Maryland morons driving

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how and why MDers got the rap for being bad drivers.

Because most times there’s a reckless moving violation on the road, the plates are Maryland. Maybe it’s because they are so far from everything that they feel they need to speed and so forth?

Doesn't mean they are FROM Maryland. Maybe they learned to drive elsewhere.

Take your clown show elsewhere, op.

Exactly! Put some thought into your unoriginal posts.

So? Doesn't mean they learned how to drive in Maryland.

I think those bad drivers are from Maryland. I learned to drive in Maryland a d am very fortunate all my relatives are from other states so I learned to drive correctly. No left lane unless passing, accelerate in the merge lane, if you are making right on red you must yield etc. Despite introducing the rookie driver program Maryland does produce good drivers. The road test is extremely easy and not realistic. parents can fudge the driving hours for kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how and why MDers got the rap for being bad drivers.

Because 90% of the time a car weaves between cars and changing three lanes at a time going 30 miles over the speed limit, it’s got Maryland plates. I had the misfortune of driving back from Annapolis last night and about 12 of these SOBs were racing each other putting several hundred other cars at risk of an instant, violent death. They all had the same tail lights - Ford Mustangs, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how and why MDers got the rap for being bad drivers.

Because 90% of the time a car weaves between cars and changing three lanes at a time going 30 miles over the speed limit, it’s got Maryland plates. I had the misfortune of driving back from Annapolis last night and about 12 of these SOBs were racing each other putting several hundred other cars at risk of an instant, violent death. They all had the same tail lights - Ford Mustangs, I think.

This is called confirmation bias. You think you know something and so you see it everywhere. It’s not true. Virginia drivers are as bad if not worse.

[Anonymous]

I find MD drivers don’t signal, either at all or not until they are half way through completing the turn/switching lanes. I also saw way too many MD drivers ignore stop and yield signs at aggressive speeds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find MD drivers don’t signal, either at all or not until they are half way through completing the turn/switching lanes. I also saw way too many MD drivers ignore stop and yield signs at aggressive speeds.

Guessing you are a VA driver who thinks driving even slower will get you un-lost. Move out the way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I find MD drivers don’t signal, either at all or not until they are half way through completing the turn/switching lanes. I also saw way too many MD drivers ignore stop and yield signs at aggressive speeds.

Guessing you are a VA driver who thinks driving even slower will get you un-lost. Move out the way.

As someone who has lived in both MoCo and Fairfax for many years in each, and regularly drives all over NoVA, MoCo and PG, I can assure that there are many bad drivers in all of these areas but that the Maryland drivers definitely tend to be worse. I think it mostly poverty-related. It tends to be crappy cars that are doing very dangerous things. Although, you do see the occasional entitled BMW drive going 90 weaving in and out between cars. But you can also usually tell that they know how to drive, unlike the beatup Honda civic that just ran you off the road because they don't understand how merge works.

[Anonymous]

My military husband, who has lived all over and from NY, has always talked about how awful MD drivers are. If you drive I-95, you know. If there’s someone driving slowly in the left lane, and not getting out of the way, 9 times out of 10 they are from MD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how and why MDers got the rap for being bad drivers.

Because 90% of the time a car weaves between cars and changing three lanes at a time going 30 miles over the speed limit, it’s got Maryland plates. I had the misfortune of driving back from Annapolis last night and about 12 of these SOBs were racing each other putting several hundred other cars at risk of an instant, violent death. They all had the same tail lights - Ford Mustangs, I think.

If you were on the stand, would you be able to tell 100% that the cars driving erratically were Mustangs? If not, don’t say they were Mustangs. I live in Annapolis, drive 97 and 50. Drivers operating all vehicle manufacturers. Most of the speeding, weaving in and out of traffic and tailgating are high end vehicles, in a rush to get stuck behind the next car.

[Anonymous]

the bad drivers I see are mostly those who are confused, don't know where they are going, too scared to drive so they drive too slowly, don't care about others, ie aggressive drivers.

They come in all shapes and sizes -- from old people to young, from poor to rich and entitled.

But, ask the insurance industry where most of the bad drivers live. The rest of the posts are anecdotes. I see bad drives in both MD and VA, but numbers don't lie, and they are not biased, unless individuals.

https://insurify.com/insights/states-worst-drivers-2022/

these ten states are home to more rule-breaking motorists than anywhere else.

10. South Dakota
9. Virginia
8. Idaho
7. Wisconsin
6. South Carolina
5. Wyoming
4. Nebraska
3. North Dakota
2. Iowa
1. Ohio

Methodology:
When applying for car insurance, applicants disclose their state of residence and any prior violations on their driving record within the last seven years. Insurify’s data scientists compared the number of drivers with one or more at-fault violations on record (including accidents, DUIs, failures to stop, speeding, reckless driving, passing violations, and other citations for illegal driving behavior) to the total number of drivers applying for car insurance in each state. The ten states with the highest proportion of drivers with at-fault incidents on record earned a spot in the rankings of the states with the worst drivers in America. Traffic fatality rates by state are from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s most recent Fatality Facts report.

The findings in this article represent statistical trends found in Insurify’s database of over 4.6 million car insurance applications. The findings of this study are not meant to imply the direction nor necessarily the existence of a causal relationship. Rather, this is a presentation of statistical correlations of public interest.