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To "Award" a driver, is to say thanks to a driver for showing courtesy and thoughtfulness.

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To "Wink" at a driver, is to send a flirtacious message to a driver you've encountered.

To "Hazard" a driver is to warn them of a physical hazard that their vehicle exhibits.

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Latest Wires for United States : Washington
Capital Lumber and Door Truck bullied his way into my lane on Martin Way (vic College Ave, heading East) when I was driving to work 29FEB14 at approximately 0910. US DOT # 1895203. WA B14684N. No remorse whatsoever by the driver even though he clearly endangered my life. Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVAy6kxiWw. Watch out for this life-threatening bully.

Flag : Flagrant Recklessness

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Residential 4-way intersection. Teen Driver blew past me without even slowing down in the turn lane, then pulled into the straight lane directly in front of me. Road hazard! Where'd this punk get his license?!

Flag : Stupid Teenager

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Metal recycling meth head: This individual is great, just another road bully with a bunch of stolen radiators and catalytic converters, strapped precariously to the top of his late model, gold colored Nissan SUV. While blocking people from getting over and being a road bully then blocks traffic to yell at me. However, once the meth addicted, mobile mechanic, over charging, not broken car part stealing, metal recycling road bully determined that intimidation does not work on me. Then decided to file a false police report, which did not work out for the radiator thief. You can always tell a bully, because when you get ready and are not scared, they immediately revert to calling the police for them being a jerk and blocking traffic, for no reason. So now, he is probably somewhere, ripping off another customer by telling them the radiator is bad, or the catalytic converter is bad, so he can replace them for no reason, then also make a ton of money for recycling them for the copper. All the while, sucking on his glass dick, and picking the open meth sores on his face and strapping more stolen radiators and converters to the top of his pathfinder.

Hazard : Metal recycling meth head

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While driving in excess of 65mph and about 20-feet behind a loaded flatbed semi, this female driver was oblivious to everything happening around her.

Flag : I-5 Texter

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Tailgating, then passed (twice) in no-passing zone, cutting in sharply on both passed vehicles, then exceeding posted speed limit by more than 5 MPH. Westbound on Old Olympic Highway in vicinity of Towne Road; around 12:50 PM, Saturday, 11 August 2012.

Flag : Aggressive

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Most bus drivers are good, but I always seem to witness the bad ones -- the ones that blow through red lights, the ones that try to cross the intersection even though they know they won't make it and thus block traffic for everyone else after the light changes, I've even been on a bus that was running late and ignored people at a stop. Friday, June 22 at around 4 p.m., I was driving south on Eastlake. After you drive underneath the I-5 bridge, the right lane turns into a parking lane. Most people know this. The bus driver of Metro Bus 2787 (route 72X) obviously knew this, because he or she was speeding like crazy to pass me so he can get into the left lane. There was one car in front of me and NOBODY behind me. The bus, which was an express bus and didn't have anymore pickups to make, could've easily gotten behind me at any time. But instead, the driver floored it until he was beside me and I was forced to slow down so that I wouldn't get hit when the driver changed lanes. There was nobody in the lane behind me! The bus was already behind me! Why the hell would the driver do something like that?

Flag : Lead Foot Bus Driver

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What is with these drivers that love to tailgate and change lanes every possible moment they can? I'm driving along Sand Point Way toward the U District and out of nowhere this Honda Pilot driver speeds in out of nowhere to tailgate the vehicle in the next lane. It's obvious what he's about to do next, and sure enough, when there's enough space he immediately switches lanes. But there's another vehicle directly in front of him and you can actually see his frustrated body language. Eventually some space opens up so he darts right back into the left lane, passes and then before you know it is back in the right lane. He got pretty far ahead of me and I thought i had lost him, but a few lights later just before the U Village, there he was again, back in the other lane waiting at a red light. A couple lights later, what does he do? Changes back to the other lane yet again!

