OMFG Snow Drivers

[lemondrop]

It's apparently do whatever the fuck you want on the road today. DH called on his way to work while he was sitting at a green light. He couldn't enter the intersection because the people with a red light were just slowing streaming through the intersection. The drivers could stop they just chose not to. WTF is this?

I hate that people drive like this on the snow. Yesterday on the way home from the grocery store a guy just ran a red light without even trying to slow down. If he's paid attention to the yellow light, he would have had more than enough time to slow down.

[hisno1girl]

People are assholes. You don't have to drive 5 mph, but you do have to slow down. There were +75 accidents reported yesterday in a 4 hour period because of snow and ice and the police said almost all of them were due to speed excessive for road conditions.

[joenali]

We don't drive in the snow here. We are wimps.

[stephlove]

There was some idiot that flew past everyone on the road this morning, and then started fishtailing. I really hope it scared some sense into him. If he would have spun out, he could have easily caused a pileup. It annoys the crap out of me that not only do I have to be cautious of my driving, but I have to be EXTRA cautious of the dumbasses on the road.

[hisno1girl]

Steph, there was an accident on the Z bridge and both cars started spinning out. They're lucky they didn't fly off! A bunch of other cars were stuck on the bridge too. It was very icy last night.

[joenali]

Dec 10, 2012 9:04:43 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Steph, there was an accident on the Z bridge and both cars started spinning out. They're lucky they didn't fly off! A bunch of other cars were stuck on the bridge too. It was very icy last night.

The city doesn't shut down when it gets that bad ??

[Sloane]

Every effing year here too, the first snowfall and everyone forgets how to drive defensively. Or even common-sensly.

[lemondrop]

Dec 10, 2012 9:02:36 GMT -5 stephlove said:

There was some idiot that flew past everyone on the road this morning, and then started fishtailing. I really hope it scared some sense into him. If he would have spun out, he could have easily caused a pileup. It annoys the crap out of me that not only do I have to be cautious of my driving, but I have to be EXTRA cautious of the dumbasses on the road.

I know. It wouldn't have been a bad drive last night, if we hadn't been near the guy running the red light and the other guy who drove down the middle of a narrow road despite the fact that our side was plowed and he was driving his car through 6" of snow.

[stephlove]

Dec 10, 2012 9:04:43 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Steph, there was an accident on the Z bridge and both cars started spinning out. They're lucky they didn't fly off! A bunch of other cars were stuck on the bridge too. It was very icy last night.

I don't even drive on the Zilwaukee in the best conditions. I don't care if it takes an extra 15 minutes to take 675 around it. Honestly, I think people are crazy for even attempting it last night.

[thedutchgirl]

It is a shitshow this morning. I saw several cars in my ditch this morning. So nice how the temperature dropped after dumping a foot of snow.

I just heard on NPR there were 500+ crashes yesterday.

[fuckyourcouch]

snow drivers are the worst. THE WORST I SAY

[hisno1girl]

Dec 10, 2012 9:05:48 GMT -5 joenali said:

Dec 10, 2012 9:04:43 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Steph, there was an accident on the Z bridge and both cars started spinning out. They're lucky they didn't fly off! A bunch of other cars were stuck on the bridge too. It was very icy last night.

The city doesn't shut down when it gets that bad ??

The news said that police were asking people to stay off the bridge but it wasn't officially closed.

[latte]

The city here had to actually change the speed limit of a major road/bridge because people wouldn't slow down and there was multiple pile ups on a daily basis. I was happy they did it because then it wasn't such a stressful drive.