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Not surprising, most people don’t give enough distance between themselves and the car in front. Even if the car in front is going slow, that’s not any reason to tailgate.
Not surprising, most people don’t give enough distance between themselves and the car in front. Even if the car in front is going slow, that’s not any reason to tailgate.
Drivers were hydroplaning because construction in that area is affecting the drainage.
Saw this thread exactly as I was watching NCDOT telling Steve Stewart if the car front gets in trouble and you're on their bumper, you're going to get in trouble too. A duh concept for most people, but with all the tailgating accidents here, more than I saw anywhere else, remarkable how so many get this so wrong so often.
As someone who does everything I can to always maintain a safe distance in any weather, I don't have guilt about my schadenfreude for this.
In CA on a perfectly beautiful morning (21 yrs ago) I was in a 5 car pileup when traffic, going at the limit, suddenly came to a complete halt for no apparent reason on highway 101, and a large utility type truck hit the car behind me, then the truck managed to bash into my car, spinning my car around so it was hit on 3 sides and pushing my car into the car ahead of me. Those vehicles were driving too close, of course, and too fast for the amount of traffic. Fortunately I sustained no serious injury and no one died in that accident. It was an ugly chain reaction though and tied up the freeway for a couple hours.
And that was in the days before smartphones and cell phones were still a fairly new thing. But driving too close is a real problem on most highways and freeways.
Yeah if you leave a space someone invariably fills it.
On the one hand, so? Still doesn't make it right or safe to tailgate.
On the other, there's space and there's space. Every time I get on the beltline, I see someone riding someone's bumper within a few feet. They could leave quite a bit of space and still not have to worry about someone "filling in"
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