damn, sorry to hear about the accident, glad you and your daughter are all right..also glad it wasn't your G!

 

 

Darn it John, hope it all works out well w/ the insurance and all that comes with it
Glad you and your kiddo are fine, sad to hear about the other party though, always tough going through that.

 

 

Damn, man. Sorry to hear that. You just had a close call a bit ago in the Forester. Glad everyone is OK.

 

Oh right, I forgot about that. When the car stopped itself. Sheesh, that would have put me on the whacking end of a rear-end accident.

My wife and I were counting up rear-end events in our lifetime: zero for her (of course). But I've been rear-ended 3 times: '99 Maxima, 2000 Volvo and now the '18 Subaru. All three times I was completely stopped at an intersection.

And in full disclosure, I've rear-ended two cars before, once when I was 17 in a '76 Firebird (my fault on a bridge over the Erie Canal), and once in that same '99 Maxima; (Which was her fault for stopping her car on a merging on-ramp. Seriously, who does that?)

 

I see that behavior on a regular basis entering I-93 N from the Furnace Brook rotary in Quincy, MA. It annoys me no end (not the mention the danger).

 

Sorry to hear that. It seems accidents are among us. The other day on Saturday while on the freeway, a Mustang slammed the entire side of his car into the entire side of my car. Amazingly only my rear passenger door got damaged. It just had to be a @^%$#*&( Mustang.

 

Oh wow. Nothing like that has ever happened to me.

Did you both merge into the center lane at the same time? That's happened a few times in my life, but never any contact. Just both cars swinging back into their lanes like magnets lined up wrong.

 

No. 2 lane one way highway. I'm in the left and he's entering the on ramp and there is a slow poke going like 45 no joke. He's coming in hot and fast just plainly did not look in his mirror or blind spot even once. Right as I'm passing mister slow poke is when he's making his take over move of him and I had my horn going as I saw him speeding up into me and his front fender met with my mirror or just about. I tried avoided it but my tires hit the bumps on the shoulder to keep you awake or whatever. After those bumps it was about, what seems like a foot when you're in your car at high speed, from a 60 foot fall down an embankment to an underpassing highway. So I figured F-it. Let him make contact I ain't dying over this.

What you described I've had to also save several times on crowded highways. Usually because other people don't use blinkers or look for them. Grrr.

I also noticed that when I'm passing people, they seem to inadvertently do what I've heard referred to as "directional steering." It is where you unintentionally steer in the direction that you are looking with your eyes or head. I imagine they are watching me in their sideview mirror and are gawking at my loud Infiniti...but still. I noticed it more and more.

 

 

 

Your pet peeve happens to me a lot. Not that I'm going slow, just that there is a slow guy in front of me and the dude behind me has the sooner opportunity to merge and speed up. Yup, lots of sticky annoying situations out there.
Oh this one is so fun to mess with people. Like if I see that occurring I'll blinker left and slightly sway just to make them realize the possibilities.

 

Here, they're oblivious. I don't know how many accidents I've seen happen right in front of me from that - maybe 2 dozen? Now if I still had my Cherokee with the bull bumper, maybe. But I can almost guarantee that they won't swerve until contact is made.