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Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / August 2008Bad or Aggressive Drivers
We were on the last leg of our 3+ month summer trip. I was at the controls. Less than 10 miles from home. Driving on AZ-77 heading southwest of Oracle, Arizona, a little before noon on a 2 lane stretch of good highway. Going 60mph pulling our 5th wheel in a 55 zone. The highway had a 55 limit for the last 15 miles. I'm being followed by an older gasser class A MH and a passenger car. Traffic coming the other way wasn't heavy but was frequent enough to prevent passing. The highway widens to a 4 lane in about 2 miles. I'm checking my left outside mirror fairly frequently as that gasser keeps coming up behind me and then backs off, like it's trying to pass. Foolish me... I should have been checking my right side mirror. The passenger car decides to pass both of us on the right, by driving on the shoulder. It happened so fast and unexpected that I forgot to get the car's license plate number. About 30 seconds later the MH passes just as the 4 lane comes into view. I caught up to both of them a couple of miles later at the traffic signal where I was turning anyway. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** On Aug 30, 2:19 pm, rvfulltime <rvfulltime.nos...@isp.nospam.com> wrote: > (snip) > Foolish me... I should have been checking my right side mirror. The [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > miles later at the traffic signal where I was turning anyway. > ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com** rvfulltime, There's not much you can do when someone passes you on the shoulder of the road. Just get a firm grip on the steering wheel and pray he doesn't slide into you. You will never figure out why people do such stupid stunts. OM Oh there's a whole lot you can do if you see them coming. You move into their path. s On Aug 30, 2:19 pm, rvfulltime <rvfulltime.nos...@isp.nospam.com> wrote: > (snip) > Foolish me... I should have been checking my right side mirror. The [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > miles later at the traffic signal where I was turning anyway. > ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com** rvfulltime, There's not much you can do when someone passes you on the shoulder of the road. Just get a firm grip on the steering wheel and pray he doesn't slide into you. You will never figure out why people do such stupid stunts. OM > On Aug 30, 2:19 pm, rvfulltime <rvfulltime.nos...@isp.nospam.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > stupid stunts. > OM > Oh there's a whole lot you can do if you see them coming. You move into > their path. If you would move your truck and 5th wheel onto the shoulder of the road, into the path of a passing car, just to keep from being passed on the right, you are a bigger idiot than the person trying to pass. Bruce > We were on the last leg of our 3+ month summer trip. I was at the > controls. Less than 10 miles from home. Driving on AZ-77 heading [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > later at the traffic signal where I was turning anyway. > ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** Should be checking both mirrors every 30 to 45 seconds at all times. >> We were on the last leg of our 3+ month summer trip. I was at the >> controls. Less than 10 miles from home. Driving on AZ-77 heading [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Should be checking both mirrors every 30 to 45 seconds at all times. You can check all the mirrors all the time and not catch problems like I had on I-65 northbound into I-80 west, which is under construction. You know "expect long delay" posted everywhere. When I was about a mile from the interchange, it was backed up .... we just waited it out. Actually, it didn't take all that long. We had the MH and a toad. When we were about 1/4 mile from the interchange, a semi, whose driver obviously wasn't going to wait the few minutes it took to get to this point, decided to PUSH his way in. He started moving into my lane with his front end about 10' behind my front end .... and just pushed. Luckily, there was a shoulder, of sorts, that I jumped into. I finally got in behind him and noticed a number for the trucking company. I told my wife, "call them and report him." She did, I don't really think they cared. But it felt good to call. |
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