I just have to rant here.

Today, for the second time in as many months, I’ve almost been involved in an accident because some idiot decided to cut me off from behind! In both cases, it was on an access road which provides access to and from the main highway.

In today’s incident, I made a right turn onto the road. To get to the highway you need to immediately move left across two lanes to the third lane. As I was doing this (using somewhere around 2/3 to 3/4 of my car’s acceleration to get up to highway speed), the woman who was behind me (she also turned onto the access road) went around me on my left, right where I was going! If I had not noticed her action, she would have either hit me, the concrete barrier or both!

In the previous incident, I was getting off the highway and I needed to move one lane to the right. I only had about 50 yards to do so due to traffic backed up at the bottom of the ramp. As I had my turn signal on and was already starting to make my move some guy doing roughly 80 dove around me on my right. (I was still doing about 40.)

In both cases, the only reason why there wasn’t the sound of metal being crushed and lives changed or destroyed was because I was observant enough to see their idiocy in time. Why are some people acting so stupid? Why is saving 5 seconds worth taking an action which will most likely cause an accident? Are they trying to cause an accident?

If the driver in my position had been someone who doesn’t routinely check the mirrors as I do, or if they were distracted for some reason, there would have been tangled metal. Period.

Drivers who take such unwarranted risks not only put themselves in danger, they also put me and my family in danger. And when someone puts those I love in danger, the ‘d’ is dropped, and ‘anger’ is the result.

If you drive like this, stop now before you get someone killed! If someone you know drives like this, please pass the message along.