Illegal U Turns on Highways

Maybe you can see where this is going already.

This past Sunday, Easter Sunday. I was on my way to work. I had to work 3-11. At about 215 or so I was on I90 east bound moving right along taking note of the traffic and how little there was due to the holiday.

So here I am minding my own enjoying the new Willie Nelson album thinking about work.

I was doing a nice 75mph or so moving right along. Up ahead I see this car pull into the U Turn spot, ya know the ones that say NO U TURNS. I see the car stop and inch toward the shoulder on the fast lane a bit and I knew it, I knew they were going to pull right out in front of me. Before I knew it was screaming up behind a car in the fast lane going 30 maybe 40 tops so I attempted to pull into the middle lane to pass but as I did so, so did this person. So I then attempted to go back into the fast lane as they did the same. Panic started to set in. I tried to pull back into the center lane to avoid hitting them.

Well I avoided them for sure as my car did a 180 slid across the middle and fast lane right into the guard rail at 70 or 75mph. I hit the guard rail spun some more slid sideways for another 20 or 30ft and came to a resting stop blocking the whole fast lane. Thank goodness it was Easter Sunday or I would have been quite screwed if there had been more traffic.

I must admit the sounds, site and intensity of the impact were quite spectacular. Hearing my tires skid, car hit the guard rail with one of the loudest metal on metal thuds I had ever heard, the air bag deploying the smoke from the air bag, the site of fluids spraying everywhere from under my hood and the scenery just spinning with me.

So here I am stopped blocking the whole lane, I think I sat there for all of 3 second in the my car I moved my head left, right and down. Nothing hurt my fingers didnt tingle so I felt it was ok to move. I get out and see the car stopped about 200 feet down the highway on the other side. I called 911 hung up and waited.

I started to walk to get the other drivers attention. I then decided it was a bad idea to walk down there since most people passing by were preoccupied by my car which was clearly destroyed and blocking a whole lane of traffic. So I headed back to my car to wait for the police to arrive.

As the police arrive the car that made the illegal actions decided to make their way back onto the highway. I was never able to get close enough to get a plate number and they got away. I could care less that my car is totaled and that I have to get a new one. Inf act this was a new one I had it for 3 months. But the fact that there are people out there who will just drive off knowing they just potentially ruined someones life or disrupted it in some sort of way.

I have never really been so irate or let down by something like this. The fact that they never asked if I was ok but just drove off knowing they would be getting a ticket and help responsible for this accident. I should really just be counting my blessings that I walked away without a scratch on me.