Ed White wrote:
> Well here is my moron of the week story -
>
> I was on US-64 heading west at Rock Mount, NC around 1 pm yesterday
> (Sunday). I am in the right lane doing a little over the speed limit
> (65 mph speed limit). This part of the road is two lanes in each
> direction. There is plenty of room to right for a break down lane, but
> things are really tight on the left (there is a narrow paved shoulder,
> a little dirt shoulder, and a hard steel guardrail to the left). Uber
> driver in a 2 Door Civic is carving through traffic. He was probably
> doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra,
> probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that
> was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). Uber driver never
> slows down, whips to the right lane, shoots past the
> Elantra, then literally squeezed in between the Elantra and the truck.
> The Elantra driver has to hit the left shoulder to avoid a collision. I
>
> can swear I saw parts fly off the Civic as he shot through the gap
> (definitely something long and solid was in the air, may have been off
> the Elantra or from the shoulder). The Civic never slows. The truck
> never notices anything and keeps going. The Elantra driver is about to
> hit the guardrail and then in an act of stupidity locks up his brakes
> (huge dust cloud). Next he jerks the damn car back onto the pavement.
> At this point I was sure I was toast. I pictured the Elantra going
> broadside in front of me. So I started braking hard. The Elantra
> swerves into my lane, but the driver somehow manages to straighten he
> car out without hitting anything. Meanwhile the Civic is gone.
>
>
> This is a perfect case of a jerk Uber driver almost getting someone
> killed while blithely speeding off. If the idiot in the Civic had
> waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all
> would have had a more pleasant day. One last irony, about 10 mile down
> the road, I caught and passed the Civic (if it wasn't the same car, it
> was it's twin). The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on
> this cell phone, although how
> he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. It
>
> was louder in my car than my radio. The guy in the Elantra had taken
> the first exit after the near death experience - probably to clean his
> shorts.
>
>
> Ed

sounds like a whole confederacy of dunces there... both the Civic
driver and the Elantra driver should have been paying more attention.

nate