Hollywood Freeway, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
In the Los Angeles area, travelers can encounter some unique driving situations. Sometimes when I am waiting patiently in traffic, I will be startled by the noise of a motorcycle traveling between me and the car next to me. I will be stopped in bumper-to-bumper traffic and a motorcyclist will be riding down the white line that divides the lanes. This is legal. This action also occurs at times when traffic is not stopped. Motorists have to be careful to look for motorcyclists before they change lanes. Normally drivers look for other cars and for people in their lanes. These motorcyclists can come out of nowhere.
Drivers in LA like to frequently change lanes just to get ahead a small distance. A motorist will move from Lane A to Lane B to Lane C and back to Lane A again just to advance a couple car lengths in traffic. As one can expect, this type of driver is easily prone to road rage when he is not able to accomplish his objective.
With millions of cars and hundreds of crazy drivers, tourists are bound to get into accidents. Many times police cannot or will not come to the scene of an accident. Drivers would be wise to remember the camera in their cell phones and take as many photos as possible from as many angles as possible. People who drive in a crazy manner would probably be quick to accuse others of causing an accident. Photos will not lie.
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