[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

lately people want to merge into my lane when I'm right next to them on a highway going 80mph. Ask Cajun... we were about a half inch from dying on the way to Gulfstream one day. Maybe he didnt check his blindspot but he was going right into me... and thank God there wasnt a car in the lane to my left because I swung into it so fast and just barely avoided a big time crash with the lexus... who then just took my spot in my lane and didnt even notice or bother to wave an apology when I hit my horn for 5 minutes.

That happened to me again a few weeks ago... a woman on her cell phone with her kid in a car seat in the back... DIDNT EVEN SEE ME.. just merged right into me, again thank GOD there wasnt a car to my right cause I had to swerve violently again. I hit the horn again... and she still didnt notice just got in my lane where my car had been 1 second earlier and kept on talkin on the phone. I know she didnt see me at all cause with her kid in the car and everything, you'd assume she would have been freaking out.

Happened again yesterday but was not really the guys fault as much. I had just moved from the left lane to the middle and he was about to move from the right into the middle. He did notice I was there though and we both swerved into the outside lanes.

I've been quite close to death lately...

The worst was a couple years ago when an 18 wheeler tried to merge into me... didnt see me at all and was about 3-4 ft into my lane... I had to swerve OFF the road into the grass median that turned into pure concrete about 200 yards up... Thank goodness he heard my horn and went back to the middle lane so I could get back on the road before I smashed into the concrete wall. Scared the CRAP out of me and I've been scared of tractor trailers ever since.

it seems everywhere you look anymore, people are on cell phones-the equivalent of driving drunk because being on the phone is such a distraction.

about two years ago, one of our drivers hit a lady right in the drivers side door, killing her. she was on the phone and ran a red light.
another driver a couple weeks ago ran a red light-when his supervisor asked if he was on the phone, he refused to answer. he got t-boned, totalled the truck. his mommy (i love when employees mommys come to the rescue ) brought his cell phone statement up to show he wasn't on the phone...yet, strangely, the call to the boss a few minutes after the wreck on that phone wasn't on the bill either...the old cut and paste job!