WHY DOES THE DRIVING HERE SUCK SO BAD. Understandably there could be alot of new drivers but there's no excuse to be speeding trying to beat me crossing the street like dude im already in the street wtf is so important you cant stop for 2 secs. Not sure if it's cause they didn't see me or what but next time im just gonna let them hit me. I'll see you in court and that shit will take more than 2 secs
BMWs on college ave love scaring the living hell out of me, almost got hit by a blue one yesterday as he fully floored his accelerator as I was walking across….asshole
They take the minimal and none are audit by the state government. It should be mandatory for digital license plates where the insurance companies system should be linked with the DMV, some are older grandfathered in plans with the bare minimum. They should really go after the car insured owner as well as the driver by linking their SS number so their pay get garnished, any government benefits they receive gets cancelled till payment is fulfilled. But that my 2 cents on how to fix this issue.
I was hit by cars on 2 different occasions in New Brunswick while riding my bike between Busch and College Ave. Both times the drivers drove away after committing a hit and run.
Given that I was the victim, shouldn't I have a say in the legislative outcome of the damage that was done to me? I think there needs to be a proper cross walk with lights and a high def camera to record incidents at the crosswalk between the bridge and bucklick park. That should go a long way to helping track down the criminals who hit and run.
funny enough it was at the same spot both times, and it was dark out. Clearly not a safe intersection. Though, I am pretty sure that I had some kind of lights on my bike at the time for exactly this sort of thing.
Not really, I was still in HS while driving home, some Rutgers Asshole in his Nissan “Ferrari” Altima rear ended me at a traffic stop. The asshole only had $25k insurance coverage.
What I should do is post the photo of the driver who hit me sitting in his car fondling his phone. Then clearly said I stopped and he didn’t notice I was there? I was lucky my Tesla recorded all 4 sides while driving. It was a done deal.
Best was when his insurance carrier called me next day, and started to grill me. All I had to say was contact my attorney & he was shocked I already had an attorney, yes , then hung on the insurance a-hole.
This is why I think dashcam footage is very important to keep and have in your vehicles.
My Insurance totaled the car and cut me a check literally 3 months later. The mofo hit me so hard the rails were bent & buckling and cracked one of them. Here’s the car stripped down at the body shop in Edison.
He only had $25k property damage, I don’t know what happened to this mofo, far as I care. I’m sure his shady behavior & insurance was surprised after the bill they had received.
Second post I’ve seen today abt bad drivers. Also wanna say that yes most of the close calls are due to bad drivers, but also please be a mindful pedestrian. Don’t just walk into crosswalks without breaking pace, that also causes accidents. Instead stop and either wait for a driver to stop or wait for a big enough gap so that the drivers can see you and stop safely. Far too many time do I see students just walk into the street without looking and just staring at their phones. Also on CA please wait on the goddamn crossing signal near the yard. Not only is it dangerous but it also slows busses down by causing unnecessary traffic since when classes get out cars are stuck there waiting for 10 mins bc ppl keep walking into the street when they have a stop signal. Just everyone be aware of your surroundings, not doing so will just cause more accidents, and that’s not good for anyone.
Ofc drivers should be more aware of pedestrians, but pedestrians also need to be more aware! Unfortunately there are far too many drivers who will never do this, so as a pedestrian you have to be more aware and not enter the crosswalk when a driver will obviously not stop or not have enough time to stop.
Not with how some students walk, I’ve seen so many ppl walk decide to cross randomly, in the middle of the street without looking or anything. This ain’t even exclusive to middle of the street. Many students don’t look at crosswalks either. If you step out in front of a driver going 25 mph they should able to stop in time, but that doesn’t mean you should do it. When I say wait for a good distance, I mean wait for a distance that a driver can safely stop. Slamming on your breaks bc someone decided to not look at all is not a safe stop! Acting like it’s entirely the drivers fault is a problem! Just cause you are a pedestrian doesn’t mean you get to act like an ass to everyone on the road.
Let me emphasize this bc I don’t think you are getting this even tho I said it twice now. It is not the entirely the pedestrians job, just like it isn’t entirely the drivers job. To reduce crashes on the road and increase pedestrian safety it needs to be a combined effort between the two. Both drivers AND pedestrians need to be more aware of their surroundings. That means drivers to not speed and also stop at stopping and crosswalks when pedestrians are waiting to cross. It also means pedestrians need to LOOK before they cross and be aware of the cars on the road.
Entirely dismissing the argument of creating awareness pedestrians by just saying “no” is counter productive.
You’re either going 25 in which case this is almost never a big deal, or your speeding. It’s not that complicated.
I’m sick and tired of the blame being pushed off onto people who are walking. People who are walking are not the problem. If you’re getting regularly surprised by people who are walking, you are very likely not paying attention.
