Happens all too frequently these days

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Edited Date/Time 4/14/2016 9:32pm
At least he was able to react. The number of people I see texting these days, sitting up in my rig, is frightening. Worse, they are completely oblivious to the fact they are less than one second away from a fatality. I'm sure KMC, h@m, and all the other guys, see it too.
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71Fish 4/9/2016 6:33am
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I consider myself very situationally aware while driving, especially when I'm on my motorcycle. It's easy to tell if someone is fumbling with their devices before I can see the driver. I distance myself from those people as quickly as possible.
Revel Stoked 4/9/2016 10:39am
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I wish you could take a picture of them on phone and of their plate and email to cops and they send a ticket.

I hate Narcs....but god dammit these fuckin people are dangerous. Dangerous enough when these idiots ARENT on the phone.
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71Fish 4/9/2016 3:37pm
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Revel Stoked wrote:
I wish you could take a picture of them on phone and of their plate and email to cops and they send a ticket. I hate...
I wish you could take a picture of them on phone and of their plate and email to cops and they send a ticket.

I hate Narcs....but god dammit these fuckin people are dangerous. Dangerous enough when these idiots ARENT on the phone.
Read that out loud to yourself and see if you come up with the problem.

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Revel Stoked 4/9/2016 5:10pm
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Revel Stoked wrote:
I wish you could take a picture of them on phone and of their plate and email to cops and they send a ticket. I hate...
I wish you could take a picture of them on phone and of their plate and email to cops and they send a ticket.

I hate Narcs....but god dammit these fuckin people are dangerous. Dangerous enough when these idiots ARENT on the phone.
71Fish wrote:
Read that out loud to yourself and see if you come up with the problem.
A passenger cant take a pic?

How about when youre sitting in a drive thru and youre watching people driving past on the phone, blow drying their hair putting on makeup. Women are the worst.
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KMC440 4/11/2016 5:22am
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Saw a blonde ,not that hair color matters, at a light brushing her hair, texting and fiddling with a sippy cup she just took out of a bag for the kid in the back seat. Light goes green she's back to texting gets the obligatory honk from the person behind her, goes to take off drops the phone then lunges to grab it while yanking the wheel to the right damn near side swiping the car in front of me. It truly is getting ridiculous out here.

Then the car manufacturer's keep using all their new techy doo dads as a reason to buy their crapboxes. All the while taking the drivers attention away from the single most important task.
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FlickitFlat 4/11/2016 12:26pm
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Drive through my town and it is almost impossible to pass a cop that is not on their phone. State police seem to be the worst about it.
Harry Backmon 4/11/2016 12:35pm
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Man, Scooter...talk about hitting me where I live. It is almost endless here. People weaving all over the road. I go around them - lo and behold - looking at their cell. Really?!

It is not just maddening, it is frightening. Yet, if you ask people, no one does it. Not one person is reading faceplant, texting, surfing the web, watching porn, etc. while driving. It's always some nebulous other person.
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mxb2 4/11/2016 12:57pm
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I bet 99% of vital does it also.
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motogeezer 4/11/2016 1:13pm
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mxb2 wrote:
I bet 99% of vital does it also.
Well, it looks like I finally made it into the 1%.
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mxb2 4/11/2016 1:39pm
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mxb2 wrote:
I bet 99% of vital does it also.
motogeezer wrote:
Well, it looks like I finally made it into the 1%.
I am guilty,i will admit, like i said. Probably 99% or 99.9 %. Vital does it, or wont admit it. Lol., read backmons post.
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XXVoid MainXX 4/11/2016 2:07pm
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So the guy in this story wasn't texting, he was adjusting his radio dial. You guys don't adjust your radio dials either right? I think all the singling out of texting is crap. Texting isn't the problem, it's distracted driving that is the problem. It could be because of texting, it could be because of fiddling with your radio (as in this story), fiddling with GPS, kid in the back seat, etc, etc, etc, etc. I happen to believe there are just a lot of idiots out there who shouldn't have a driver's license.
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XXVoid MainXX wrote:
So the guy in this story wasn't texting, he was adjusting his radio dial. You guys don't adjust your radio dials either right? I think all...
So the guy in this story wasn't texting, he was adjusting his radio dial. You guys don't adjust your radio dials either right? I think all the singling out of texting is crap. Texting isn't the problem, it's distracted driving that is the problem. It could be because of texting, it could be because of fiddling with your radio (as in this story), fiddling with GPS, kid in the back seat, etc, etc, etc, etc. I happen to believe there are just a lot of idiots out there who shouldn't have a driver's license.
I concur.
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motogeezer 4/11/2016 4:14pm
4/11/2016 4:14pm Edited Date/Time 4/11/2016 4:16pm
This young chick, sitting on the curb, was texting when she hit my son's parked truck in front of my house:



That's his truck on the sidewalk at the corner.

