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I disagree with your unhinged and intolerant screed against foreigners and people from out of state.

There is an assumption under the law that if you hold a valid driver's license from another jurisdiction, you may exchange it for a MD driver's license. The people who cause car accidents are statistically young adults and the elderly - regardless of where they come from. Which means the majority of accidents on River Rd will be caused by Montgomery County drivers.

- European whose driving test in Paris was much harder than the incredibly easy one given here in MD. MOST wealthy countries have harder driving tests than the ones given in the USA, actually.

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Don't care.

Do care that drivers here know right of way rules, merging rules, school bus stop rules, passing rules, signage meaning, ambulance/ police siren rules, etc. in USA.

Again, only Maryland does not require a refresher or proof of at least road rules knowledge. 
Look at its accident rate, hit rate, ticketing rate, insurance rate. High, high, high, high. Breaks the record for the country in many metrics. So many accidents they don't keep car accident stats, but look around, it's not (nationally?) young adults and the elderly. Most teens here don't get their license on time, ie age 16.

Most states, you'd sit for a short test after your vision test. Yes the test can be in any of 20+ languages. [/quote]

Unless you cite actual numbers, we don't believe you. You're ranting because you're angry. But you can't just use a $250 ticket for failing to stop for a school bus to attack foreigners. There is never a good reason to act like a xenophobe.

My teen just got his license and we attended a lecture by a MoCo police officer who told us the majority of accidents were caused by young drivers and the elderly.

So stop with your hatred already. Pay the fine and tell your nanny to always look in her rearview mirror before stopping. This should have been part of her driver's ed! I've been able to avoid being rear-ended multiple times by implementing safe stops. River Road has a speed limit for a reason: you can't go too fast otherwise you cannot stop safely. It used to be a very dangerous road before they reduced the speed limit.

You don't actually say whether she was rear-ended - your phrasing is vague. If she was, I hope she wasn't hurt! If she wasn't, stop using that argument to blow everything out of proportion.

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I have 4 citizenships, am not a xenophobe.

However I stand by my claims that the DMV has many terrible adult drivers who do not know signage or road rules. And part of that is driven by day workers who never took drivers ed or a road rules test here. Insurance companies know it, court system knows it (was clear as day during 12 days of Grand jury duty in Rockville), and the police know it. Many WaPo and national articles out there on the terrible lack of rules drivers in this area have. And accident rates.

I hope all of River Road stops for this silly school bus at 3:15pm everyday, clicking out $2000 of citations across seven lanes.[/quote]

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