When you're 4 lanes away from the wreck that isn't blocking any lanes on the interstate and no one is moving into your lane, you don't have to slow down to an almost complete stop and cause a traffic jam. KEEP DRIVING!


Is anyone here a rubber necker? I've learned to ignore what is happening on the side of the road and just keep driving. Too bad the rest of the city can't do that.

[Edited on June 8, 2012 at 11:38 PM. Reason : .]

6/8/2012 11:33:23 PM

new ideas ITT

6/8/2012 11:35:35 PM

^I think this is a new idea to a lot of people

6/8/2012 11:39:12 PM

I loathe people who don't pull into the shoulder when they have a fender bender. It's not a fucking crime scene people!

6/8/2012 11:48:31 PM

i ignore fender benders, but if i'm waiting in 15 minutes worth of rubber necker traffic on the highway, i'm damn sure gonna take a quick peek at the gory death scene as i increase my speed from 7mph to 70mph

6/8/2012 11:49:58 PM

even worse is when the wreck is on the other side of the interstate...going in the opposite direction...and traffic is still slowed because of it.

6/8/2012 11:50:53 PM

i already get annoyed when people stop for funeral processions

in fact, i didn't know that was a "thing" until well into my 20's

6/9/2012 12:09:48 AM

6/9/2012 3:53:23 AM

^^ jackass

6/9/2012 9:58:39 AM

^^^That is just a religious thing in the south. The law states that you aren't supposed to interfere with a funeral procession. It's ok to keep driving east when they are driving west. Just don't stop and block the enterance to the cemetery, or break up the line of cars driving to the cemetery. A lot of other places around the US obey the traffic laws and don't stop.

6/9/2012 7:23:23 PM

dp

[Edited on June 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM. Reason : .]

6/9/2012 7:24:29 PM

I rubber neck. Fuck you all, I want to see some action in an otherwise dull car trip.

6/9/2012 7:34:18 PM

^What is so exciting about one scratch on a bumper anyway?

6/9/2012 8:14:09 PM

I don't know it's a "scratch" until I stop and look. How do I know it's not some Nascaresque Daytona like crash where they were going 3 wide into exit 87 and the soccer mom up high got loose and took out the 3 cars behind them in some Armageddon-like carnage of sheet metal and plastic? I just have to stop and look. It's my opportunity to try and figure out what happened, who's at fault, and then silently judge the person as a dumbass who should be jailed for shitty driving.

6/9/2012 10:16:21 PM

WTF?




[Edited on June 9, 2012 at 10:23 PM. Reason : a]

6/9/2012 10:20:53 PM

what I like is when everybody's going really slow, and then you get to the front of the slowness and there's nothing there. and you just speed up and drive away

fucking weird, but really interesting

6/9/2012 10:35:17 PM

Quote :

"jackass"

What's the point? I don't care if they slow down for the hearse, but to completely stop until the last blinking car goes by? That's stupid/ridiculous. What if it's one of my people's processions that are easily 200 cars long? Gonna wait for all of them too?

6/10/2012 10:13:02 AM

yes.

6/10/2012 11:59:29 AM

yes.

6/10/2012 12:28:57 PM

i, too, would stop and wait for the procession to end.

6/10/2012 12:30:32 PM

I will pull to the shoulder and stop but I won't block and stop traffic behind me.

What I dont get is when people just stop on the road for an ambulance going the other way. Happened to me this weekend, there was an island b/t us and the ambulance and the car in front of me just stopped until it passed...

6/11/2012 11:04:13 AM

Quote :

"Funeral Processions • Every vehicle in a funeral procession must have its headlights on, and the hazard warning signals must also be on, if so equipped. • The operator of the lead vehicle must comply with all traffic-control signals. But when the lead vehicle has crossed the intersection in accordance with the traffic-control sign or signal, or when directed to do so by a law enforcement officer or funeral director, or when being led by a law enforcement vehicle, all vehicles in the funeral procession may proceed through the intersection without stopping, while using extra care towards other vehicles or pedestrians. • All vehicles in a funeral procession must be driven on the right side of the road and shall follow the vehicle ahead as closely as reasonable and prudent. • The driver of a vehicle going in the opposite direction as a funeral procession may yield to the procession. If the driver chooses to yield, the driver must do so by reducing speed, or by stopping completely off the roadway so that drivers of other vehicles proceeding in the opposite direction of the procession can continue to travel without leaving their lane of traffic. • The driver of a vehicle traveling in the same direction as the funeral procession shall not pass or attempt to pass the funeral procession, except that the operator of such a vehicle may pass a funeral procession when the highway has been marked for two or more lanes of moving traffic in the same direction of the funeral procession. • The driver of a vehicle shall not knowingly drive between vehicles in a funeral procession. When a funeral procession is proceeding through a red light, the driver of a vehicle that is not in the procession shall not enter the intersection even if facing a green light, unless it can be done safely and without crossing the path of the procession."

[Edited on June 11, 2012 at 11:11 AM. Reason : .]

6/11/2012 11:10:35 AM

I don't see any statute numbers, bossman.

