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The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread
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Boots
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Video going up soon. There was an approaching ambulance and I was the first in line of an intersection. The light went red then quickly green (The ambulance changed the lights). I waited for the ambulance to clear the intersection as did the car to my left, she went full speed into me not noticing the ambulance or the light that had just went from red to green really quickly.
And that's just really unfortunate the way it had to happen. I have no idea why the ambulance changed the light usually I see them tossing on their sirens and proceeding through with caution. My guess is that light probably had her thinking she was okay to go through and maybe got distracted for a second and she plowed into me. Was just about to throw the signal on before I saw them in the rear view and braced for impact.
Either way, I have no ****ing clue why that ambulance turned the light from red to green right away because that might have avoided a lot of head (and neck) aches.
And that's just really unfortunate the way it had to happen. I have no idea why the ambulance changed the light usually I see them tossing on their sirens and proceeding through with caution. My guess is that light probably had her thinking she was okay to go through and maybe got distracted for a second and she plowed into me. Was just about to throw the signal on before I saw them in the rear view and braced for impact.
Either way, I have no ****ing clue why that ambulance turned the light from red to green right away because that might have avoided a lot of head (and neck) aches.
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At least you weren't far from home.....
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That sucks, I hope you are all good and things are dealt with easily.
Just a question I'm asking myself after watching the video that would be interesting to get opinion on...looking at that road with nothing on the right hand side, was there a need to come to a complete stop?
I will always pull over and slow for emergency vehicles but if there is a median and no turning ability for them directly in front of me while they are on the other side of the road I will slowly advance.
Not attacking you Boots or saying you were in the wrong, just wanted to get opinions.
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Just a question I'm asking myself after watching the video that would be interesting to get opinion on...looking at that road with nothing on the right hand side, was there a need to come to a complete stop?
I will always pull over and slow for emergency vehicles but if there is a median and no turning ability for them directly in front of me while they are on the other side of the road I will slowly advance.
Not attacking you Boots or saying you were in the wrong, just wanted to get opinions.
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Boots
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I more than likely would not have gotten in the way of the ambulance, but regardless there are many times in which you wont get in the way of the ambulance, you still as the MTO and HTA state bring your car to an immediate but safe stop. my stop was immediate in that as soon as I saw it I stopped the car, and it was safe in that it wasn't abrupt and I had my brake lights lit up the whole way. I had the intention of signalling but saw her coming and chose to brace for impact instead
in this case I and the car to my left didn't enter and I had the intention of going through after the emergency vehicle has passed as per the law states.
just to be clear, she made no attempt to stop and went full speed into my back, had I accelerated when the light had gone green, knowing my car I would be at 20 to 25 while she still plows into me at 60 to 70.
Very true, you were 100% in the right since you were barely even moving to begin with. I was just curious to see if I was the only one who thought that.
The light had just turned turned from red and like you said (and could tell in the video) she didn't even attempt to slow at all. Glad your all good, even though the car is toast.
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Boots
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yeah that's no problem I don't mind clarifying why I did what I did.
unlike here https://m.reddit.com/r/TorontoDriving/comments/48tprw/rear_ended/
these guys are trying to tell me that I should have knew a couple hundred metres back she was going to hit me and therefore should have went through the intersection.
they're suggesting in a rear wheel drive, manual car on salted roads with traction control on that I perfectly launch the car and miraculously avoid the accident by accelerating to 50 in the above conditions - an accident which I should have known was coming a couple hundred metres ago.
gotta love armchair drivers. avoid the unavoidable.
"Well who got hit? You only have yourself to blame." Clearly, that guy has no idea how fault and responsibility work.
Boots
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That was a gem.
Boots
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I think some of them are trolls and some are completely serious.... and it's hard to figure out which ones worse.
Could be worse, could be YouTube comments where a reply apparently must be formulated using at least 1 curse word for every 3 regular words, is highly unlikely to include punctuation, and is typically generally borderline unintelligible. Bonus points if you can throw in gay slurs as part of your reply.
That's essentially how I learnt the name of a racist Norwegian Black Metal musician who was convict of both murder and arson; he replied to one of my Youtube posts.
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