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DTP said:
I have wanted a bike for years but would never get one as long as I’m living here. The drivers here are way too nonchalant about just changing lanes without looking.
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I've genuinely never been as scared for my life whilst driving as I was last year driving down the Florida coast on the I-95 - and I commute on the M6 all the time (a notoriously bad motorway in England).

I'm not exaggerating when I say the SoFl drivers were bat**** crazy.
 
KANE said:
Facts. My wife is a lead paralegal hrre, and they got a case right now where the motorcyclist was going straight and a moron in a van was trying to make a left hand turn in front of him. Long story short, he didn’t make it. Motorcycle hit the side of the van. Van **** near flipped and spun around. Dude on the motorcycle dead on the scene. This happened right outside the firm.
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I had a friend pass away the exact same way years ago. He was riding through a green light intersection and a couple in an SUV made a left turn right as he was heading through the intersection. They didn't even see him.
 
OldhamA said:
I've genuinely never been as scared for my life whilst driving as I was last year driving down the Florida coast on the I-95 - and I commute on the M6 all the time (a notoriously bad motorway in England).

I'm not exaggerating when I say the SoFl drivers were bat**** crazy.
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We have the worst/most overly aggressive drivers in the US. I've driven in quite a few high traffic areas (Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles) and while they probably have more cars on the highway, the drivers aren't nearly as braindead. It's like people move to Florida just to be ********.
 
DTP said:
We have the worst/most overly aggressive drivers in the US. I've driven in quite a few high traffic areas (Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles) and while they probably have more cars on the highway, the drivers aren't nearly as braindead. It's like people move to Florida just to be ********.
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They were worse than drivers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and North Florida that's for sure!

I don't recall the drivers in California being that bad either, albeit that was a few years ago.
 
OldhamA said:
They were worse than drivers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and North Florida that's for sure!

I don't recall the drivers in California being that bad either, albeit that was a few years ago.
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I was shocked at how relatively peaceful driving in LA was compared to here. I mean the traffic was bad but the people driving weren't horrible.
 
DTP said:
We have the worst/most overly aggressive drivers in the US. I've driven in quite a few high traffic areas (Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles) and while they probably have more cars on the highway, the drivers aren't nearly as braindead. It's like people move to Florida just to be ********.
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If I was the first car stopped at a major intersection, when I got a green light I learned to wait 5 seconds before accelerating because so many idiots were still flying through the intersection on red. I had so many close calls when I lived there.
 
OldhamA said:
They were worse than drivers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and North Florida that's for sure!

I don't recall the drivers in California being that bad either, albeit that was a few years ago.
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I've been driving on the Capital (DC) Beltway since the early 1980s and I've seen some crazy sht such as furniture dropping from vehicles, someone attempting to reverse vehicle from left lane in order to connect to exit ramp they missed and a guy flying off his motorcycle and rolling between incoming traffic (to this day, amazed at him surviving) and I have to say nothing compares to soFla drivers. It is a melting pot of all the worst driving habits from the northeast, Carribbean and Latin America plus add in the 90 year old erractically driving 10-15 mph under the speed limit.
And what's with passing folks from the right lame going over 90 mph?
Scary sht.
 
Tony4Miami said:
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****. The account of the accident actually brought back memories of the death of an acquaintance's daughter a while back. She was at an engagement party that was rescheduled at the very last minute and she gave up going to a concert or something to go to it because her parents kinda made her because they were close with the parents of the couple.

Long story short, she had an accident with a motorcycle on the way home and the dude on the bike ended up as a projectile missile going helmet first through her driverside window. He survived but she was killed I believe like a month before starting college. The engagement party couple (both were in the medical profession) had to identify the body that night because she was so unrecognizable and the hospital strongly advised against the parents doing it.

I've come around to thinking the day when we're all in driverless cars that all go the same speed and are boring but efficient is probably going to be a better time.
 
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