ACCIDENTS KEEP PILING UP
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I know what you mean. I was coming up on Blacksmith Shop Rd and traffic was turning and coming out. I was a lemming and followed them back out to Rt 5 and headed on my merry way.
glhs837
Power with Control
One of my coworkers friends caught that one on dashcam. Poor guy was pulled over on the shoulder of 5 maybe a 1/10th of a mile after the merge, getting something out of the rear door of his four door pickup when someone hit him from the rear. Photo has him about two feet to the right of the solid white line........
Grumpy
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Hope y'all were careful on Blacksmith Shop, there's a real crazy juggling lady on that road.
I didn't see her, but I also didn't see the asphalt curb hidden by leaves and bounced off of it more than once before I realized what was happening.
My wife was on her way home and called me not knowing where she was or where she was going. She was just following everyone else. I jumped on Waze and Google Maps told her to continuing following everyone else and to turn right back onto Rt4.
luvmygdaughters
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Yep, got caught up in it coming home from work. Made the right on St. Andrews and the left on Blacksmith Shop Road. Was so sorry hear someone died. There have been quite a few accidents right there, people coming off of St. Andrews onto 5 fly thru there.
Especially when some idiot decides to pass people on the right shoulder. That's how people get killed.
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
ONLY if it's single lane with a drive-able shoulder and there is a vehicle blocking the path (ie. waiting to make a left turn).
yes..quite a few years ago now. And what that Sneakers guy said.
Unfortunately, some people will stop behind a left turning vehicle and if you're 3rd or 4th in line, you're jammed. It's impossible to know what 2 and 3 are going to do at that point. I just suck it up and wait. No place that I'm going is urgent enough to take that chance.
If I'm coming up behind someone waiting to turn left, I will slow way down to pass right on the shoulder. I will not shoulder pass at speed.
Turning into the St. Andrew’s transfer station is a great example.
Except for the culvert grate right there.
glhs837
Power with Control
Only when the other vehicle is making a left turn.
glhs837
Power with Control
I'll do it at speed, assuming I can visually clear the zone.
There is?
Smaller cars can make it fine. If I'm in the truck, I wait behind the turning vehicle. A little too close for my comfort.
PeoplesElbow
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I saw someone try to pass at speed on the shoulder before and fall right off, going down into a ditch. Bet they wished they had slowed down a bit.