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Splater
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Grey Matter
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Worst Driver I have seen ever:
Giant lifted pickup truck going down Rosecrans in San Diego.
Cut off about 15 cars in only 15 blocks, forcing all of them to slam on the brakes, since none thought it was worth a major accident that the ahole truck driver was looking for.
A few specs from Car and Driver to indicate capability on the Angeles Highway:
Raptor price as tested $71,265 (base price: $57,335)
Braking, 70–0 mph: 198 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad: 0.70 g
C/D FUEL ECONOMY Observed: 12 mpg
epa rated 18mpg highway
Civic SI $24,975 (base price: $24,775)
Braking, 70-0 mph: 159 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad: 0.97 g
FUEL ECONOMY: C/D observed: 26 mpg
C/D observed 75-mph highway driving: 36 mpg
Civic sport $22,175 (base price: $22,175)
Braking, 70-0 mph: 160 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad*: 0.93 g
FUEL ECONOMY: C/D observed: 31 mpg
C/D observed 75-mph highway driving: 43 mpg
I won't even mention the specs on the Civic type R,
which is so expensive it costs 50% of a Raptor.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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The most dangerous highway in the USA is a 2-lane that runs through the Navajo reservation near Shiprock, New Mexico. Lots of drunk indians crossing the centerline. The road is an north-south offshoot of the old Route 66.
It's designated Route 666.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I drove that unwittingly on a Friday night! I was on my way from Seattle to ABQ.
Holy Jeebus! I got ran off the road twice in a 40 mile stretch!
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Mark Rodell
Trad climber
Bangkok
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Thailand has ranked high in traffic deaths per capita for many years. I lived there for over twenty years and had a car for a few of those years. Driving was a high stress affair and I finally sold my car, finding it more calming to take a taxi and bury myself in reading.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Charles Cole got my attention more than once.
On the way down from Idyllwild to Hemet there's a stretch where you can see a long section of the road ahead as it winds down the mountain. It was one of his favorite places to pass. Of course after you get the view, it goes blind again. No worries, there's no one coming (except for the guy that was in a turnout and decided it was time to go.)
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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I have had several people WIDE eyed tell me about drives with G_Gnome, but my experience was a little different.
We were on the way home late at night from Cochise Stronghold in my truck . Guyman and I were asleep in the back not seatbelted in. I wake up to all hell breaking loose. We are in the fast lane and rubber is flying everywhere & it sounds like the fender is about to rip off. I figure we have blown a tire off the rim and are going to roll at 70+ mph. G_Gnome drives the 5800 lb. truck into the dirt on the left without hitting the center divider fence. I realize that the truck next to us had blown the tires off it's trailer and what I heard was everything hitting us. Jan does not let off the gas & gives the driver of the truck & trailer time to get control of his rig. Then he calmly pulls the truck back up on the freeway.
He never missed a beat.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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A couple weeks back I was riding my bicycle home on a nice sunny afternoon. As I rolled up to red light at a major intersection in the bike lane, a Dodge Durango pulls into my bike lane to turn right without looking first. I have 1600 lumen light flashing on the bike, and a 700 lumen light on my helmet, so it is not hard to see me coming... I blast my helmet light into the passenger window to keep from getting run over.
The driver gives me the “what the hell are you doing there” look, and then proceeds with her turn without ever actually stopping. A moment later there is a crunch as she nails the passenger door of a car in the farther of the two lanes.
Not safe for anyone in any lane around her. The guy behind her saw the whole thing and just lost it laughing his arse off. Instant karma.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Layton Kor in the late 60s. He was always in a hurry.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Usually the drunk guy with the ugly pants and a heinous slice.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Tell a story about the most dangerous driver you ever had the pleasure of sitting next to...
When I was in the Navy, I flew combat jets from aircraft carriers as the copilot. I guess they considered me a straight shooter because they told me that I was always going to be paired with the "problem" jet pilots. And so I had my share of baby-sitting dangerous pilots in a dangerous flying environment.... and there were mishaps. (DISCLAIMER: I did not have a stick or brakes in front of me.)
Once my pilot made a last-second course correction just before catching a wire, and he slapped the wing onto the deck. Thankfully we didn't cartwheel in a fireball.