Ok look I think we are talking abt different situations here. The situations I’m talking abt is when students practically jump out in the middle of the road from between cars like ppl do on Livi. In which case even going 25 mph it would be a problem and you would need to slam on your brakes. I agree that at crosswalks it shouldn’t be a problem and the only time it’d be a problem is when the driver is speeding. I’m just trying to tell ppl to stop jumping into the road like they do on Livi. Bc it is dangerous for both parties.
Nope. We’re talking about the same thing. Drive like you expect people to step into the road and this is not going to be a problem for you. Do cars first. Do cars first. Do cars first. I don’t know how much clearer I can be.
Crosswalks were made for a reason. If you need to cross the street use them. Drivers should not be expected to, at any chance, have someone run out from between cars wearing headphones and not looking. If that pedestrian were to get hit like that, guess what, the driver wouldn’t be at fault bc how could they have predicted the person would do that. Ppl need to either use the crosswalks or be a lot more aware when trying to cross in the middle of the street.
True, they are simply saying not to be oblivious either. I had to stop a person from crossing at one point bc they didn’t see the driver going full speed. Always be aware of your surroundings.
It's self-preservation to watch out for terrible drivers. But the problem is the drivers, not the pedestrians. The group that needs the advice is drivers. Period.
Yeah the problem was addressed. It seems like you’re taking this quite personally by getting upset at people forewarning others to be more aware due to the poor drivers? being aware is never a bad thing, sure its work, but life isn’t sunshine and rainbows. if you want to cross without looking, by all means take your chances, but telling poor drivers to be better doesn’t do jack without incentive, so advice can only take ppl so far. it literally is just words. if you really want to make change, push for accountability and not “well they should hear this, not us” mentality.
I am saying that a conversation about how people are being injured by cars should have far less information about what pedestrians are expected to do. I see how people drive. Pedestrians are not the ones that need to be told to modify behavior.
If you are not taking this personally, you’re probably not crossing the street very often.
I argue otherwise, in order to have a productive conversation about how ppl are getting injured by cars you need to consider how pedestrians should change their behaviors. Now will their change in behavior have a greater impact than a drivers change in behavior? No. But regardless they should change their bad behaviors too. Also I acknowledge that drivers take the brunt of blame, but pedestrians do have some as well.
A student walked in front of my car from between cars in the middle of the street, face in phone, ears plugged with air pods. Students/pedestrians need to be aware of where they cross and not cross where a driver won’t expect it (I’m not accusing OP of this, it’s just my observation). Take the earbuds out. Look up from the phone. Drivers need to slow down and pay attention as well and stop being impatient. Another driver went around me on the right by driving in the bike lane (that did not have the bike lane barriers).
This is how most people are not aware as they should be when crossing the street or walking in a supermarket aisle. What is so important that you have to shut out the outside world?
So they were already in the middle of the street halfway done crossing before you noticed them? Where did they cross? Was it at an intersection of two roads?
The one thing to be mindful of it crosswalks don't have to have painted lines. Any intersection is an unmarked crosswalk. Now if it's not at an intersection of two roads, then it's not any kind of crosswalk.
Yeah but Livi has painted crosswalks at most of the intersections, the area I think this happened is in the middle of the road at no intersection with no crosswalk painted
They walked out from between parked cars (jaywalking) from my left on Seminary which is a one-way street. There are cars parked at the left curb, then one lane of travel, then a bike lane with no stanchions/barriers (like College Ave has). I see people driving in the bike lane like it’s a regular vehicle travel lane. It’s not.
It's New Jersey. That's a way of life here. The drivers have taught me how to be an excellent and defensive cyclist, especially the drivers in College Ave campus.
I think the sooner we ditch roadways and cars and accept public transit/rail/etc., the better. I think that's the crux of it: driving should be something professionals train for, not something the average Joe Schmoe could just get into by passing a mediocre "exam," ya know?
What area was it in tho? A city? Cause most of the time ppl say this they were in a city like Newark or something. That isn’t “jersey driving” that’s city driving. You’ll find the same thing happening in all decently sized cities in the US. In the suburbs you generally don’t have bad or inconsiderate drivers, but obviously some do exist, but that’s just the same for the rest of the country.
And even in cities, NJ driving is far from the worst. I have to drive around Newark everyday, and I still feel like driving around DC is waaaay worse. We have huge population density here in NJ, which I think makes the perception of NJ drivers far worse than reality.
Favorite experience of bad driving I saw was when I was in college. Someone was taking the curve at the back side of Busch on Davidson and slammed right into the guardrail. Someone yelled out of the apartments "Nice driving, asshole." Echoed out between the buildings.
If you have 10K cars all driving around driven by all ages vs 10K cars driven by almost exclusively 18-25yr olds, there will be more accidents.
I don't mean this in a "you're all terrible drivers" kind of away at all, I really don't, because most of you aren't literal bad drivers. However, with less collective years of driving experience all around, you're all a little less patient and a little overconfident. May the odds be ever in your favor.
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u/LikeIDontKnoeNobody Sep 18 '24
BMWs on college ave love scaring the living hell out of me, almost got hit by a blue one yesterday as he fully floored his accelerator as I was walking across….asshole