Archive for August, 2013
Too Fast to Stop
While driving on 11400 S, there was a truck next to me pulling a trailer. We got to a stoplight that had turned yellow, and he decided to gun his motor and run through it. Needless to say, it was very orange by the time he got through it. After the stoplight, i got to the next intersection, and he was stuck behind a row of cars at the next light.
I breezed right past him in a mostly free lane.
And yes, the tailgate on his trailer was down and scraping the road as he drove.
Porsche Passing
While driving home from work today, I again almost got run into on the I-215 to I-15 connection. This time I was behind a truck. He’d slowed down, so I did as well. I was well past the point where the three lanes merge down to two, and there were perhaps 5ft remaining off my left side to the approaching yellow line.
As I was going, I saw a red thing approaching with great speed behind me in my rearview mirror. It turned out to be a Porsche who decided that he wanted to get around me.
He whizzed by with one tire on each side of the orange line, and would’ve run off the edge of the freeway had I not slowed suddenly for him. After getting to I-15, he took off towards the left lanes and was shortly gone from sight, though I was going a bit over the speed limit myself.
A very intelligent move…
Exit Fun
When exiting at the I-15 11400S exit, this rather strange dance took place. The white truck in front of me engaged in a tenuous faceoff with the red car to his left. The red car appeared to be moving over (according to his signal) but never actually moved. Running out of space, the white truck slowed way down, and then was finally able to get over just before the his lane became an exit.
Shortly thereafter, a blue truck realized that he needed to get off at that exit and sped through the narrow gap between them; narrowly making the exit.
As an additional note, the cloud along the top of the frame is smoke from the fire out in Tooele.
Another Close One
For the second time in less than a week, a car almost drove off the merging where the I-215 to I-15 interchange goes from 3 lanes to 2. This one wanted to pass a semi quite badly and was either not paying attention to the merging, or just didn’t go fast enough. In any case, he was forced to slam on his brakes and narrowly avoided going into the median.
The best part – right after getting to I-15, he hopped across all lanes of traffic to get into the far left lane.
Almost Off the Road
The interchange from I-215 to I-15 has recently been modified to extend the amount of room that there are 3 lanes available. Unfortunately, the interchange still goes down to two lanes right before merging with I-15. This 3-to-2 lane merging has been problematic, and many cars in the left lane tend to wait until the very last minute to merge over once the left lane ends.
I was driving in the middle lane. The guy next to me decided that he was going to wait until the last possible minute to move over, and almost ran himself off of the road. When he finally cut over, it was without signal and he almost clipped the front of my car.
You can see the lines end between the middle and left lanes, and then he continues speeding up on my left side. It doesn’t look as close from the dashcam in the middle of my windshield, but it was a close thing.
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