Another time he rotated too high on touchdown (air braking on a land airfield) as we were really low on fuel so the jet was super light. He dragged the rudder down the runway, shortening it by about 1 foot. That was the time the skipper let us take a jet to Key West for Thanksgiving, as long as we didn't bust an airplane. The jet was grounded and the skipper had to send a maintenance crew across the country to replace the rudder.
Another time he misunderstood the green shirt's hand signals on the carrier deck, and we rolled across the deck and crashed into another jet.
Yet another time we were doing some aerial refueling, and he ripped the basket off the tanker. We diverted to a land base with the basket stuck on the refueling probe and 30 feet of 3-inch steel hose whipping around on the side of the jet. We thought it was going to bust the canopy, but it didn't.
Another time we were doing ACM (air combat maneuvering, or dog fighting), and were in a rolling scissors. We came so close to a canopy-on-canopy mid-air collision with the other jet that I literally sh#t my pants. That was the most frightened that I've ever been in my life.
FINALLY: We were on the catapult at night with a 61,000 pound load, getting ready to bang off the pointy end of the ship. The cat crew showed me the weight board to verify the catapult power, but the bastard was really too far away and I couldn't read it. They usually come right up to the cockpit with the weight board; was this kid too scared of the jet intakes to get that close? My pilot started screaming at me to "roger" the weight board so that we could launch, but I argued that I couldn't read the damn thing (and my pilot couldn't read it either). We waited and waited for the kid to "get a clue" and move closer, but he didn't "get it" and just stood there holding the damn thing over his head. I went to break radio silence to tell the boss that the weight board was too far away, and my pilot punched me when I keyed the mic. I shrugged it off and told the air boss of our problem. My message was relayed and finally the kid moved closer. The weight board read only 50,000 pounds!!!! If I had listened to the pilot, then we would have gone swimming that night, strapped to 61,000 pounds of the Navy's finest. Oh, yeah, and once we were in the water, the aircraft carrier would have run over us. At night. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Try Delhi traffic on a Friday evening (or anytime for that matter).
Or anywhere in Bangladesh.
Check the stats but I'm sure India has 5x's as many traffic fatalities as the US does in any given year.
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spud
climber
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PUDS.....Pernicious Utah Drivers, LDS or not. LDS also for Levan Death Strip on Interstate 15. Some of the scariest drivers back when I lived in SLC in the 70’s and scary today even more so!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yeah, SLR wins although my bro-in-law was conducting a check ride and the dude actually did put them in the drink!
And 7 years ago a Suxhoi company pilot on a demonstration flight directly struck Mount Salak in Indonesia, killing all 45 on board (Sukhoi personnel and representatives of various local airlines). The TAWS was ignored by the pilot, distracted by a conversation with a potential customer. You can’t make that sh!t up!
And wazzup with the retards who won’t even let you off the elevator before they force their way on? 5 minutes ago the door opens for us, the only pax, at the third floor. A young woman is standing there, alone, and she tries to get on before we exit! No doubt she drives the same way.
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Skippy AKA Justthemaid remember the time 4 (Jen you Sven and I) of us were on the way to Mammoth you were driving the traffic was backed up on the 405 then you decided to cross the double yellow into the Car Pool lane, i said don't do it there Is a CHP watching, you did the deed and got a FAT Ticket. Bummers :( BAd mark for you lol!
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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I had a Dodge van that was getting on in miles, and I needed a more reliable one for work and trips out West.so I sold the old one to a guy I was working with and bought a new one. Everything was going well until one night he got drunk and decided to drive home anyway. He was on rt. 270 outside DC when he fell asleep and slumped over in the van at 50 mph, which then plowed into the back of a tractor trailer parked on the shoulder. The trailer sheered off the top of the van.
Remarkably, it just woke him up and he stepped out the front of the van.
So now he needs another vehicle. My wife’s car was available so I sold that to him. Two weeks later he got drunk again and plowed into the back of a cop car stopped at a light.
He did time for that one. Then he joined AA and became a Jehova’s Witness.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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My old buddie Howie Doyle
I always told Howard i’d Meet him at the crag.
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