I'm pretty tolerant of people who don't know how to drive-I see it ALL the time-boneheads more concerned with their coffee or cell phone than paying attention to the road. Today I'm driving my apparently invisible Miata North on a two lane road (one travel lane each direction). Approaching an intersection where my light is green, I see a gold Cadillac coming from the East side headed West, she doesn't stop at her red light and proceeds to make a right turn directly in front of me in my lane of travel. I slam on my brakes-I don't even think this woman saw me until I came flying up on her (because I was doing about 45 (speed limit) and she was doing about 10mph when she turned in front of me, so of course I would come up on her quick. Point is she did not stop or hesitate whatsoever when she made a right turn on a red light. So my thought is, this woman is going to kill someone. There are a lot of people on bikes and motorcycles around here and that kind of move she made is a good way to injure or kill someone.
So I call the police and report her, well not too long after she pulls into a driveway that is right off the main road and I pull in behind because there really isn't anywhere else I can safely park. She pulls all the way up and another woman comes out of the house (I'm assuming her daughter-she's about 55, the driver is 82). Looks like the old woman is picking up the younger one. Well they sit there in the car for a while up by the house and I'm in the driveway right by the road. This is in the richest part of my state and the house is probably worth about a million dollars, so this isn't a trailer park although the woman acted pretty classless IMO.
They get ready to leave and pull down the driveway and I motion that I want to talk to them. The younger one gets out and I tell her the police are on the way because of the way the older woman was driving recklessly. Well she starts going off on me, "who are you?, what is your name?, why are you calling the police on an old woman?,etc. So the officer shows up and basically plays mediator because the younger woman is pissed off that I called the police on her mom (forget the fact WHY I called them). So I was the problem for calling the police on this woman, it never occurred to her, hmm maybe her mom isn't the best driver? It was all about, you have no right to call the police on my mom regardless of how she drives! Like I have no better things to do with my time than call the police on old women for the fun of it. If I didn't think her driving was a danger, I wouldn't have wasted my time!
I spoke to the officer in private so as not to incite the younger woman and asked him if he was going to even check whether she is on some prescription drug she shouldn't be on while driving or check her visual acuity and he said he looked at her eyes and they're not dilated.
So basically the officer didn't do anything. So I guess it will take her killing someone to get their attention? Other motorists going through the trouble of calling the police on her doesn't matter one bit? And say she does the same thing next week and does kill someone, oh well I guess now we can take the carkeys from grandma!
If I had video evidence, could I have shown this to the officer at the scene and then he would have been able to write her a ticket? I mean I'm not trying to be mean to an old woman, but if she's driving like this she needs to be off the road in my opinion.
So I call the police and report her, well not too long after she pulls into a driveway that is right off the main road and I pull in behind because there really isn't anywhere else I can safely park. She pulls all the way up and another woman comes out of the house (I'm assuming her daughter-she's about 55, the driver is 82). Looks like the old woman is picking up the younger one. Well they sit there in the car for a while up by the house and I'm in the driveway right by the road. This is in the richest part of my state and the house is probably worth about a million dollars, so this isn't a trailer park although the woman acted pretty classless IMO.
They get ready to leave and pull down the driveway and I motion that I want to talk to them. The younger one gets out and I tell her the police are on the way because of the way the older woman was driving recklessly. Well she starts going off on me, "who are you?, what is your name?, why are you calling the police on an old woman?,etc. So the officer shows up and basically plays mediator because the younger woman is pissed off that I called the police on her mom (forget the fact WHY I called them). So I was the problem for calling the police on this woman, it never occurred to her, hmm maybe her mom isn't the best driver? It was all about, you have no right to call the police on my mom regardless of how she drives! Like I have no better things to do with my time than call the police on old women for the fun of it. If I didn't think her driving was a danger, I wouldn't have wasted my time!
I spoke to the officer in private so as not to incite the younger woman and asked him if he was going to even check whether she is on some prescription drug she shouldn't be on while driving or check her visual acuity and he said he looked at her eyes and they're not dilated.
So basically the officer didn't do anything. So I guess it will take her killing someone to get their attention? Other motorists going through the trouble of calling the police on her doesn't matter one bit? And say she does the same thing next week and does kill someone, oh well I guess now we can take the carkeys from grandma!
If I had video evidence, could I have shown this to the officer at the scene and then he would have been able to write her a ticket? I mean I'm not trying to be mean to an old woman, but if she's driving like this she needs to be off the road in my opinion.