OT: Welcome to Miami (home of the worst drivers in the US)
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
A few years ago they added a pay-lane on parts of 95 which is the one all the way to the left - they have sticks to divide the pay lane from the regular lanes - it was Monday night around 10pm so traffic was medium and I was having a smooth uneventful drive tired after the flight - I was on the second most left-lane of the regular/non-pay lanes and there was a car about a car-length ahead of me to my left (leftmost regular/non-pay lane) - out of the blue a dark 4dr-sedan zooms-up up beside me on the left-most regular lane flying and switches lanes in b/w me and the car in his lane that was just one-car length ahead of me - it was as if he almost clipped my left-front-end it was that close but that kinda of driving is not that uncommon in Miami - so the guy makes a hard-right to switch into my lane in b/w me and the car in his lane just ahead of mine - he does this maneuver flying and as he gets into my lane to his right he then to tries to get back in his lane as he passed the car a car-length ahead of mine to my left - so he makes a hard-right to squeeze into my lane almost clipping me; then makes a hard-left to get back in his lane as soon as he passed the car in that lane and he goes sideways like 90-degrees to the traffic then cuts hard to the right to recover and goes over the sticks (about 4ft high) dividing the pay lane - after he cut left and was at 90-degrees to the traffic and goes over the sticks he cuts hard right and is now pointing in the right-direction but he was going so fast his momentum slammed him into the wall dividing north and southbound traffic - he hits the wall broadside w/ the left-side of his car - I thought that would be the end of it and at least he hadn't hit anybody - so he hits the wall broadside and I guess he jerked the wheel once he hit the wall so he bounces off the left-wall/center-divider and goes across all 6-lanes of 95 into the right-embankment - I didn't see if he hit anything as he was careening across all 6 lanes from center-divider to right embankment - but all of a sudden I see a Honda Civic spinning out a few car-lengths ahead of me (Civic was in one of the right most lanes of 95) - so the Civic spins out and does a 360 and ends up in the left-most regular/non-pay lane opposite/facing traffic; I assume the Civic was either hit by the 4dr-sedan careening across the 6-lanes or the Civic cut hard to avoid the out-of-control sedan (I kinda lost track of the 4dr-sedan as he careened from left to right as there were cars in front of me to my right) - this all happened basically in front of me and I passed it but couldn't pull over since I had traffic behind me and I was towards the left-lanes - I had slowed-down as soon as the 4dr-sedan had cut right in front of me to get in my lane so I had enough room to be out of his way as he lost control on his way to hit the left-wall/center-median and then careen from left to right across 6-lanes a few car-lengths ahead of me (I had slowed down significantly so I was not too-close to him when this was happening) , so I avoided him b/c he had my attention as soon as he zipped right in front of me; but the Civic was a close call as he was spinning-out from the the right-lane all the way across to the left-most regular lane and I didn't see him until he had spun past my lane and ended up in the lane to my left facing me.
I can only assume the driver of the 4dr-sedan was drunk AF b/c he should not have lost it like that and he kept on losing-it time after time when he could have come to a stop especially after hitting the left-wall/center-divider - either he was under the influence big-time or maybe it was a very-young driver driving a stolen-car and he was inexperienced and didn't know what he was doing - it was kinda surreal and not what I was expecting on my way home tired from my ATL trip.
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I drove all over Monroe, Dade and Broward for about 45 years. Got to where nothing surprised me other than someone being normal at driving. That said, can't think of anything like you describe, ever.
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An excellent observation and I think you are correct. Perhaps a cross between Space Mountain and bumper cars and to simulate real drivers, all speech is garbled and you have to wear glasses that allow you to see almost nothing.
The Golden Glades Interchange is where I-95 and 826 meet/cross - it was redone several years ago and a whole bunch of ramps added (HOV ramps; etc) - anyway is kinda confusing and a lot happening at that interchange and several of the ramps are at a high altitude.
A few months ago it was reported in the news that a young couple (early-20s) was speeding in a white Mercedes doing over 100 - apparently they got in the wrong lane and got in a lane that was a 25-mph tight curve offramp and it's kinda a blind curve - it was nighttime and either they couldn't tell it was an offramp they got on or didn't see it was a curve and they flew-off the ramp which was at a high-altitude - the Benz flips over lands on it's roof (I think it also caught fire but can't remember) - anyway they were both instantly killed and in their early-20s - LE speculated they got on the offramp by accident and didn't know it was a tight-curve and the high-rate of speed they were going they didn't have a chance.
I spent 5-days in ATL - I'm already stressed being back in Miami - gotta get the f*** outta here when I get the chance.
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