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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?


@Kachina624 wrote:

@Seannie.  The police won't do anything since they didn't see the infraction.  However, hopefully the license number will go on their virtual "radar" they get in their briefings.  Something for which to watch.

 


Even if they police can't do anything, it's a great idea to let them be aware as you are saying @Kachina624 .

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?

Not in the situation described.  

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?


@tansy wrote:

Not in the situation described.  


Frankly I think they would laugh at you.  People do that dozens of times a day.  Wonder if the OP gets out on the road a lot.

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?


@rms1954 wrote:

Won't do you any good.  Nothing happened and if you don't have a video it's hearsay.


That's the problem!  It's your word against his since you don't have a video.

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?

OP here.  Thanks all for your feedback.  This Toyota Highlander was driving at excessive speed and weaving in and out of lanes recklessly.  

 

  There is a LED sign that told him to slow down--and flashed his rate of speed at him.

Guess we just can't fix Stupid, can we?

 

By the way, if anyone decides to report something like this--do it online.  If you call the police, the call is recorded and perp can listen to it.  Just a little thing I learned.

 

Seannie

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?

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I would , and I have. One time we had kids doing daredevil motorcycle  stunts on the 101 here in California. Jumping in front of cars, skittering in  and out. Everyone was on phones. Later we saw one of them pulled over about a mile up road

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?

Most definitely. Just last week a person from our town reported a school bus driver for driving badly. She not only reported him to the police, she was advised to report him to the school bus company. (she had posted the incident on our local town dialogue)
The school bus driver ran a stop sign making the lady slam on her brakes and then he sped away. She followed him to the next stop sign. (He stopped for it). She got the plate number and the bus number.
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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?

Well the story changed a bit.

 

First the driver cut off the OP.  Then he stopped at a red light so apparently he wasn't driving so fast 

 

Now he was driving recklessly in and out of lanes. Still managed the red light.

 

Sounds like the OP was cut off and that's that.

 

To pull up next to him and take a picture? Of  him sitting at a red light??

 

No, I would not report him.

 

As others stated how many times have we been cut off, slammed on brakes, etc 

 

I don't know any drivers story. What he/she is thinking, responding to, whatever.

 

Driving up on a curb, passing a stopped school bus with flashing red lights, causing an accident while not stopping etc. are one thing.

 

Being cut off is not.

 

 

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?

@ROMARY  

 

Nowadays you have to be very careful...that reckless driver could have a loaded gun at the ready and will take aim.

 

We had such a young fellow who go out of his car at a light, slammed the door and started toward us angry that we beeped the horn at him.  As he came towards us, the light changed and everybody beeped at him to get a move on.

 

Thank Goodness..

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Re: Would you report a reckless driver?

Yes.

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