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BMW Race

While driving south on I-215 today, I glanced in my rear-view mirror and noticed a pair of cars coming quickly down the road behind me. I wasn’t driving too slowly (as you can tell from the video, I was passing traffic relatively quickly), but they both flew by me.
Up ahead there was a car driving slowly in the fast lane, and they both had to brake hard in order to avoid rear-ending him. They both ended up going around him on the right side, then continuing their race of sorts.


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Saturday, January 18th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Merging Trouble

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about the I-215/I-15 interchange. It’s rather terribly designed, and that has given me a good deal of stuff to post here.
For today’s video, I was driving right at the point where three lanes merge to become two lanes. The left lane disappears into the center lane, but for some reason, people just keep driving in the left lane almost off the side of the freeway.
A lady in a dark SUV came speeding up on the left side. She tried to pass “just one more” car (the one in front of me), but unfortunately didn’t give herself enough time to do so. She ended up slamming on her brakes after it became evident that she’d shortly end up in the median, dropped back, and scooted over in front of me. Had I decided to press the issue, she’d have been clean out of options.


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Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Crazy Repair Workers

While driving this morning, I passed a pair of construction workers doing an incredibly dangerous job of patching the road in darkness, while it was in full use (though the traffic was light due to the hour).


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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Snow Driving Fun

This morning it was just cold and cloudy, but this afternoon it started snowing. This is a montage of driving through that snow for a good 20 miles or so.


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Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Cell Phone Driving

While driving south on I-215 today, the lady next to me decided the phone she was using was more important than paying attention to the road. I noticed her first as I approached and she nearly slid into the front of my car. After going over the video, I noticed she’d drifted to the opposite side of the lane before I got to her. After I passed, and likely from her near collision with me, she seemed to get things together for at least the next few miles.


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Friday, December 27th, 2013 Videos No Comments

Smart Turning

After waiting at a stoplight near the Home Depot on 114th, two cars nearly collided when a guy turned left just as we started moving forward.


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Saturday, December 21st, 2013 Videos No Comments

Snowy Roads

Due to it snowing quite hard all day, even in the afternoon, the roads were still coated with a good quantity of slush. At least one truck I was near decided to gun it through a yellow light.


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Friday, December 20th, 2013 Videos No Comments

Freezing Rain

Thanks to the inversion in the Salt Lake Valley, there was frozen rain this morning before the snow started. The rain fell from the warmer temperatures above the inversion, hit the freezing air and ground, and left a layer of ice. Thankfully the snowplows were out salting the road, so there was only a slick layer of slush rather than actual ice coating everything.


Friday, December 20th, 2013 Videos No Comments

Cop Encounter

While driving in Draper today, a cop car suddenly pulled over in front of me, and it appeared that someone got arrested.


Thursday, December 19th, 2013 Videos No Comments

Attentive Driving

Driving home from work today, the car to my left was apparently a bit distracted. He drifted over to the left edge of his lane before almost drifting into the lane in front of me. He caught himself with a jerk of the wheel and then evened out in the next mile or so.


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Thursday, December 19th, 2013 Videos No Comments