When merging into traffic, find the gas pedal!
Jun/09Comments
Car accident
I’m the first to admit that I’m a fast driver – not a reckless driver, but a fast driver. You’ll usually find me cruising about as fast as other people will allow on the roads. Sometimes that works out great, other times not so much. One of my biggest pet peeves is watching (from behind) people merge into a lane of traffic and causing a potential traffic hazard in doing so by not stepping on the gas pedal.
Every day going home from work, I come across an intersection where a four-lane road merges into a two-lane (one lane in either direction). On one side of the intersection, four lanes exist. On the other, the right hand lane merges into the left lane fairly quickly – going the same direction. Drivers know that. Whenever I’m in the right hand lane approaching the intersection, I always make sure to safely merge into the left lane, generally by getting myself ahead of traffic to avoid an accident.