My neighbor is standing about where the front of his truck was, before she slammed it.
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XXVoid MainXX 4/11/2016 6:41pm
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Damn, someone else who shouldn't have a license. They should just permanently take your license right on the spot for something like that.
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motogeezer 4/12/2016 4:44pm
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XXVoid MainXX wrote:
Damn, someone else who shouldn't have a license. They should just permanently take your license right on the spot for something like that.
She's my neighbor, and her mother shouldn't have a license, either.

A week before that incident, that girl's mom pulled into traffic from a side street without looking, clipped a passing car, and caused it to roll over.

I don't know if she was using her phone or not.

No injuries from that one, either, thank goodness.

And get this:

About a month after the girl hit my son's parked truck, I saw her coming down my street in her replacement car while digging in her purse (probably looking for her phone) and not looking at the road at all..

She missed hitting the curb in front of my house by less than a foot.

If my son's replacement truck had been parked in his usual spot, she'd have hit it.
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PastranaWho 4/12/2016 5:11pm
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XXVoid MainXX wrote:
Damn, someone else who shouldn't have a license. They should just permanently take your license right on the spot for something like that.
motogeezer wrote:
She's my neighbor, and her mother shouldn't have a license, either. A week before that incident, that girl's mom pulled into traffic from a side street...
She's my neighbor, and her mother shouldn't have a license, either.

A week before that incident, that girl's mom pulled into traffic from a side street without looking, clipped a passing car, and caused it to roll over.

I don't know if she was using her phone or not.

No injuries from that one, either, thank goodness.

And get this:

About a month after the girl hit my son's parked truck, I saw her coming down my street in her replacement car while digging in her purse (probably looking for her phone) and not looking at the road at all..

She missed hitting the curb in front of my house by less than a foot.

If my son's replacement truck had been parked in his usual spot, she'd have hit it.
Seems to me your 2 neighbors are 2 idiots.
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Falcon 4/12/2016 5:21pm
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And all this shit is going to get used against us in the sales pitch for driverless cars. "Computers are safer than humans!" Bullshit, I'm never letting go of my own keys.

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motogeezer 4/13/2016 8:37am
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PastranaWho wrote:
Seems to me your 2 neighbors are 2 idiots.
Yep.

I can't believe they can get insurance.

It's got to be expensive.
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tcannon521 4/14/2016 11:49am
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Falcon wrote:
And all this shit is going to get used against us in the sales pitch for driverless cars. "Computers are safer than humans!" Bullshit, I'm never...
And all this shit is going to get used against us in the sales pitch for driverless cars. "Computers are safer than humans!" Bullshit, I'm never letting go of my own keys.
Well I hope you disconnected traction control, ABS braking and even automatic headlights because I'm sure you've never forgot to turn your headlights on at the proper time of the day.. Whistling
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mxb2 4/14/2016 11:51am
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Texting,eating,reading,getting ready for work, all driving distractions.
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motogeezer 4/14/2016 12:13pm
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mxb2 wrote:
Texting,eating,reading,getting ready for work, all driving distractions.
I was riding with my wife one time, when she decided to put on some hand lotion, while steering with her knees.

I made her pull over and let me drive.
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I won't lie, I used to text/email while driving all the time...the past year or so, I've made a conscious effort to not even take my phone out of my pocket any more...and have been successful at it. I just plain don't text and drive any more.

I try to avoid talking on the phone, but I do do that occasionally (as long as I don't have to dial/answer while driving...if I'm on the phone when I get in the car, I'll keep talking).

It's insane how many people do it, and they'd never dream of driving drunk, but they'll text and drive all the time.

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one of my best friends was killed in a head-on on his motorcycle on Mirror Lake Highway by a distracted driver. the driver of the car wasn't paying attention, hit a car sitting waiting to turn into a campground, bounced off them into my friend's lane and killed him instantly. they never did say what the driver of the car was distracted by, there was a clear path view of the stopped car of over 150 yards from the nearest turn and it's a 45mph zone. we speculated that he was texting, but they never did tell the deceased's family the true cause.

heartbreaking to say the least.
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mxb2 4/14/2016 2:32pm
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mxb2 wrote:
Texting,eating,reading,getting ready for work, all driving distractions.
motogeezer wrote:
I was riding with my wife one time, when she decided to put on some hand lotion, while steering with her knees. I made her pull...
I was riding with my wife one time, when she decided to put on some hand lotion, while steering with her knees.

I made her pull over and let me drive.
Haha good call,
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motogeezer wrote:
This young chick, sitting on the curb, was texting when she hit my son's parked truck in front of my house: [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2016/04/11/131408/s1200_IMG_0220.jpg[/img] That's his truck on...
This young chick, sitting on the curb, was texting when she hit my son's parked truck in front of my house:



That's his truck on the sidewalk at the corner.

My neighbor is standing about where the front of his truck was, before she slammed it.
Wow.

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