Advocacy & Safety - Drivers that suddenly go dead.

I came across a lesser seen species of driver today, the ones with the malignancy to suddenly just stop dead in the road for no apparent reason.

I was riding on a two lane road. Traffic was very slow, so I had to hold back. In front of my is an SUV, going slowly. As we approach a T intersection, our one lane becomes two, either a left or a right for us. I'm going left so I keep left. She first goes in the right hand lane, and then of course swerves over. I see what she is doing and don't even have to break my stride. She then blatantly blows throught the stop sign at a good 10 MPH, again no big deal.

Then as soon as she is in the middle of the intersection she just stops! No traffic, no cars, no nothing, she just stops dead. I yell "go" as I come up on her and then go around her yelling "go" and she looks at me like I have two heads.

She was obviuosly confused, but why in the world did she feel she had to stop in the middle of an intersection.

Most motorists don't have a clue what's behind them.
Cyclist, city bus, pack of hyenas... nothing.
It's like the rear view was installed to put on their makeup and check their teeth.

Most motorists don't have a clue what's behind them.
Cyclist, city bus, pack of hyenas... nothing.
It's like the rear view was installed to put on their makeup and check their teeth.


er, it is SOME that don't know what is behind them. However, it is the ones who don't whose inattention causes grief to us that we remember.

- better to stop dead than the guy today in the BMW SUV that looked at me, then blew through a stop sign at 25mph on a right turn (30 more feet and i would have been dead [i didn't have a stop])...

My guess is that she was stoned, I've known a few potheads who did th t sort of thing.

I see this often around me. Or those who drive slowly looking for an address only to stop and speed up every 15 yds nonstop.

I had someone seemlingly fall asleep infront of me on the ride home today. I had to ask the car behind me to honk since it was a left hand turn and I was worried about getting cross checked.

Yesterday I came upon a truck that was stopped in the road. It turns out that he had stopped to take a phone call! It was a rural road with little traffic, so he wasn't really in anyone's way. I just went around. It made me feel a little better about the world.

this is the most annoying behaviour i see on the roads. The version i come across the most is drivers who reach a 4-way stop before me, pull halfway through the intersection and then just stop in the middle and stare at me while I wait for them to cross. ughhhhhh

Maybe she uses Ambien. At least she wasn't literally dead. That's what I thought this topic was about. Somebody who dropped dead at the wheel.

We're well aquainted with those types of drivers in Austin. It's obnoxious.

I see them on the freeways when an emergency vehicle comes up behind them with their lights on. Instead of moving to the right (they could safely) they just stop dead in the middle of the lane. The EV has to slow and try to negotiate around them.

What an idiot driver!

People have heart attacks and other medical maladies every day. Sometimes it happens when they are driving. Sometimes it results in crashes.

Due to the population, something that is a one in a million chance happens 300 times a day in the U.S.

That's life.