ed white

Well here is my moron of the week story -

I was on US-64 heading west at Rock Mount, NC around 1 pm yesterday
(Sunday). I am in the right lane doing a little over the speed limit
(65 mph speed limit). This part of the road is two lanes in each
direction. There is plenty of room to right for a break down lane, but
things are really tight on the left (there is a narrow paved shoulder,
a little dirt shoulder, and a hard steel guardrail to the left). Uber
driver in a 2 Door Civic is carving through traffic. He was probably
doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra,
probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that
was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). Uber driver never
slows down, whips to the right lane, shoots past the
Elantra, then literally squeezed in between the Elantra and the truck.
The Elantra driver has to hit the left shoulder to avoid a collision. I
can swear I saw parts fly off the Civic as he shot through the gap
(definitely something long and solid was in the air, may have been off
the Elantra or from the shoulder). The Civic never slows. The truck
never notices anything and keeps going. The Elantra driver is about to
hit the guardrail and then in an act of stupidity locks up his brakes
(huge dust cloud). Next he jerks the damn car back onto the pavement.
At this point I was sure I was toast. I pictured the Elantra going
broadside in front of me. So I started braking hard. The Elantra
swerves into my lane, but the driver somehow manages to straighten he
car out without hitting anything. Meanwhile the Civic is gone.

This is a perfect case of a jerk Uber driver almost getting someone
killed while blithely speeding off. If the idiot in the Civic had
waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all
would have had a more pleasant day. One last irony, about 10 mile down
the road, I caught and passed the Civic (if it wasn't the same car, it
was it's twin). The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on
this cell phone, although how
he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. It
was louder in my car than my radio. The guy in the Elantra had taken
the first exit after the near death experience - probably to clean his
shorts.

Ed

r flowers

Thanks for sharing. It is not a rare story, unfortunately.

Just like your mom, we're just glad everyone is safe.

-- R Flowers

willshak

The Civic driver was probably making a 911 call to report that he was
hit by a hit and run driver.

--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To Email, remove the double zeroes after 'at'

ragnar

And did you DO anything about uber driver?

michael marshburn

I'm from North Carolina, too, and this just supports my theory that most
North Carolinians don't know how to merge...

c. e. white

No merging was involved, unless you include the Elantra driver almost
merging with the gaurd rail becasue the Civic drived to drive through his
front fender. Ed

c. e. white

What should I have done?

Ed

r flowers

Exactly. As frustrating as it is, "doing something" would only make things
worse. Calling the police is a lost cause, as they are only interested in
illegal behavior they can observe.

-- R Flowers

steve t

And write tickets for..
--

Steve

http://www.atlantaracing.com

ragnar

You could have called the highway patrol.