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Posts: 27
Joined: 27-08-2010
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Landed at Calgary 3-15pm from the UK visiting family and then drove down to Fernie with my wife and soon to be 3 yr old son in our truck - Our drive to Manchester airport involves travelling up one of the busiest motorways in UK the M6 - Three lanes of steady 80 mph traffic - I have done this for years travelling around the UK - However I will never ever travel on a Friday afternoon from calgary ever again having witnessed the idiotic and down right dangerous driving on Highway 22 and Highway 3 -
We drove past the catastrophic carnage left at the junction of the Nanton / Highway 22 Junction - I believe was a fatality of at least one - hardly surprising the car we saw was flattened and the trailer a flattened mess on the verge and a distraught recovery worker by the side of the road too - Then only to be overtaken my a number of vehicles including a jeep towing a 26ft boat - now if I and the truck in front were doing a steady 110 what were these guys doing - a number of cars went past us on blind bends / blind hills doing i suspect 140 plus and driving dangerously close to my backside - The answer is no - I will not jeopardise my precious family for 10 minutes - Id rather arrive in time in one peace - Ironically the jeep and boat i caught up sometime after at the junction with highway 22 and highway 3 - Now I thought ok - just a man and woman when they went past us - but no - there were at least 2 kids in the jeep too - Well I hope they could live with themselves if anything had happened. Then shortly after waited four hours to clear sparwood after the wreck there that killed at least one - by the look of the carnage there, it was possibly a head on at the brow of a hill - read into that what you will - Will people ever learn - better to be arrive safely than quickly - and its not just themselves they could hurt its the innocents - MORONS
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Joined: 02-08-2011
Welcome to a typical weekend in Fernie.
The Alberta Moron society gathers here weekends throughout the year.
Joined: 23-03-2007
Ahh yes.......the things I have seen would blow people's minds. Just totally inexplicable...trucks towing 30 foot trailers passing on double solids uphill, guys pulling out to do a 30 car pass on double solids, blind curves, cars coming at them...just incredible. And yes, almost always Albertans, I don't care it you think I'm biased, it's the truth. They are just in some kind of insane frenzy to get to wherever they're going to party for the weekend and take the most outrageous risks. It just gets worse every year. For the people who are killed driving like retards, I have absolutely no pity. It's a terrible shame for their families and the innocents they hurt or kill by their stupidity though.
Joined: 25-11-2009
I agree with the OP. better to arrive late then not at all.
I know of a speed camera in Alberta that is set 10 above the speed limit, yet they get complaints from people got a ticket from it even though they were doing 20 over the limit.
I have lost count how many times I have brake and get onto the shoulder due to a drive passing traffic and "forgetting" about the on coming traffic, whos lane they are in.
hey megadude, just wondering if you saw the guy last winter who passed a snowplow on the right (yep on the shoulder near finning) at sparwood.
Joined: 23-03-2007
I'm telling ya, nothing would surprise me anymore.
Joined: 01-12-2005
It's really unfortunate and so sad that people drive like this. Life is just too short.
People need to find a way to de-stress before they get on the road. There's nothing you can do about Friday afternoon traffic so put the tunes on and don't f%*king worry about it!
Joined: 14-03-2011
Where I work, I look right at the highway and watched people line up all day yesterday. People where getting impatient and pissed off. No consideration that someone is dead. It broke my heart to know that someone was getting that call that they were never going to see their loved ones again. This morning as I passed the scene of the accident, I shed a tear for those folks. Stupidity or not, they paid the ultimate price. What really breaks my heart though is watching someone pass a car and truck/trailer combo just a few minutes later, and forcing other cars off the road and almost causing another fatal accident. There is no lesson learned in these accidents. I personally don't know if the person who caused yesterdays accident was from Alberta but the plain and simple truth is 9/10 times, it is a red plate that is driving crazy. This isn't Calgary, there is no need for that here. I want to go home at the end of the day and see my family so please take your road rage elsewhere. My life is worth more than 5 minutes.
Joined: 25-11-2009
maybe an ad campaign like the one in Australia is needed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77MoOl5o5aM
warning this one may offend some people. It still made air time in Oz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCdVMeRhwY&feature=related
Joined: 21-04-2007
Bad driving it seems has become socially acceptable in Alberta. Not all drivers mind you it is just more of a social norm. There is no enforcement for excessive speeding around Calgary, if you are only doing the speed limit on Deerfoot you are a hazard - move over buddy or get off the freeway - is the way it feels. I am not against "Albertans" just the way some of them drive and put us all at risk. Maybe they are used to straight roads and those pesky double lines and blind curves in BC don't make sense to them. It is their right to go 120+km everywhere, dam the torpedoes we have places to go. I do not see this changing until Alberta changes the social expectation for safe driving which does not currently exist.
Joined: 11-03-2011
Their driving boggles my mind.
The cops here need to start enforcing violations and issue fines to the max. Probably won't do much to change things but hey, maybe the word will start getting out that they are there in full force and are on the lookout for risky driving behavior and doing their best to turn around the BC deficit.
It might seem pale in comparison, but it's a major pet peeve of mine: last week as I pulled up to a stop behind a driver turning left onto a street off Highway 3 in West Fernie ( as you are supposed to), some asshat with, you guessed it, no front plate comes barreling up on my right on the shoulder and passes us both. Newsflash people: It's ILLEGAL TO PASS ON THE RIGHT!!!! At least slow down a bit if you're going to break the law in this manner. This dude went by us doing easily more than the 60 kph speed limit. It won't be long until one of these morons takes out a cyclist pedaling up the wrong side of the road (and I have seen lots of bikers doing this recently in that area). To be fair, I have witnessed BC drivers doing this too. But if one person does it right and waits, usually everyone else will too...except for the idiot in this case...don't often see someone passing 2 or more cars on the right on a shoulder of a highway!
Joined: 07-08-2011
bombhucker, must be a lifeguard, figures I agree that no one should speed past you on the right however sometimes a common sense approach is for the vehicle turning left to yield as much of the lane as they can and highway traffic can pass slowly on the right, may not be legal but on busy days when a tractor trailer is crawlin up yer ass survival comes to mind. may all albertans drown in lakes of blood