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Draano t1_j6klal3 wrote

I live close to rt. 18 and holy cow, I swear some of these people are trying to become meat crayons. Seriously in excess of 100 mph, ripping through the gears at top rpm, sometimes during rush hour. I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to scrape them off the pavement.

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OkBid1535 t1_j6mjxx1 wrote

Wow meat crayons, I’m also going to have to use that term if you don’t mind!

I live off of 37 near seaside, and holy, shit. The amount of racing you hear almost every night at 9 pm. It’s insane honestly. Nvm how 37 is basically a suicide mission dare you drive it at peak hours.

I’m a stay at home mom so I rarely have to get on the parkway. I avoid 37 like the plague and use backroads just to get to the ShopRite for example.

The handful of times I do have to take the parkway it’s consistently been white knuckle driving. Just because of so many erratic drivers who feel entitled to be wherever they please.

I was rear ended a decade ago, guy hit me going 50 mph as I was stopped. And pregnant. So I’m already a super vigilant driver just from that experience. Because of NJs no fault laws the guy got away with it. I tried to sue his business into oblivion…

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Primary_Curve_9035 OP t1_j6krsdh wrote

It's funny you say that I work for my local townships road department and AM the guy that scrapes them off the pavement in two separate incidents. One was a heart attack victem and the other was a teen who thought they were invincible. Normaly the local police do most of the work for us but it's still horrible.

Whoever they were whatever they were doing their final moments of their body's memory weren't their grieving family thinking fondly of them around their casket but our trucks spreading sand over the bloody pulp on the road and what's ever left of them being sucked away by a street sweeper. If anything I can say the silver lining is it humbles everyone involved and their stupid choice can help others to be more carefull in order to stick around for their loved ones.

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