We recently had a motorcycle rider killed in my small town.
The motorcyclist (59yo local woman) was turning left onto a busy 5 lane highway. Crossing 2 lanes & a middle turning lane.
The driver of the car was across he road, heading the opposite direction, turning left & trying to cross 5 lanes & turn right. The driver (37yo) is a Mexican woman here illegally & of course has no drivers license or insurance.
This part of town has become an absolute zoo & the most dangerous part of town. It’s the main highway thru town, 2 lanes on either side of a turning lane. Drivers are always pulling into the turn lane to “merge” with traffic (which is BS & very dangerous). Adding to the danger, a lot of the restaurants/offices on this highway have a steep entry way, so cars have to slow way down, or sometimes even stop to wait on drivers to turn in. Then there’s people like the driver in this story who try to turn left across traffic to turn right immediately on the other side. There’s several odd side streets also.
I always joke that the most dangerous part of a rod trip for me is gettin out of Graham. We have a ton of old people (the Blue Hairs) who can’t see good, & don’t really care anyway. Then we have a ton of Mexican women (some illegals with no license or insurance, like this lady) who can’t see over the dash & are constantly playing on their phone in traffic. This is in addition to the regular amount of inattentive drivers, like soccer moms & teenagers, that are everywhere.
Another aspect I can’t unserstand is why do people think they can illegally enter a country, & just start driving without license or insurance? I would never go to another country (illegally) & just start driving without proper licensing or insurance. Yet we allow millions of people from a 3rd World s-hole come here & do just that.
Now we have a local lady killed & no recourse at all for her family, all because of a bad/inattentive driver, having no DL or insurance, & not even supposed to be here.
Sad for the family of the motorcyclist.
As it cools down & we get more into riding season again, be safe out there.
Graham woman arrested in fatal motorcycle wreck | The Graham Leader
A Graham woman was booked into the Young County Jail Saturday, Aug. 17 on a charge of no drivers license and was later charged with criminally negligent homicide. The charges stemmed from a vehicle wreck in the 1100 block of S Hwy. 16 on the same day which resulted in the death of another...
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The motorcyclist (59yo local woman) was turning left onto a busy 5 lane highway. Crossing 2 lanes & a middle turning lane.
The driver of the car was across he road, heading the opposite direction, turning left & trying to cross 5 lanes & turn right. The driver (37yo) is a Mexican woman here illegally & of course has no drivers license or insurance.
This part of town has become an absolute zoo & the most dangerous part of town. It’s the main highway thru town, 2 lanes on either side of a turning lane. Drivers are always pulling into the turn lane to “merge” with traffic (which is BS & very dangerous). Adding to the danger, a lot of the restaurants/offices on this highway have a steep entry way, so cars have to slow way down, or sometimes even stop to wait on drivers to turn in. Then there’s people like the driver in this story who try to turn left across traffic to turn right immediately on the other side. There’s several odd side streets also.
I always joke that the most dangerous part of a rod trip for me is gettin out of Graham. We have a ton of old people (the Blue Hairs) who can’t see good, & don’t really care anyway. Then we have a ton of Mexican women (some illegals with no license or insurance, like this lady) who can’t see over the dash & are constantly playing on their phone in traffic. This is in addition to the regular amount of inattentive drivers, like soccer moms & teenagers, that are everywhere.
Another aspect I can’t unserstand is why do people think they can illegally enter a country, & just start driving without license or insurance? I would never go to another country (illegally) & just start driving without proper licensing or insurance. Yet we allow millions of people from a 3rd World s-hole come here & do just that.
Now we have a local lady killed & no recourse at all for her family, all because of a bad/inattentive driver, having no DL or insurance, & not even supposed to be here.
Sad for the family of the motorcyclist.
As it cools down & we get more into riding season again, be safe out there.