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Hit and Run (Rant)
12 years ago
Okay, i'm a little ticked off :T
As some of you know, I live in Texas, particularly in the DFW area. Not only that, I live literally next to one of the busiest Highway intersections I-20 and Highway 360.
I just got home from watching Warm Bodies (Which is a FABULOUS MOVIE) with my mom, dropped her off at the pool hall (Her bf will be driving her home from there) and got onto 360 heading to I-20 East. Not surprisingly, there are 3 huge accidents literally probably 80ft/24meters from eachother. And they all seem to be fresh accidents, so they couldn't have been there long as there weren't even police cars/ambulances/etc there to help the people out.
And for anyone who know about Texas drivers, we have some crazy ass drivers and today was no exception. Merging onto a free lane to the far right side (towards the mixmaster/bridge that will take you to I-20 Eastbound from 360 South), I was letting the guy in front of me merge onto the lane as well since he was already blinking his blinkers. I had my emergency blinkers on at this point so people wouldn't speed along the free space behind me in an effort to get around this mess and slow down.
'lo and behold, here comes this driver who's swerving and I only looked up just enough to speed up faster as the car in front of me speeds up. Still, the guy behind me hits me, blinks his Hi-Lights, swerves some more, rushes my car again to the point where he literally is on my bumper.
"Maybe he wants me to pull over to switch details" I thought before pulling over onto the side of the road. Nope. Mr Asshat in a Red Volvo, speeds up, flashes and honks at me, before hitting the car that I let through in front of me and repeats the whole swerving and rushing. At this point, he swerves to the left as the bridge approaches, sees that the next lane is blocked by one of the huge accidents and swerves onto the bridge that leads to I-20 Eastbound. The poor car that was in front of me was hit again on his bumper before Mr. Asshat takes the right lane on the bridge.
Call me reckless, but by the time he was on that lane, I was already getting on the bridge and picking up speed. I was trying to get his license number and boy did he start driving even faster when he saw me on his tail. He started weaving around cars to put space between us as we went down the ramp onto one of the main roads.
Sadly, I did lose him at the street light as he pulled into the gas station and took a shortcut but I was already tired of his shit and pulled back. I certainly wasn't going to cause the next wreck that's for sure.
Anyways, I got home and inspected the damage, it was light as I expected since I didn't feel that much of a 'bump when he hit me because I sped up just enough when he hit his break and gas. My car has a a dent in the rear bump, but it doesn't bother me too much, and some paint scraped.
But meh, I live to another day.
As some of you know, I live in Texas, particularly in the DFW area. Not only that, I live literally next to one of the busiest Highway intersections I-20 and Highway 360.
I just got home from watching Warm Bodies (Which is a FABULOUS MOVIE) with my mom, dropped her off at the pool hall (Her bf will be driving her home from there) and got onto 360 heading to I-20 East. Not surprisingly, there are 3 huge accidents literally probably 80ft/24meters from eachother. And they all seem to be fresh accidents, so they couldn't have been there long as there weren't even police cars/ambulances/etc there to help the people out.
And for anyone who know about Texas drivers, we have some crazy ass drivers and today was no exception. Merging onto a free lane to the far right side (towards the mixmaster/bridge that will take you to I-20 Eastbound from 360 South), I was letting the guy in front of me merge onto the lane as well since he was already blinking his blinkers. I had my emergency blinkers on at this point so people wouldn't speed along the free space behind me in an effort to get around this mess and slow down.
'lo and behold, here comes this driver who's swerving and I only looked up just enough to speed up faster as the car in front of me speeds up. Still, the guy behind me hits me, blinks his Hi-Lights, swerves some more, rushes my car again to the point where he literally is on my bumper.
"Maybe he wants me to pull over to switch details" I thought before pulling over onto the side of the road. Nope. Mr Asshat in a Red Volvo, speeds up, flashes and honks at me, before hitting the car that I let through in front of me and repeats the whole swerving and rushing. At this point, he swerves to the left as the bridge approaches, sees that the next lane is blocked by one of the huge accidents and swerves onto the bridge that leads to I-20 Eastbound. The poor car that was in front of me was hit again on his bumper before Mr. Asshat takes the right lane on the bridge.
Call me reckless, but by the time he was on that lane, I was already getting on the bridge and picking up speed. I was trying to get his license number and boy did he start driving even faster when he saw me on his tail. He started weaving around cars to put space between us as we went down the ramp onto one of the main roads.
Sadly, I did lose him at the street light as he pulled into the gas station and took a shortcut but I was already tired of his shit and pulled back. I certainly wasn't going to cause the next wreck that's for sure.
Anyways, I got home and inspected the damage, it was light as I expected since I didn't feel that much of a 'bump when he hit me because I sped up just enough when he hit his break and gas. My car has a a dent in the rear bump, but it doesn't bother me too much, and some paint scraped.
But meh, I live to another day.
Did I tell you what happened on my B-day as I was driving home? OTL
The guy died from hit the middle wall, I-20 Eastbound near the Arlington Highlands.
It was on the news when I checked later that night, I'll see if I can pull it up somewhere
These past few months have been so crazy with the amount of deaths rising from hit-and-runs. I honestly wish I caught the guy, but I wasn't going to risk my life or someone else's for something as small as a dent.
Hopefully their recklessness gets them caught (without hurting anyone)
I absolutely HATE driving out there ugh. I hate Texas drivers as much as you :[ He'll get what he deserves one of these days though! Someday he's going to piss off someone as crazy as he is and he won't get off so lucky!
I will never ever drive in the Dallas area again. It's scary shit and California has nothing on it.
Glad to hear you are alright. Even if you didn't get all of the license, if you have some of it, the color and make of the vehicle, the police should still be able to track it down.
drive safe.. don't go chasing people at all.. yeah that's a rule for you :[
~Hugs~
Talking of warm bodies, definitely worth seeing then as a movie?
I've seen the first four mins via a promo and have to say it looks a like a cracking film with good humour
Its also been released here in the UK so might go see it this week XD