Smart Move

Phone Drifting

The lady in front of me was drifting from side to side. As the freeway began curving to the right, she kept drifting left – nearly running into the car on her left.
As I drove by I noticed she was on her phone.

Tags: Definitely Paying Attention to the Road, Drifting..., Near-Wreck Experience, Otherwise Occupied, Smart Move

Monday, April 1st, 2019 Videos No Comments

Red Truck Miss

The red truck that passes me at the beginning of the vid narrowly missed a collision in the intersection. He had his blinker on as if to turn right (though he wasn’t in the right turn lane), but then went through the intersection when the light went yellow – just as a car tried to turn left. The red truck ended up turning to the right suddenly to miss the other car and narrowly missed him.

Tags: Near-Wreck Experience, Smart Move, Very Orange, Way to Signal

Thursday, January 5th, 2017 Videos No Comments

Exiting Focus Issues

This afternoon There was a van who apparently wasn’t paying attention to his upcoming exit and had to cut right in front of me to reach it in time. From my other videos you can tell this isn’t exactly uncommon.
Interestingly, the very next exit there was a similar situation, but in reverse – a pickup getting on the freeway procrastinated merging with continuing traffic until he was nearly forced off in the exit-only lane.
Since this both deal with the same procrastination issue, I’ve merged them together.

Tags: Almost Missed My Exit, Definitely Paying Attention to the Road, Gotta Get Over Now!, Gotta Pass 'em All, Nice Lane Change, Not My Exit!, Otherwise Occupied, Smart Move

Friday, December 30th, 2016 Videos No Comments

Overburdened Van

While merging from I-215 to I-15 today, there was a minivan a few cars ahead of me with three large mattresses on top of it. The effect was rather comical. It also didn’t seem to know where it was going, as it got off the freeway in the wrong exit lane and narrowly missed clipping a few cars as it rushed to cross to the northbound exit instead of being trapped in the southbound lanes.

Tags: Almost Missed My Exit, Definitely Paying Attention to the Road, Gotta Get Over Now!, Near-Wreck Experience, Nice Lane Change, Not My Exit!, Smart Move

Thursday, December 29th, 2016 Videos No Comments

Stopped Strangely on Freeway

While driving to work this morning I came upon a car turned around on the freeway and pointing toward the direction of traffic with a pickup next to it. Neither was damaged as far as I could see, nor did there appear to be any damage or collision indications in the snow on the sides of the freeway. There were tire skid marks for the car, but the road wasn’t slick, so I’m not sure what the deal was.
After I passed them they both appeared to drive to the side of the freeway.

Tags: Near-Wreck Experience, Smart Move

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 Videos No Comments

Merging without Looking

For the second time in as many commutes, someone attempted to merge into my lane without signal and would’ve hit me unless I honked at them. In today’s instance, it was an elderly lady who turned the corner apparently without noticing me, and then began moving over to make her turn. After my honk, she was somewhat frantically waving her arms; both in apology to me and then also seemed to be yelling at herself after I’d passed her.

Tags: Definitely Paying Attention to the Road, Gotta Get Over Now!, Near-Wreck Experience, Nice Lane Change, Smart Move, Way to Signal

Monday, December 19th, 2016 Videos No Comments

Semi Merging

During the snowstorm today a semi next to me suddenly decided it was a good idea to merge into my lane with no kind of signal or warning. Luckily he stopped when I honked at him.

Tags: Definitely Paying Attention to the Road, Drifting..., Near-Wreck Experience, Nice Lane Change, Semi, Smart Move, Way to Signal

Friday, December 16th, 2016 Videos No Comments

Unusual Exit

In front of me several cars there was suddenly a large puff of rubber smoke. This repeated again a few seconds later. An SUV ended up off the side of the road, but as I approached I couldn’t see any damage or broken tires, so the only conclusion I can come to is that the driver was near to missing her exit or had some kind of medical episode.