another first
 

Some drivers just continue to amaze me, even after I thought I've seen it all.

Saturday evening, headed north on BV just past Palmer, the car ahead of me and I took the Rainey bypass. The car ahead got to the merge point, STOPPED. and then made a LEFT TURN into the oncoming northbound lanes that were leaving the RB!!!
I honked my horn and flashed my lights, but there really wasn't anything else to do.

So, to the "driver" of the gray Honda that was there a 6:35 PM Saturday:

1) I hope you and any passengers are OK
2) The DMV has flexible hours so you can go and TURN YOUR LICENSE IN, before you get killed or kill someone else

I always watch out for the other drivers, I expect them to do stupid things, and am seldom disappointed.

:ohdear::ohdear:

A while ago I was making a left off 44 onto northbound Morse.

Person in front of me proceeded to make the left right into the southbound lane of Morse...and kept going.

Stupid is what stupid does

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl: That was NOTHING! Wait till you see their next trick! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

It's never going to end.

Yeah, but this one took effort. First, he had to come to a dead stop in the road. Then he had to make about a 150 degree turn into oncoming lanes. If I were the Florida DMV, I wouldn't give him a chance to have another "trick":1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

If only it was do to stupidity but Golfing Eagles has it right, DL should be revoked.

I passed a south bound golf cart on Warm Springs, just south of the circle where Warm Springs starts, woman driving with a cell phone in her hand, not sure if she was walking or trying to follow the GPS app.. . .

also saw a golf cart heading towards brownwood on meggison take a blind left hand corner in the left hand lane, the one where the small hill on the left obscures the golf carts coming south. . .

so now, in my F250 i drive very slowly, sub speed limit most everywhere in the villages. . . so that i can stop relatively quickly. . . as a golf cart is no match for the truck.

Remember honey, we’re back in The Villages now ….
BE CAREFUL!

This stuff happens everyday in TV.
:ohdear::pray:

TV is the most dangerous area I have ever driven in, as well as bicycled in. There are so many folks who are incompetent drivers, I guess due to meds, age, vision and hearing deficiencies. Then there are those who have lost a long time spouse, who did all the driving for the past 30 years or so, and the surviving spouse now has to get behind the wheel after not driving for decades. Actually, I do feel sorry for these folks. I hope and pray I'm never in such a position.

If I wrote about how many times I’ve seen drivers do stupid and illegal behaviors on the road, I’d run out of ink. These are some of the behaviors I have seen over the years; people not stopping at stop signs, traveling the opposite way in the roundabouts, putting on signals and turning the opposite way, tailgating, speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, aggressive driving, drunk driving, texting while driving, putting on makeup while driving, running red lights, driving their cars onto golf paths, having dogs on their laps, coming to a complete stop before they turn into a street, not keeping up the proper speed when going on a ramp to enter a highway, when there is a merge written on the road cut you off on your blind side, not changing lanes when a police officer has pulled someone over, passing a bus full of children when the bus driver has stopped with lights flashing and stop sign visible to see, not pulling out of the way when EMT drivers are flashing their lights and sirens. I’m sure there are many other examples I haven’t mentioned, but I am sure if you have been driving for years you have seen some or all that I have mentioned. In the meantime, don’t get distracted and drive safe.

Hey .. I have a gray Honda, I wonder if that was me??:shocked:

When you have a demographic of over a hundred thousand people mainly in there 60’s, 70’s and 80’s what do you expect. It’s dangerous out there.

Another visitor from England.

It’s really nobody’s business and you’re intentional cyber shaming is very sad indeed

It’s nobody’s business. You just enjoy getting off on cyber shaming others. How’s that make you look?

my guess is smart, but I'm sure that is the wrong answer because it's not super politically correct and not far too overly nice enough.....??

What about following speed limits? I live on Oak Forest Drive which is a long straight road. Many people use it as a race track - go as fast as possible…….. and Oak Forest Drive doesn’t have a cart lane so all vehicles, bikers, walkers, runners, etc. use the same lane. Just because we don’t have children living in The Villages, we do have elderly people with memory problems, balance issues, etc. we should remember they can easily step out into and or further into the road just as a small child might do. What’s the rush? Take your time.

Wow! It seems from your post that you never make a mistake while driving. Good for you, I make mistakes occasionally, while driving, and I think most folks do the same. Minor mistakes, that is, nothing like the scenario of the OP . No one drives perfectly...even Tesla!

