind a small car on a beautiful canopied back road heading back to our campground. The driver, a young woman, 25-30 with a passenger, was driving about 15mph under the already slow speed limit and her speed/driving was erratic. I kept watching and soon found that she was completely engrossed in her cell phone conversation. We came to a stop sign where we entered a crossing with a state highway. The driver, oblivious to the world, began rolling into the highway. I was watching 2 vehicles coming at her in the first lane that would have Tboned the driver door. I thought she was just creeping forward; she wasn't. As it dawned on me that she was going to keep going, oblivious as she talked, I just started yelling NO about 5 times in increasing volume - my wife thought I was nuts (she had been reading something). The oncoming vehicles were RIGHT on top of her. She finally saw them when she was in the middle of the lane, and, what did she do? Stopped!! Square in front of the oncoming car!! I thought she was dead as I tried to assess who was going to hit what when. The miracle was the guy driving the OLD Jeep pickup. He had been driving slow anyway and had thankfully been watching her and anticipating she was clueless apparently. He locked it down and stopped "maybe" a foot from her door (she's still sitting there, square in front of him,dead in the water saying "duh" I guess ). The guy right behind him ended up right in front of me across my road where the dumb driver had been. A MIRACLE!! The woman should have been dead, and worse, could easily have killed folks in 3-4 cars; saved by an observant person and the grace of God. What did she do? Looked at the guy in the Jeep that saved her, picked up her phone and started talking and drove off!!!
This is not really relevant to RVing except we are in a holiday season and from my experience the incompetents seem to "come out" at this time. PLEASE be watchful of these people - they're seemingly everywhere anymore. If you know of anyone that would drive like that please encourage them to concentrate on driving when behind the wheel, there is not a thing, not ONE single thing, that would warrant anyone taking their, or anyone else's lives because they need to "talk" or "text". :soapbox: Again, Happy New Year to all.:)
I was coming back from Tallahassee today and fell in behind a small car on a beautiful canopied back road heading back to our campground. The driver, a young woman, 25-30 with a passenger, was driving about 15mph under the already slow speed limit and her speed/driving was erratic. I kept watching and soon found that she was completely engrossed in her cell phone conversation. We came to a stop sign where we entered a crossing with a state highway. The driver, oblivious to the world, began rolling into the highway. I was watching 2 vehicles coming at her in the first lane that would have Tboned the driver door. I thought she was just creeping forward; she wasn't. As it dawned on me that she was going to keep going, oblivious as she talked, I just started yelling NO about 5 times in increasing volume - my wife thought I was nuts (she had been reading something). The oncoming vehicles were RIGHT on top of her. She finally saw them when she was in the middle of the lane, and, what did she do? Stopped!! Square in front of the oncoming car!! I thought she was dead as I tried to assess who was going to hit what when. The miracle was the guy driving the OLD Jeep pickup. He had been driving slow anyway and had thankfully been watching her and anticipating she was clueless apparently. He locked it down and stopped "maybe" a foot from her door (she's still sitting there, square in front of him,dead in the water saying "duh" I guess ). The guy right behind him ended up right in front of me across my road where the dumb driver had been. A MIRACLE!! The woman should have been dead, and worse, could easily have killed folks in 3-4 cars; saved by an observant person and the grace of God. What did she do? Looked at the guy in the Jeep that saved her, picked up her phone and started talking and drove off!!!
This is not really relevant to RVing except we are in a holiday season and from my experience the incompetents seem to "come out" at this time. PLEASE be watchful of these people - they're seemingly everywhere anymore. If you know of anyone that would drive like that please encourage them to concentrate on driving when behind the wheel, there is not a thing, not ONE single thing, that would warrant anyone taking their, or anyone else's lives because they need to "talk" or "text". :soapbox: Again, Happy New Year to all.:)