Bike accident while in PHX

[ab]

Glad you are ok and bike.

PHX has crazy crazy drivers.  I saw some insane lane changing by insane drivers during my stay for almost a year.   Isn't PHX in the top list for high traffic accidents?

[IZ]

Glad you are ok and bike.

PHX has crazy crazy drivers.  I saw some insane lane changing by insane drivers during my stay for almost a year.   Isn't PHX in the top list for high traffic accidents?

Yes, it seems like we had 3 or 4 of the Top 10 intersections for accidents in the country.  Drivers are worse here in Austin though.  Not enough roadway and too many cars.  A lot of drivers doing stupid things to get ahead on congested roads to move up one car length. At least there are plenty of roads and surface streets in PHX to get places.  Alternate routes are a great thing!

[aaen]

Yeah I'll vouch for bad drivers sin the phx area.  I the roughly three years i lived there i was rear ended in my truck 4 times, thank god i had left my hitch in not an issue with my truck, mind you two bmw's, accura and i think it was a honda all needed a new hood and headlight.  Ever since then i have left it in.  Oddly here in BC If you are caught with one in apparently you can face a fine as it cane cause undo damage to another persons car. I haven't verified that yet though. 

At the moment i am in Calgary and boy it is warmer here the it was in phx, light snow in the area, i am so tempted to take the bike out.  Haha, not gonna happen.

[NAKID]

Oddly here in BC If you are caught with one in apparently you can face a fine as it cane cause undo damage to another persons car. I haven't verified that yet though. 

Only if they hit YOU...

[dlearl476]

Yes, it seems like we had 3 or 4 of the Top 10 intersections for accidents in the country.  Drivers are worse here in Austin though.  Not enough roadway and too many cars.  A lot of drivers doing stupid things to get ahead on congested roads to move up one car length. At least there are plenty of roads and surface streets in PHX to get places.  Alternate routes are a great thing!

IMO, it's because PHX, like Las Vegas, have too long of traffic lights. It encouraged people to run the yellows.

[dlearl476]

Yeah I'll vouch for bad drivers sin the phx area.  I the roughly three years i lived there i was rear ended in my truck 4 times, thank god i had left my hitch in not an issue with my truck.

You were probably stopping at lights locals would run.
That happened do often to my cousin that no one would ride with her.

[IZ]

IMO, PHX have too long of traffic lights. It encouraged people to run the yellows.

You obviously haven't lived in FL.     You want to talk about long lights. That's no exaggeration either. 

I've lived in And around PHX/AZ for about 20 years.  The lights aren't that long at all. There's really just a bunch of dumb shits on the road not paying attention and/or driving stupidly.  I've never seen so many red light runners (even with the old cameras) anywhere.  Also, when did it become acceptable to make a u-turn when one has a red arrow?!  This is a common occurrence there.  In front of me several times while taking off when I have the green and right of way!   

[justinrhenry]

You obviously haven't lived in FL.     You want to talk about long lights.

+1

[aaen]

Can't say I have spent much time in Florida, however I may be down in San Diego next week and bringing the bike with me. Gf's family get together.  So i bring my truck let her romp around in that and do her family thing and I take off and go exploring.  See what happens, I really need to get back to work though, this damn down turn in the construction industry is driving me nuts.  That and half the projects i get contracted out to are either getting delayed/canceled right before startup, grrr.. Sorry but of a rant there.

So what are the drivers like in San Diego?  If I remember correctly from the time I spent in cali going diving, the drivers were not all that bad, mind you though, I was just hauling ass from phx to san pedro to catch a boat.