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Coming down one of our main roads today, which is a 4-lane 50Km/h throughway, I came to a stop behind an Intrepid with a personalized plate and on my right, coming out of Orange Julius was a younger girl and a boy that I assume was her boyfriend attempting to turn LEFT across 4 lanes (right turning lane, two through lanes and a left turn lane) of traffic to head the other direction.
This is a location where you cannot make a left hand turn.
There is also a cement island that skirts the left turn lane here meaning that she would have to drive on an angle AGAINST traffic to make the turn she is trying to make........
And she tries to make the turn
But wait, this gets better! There are several rows of lined up traffic, I'm the third car back in the through lane closest to her. She begins to edge out while we are all stopped, the guy in front of me is gesturing that she can't do what she's trying to do. She waves as if acknowledging that he's letter her go and begins to pull out in front of him as the light turns green.
He begins waving at here NOT to come, she put her car into reverse and starts to back into the car behind her, who scrambles to get into reverse to avoid being hit.
He's waving at her that she's going to hit the person behind her while trying to drive forward himself through the green light, and then she puts it BACK into drive and shoots out across in front of him as he throws up both hands in a "what the he**" gesture.
Now, as she's executing this traffic abortion, there's what looks like a 2008-ish F-250 4x4 coming along at a good clip in the left through lane who has to brake hard and veer into the left turn lane to avoid putting his truck in her lap as she darts out further trying to make this wrong-way turn.
Plenty of honking happens as she's smiling embarrassingly now skirting the cement island, driving through the beginning of the left turn lane and the yellow-crossed median section before scooting off into the traffic going the way she intended to go.
If the driver of that truck had not seen her and predicted what she might do, she would have been dead, there's not a doubt in my mind. The angle of her car (think 45 degrees in the direction of the on-coming traffic) would have meant the nose of her car would have gone under the front bumper of the truck and the bumper would have sheered off the A-pillar as it headed for her face. By the time his tires contacted the door of her car, she'd have had a face full of bumper and a 1000lb diesel resting on her chest.
This wasn't a single mistake of missing a sign, this was a CHAIN of intentional traffic violations due to what I can only assume to be complete and utter idiocy.
I am absolutely appalled that this girl has a license. Obviously the "practical" portion of her drivers exam didn't involve basic decision making skills.
This is a location where you cannot make a left hand turn.
There is also a cement island that skirts the left turn lane here meaning that she would have to drive on an angle AGAINST traffic to make the turn she is trying to make........
And she tries to make the turn
But wait, this gets better! There are several rows of lined up traffic, I'm the third car back in the through lane closest to her. She begins to edge out while we are all stopped, the guy in front of me is gesturing that she can't do what she's trying to do. She waves as if acknowledging that he's letter her go and begins to pull out in front of him as the light turns green.
He begins waving at here NOT to come, she put her car into reverse and starts to back into the car behind her, who scrambles to get into reverse to avoid being hit.
He's waving at her that she's going to hit the person behind her while trying to drive forward himself through the green light, and then she puts it BACK into drive and shoots out across in front of him as he throws up both hands in a "what the he**" gesture.
Now, as she's executing this traffic abortion, there's what looks like a 2008-ish F-250 4x4 coming along at a good clip in the left through lane who has to brake hard and veer into the left turn lane to avoid putting his truck in her lap as she darts out further trying to make this wrong-way turn.
Plenty of honking happens as she's smiling embarrassingly now skirting the cement island, driving through the beginning of the left turn lane and the yellow-crossed median section before scooting off into the traffic going the way she intended to go.
If the driver of that truck had not seen her and predicted what she might do, she would have been dead, there's not a doubt in my mind. The angle of her car (think 45 degrees in the direction of the on-coming traffic) would have meant the nose of her car would have gone under the front bumper of the truck and the bumper would have sheered off the A-pillar as it headed for her face. By the time his tires contacted the door of her car, she'd have had a face full of bumper and a 1000lb diesel resting on her chest.
This wasn't a single mistake of missing a sign, this was a CHAIN of intentional traffic violations due to what I can only assume to be complete and utter idiocy.
I am absolutely appalled that this girl has a license. Obviously the "practical" portion of her drivers exam didn't involve basic decision making skills.
