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October 09, 2005
Red Means STOP!
We went to New West today to buy a second hand high chair and some idiot totally blew a red light and nicked our front bumper. He was going REALLY fast and if Steve hadn't hit the breaks it would have been a lot worse - I don't want to think about it cause it probably would have killed me and Liam as we were both on the passenger side and going straight through the intersection when he ran the red and went straight through the intersection perpendicular to us. Jack@$$ didn't even stop, so now we have to deal with proving a hit and run with ICBC and the car co-op. Though I'd rather us be okay and have to deal with the hit and run than be in the hospital and have his insurance info. What gets me is we were the third car through the intersection went he blew right through it. How could he not have seen the two cars in front of us or us or the freakin' RED LIGHT? I'm so glad we don't drive that often, it's just not safe these days.
And then, on our way home, we saw three other drivers run red lights! For the love of god, pay attention people. Luckily there were no accidents involved with these, but for crying out loud, four red light runners in one trip. You gotta wonder how some people got their license.
Oh yeah, and Dear Internet, if you happened to be at 6th and Royal in New West at 10:30 ish this morning and saw it, let me know ;) Could happen, right?
Posted by leah at October 9, 2005 01:27 PM
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sadly, I think it's less a matter of not paying attention than it is of the immensely dangerous **SELF-IMPORTANT DRIVER**. You know: *I* am in a hurry, goddamnit! I'm going to run this red, because *I* am simply too important with TOO much to do to have to wait at a red light!!
There's a lot of them.
Your hit-n-run idiot was probably just rule-challenged or perhaps visually impaired. No- intelligence-impaired.
Posted by: jocelyn at October 27, 2005 03:47 PM