G'day Every one.
It doesn't matter if it's Early morning or Late evening. Some idiot drivers are out there. They think their road that they drive on is "NASCAR" road. They think they got a need to drive FASTER than the speed limit, faster than crowded traffic lanes, and thinking faster to anticipate the changing roads and other drivers responses. BUT, that just seals their fate to have a date to meet DEATH!
Last Friday, I went up on I-495 (inner loop) to get to I-270. Traffic was horrible. Then I heard a car's radio that a major crash took two lives due to agressive driving. I quickly took I-66 east to Route 7. Later, home bound on Route 15 to Route 340/ 15.. I was stuck in traffic. It was two hours before I got past the accident area. I quickly asked the cop.. "was it deadly? was it agressive driver?". Cop said "yup, yup!". I knew another driver had bit the dust that day.
Later on route 15, everyone was directed off to a side road, while going down the road where I meet cops directing traffic, I said to a few them "lemme guess why we're being told to go off route 15: 1. It's a major accident, 2. Drivers are dead. and 3. They were aggressively driving in a NASCAR style way. Am I RIGHT?". The cops looked at each other and said "How did you figure that out? We didn't broadcast this to the public yet!". I parked my car, no one was behind me, and I looked at them in the eye and said "Gentlemen, when you have driven 7 hours in one day and seen so much death from here to down in DC (I-270, 66) area, I know more than enough that these drivers are being idiot enough to agressively drive badly. Yes they have paid the price with their lives. So, when I've seen all of it today, it's time to start thanking God and driving home". That's when I took off after hearing their thanks.
I had a nice weekend at home. Coming back to DC area wasn't that bad. But this AM.. there was another nut pulling a NASCAR stunt again. I'm not going to say what happened. But it was a bad result that tangled up things as usual on I-66. What will it take to tame these bad drivers?
Let me tell you something. You only have one good car. You only have one good insurance. You only have one good driver's license. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY.. YOU ONLY HAVE ONE LIFE TO LIVE! When you do agressive driving, it will not matter because one fatal mistake by you or the other driver will have a LIFE CHANGING IMPACT ON EVERYONE IN YOUR FAMILY and ON THE OTHER DRIVER. When you lose your life, you will regret in eternity that you drove too fast to your own destruction. How will you explain yourself to God?
Pounder this today. Learn something. Above all, slow down. We're all moving too fast to save time. But if we slow down.. we'll save lives which are precious items.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Semper FI.
2 comments:
We are all enemy when we are driving. Aggressive Drivers or NASCAR Drivers, it all out there. There is nothing new about it. I was involved in a Road Rage situation of going back and forth of me and another driver passing each other. I then decided to slow down and let the other driver go. Once he got around the curve, he got pulled over by the cop that was hiding behind the bushes. I was on my way safe and sound. But you are right, we all have One Life to live but I survived two total car accidents without a scratch or injury including one of them in Rochester, NY. All we can do is pray and do the best we can when we are driving.
That is so DC area for us!
Aggressive driving had become a serious problem, especially with congested areas. Congestions make drivers feeling frustrated and if they are hard pressed for time, they are more likely to become aggressive
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