A Few months ago some African kid turned his Toyota right in front of me and I had nowhere else to go but down. I had just turned the corner and was accelerating down the street and he turned left in front of me, crossing my lane to enter the gas station on the corner to get something to drink. When I approached him, blood dripping down my arm, leg, and back, he said, in very broken english, that he had no idea what he had done. It only cost me forty bucks to fix my scoot ( bent bars and tweaked neck bearings ) and I didn't have to go to the hospital, so I was very lucky, but it still scared the shit out of me. Then, two nights ago, I was coming back from the store, and coming up to an intersection where I had a green light and some fat twat pulled her S-10 right out in front of me. If I hadn't seen her and slowed down, I would have run right into the side of that piece of shit. She pulled over and I stopped, she said sorry, and I asked if she was fuckin' blind and she got all shitty with me. I told her that's how people get fuckin' killed and called her a stupid bitch and left. Again, I was lucky.
On the other side of the coin, a friend of mine was leaving work a few years back and was heading up the street when an old man crossed his lane turning left. My friend tried to dodge it but was too close to get out of the way and the bumper of the van tore his leg off. His leg was hanging below the knee by less than two inches of skin and the bones were crushed. Many, many expensive surgeries later and after several years, he still has his leg and still even rides, but the EMT told him that if they had made it to him two minutes later, he would have died from blood loss. His leg looks fucked, they used muscles from his back, skin from all over his body and bone grafts from his ribs, along with plates and screws galore, but at least he can walk.
Another friend was driving down the street when a car pulled out in front of him and he smashed into the side of the car and went asshole-over-elboes over it, breaking his jaw, both arms, several ribs, etc. Again, he survived, but he hardly even looks like the same guy, his face got so fucked up.
And recently, my buddy Mark was telling me about driving down the road last Father's Day and seeing a car turn in front of two young women on a crotch rocket and they smashed into him and went over the car and got really smashed up. Broken legs, and broken arms, noses, etc., and the asshole and his Mom both tried to blame the accident on the girls. " My son was trying to turn left and those girls just slammed into him. " What a fucking cunt. The guy tried to tell his insurance that the girl pulled out of a side street and hit him while he was going straight. My buddy put his name down as a witness. They called him and he set the record straight.
So, yeah. People suck, and hardly anyone pays attention to anything not in their tiny little bubble they exist in. Every day I think how great it would be if they'd only give licenses to people who know how to drive. It'd make my daily commute a lot easier.
