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August 29, 2007 at 8:41 pm
It’s not SUV drivers – it’s drivers in general. The kind of vehicle one drives has nothing to do with their ability (or lack thereof) to drive safely.
How about the idiots who drive the so-called sport bikes. I had one pass me on I-70 west of Frederick, Maryland the other day. He was driving down the center line doing 90+ (if I had to guess). He drove between me and another vehicle. Scared the heck out of me. I’m surprised I didn’t see him spread all over the road before I got to Baltimore. Or the guy in the truck (following much too close) who almost ran over me when I narrowly avoided a deer that darted out from the side of some curvy little road in West (by God) Virginia. By the way, I was driving an SUV at the time. Guess both those were my fault.
August 30, 2007 at 6:34 am
I don’t know about the east coast, but the SUV drivers here in the mountain areas are the idiots that you see off the side of the road when they forget that NOTHING can be driven safely on ice. Every year, westbound I-70, going to the ski areas you’ll see an SUV whos driver was going too fast for the conditions, being pulled back up onto the highway, onto the waiting tow truck. Even down here, where it’s low, they still do the same thing. The rampant mentality of an SUV being able to drive over anything, safely, shows. In the number of crashes.
August 30, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I assume Bill is referring to watch you call your “crotch rockets.” We saw one on our drive down south on Ga. 447 who–well, never mind, but his speed was certainly higher than his IQ.
I think SUV drivers assume an aura of invincibility because they are surrounded by so much steel. In this part of the world, when we get a little snow, they delight in demonstrating that they can still go 70.
What they forget is they can’t stop better than anyone else. Oh, that guardrail on the median strip beckons them . . .
August 31, 2007 at 4:19 pm
“Sport bike” is the term used by the manufacturers and marketers of crotch rockets. After we were at your cookout and we were driving to William’s ball game, I had one pass me on I-495 near the terminal. Actually, he passed me on the shoulder going way too fast. Probably close to 100. Given what litters the shoulder of I-495 in that area (pieces of retread tires, mufflers, tail pipes, hunks of metal, etc.) I’m surprised he didn’t hit something. If I could have read his tag number as he blew by, I would would have called the cops.