Accidents
 

Maybe it's brain freeze or maybe it really is stupidity but about 40 years ago back in New Jersey we had someone at a lighted intersection turn left into the wrong ways, the wrong way and hit the car in front of us. Luckily we were far back from the guy waiting at the stoplight and we did not get hit ourselves. It was a four-lane road. I have seen many people make left turns into the wrong Lanes going the wrong way over the years that is why there are so many signs but not enough with arrows showing to go around the meeting. In fruitland Park there are a few intersections where they really need to paint the yellow lines in the center that go around the median strips and not leave them blank in the road

One thing about us, we know how to use roundabouts, and if we are driving on the wrong side of the road, we do it very politely!:icon_wink:

It is VERY important to drive defensively here in The Villages. There are many inept drivers. Don't add yourself to the dangerous ones by allowing yourself to be impatient or off guard. It may be time to consider stopping driving a car and don't relax if you are driving a golf cart. In the past twenty years over two dozen people were killed in The Villages due to golf cart accidents and dozens more badly injured. The only factor that any of us can control and protect is our own self.

I was always taught in driving courses to Drive Defensively, because there are some very Offensive drivers out there!!!

I was walking the dog at the Spanish Springs square Monday. I heard a truck horn beeping and saw a car at the Paige place/main st intersection standing immobile although the light was green. The beeping came from the tractor/trailer behind. After several beeps, the car driver moved on towards us and the square, then turned LEFT. The one way street around the square is to the right. A golf cart driver came upon the car and gestured that the car was going the wrong way. The car driver waved back and KEPT GOING, then turned left again (against traffic), finally parking. The driver must have been lost, something that happens often enough in the villages.

NO It happens every moment on any highway
Its scary driving on any roadway
haven't you noticed the enforcement declining over the years
Free for all

Sooner or later you will hear about somebody driving a golf cart on the Florida turnpike, don't laugh, its coming....

Ditto
 

I had my motorcycle shipped here from Minnesota this past February. After about ten or so rides I decided that it was no longer worth the risk to life and limb riding here in The Villages, and sold it. Wife is much happier.

I've always been of the opinion that, after a certain age (65?) there should be mandated road tests every other year for a person to retain their driver's license. We'd all be much safer.

Very difficult to implement. Some 85 year olds are more physically and mentally fit than some 25 year olds. Also, not everyone's driving skills are equal. I generally follow the speed limit, except on long interstate trips, and even then I'm the "slow poke" at 78 mph., but always obey the limit locally. However, the speed limit on BV and Morse (south of 466) is 35. An average NASCAR driver could go drive it at 70 mph better than I could at 50 , and I could drive it at 50 better than some at 20. I would like to see, although it will never happen, "flexible" speed limits. You get road tested then rated for a certain speed regardless of the limit. You have a transponder in your car that LEO can read when they clock your speed. If you drive recklessly at your rated speed, you get rated down. And I would add, on three lane interstates, the same restriction as trucks---"No trucks or anyone with a rating under xxx allowed in left lane"

Traffic Circle Irony
 

I just had to share something I found ironic. There is a pamphlet at the rec centers explaining how to negotiate the traffic circles but...you have to negotiate a traffic circle to get to the rec center.

I still picked one up and leave it on the bulletin board at our rental villa. Also, we add some common advice in our tenant instructions that we send to all tenants prior to check in. One item we placed in all caps...."if you find yourself about the enter an automobile traffic circle while in the golf cart, you have gone the wrong way, turn around!"

From what I get out of these comments is:
There is 1 BAD driver and 32 GOOD drivers on here so far and counting.... :ohdear:

Which are you?????

So is it 33-1 or 32-2???????:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Given what I see driving around the country, everyone should be tested every 5 years regardless of age. There doesn't seem to be any group - gender, or race - that is better than others in driving skills. Don't know whether it is attitude, phone, carelessness, ineptitude, etc. that is the cause of such poor driving.

None of the Above...
I'm not one of those that come on here to cry about someone passing me on the road and not using their blinkers!!!!!! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Good. I don't care much for that either, although it seems most Villages drivers are allergic to their directional signals:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

When my mom's bf was alive and was getting very forgetful our neighbor found him one day going left in the Morse roundabout against traffic. Luckily it wasn't busy and she was able to get him turned around safely but that could have been a disaster.

Another time after Sunday football we came out to the parking lot to lots of flashing lights. Turns out someone tried to drive the golf cart tunnel under 466 and got their car stuck.

And one more, I was in the old PO in the historic section lady was asking clerk for directions. After she gets them she says "I have to becareful I drove onto a tee box yesterday in my Cadillac."

We get everyone's worst drivers. I've never seen such collectively bad driving in the 40 years I've been licensed.

Hey, it's none of your business where I'm going! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

cyber shaming, a good reminder that mistakes can happen to anyone, just wait, you will be an idiot again at some point in your life, but it might not be driving a car. . .