Drivers her in Maryland are getting really bad. I was on my way to work this morning and I was in the right lane going 65 in a 55 mph zone during rush hour. I look in my rear view mirror and saw this car on my tail. If I had to stop suddenly, this car would have been in my backseat.
Worst of all, when this person turnoff the off ramp, this person flick me the bird. Come on, idiot driver. It's rush hour, all the cars where speeding and all the cars where flowing with the traffic and you flick me off.
I guess they can't read either. I have a greyhound magnet that says, Don't tailgate with a greyhound on it.

I always go the speed limit , if someone tail-gates me I slow down , most dummies get the idea , having wrote a thousand tickets for it we find most of them are habitual offenders and think they are the only ones on the road , same for the speeders and they are the no. 1 cause of accidents.

D2P he probably can't read. And you should really understand that their time is WAY more important than yours. Drivers have no respect for others and the damage their cars can do. My hubby and I just about got killed (I hit my knee on his bumper and had a bruise for awhile) on the motorcycle when a driver pulled out in front of us a few Saturdays ago. All other traffic stopped for him and he kept going.

Tara

I go the speed limit but during rush hour on this highway you need to up it some. People go 80mph on here. This main highway is a speed trap area, so I am aware of my speed.
I tend to go alittle slower when someone is tailing me, but we have lots of wakcos, so you never know what they will do, shoot you, ram you, follow you and then carjack you.

Sorry guys, we still have y'all beat. Two years in a row we are #1 rudest/roadrage drivers in the US. Some blame it on two cultures. Young professional and the elderly retired. Its not the elderly retired. Its the latin macho thing and a bunch of uptight, tighta$$ed idiots that give me job security. Please dont flip off anybody in Miami, they'll shoot you. More job security if they shoot you in the head. Next we should move onto the subject of motorcycles. Should we go there? Florida Highway Patrol is now using donated Merauders to catch the dummies on the expressways going 160 mph on their bikes. They track them until they finally stop at a controlled light and FHP walks up and takes the keys. Now should we talk about our state govt (oops, our last Gov - Bush) for letting them do away with the helmet laws? How dumb do you have to be????? Once again, job security, this time for my daughter. She works for the transplant team. Hmmmm donor cycle anyone? Oh boy, I'm on a roll....

Here. This should make it painfully clear

http://www.miamisunpost.com/0614motorcyclestwo.htm

Pittsburgh has those idiots too. We were almost creamed by a dizzy broad on a cell phone who came down the wrong way on a busy street. I wish they would pass a law about cell phone use while driving I have seen so many near misses. Some of our bridges are posted 35 miles/hr and if you go the speed limit on these bridges idiots pass you as if you are standing still. You meet up with them at the next light or stop sign or stuck behind a slow moving truck or bus. Serves them right.

My question is where are they going that they have to go fast? I usually catch up to them to at the light.

How about the ones that weave in and out of traffic and guess where they end up. Right next to you at the next light.

Were pretty friendly here in Kansas.

Not only do they speed, don't don't understand the word and the meaning of the word, "YEILD". I saw a bad accident last Friday, the driver didn't yeild ,as the light changed he hit into a car, spun around and went into the on coming traffic, hitting head on into another car. I had misty with me, she yelped and just sat so still in my back seat. If I was three cars ahead that car would have slammed into us, scary thought.

Not only they do not yield. I have seen them flying though red lights, not stopping at stop signs. There are a few places here that when my light turns green I stop, look and listen before I procede through. I have almost been hit by some idiot that was flying and did not stop when his light turned red. I guess he was in a hurry to got bar hoping. Also, I dread driving beside or near someone with a cell phone. Their mind is not on the road but on their conversation. Wasn't there an accident in NY that killed some your girls and they said text messaging was involved?

We tend to wait a bit at green lights here in the winter 'cause you never know who's going to come sliding through.

But on the cell phone thing, Mythbusters did a show on how impairing is using a cell phone. Turns out, the drivers did considerably worse driving while talking on the cell phone than they did after drinking to just the legal limit of alcohol (.08 where they were testing).

With all the hills in Pittsburgh we are always cautious in the winter. That is the responsible drivers. I have had people blow their horns as I do not fly out when the light turns green. I would rather be safe than sorry. Even on the main drag 885 which is level I have seen drivers just blow right through all the lights they do not care if they are red, green or orange and we have had quite a few accidents. Their story is usually I din't see the light change.

