Lazy, indifferent, blind or what?

PeoplesElbow

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Monday after work about 4:10 PM on GMR across from CVS a car makes a U turn clear across GMR. There was a St Mary's Deputy Sheriff car coming the other way and didn't even bother with it. I guess it was raining pretty good.
 

spr1975wshs

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When I was going out on errands this afternoon, was stopped at the red light at Gate 1.
Some em effer in a box truck banged a ewey and nearly t-boned someone coming out making a right turn.
 

spr1975wshs

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U-turns are legal unless it's posted otherwise.
Folks seem to ignore that, using their directional signals for lane changes and turns, speed limits, right of way, yellow lights meaning slow down and stop...not speed up to be in the intersection as the light turns red.
 

Kyle

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Monday after work about 4:10 PM on GMR across from CVS a car makes a U turn clear across GMR. There was a St Mary's Deputy Sheriff car coming the other way and didn't even bother with it. I guess it was raining pretty good.
Wait until you have one to the right of you in a double left turn lane do a U-Turn across the front of your car or truck and blow the horn and flip you off like you did something wrong. :lmao:
 

AnthonyJames

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When I first moved to Calvert in 1995 a car slowed to about 10 mph in the right lane of route 4 and made a right turn into a driveway without signaling. When I got home I told the neighbor about this and she said the long time locals expect you to know who they are and where they're going.
 

frequentflier

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A majority of people seem to not give a $hit about laws, rules and being courteous on the road. Distracted driving- particularly texting drivers- scare the crap out of me. I see it almost every time I am on the TJ bridge! I don't give a $hit if someone wants to kill themselves while texting but do have an issue when you endanger me by your self important ignorance!
 

SamSpade

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Recently I was leaving Giant, headed towards IHOP - and a guy was driving ACROSS the parking lot - at a right angle to me. SOMETIMES I do that - I realize that people often drive in parking lanes as though they're on a highway, and are oblivious to people turning, backing out or (grrrr) driving in the MIDDLE coming toward them. But no one expects someone to be driving ACROSS the lot, and at full speed.

Well, I know I had the right of way - and I pulled in front of him. Dude almost hit me, and was furious. He's doing something massively stupid, perhaps illegal - and he's pissed that the people driving normally don't yield to him.

The other was something that I do normally, but people who drive badly aren't used to - pulling all the way to the white line at an intersection. You're at the end of the road, at a T, and someone on your right wants to turn on your road, from the turn lane at the intersection. Rather than make an arc which allows them to turn into the lane on your road - they angle in, possibly hitting your car. And they get PISSED when you're in their way, even though you're IN THE OTHER LANE and they have no business driving through it even for a bit.
 

PeoplesElbow

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Recently I was leaving Giant, headed towards IHOP - and a guy was driving ACROSS the parking lot - at a right angle to me. SOMETIMES I do that - I realize that people often drive in parking lanes as though they're on a highway, and are oblivious to people turning, backing out or (grrrr) driving in the MIDDLE coming toward them. But no one expects someone to be driving ACROSS the lot, and at full speed.

Well, I know I had the right of way - and I pulled in front of him. Dude almost hit me, and was furious. He's doing something massively stupid, perhaps illegal - and he's pissed that the people driving normally don't yield to him.

The other was something that I do normally, but people who drive badly aren't used to - pulling all the way to the white line at an intersection. You're at the end of the road, at a T, and someone on your right wants to turn on your road, from the turn lane at the intersection. Rather than make an arc which allows them to turn into the lane on your road - they angle in, possibly hitting your car. And they get PISSED when you're in their way, even though you're IN THE OTHER LANE and they have no business driving through it even for a bit.
I notice these both all the time. The driving through parking lots thing is bad at Millison plaza with their horrible parking lot design.

The other thing at the intersection of RT235 and GMR. Something is to be said about driving an old car, I use to have a late 70's LeSabre that was a tank. Someone hit me while on their cell phone in a Surburban and she messed up her nice new Surburban and didn't even put a scratch on my car, she got the big chromed bumper in her front quarter panel.
 

PeoplesElbow

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If performed properly. The U-turn must be performed at an intersection and the U-turn must be performed from the left-most lane with the turn ending in the left-most lane in the opposite direction.
Yea, the U-Turn I was refering to was not at an intersection and was from outer right lane to outer right lane.

Not sure what I expect out of our sheriffs office though, they can't keep people from shooting each other just a few blocks away from their new station.
 

Tech

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If performed properly. The U-turn must be performed at an intersection and the U-turn must be performed from the left-most lane with the turn ending in the left-most lane in the opposite direction.
I can't find any reference to they must be performed only at an intersection, only that you come to a stop, signal, yield to on coming traffic then perform safely. Only reference to a lane is that you should be in the far right lane as you come out of the turn.
If you can turn left across on coming traffic mid-block, why can't you do a u-turn? Are 3-point turns wrong?
 
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