Ok, you know what makes me sick? I love saying that. But, seriously, we have rules to follow on the road for a reason. Going around breaking the rules thinking you’re some kind of good Samaritan is still breaking the rules.
I just watched an accident happen and as far as I’m concerned it was the so called ‘good Samaritan‘s fault. Here’s what happened:
Someone was coming out of a parking lot onto a five lane road (two lanes going in each direction and a turning lane). The car was waiting for traffic to clear and some idiot decides to be nice and completely stops traffic in his lane to let the car come out and cross into the other lane. The idiot good Samaritan doesn’t control that lane and since he just blocked everyone’s view the car coming out of the parking lot was t-boned.
My feelings? Any guesses? Just because he had good intentions doesn’t help the fact that he caused the accident. Guess what the idiot driver did next? He drove around the accident and went on his way.
As a truck driver with over twenty years of driving experience and over a million accident free miles, please please please, if you have the right away gets your ass moving. Being nice on the road violates a system designed to protect everyone. If you need to feel good about your insecure self then go to Church or donate to the needy, just let someone else drive.