Seems like the past 4 months have been a blur at work. Today starts a much calmer pace. And for good or worse, I'll have more "ME" time. Which means more forum time.
So let me catch up on a few things misc things.
1- Here's a video from from my dash cam of a lady in a hurry. The white SUV was behind me in the left turn lane when the light turned red. As you will see she was in a hurry. This was mid-day, so probably her hair appointment.
2- And here's one of our county LEOs distracted by his in-car computer. Blocking the box.
3- Then I don't remember if I posted this before.
Was in N. Jacksonville and as you can see in the first picture, I'm coming to a RR crossing.
Notice the lights are NOT flashing.
Notice the oncoming vehicles are stopped.
Yes, they're a tanker and a bus and are required to stop, but they remained stopped.
Notice I'm at an acute angle to the tracks and can't see what's to my right because of trees.
I figured they must see something I couldn't see.
Notice I'm going 50mph.
Now here I am stopped. Granted it was 18 seconds later, and it was a slow mover, but I didn't know that. CSX said that was
just a siding and the train is suppose to be going slow enough it can stop if there's traffic in the way. R-I-G-H-T. I say turn the blinkers on sooner.
To my right was a large truck, pulling a trailer. It was in my blind spot. He too executed a panic stop. I don't know whether he saw the train, or the other vehicles or whether he was just reacting to my panic stop.
BTB: The train was pulling 4 tanker cars and by the looks and sounds of it they were full. Curious how quickly he could stop.
3- AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I guess I'm too late to pre-order an Apex trigger.