If you do it every time, you won't forget when it's important.
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My friend complained that there is no reason to use turn signal to show me parking on the side of the remote road in the middle of the night. I just said "It's a muscle memory". Later he bought himself BMW and things came clear.
I Bad an ambulance driving the wrong direction twice already, i keep looking both ways, thank you
I've seen my fair share of people driving the wrong way on one-way roads. Can't rely on people following the rules.
Basic etiquettes in Asia.
You never fucking know, dude. Better to be safe than sorry. The other driver can be at fault and still leave you with a permanent disability.
One word: bicycles
Two words: electric scooters
Bicycles (and electric scooters) are vehicles that should also be following the same rules as car, i.e. not driving the wrong way down a one way street and not bombing down the sidewalk. I mean, I still look both ways, but that's because people are dumb maniacs on the road, not because bicycles.
You forgot dipshit drivers.
Three words: dip shit drivers.
Four words: I can't spell well.
Almost died once to a woman going 75 on the wrong side of the 4 lane divided road. I dodged her but she hit a car behind me. :/
Always. Look. Both. Ways.
bad habit
If someone is going the wrong way down a one-way, you really want to know about them.
It happens more often than you think.
It's true, I don't think very often.
Literally every day, multiple times per hour, at a one-way by my home.
I stand in the street and yell at them until they back up and turn around on the street i live on
I personally see it on my street once or twice a month, seems unlikely I'd happen to see it every time it happens
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I remember a vid of a cyclist going the wrong way down a 1 way street. Pedestrian didn't look that way and bam. Guess who the cyclist blamed.
Where I'm from most one way streets are only one way for cars and such, bicycles are often explicitly allowed in both directions
Not to say that it was the case in the video
I used to live next to a one way street that was two ways all around it. One of the only one way streets in that small town, next to where all the bars were, in a college town, and there was just enough of a hill to make it so two cars at opposite ends of it could not see each other. It was only a block long but the number of crashes and death defying attempts at crossing it on foot was astounding
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You should always be looking both ways, if not for vehicles, then at least for pedestrians who have no direction.
The first year I got my license (15+ years ago) I looked one way then the other. Rolled forward. Hit a cyclist that was riding full speed on the sidewalk in the wrong direction. Bent front tire and they lost balance.
Got them to a bank and Throw them $200 money then made them sign a waiver of liability with no fault admitted. She didn't like signing the paper and I told her $200 now and sign or go through my car insurance.
Worth the $200 to make it go away.
I always look both ways and glace down the damn sidewalk too for cyclists now.
on the sidewalk in the wrong direction.
There is no wrong direction on the sidewalk. Sidewalks are two-way.
Hey I'm a cyclist too and I agree. What i mean by wrong direction is against the flow of traffic. I looked right and saw nothing. Then left and rolled forward trying to get my chance to get into traffic. She came in front of me from the right.
Also that street has seperate two direction bike lanes.
You were 100% liable for hitting a cyclist and you cheerfully admit to paying them off with a pittance of the damage you caused and forcing them to sign away their rights? That's pretty fucking shitty.
At least your last paragraph makes it sound like you learnt from the behaviour that led to your mistake in the first place.
Idk why my reply didn't save but:
I did everything by the book. Gave her my info and insurance. I opened a claim and had them take a statement from her.
I offered her a $200 settlement to replace/repair her bike and she accepted. I surprised her with a waiver of liability and gave her the choice of $200 now or continue with the claim.
I think I handled it very responsibly as my first incident in my early 20s.
Do I feel guilty for hurting someone? Yes absolutely. At the same time I'm allowed to be glad to avoid insurance bs.
I immediately became a safer driver and I hope she was also more careful about going full speed on the sidewalk in the wrong direction of traffic.
Oh and BTW we even had bicycle lanes on the street. In my state you're treated as a car if you're riding the bike. She wasn't following the rules of the road and probably would have gotten nothing through insurance. Everyone told me not to pay her off.
I hope she was also more careful about going full speed on the sidewalk in the wrong direction of traffic.
Literally victim blaming. It's completely normal to travel in either direction on the footpath.
we even had bicycle lanes on the street
Paint is not infrastructure.
I'm done with this thread. Real nice skipping the part about me learning from the experience.
You've already made your stance clear and this is an event from literally 16 years ago.
~~I've been in exactly 2 at fault accidents in those 16 years. This includes driving for 10 hours a day for years working on the road.~~
Yeah I'm done.
Your defensiveness doesn’t make it feel like you learnt from it. You might have learnt how to avoid that kind of crash (crash, not accident) in the future, which is fantastic, but you haven’t internalised that it was because of your own inattentiveness in operating a dangerous vehicle that the crash occurred, and not because of the perfectly acceptable behaviour from a member of a vulnerable group. A vulnerable group that you victimised.
In America that waiver might have been unenforceable... Or one would hope.
Nope. It was enforceable. Consulted a lawyer. Standard for cash settlements actually. Any time you settle a claim outside of insurance you should have one. Otherwise they could file a claim immediately after getting the cash.
Same shit corps do with "out of court" settlements when someone sues and has a good case to win.
Yeah well looking the 'wrong' way on a 1 way street has stopped me from getting run over, and looking both ways before going on the green has saved my life from a red light runner when I was on my motorcycle.
You basically need to assume everyone in a car is an axe wielding maniac out to kill you if you’re on a motorcycle. I had a family member crash after a driver didn’t look left before pulling out of a driveway and put them out of commission for a few months, plus some new hardware. Stay safe!
That attitude has kept me alive for 23 years of riding. Many have tried to kill me, but I saw most of them coming and got lucky the couple times I didn't.
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This is actually a good tool to explain the difference between those RPG stats that can be easy to mix up:
Perception is noticing you are crossing a one-way street.
Intelligence is understanding cars are only allowed to come from one direction.
Wisdom is looking in both directions before crossing anyway.
Dexterity is avoiding getting hit by the asshole going the wrong way down the street
Strength is dragging them out of the car afterwards
Forgot one
Rizz?
You have to look the other way anyway in case there might be pedestrians or cyclists crossing your path.
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Pedestrians and cyclists exist. Even on 2-way roads I've personally almost been run over multiple times on the right side of the road. A vehicle would drive up to the stop sign, look left, see no vehicles, then almost hit me as they turned right because they didn't actually look where they were going...
Being in a situation where I was on the highway being passed by an on coming car on the same side... you ALWAYS look both ways. Stupidity has no bounds.
Considering some of the horrible drivers out there, this isn't a bad idea
I've seen enough vehicles driving the wrong direction that I'm not risking it.
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