You Drive Like Shit!

by MetroDriver

’nuff said.

by CommuterMan

This is admittedly an unscientific, yet eye-opening test. Texting while driving is due to be illegal in Maryland and hopefully other states in the near future. Distracted driving IS distracted driving. Put down the phone, shut up and drive, people!

Car and Driver article: Texting While Driving

By MetroDriver

A rookie police officer in Fairfax, VA was exonerated of a reckless driving charge in connection with a fatal crash.  She was responding to a call and ran through an intersection without her siren, struck another vehicle, and caused that occupant to be ejected.

Three witnesses testified that Perry sped through the intersection without sirens running.
In court, Perry testified that she was watching traffic and fumbled with her siren console but it didn’t turn on.

NBC4 broadcasted this story last night, and had a clip of the dashboard camera which indicated the officer was attempting to slow down at the intersection before the accident.

The fucked up thing?

According to Virginia law, officers are not required to run their sirens when they drive through red lights.

This law makes no fucking sense – why the hell would you not require an emergency vehicle to alert other drivers of its presence while speeding through an intersection? Lawmakers – stop slapping each other on the back for stupid shit, and use your common sense!

NBC4 Story

by MetroDriver

GMC Safari (CA 6CBY663)

This is more of a serious post, and doesn’t really have anything to do with driving – however, I’m trying to leverage my page ranking to help out (although I have no illusions that this page will play a significant role in the outcome of this story).

On July 12th, Jesus Humberto Canales stabbed his long time live-in girlfriend four times with a sword in front of their four children.  The 9 year old daughter was strong and able to call 911 (the full audio of that call is gutwrenching) but the mother, Lucy Preciado, died of her wounds.

Canales is considered armed and dangerous and believed to be in the Los Angeles area, so please call authorities if you see him or this gold van.  If you see him or the vehicle, please call the L.A. County Sheriff’s  Homicide Bureau at (323)890.5500.

News link (with video) is here.

by MetroDriver 

 *ring ring*

 ”Hello, thank you for calling Allstate!  How can I help you?”

“Yeah…uhm…you see…” 

News story is here 

 by MetroDriver

There’s a pseudo PSA making the rounds of some dipshit who fucked up and totaled his SRT-4, nearly killing himself in the process.  I applaud his effort to spread the message that driving like shit can kill, but seriously – is it rocket science?  Shouldn’t he have realized this before the fact?

Anyway, Ryan learned his lesson and I’m sure others will continue to think, “That shit can’t happen to me because I’m so much better!”  They’re called accidents for a reason, and driving like an asshole will only increase your probability of getting into one.   If you take a look at his car, you can see how shitty those Neons perform in accidents – except the rear wing.  For some reason, the wing always survives while the rest of the car can be incinerated.  If you own an SRT-4, please don’t try to show the world how cool you are.

Here’s a link to the slideshow - damn thing won’t embed.

by MetroDriver

That was a long break, eh?  Life grabbed me and didn’t let go for awhile – term papers, final exams, and all the fun stuff that goes along with school and then I had to unwind.  A lot has happened since I last wrote, but I’ll just summarize.  Some asshole driving a Corolla was talking on his cell phone, ran a red light and almost t-boned me and another car in Annapolis a few weeks ago.  That was fun!  What the hell is up with all these idiot Corolla drivers?  I can’t verify the plate, so I won’t post.

I had some whore in a minivan realize I was going to try to merge onto 295 and she decided to try and jet across 198 and beat me to it, then the bitch rode her horn (and my bumper) down the ramp because I didn’t let her in front.  She may as well have honked at the other three cars in front of me, because we were all in front of her.  Then the cunt decides she’s going to show all of us!  She hits at least 80mph trying to weave through traffic to catch us, so I decided to block her in.  I don’t see my act as aggressive, but rather a safety measure because the bitch was going to hit someone eventually.  She didn’t like being stuck for the next few miles and eventually calmed down.

Oh!  And don’t you love when you’re trying to exit, and people don’t want to let you out?  I was coming back from Annapolis and was about to get into an exit lane onto 32W and another whore driving a conversion van decides that she doesn’t want to let me over.  There wasn’t space to simply slow myself and duck behind her, because she was naturally being tailgated by 18 other cars.  I see what she’s trying to do and I get over, with plenty of room between the trailer toting truck in front and the crazed blond whore in the conversion van, and then she decides to ride her horn, and my ass, the entire exit ramp until it turns into 32W.  She eventually pulls beside me and thinks honking the horn next to me is going to scare me or something.  Oh yeah – bitch, you’ve got ugly kids.

What the fuck is up with women and vans?  Are you all pissed off that your husbands get to drive the cars and leave you with the soccer mobile?  Take that shit out on your men.  And men?  Don’t take that shit from your women!

by MetroDriver

Ah, and now for a little all-too-true humor. Enjoy!

DOT Creates New Lane For Reckless Drivers

by MetroDriver

I think I wrote awhile ago about how Montgomery County (MoCo) was implementing the use of speed cameras. As a refresher – the usage is limited to 10 cameras in 35mph zones with a 10mph buffer in residential and school zones, and their impact will be reviewed in five years or so. Of course, all those wannabe privacy advocates cry about how their pussy hurts if they get their picture taken, but if some fuckhead is going 46 on a neighborhood street past a school, they deserve to get the ticket, right? Fuck your privacy if you break a law which isn’t really tough to adhere to.

Well, some interesting news came out the other day, and I’m sure many of you will get a kick out of this. There’s a group of people who are refusing to pay the fines, and this group happens to be the same people who help enforce these laws. Yup, MoCo’s finest have been photographed over 200 times, with only 76 or so being excused by their superiors (responding to emergencies, etc). The rest? They are hiding behind their union and the wording of the law, which states the owners of the vehicles get ticketed, not the driver. That’s all well and good, but when at least two of them sped past the cameras giving the bird, you can see what they think of the law in the first place.

The MoCo chief of police says they’ll face disciplinary action if they don’t pay the fines, because they’re not above the law either. I think it’s a great move by the CoP, but we’ll see what happens. I hate when I see LEOs speeding, never signaling to turn, and tailgating just because they drive a patrol car. Almost makes me want to go buy my own radar gun (they can be had for a relatively cheap $5-600) and camp out on a street waiting for a cop to drive past.

These aren’t exclusively MoCo cops, and the music sucks, but I’m sure you’ve seen this all too often.

by Commuterman

Lexus GS300 – green  (MD 2BEX68)
While I can understand someone being in the passing lane (that’s the LEFT one on any highway in these United States) while passing, I don’t understand while people will sit in the left lane and go exactly the same speed as traffic in the middle and right lanes.  Its a cloudy day with fairly good visibility. I wait for 5 minutes for this oblivious dipshit to notice that there’s a car behind him with its blinker on asking him to move to the middle lane so he can be passed…. no dice… the oblivious turd is yapping away on his cell phone AND… has his sun visor down!???

THERE’S NO SUN, MORON!!!! Although when i finally did pass him safely, 10 minutes later when i got to my exit (yep, THAT’S how slow he was going), Joe Uncool even has his aviator sunglasses on straight out of an 80s cop movie. PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD AND PEOPLE AROUND YOU WHEN YOU’RE DRIVING!!And for bloody bollocks sakes, keep your fat ass out of the left lane and use the damn rear view mirror once in a while. You know… that’s shiny thing that shows you people giving you the finger for being a lazy turdblossom in the first place!