Anonymous wrote:Wow, I am so surprised by the snarky posts. If I saw someone plow through a red light in front of two schools, I would be pretty upset and might come here to vent, express my concern. I don't see how posting here is an overreaction. I wasn't even there and I'm cringing at the thought of what she saw.

Don't you all have kids? Don't you drive River Road?

The snark is because posting things like this here is often part of a thinly veiled attack on a particular school. People will fairly regularly come here and post things like "I saw a young person wearing a [SCHOOL] sweatshirt, and he was drunk/shoplifting/rude/etc!" The clear implication is that particular school is a bad place, and its students are jerks. Posting about bad driving follows the same pattern.

If OP is sincere and earnest, then that's fine. But many people (including me) are skeptical, because this same sort of post is often a troll trick.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I am so surprised by the snarky posts. If I saw someone plow through a red light in front of two schools, I would be pretty upset and might come here to vent, express my concern. I don't see how posting here is an overreaction. I wasn't even there and I'm cringing at the thought of what she saw.

Don't you all have kids? Don't you drive River Road?

When I see a bunch of men posting about the jerk in the Jag with the Chevy Chase Club sticker on his car, then I'll believe this was a good faith post.

Wow, I am so surprised by the snarky posts. If I saw someone plow through a red light in front of two schools, I would be pretty upset and might come here to vent, express my concern. I don't see how posting here is an overreaction. I wasn't even there and I'm cringing at the thought of what she saw.

Don't you all have kids? Don't you drive River Road?

Citizens arrest, Citizens arrest!

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Anonymous wrote:This afternoon a crazy mom - shoulder length dark brown hair, driving a black Range Rover with a Norwood sticker - went careening down River Rd at 3:20ish. She appears to have been annoyed by a car that was stalled, and so leaned on her horn, and sped up, running a red light by Primary Day. Sheesh. Ease up lady! This is a downside of advertising your kid's school on the back of the car.

Right now I'm trying to decide which is worse: That she did this, or that you rushed home and recounted the incident in such particular detail here.

Disagree. A driver blatantly ran a red light in front of two schools around pick-up time. Absent a police officer on the scene to pull her over, public shaming is perfectly appropriate.

Thumbs up to you, OP!

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Anonymous wrote:This afternoon a crazy mom - shoulder length dark brown hair, driving a black Range Rover with a Norwood sticker - went careening down River Rd at 3:20ish. She appears to have been annoyed by a car that was stalled, and so leaned on her horn, and sped up, running a red light by Primary Day. Sheesh. Ease up lady! This is a downside of advertising your kid's school on the back of the car.

Right now I'm trying to decide which is worse: That she did this, or that you rushed home and recounted the incident in such particular detail here.

Hmm...behavior that could kill someone vs. behavior that could embarrass someone who deserves it....

Tough call, that.

This afternoon a crazy mom - shoulder length dark brown hair, driving a black Range Rover with a Norwood sticker - went careening down River Rd at 3:20ish. She appears to have been annoyed by a car that was stalled, and so leaned on her horn, and sped up, running a red light by Primary Day. Sheesh. Ease up lady! This is a downside of advertising your kid's school on the back of the car.

Show the proof. Otherwise, shut your trap, and stop spreading rumors crazy mom.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure she just ran a yellow light. People in this area seem to confuse yellow with red. The yellow is there so people won't slam on their brakes as soon as the light change and to allow people to clear the intersection safely. What to people in DC do? Slam on the brakes as soon as they see a yellow light.

OP here. It was red before she entered the intersection. Couldn't believe it.

Actually, you're supposed to stop when a light turns yellow. That's the law.

No, it is not. You are supposed to get out of the intersection as "quickly and safely as possible" <-- that's the law accroding to MD driving manual. If not why noit just go green then red? The yellow is there to give people a chance to clear the intersection without slamming on their brakes and causing an accident.

In DC it's illegal to enter the intersection once a light turns yellow. And the MD says get out of the intersection, implying you can't enter it either once the light turns yellow.

Anonymous wrote:This afternoon a crazy mom - shoulder length dark brown hair, driving a black Range Rover with a Norwood sticker - went careening down River Rd at 3:20ish. She appears to have been annoyed by a car that was stalled, and so leaned on her horn, and sped up, running a red light by Primary Day. Sheesh. Ease up lady! This is a downside of advertising your kid's school on the back of the car.

Right now I'm trying to decide which is worse: That she did this, or that you rushed home and recounted the incident in such particular detail here.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure she just ran a yellow light. People in this area seem to confuse yellow with red. The yellow is there so people won't slam on their brakes as soon as the light change and to allow people to clear the intersection safely. What to people in DC do? Slam on the brakes as soon as they see a yellow light.

OP here. It was red before she entered the intersection. Couldn't believe it.

Ok, then she was wrong

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure she just ran a yellow light. People in this area seem to confuse yellow with red. The yellow is there so people won't slam on their brakes as soon as the light change and to allow people to clear the intersection safely. What to people in DC do? Slam on the brakes as soon as they see a yellow light.

OP here. It was red before she entered the intersection. Couldn't believe it.

Actually, you're supposed to stop when a light turns yellow. That's the law.

No, it is not. You are supposed to get out of the intersection as "quickly and safely as possible" <-- that's the law accroding to MD driving manual. If not why noit just go green then red? The yellow is there to give people a chance to clear the intersection without slamming on their brakes and causing an accident.

Man..I am sure more than one person at Norwood has a Range Rover (no snark..it's a nice car that I would love to have) and brown hair...now those people are going to feel "outed" when they didn't do anything. Also what about if op,has an ax to grind and made this up. Just sayin...

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure she just ran a yellow light. People in this area seem to confuse yellow with red. The yellow is there so people won't slam on their brakes as soon as the light change and to allow people to clear the intersection safely. What to people in DC do? Slam on the brakes as soon as they see a yellow light.

OP here. It was red before she entered the intersection. Couldn't believe it.

Actually, you're supposed to stop when a light turns yellow. That's the law.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure she just ran a yellow light. People in this area seem to confuse yellow with red. The yellow is there so people won't slam on their brakes as soon as the light change and to allow people to clear the intersection safely. What to people in DC do? Slam on the brakes as soon as they see a yellow light.

OP here. It was red before she entered the intersection. Couldn't believe it.

Anonymous wrote:Multiple pick ups are no reason to risk your own and others' lives with aggressive driving. Our neighbor was hit by a speeding driver on River Road - lucky to have lived.

My 12 yr old son narrowly missed being hit by Potomac Elementary on River Road by a mom in minivan in a big hurry. He was crossing the street at the crosswalk to get to his bus stop. One car stopped for him but the minivan behind it swerved around to pass and almost hit my son. She didn't even look back. I count my blessings every day.