Article from Road Rage.

Road work rage closes Calif. highway

WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. - California highways have been shut down by wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes and police chases. Add one more hazard to the list: road rage.

Drivers inconvenienced by a road-widening project subjected construction workers to so much abuse — including death threats, BB gun shootings, even a flying burrito — that the state revoked a rush-hour window and shut down the highway altogether.

Now drivers who relied on California Highway 138 are being forced to take a detour that costs them at least a half-hour a day and businesses along the road are suffering.

"A few inconsiderate people have ruined it for the rest of us," complained Julie Dutra, who owns a scrapbook and stationery store in this town nestled in the Angeles National Forest about 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Dutra's complaint has become a familiar refrain in a state where people have moved in droves from big cities to a more affordable lifestyle in valleys, deserts and mountains, where they hope to escape the hassles of urban living that often come with more cars: congestion, smog and aggressive driving.

Highway 138 connects two such areas that have swollen with urban refugees in the past decade or so. Without it, roughly 20,000 drivers a day have to take a winding, two-lane road or other, indirect routes that predate the region's population boom.

"If you have taken time out of someone's day and add more time to it, their patience levels go off the Richter scale," said Terri Kasinga, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation.

In the five years leading up to the start of construction last summer, there were nearly 3,000 traffic collisions and 68 deaths, according to the California Highway Patrol. The highway had become so dangerous it had been dubbed "Blood Alley."

A $44 million widening project was supposed to alleviate the danger, not create a new class of victims.

The first sign things were going to turn ugly was after the transportation department allowed drivers to use the highway only during rush hour last summer, with traffic flowing in one direction at a time and creeping along behind escort vehicles.

One person called and said he would climb a water tower and shoot workers. Next came angry exchanges, with one driver tossing a burrito at a construction worker. Vandals tore down barricades and construction equipment was stolen, and authorities threatened to shut down the highway.

"We explained to the community that if this continued we would omit the escorts," said Dennis Green, a transportation department consultant.

The warning didn't seem to resonate.

Last September, Charles Fenn was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon on allegations that he clipped a flagman with his vehicle on his way home to Wrightwood. When authorities finally caught up with him at his house, they noticed he had shaved off his mustache, said CHP Officer Jeff Perez.

"I'm the victim," Fenn maintained in a brief phone interview, declining to comment further. His criminal case is pending and he's been sued by the flagman. Fenn has he pleaded not guilty.

In November, an elderly woman struck another construction worker who was badly injured and has not returned to his job. It wasn't known if the woman's actions were intentional or she was confused, Kasinga said.

Earlier this year, another worker felt a stinging sensation on the back of her leg. When she looked down, she found a BB pellet on the ground, Kasinga said.

Citing the continued clashes and the need to expand the construction zone, the state shut down the road last month and made good on its threat to yank the escorts.

There hasn't been any violence lately, and the contractor now expects to finish by Sept. 11, a couple of weeks early.

Although many of the communities support the road repairs — the first major improvements since 1934 — businesses have been crippled by the closures. Some stores in this tourist town that is home to Mountain High ski resort report a drop of as much as 50 percent in sales from last summer.

"It was a ghost town last weekend," said Nancy Youngblood, who owns a collectibles shop called Something Old, Something New. "We just don't want people to forget about us."

Others have struggled to get around the delays caused by the work.

Samantha Frager, 18, said she used to commute to her job at a Mexican restaurant in Wrightwood from nearby Phelan and had to leave about 30 minutes early because of construction delays.

"It's been more of an irritation, a hassle, more than anything," said Frager, who now lives in Wrightwood but had to pick up a second job so she could pay her rent.

Tony Albers had to tack on an extra 10 to 15 minutes to his 60 mile commute to a heating and air conditioner distributorship near Los Angeles. He worries about safety on a two-lane road that serves as an alternate route this summer.

"The extra drivers make it dangerous," said Albers, 41. "In the end it's going to be worth having these delays to have a better highway."

WOW I had better quite complaining about drivers here in Pittsburgh

Whenever I see these crazy drivers speed pass me. Trish and I were coming home last night from the vets and these 2 cars speed passed us going at least 90 in a 60 zone, weaving and cutting in front of other cars.
Ok, where are the cops when you need them. They don't seem to be around when these crazies are out.
Today, coming to work, on the highway I got flicked off to by a driver the other day, the State cops were out doing a speed trap and got a few speeders .