6/11/2012 11:29:47 AM

meh, I'm not that motivated.

http://www.ncdot.gov/download/dmv/handbooks_ncdl_english.pdf

6/11/2012 11:37:27 AM

^^It's N.C.G.S. §94-20.5 under the section titled "Don't be a dick".

[Edited on June 11, 2012 at 11:41 AM. Reason : ]

6/11/2012 11:39:42 AM

I think you're a dick if you expect me to be late to my appointments because you have to drive by me going slow as shit to an appointment in which tardiness isn't really an issue.

[Edited on June 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM. Reason : .]

6/11/2012 11:40:27 AM

http://www.ncleg.net/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bysection/chapter_20/gs_20-157.1.html

Figured those weren't actually laws

I would break most of that shit

6/11/2012 11:41:21 AM

It's not against the law for me to come in your office and intentionally stink it up with my rancid rotten egg/cheese farts, but I don't because I'm not a dick.

6/11/2012 12:50:52 PM

Quote :

"Marge: Come on, come on, get that corpse off the road! The streets are for the living!"

Quote :

"Lovejoy: Slow down, you maniac! Show some respect for coffin full of bricks representing a young man lost at sea."

6/11/2012 1:04:55 PM

Quote :

"what I like is when everybody's going really slow, and then you get to the front of the slowness and there's nothing there. and you just speed up and drive away fucking weird, but really interesting"

This seems to happen a lot in the mornings on 40 West between the Wade Avenue exit and Aviation.

6/11/2012 1:08:58 PM

^that.

6/11/2012 1:18:34 PM

^^ That happened to me a lot on 95 when I would be driving back to Quantico from Raleigh.

6/11/2012 1:33:08 PM

When I'm the one speeding away, I get the feeling that I'm the one who didn't see the cop.

6/11/2012 1:36:37 PM

Quote :

"^^ That happened to me a lot on 95 when I would be driving back to Quantico from Raleigh."

i see it every fucking week

these fucking idiots up here in NOVA have no damn concept of "slower traffic keep right" even though there are fucking signs everywhere.

6/11/2012 2:28:17 PM

Quote :

"What I dont get is when people just stop on the road for an ambulance going the other way. Happened to me this weekend, there was an island b/t us and the ambulance and the car in front of me just stopped until it passed..."

I don't get that either. I see people do this in the country all of the time even when there are no driveways to turn into. If you're in the city and there are 10 places to turn into on a two lane road over about a mile then yeah maybe, but even if an emergency vehicle is going to turn in front of you, they would come to a stop and you would be able to figure out that you need to stop.

6/12/2012 1:37:18 AM

this is tdub

all rubberneckers welcome here.

6/12/2012 2:44:25 AM

6/12/2012 10:05:42 AM

When I saw the thread title, I thought there was a new Judd Apatow movie coming out or something.

6/12/2012 10:15:15 AM

Contagious braking and rolling traffic jams, fuck you!

6/12/2012 1:11:33 PM

Quote :

"This seems to happen a lot in the mornings on 40 West between the Wade Avenue exit and Aviation."

I think that sometimes has to do with the cleanup. When they are done, the tow truck will pull out onto the road and someone will probably touch their brakes which causes the already slow moving traffic to touch their brakes. It's sort of like a red light. You can be 10 cars back and see it turn green first, but you still have to wait for the other 9 cars ahead of you to start and get up to speed before you can start and get up to full speed.

6/19/2012 12:45:02 AM

Thank you rubber neckers for making me late to work this morning. All 8 lanes of the interstate don't need to come to a stop just because there is a dent in the back of a mini van and a motorcycle cop at the scene of the wreck.

6/28/2012 10:45:00 PM

my boss suspected this happened on 40 today

one accident west bound and 3 east bound if im not mistaken

rubber neckers

6/28/2012 11:30:49 PM

^I only saw one on I-40 west around Wade Ave I think at about 9:40 am. Before that there was a lady getting her flat tire changed by one of those state workers in the yellow trucks. No one seemed to stop to look at that though. I don't get why people think they have to slow down when they are 4 lanes away from the wreck and no one in the other 3 lanes is switching lanes.

[Edited on June 29, 2012 at 12:05 AM. Reason : .]

6/29/2012 12:04:32 AM

when a cop/sheriff blocks an intersection so that a funeral procession can go by without worrying about traffic lights, it sounds like TWWers just ignore it and speed through the procession

6/29/2012 12:15:19 AM

^No that isn't what anyone is saying.

7/1/2012 9:22:38 PM

Big4Country=Rubber Necker?

7/1/2012 10:51:43 PM

B4C is trying to humblebrag about him finally qualifying for a license

7/1/2012 10:54:15 PM

Fermat's clip art scared me.

7/1/2012 10:57:21 PM

^^^no and ^^no

7/2/2012 10:23:02 PM

New Flash!!!!!!! You don't have to come to an almost complete stop when a tow trck is cleaning up a wreck on the other side of the interstate!!!!!

7/17/2012 9:28:25 PM