Flag : Zig Zag Lead Foot

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Obviously this speed demon's license plate isn't BMW SUV, but he drove by so fast I didn't get a good look other than it was a seven digit plate. I'm also not 100% sure of the paint job. It was kind of blue-gray. From my memory the BMW was more X5 than X3, but again I didn't get a good look since this jackass doesn't even know what brakes are. This happened around 4 p.m. going south on Eastlake on Sunday, June 3. Light is red just underneath the I-5 bridge. This speed demon BMW SUV driver is barreling down toward the one car waiting at the light. Light turns green. Up ahead the two lanes are about to become one. You can see this jackass BMW SUV driver actually weaving back and forth trying to decide if he's gonna risk getting in the lane that will end to pass, or be a civil, sane, safe human being. Being the jackass that he is, sane and safe is not an option and he promptly guns it to pass the car. What this jackass loser BMW SUV driver does next is what took the cake. There was only car on Eastlake in front of him and he was NOT going below the speed limit. So what does jackass BMW SUV driver do? He gets into the center turn lane and floors it to get past him!

Flag : Super douchebag

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Grey 2003-2006 Model Jeep Cherokee with tinted windows as well as stock rims. Full of individuals who come through my neighborhood and harass me and my neighbors as well as attempt to start fights then run off when confronted. These idiots drive like their heads are stuck in their ass, they litter, they throw up gang signs and flip off other drivers for no reason other than to start a fight then run away. Mommy and Daddy need to take his keys away, or the cops need to revoke their licenses before something really bad happens. I would suggest that all drivers, and other people including their own families and anyone who meets them in real life to not talk to them but to immediately call law enforcement and file complaints about the garbage they pull.

Hazard : Cantankerous Cowards

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This happened really fast and I wasn't near this car, so I didn't catch anything other than the license plate, but considering the way the driver was behaving, it wasn't a surprise that it wasn't exactly a well-kept vehicle. Anyway, this happened going I-5 north on the express lanes Saturday night. There are only three lanes once you hit the U-District area and there were a few scattered cars occupying all three lanes. It wasn't like anyone was going slow to begin with, but it wasn't a cluster any lead footed lane weavers would be able to pass. Or so I thought. Then out of nowhere Speed Racer comes barreling down upon the cluster going who knows how fast, tailgates one car, immediately switches not one but two lanes over, almost clipping the car in the middle, speeds past everyone and then switches back into the other lane.

Flag : Dangerous Speeder

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Vehicles in both lanes are already going above the speed limit as it is, but apparently that's not fast enough for this BMW X5 driver who is entitled to drive at whatever hell speed he or she wants to, so what happens? He or she speed racers right next to the bumper of the car in front. Why? What is it with these self-important lead-footed drivers that they have to get right up behind the vehicle in front of them? You understand that if the car in front has to suddenly stop, there's a chance that one or both of you will die (hopefully it's only you)? If that wasn't enough for this entitled BMW driver, he or she also constantly changes lanes without signaling either. So once enough space cleared between the two cars in front (not safe space, mind you), BMW driver weaves over into the left lane without signaling, then accelerates even more to pass the original driver and get back in the right lane. But then approaching a light it's clear there are more vehicles waiting in the right lane than left, so entitled BMW driver gets back into the left lane, again without signaling. And this entitled BMW driver had to get back into the right lane because he or she had to turn right!

Flag : Tailgating & Weaving

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Going southbound on 23rd Ave E south of I-5, this driver does what almost every Seattle driver does that it's now a cliche. There appears to be more cars in the left lane than the right lane, so the driver of this CR-V switches to the right lane and immediately proceeds to floor it. Uh oh. There's a bus up ahead (which is probably why there were more drivers in the left lane to begin with), so what does the CR-V driver do? Immediately force her way back into the left lane, cutting off the car behind her. Seattle drivers always do this. Their lane is ending or someone up ahead is turning or something that requires them to actually press on the breaks for two seconds, so their first instinct is to immediately switch lanes. Either they're reckless and don't even bother to look first, or they just don't care about anyone else on the road because they're entitled to a lane change and you should bow to their will being a peon driver.

Flag : Left Right Left

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Latest Blogs for United States : Washington

Reckless Truck Driver

Monday, February 24, 2014

falcon77

Large Truck owned by Capital Lumber and Door forced its way into my lane, almost crushing my small passenger vehicle. Video at >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVAy6kxiWw. 

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Road rage!!

Sunday, June 03, 2012

murphy2006

I was getting off of I-14 onto I-205 north when a old white dodge pickup started tail gating me and then quickly changed lanes to be behind the person next to me. The dodge tailgated that car as the 2 lanes became one forcing me to slam on my brakes and vear into the side median. If I hadn't swerved, I would have been in a HUGE accident. This drive is not safe at all!

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Flying FREAK

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

XxXsmithxXx

  Flies down Interstate 5 in South Seattle heading Northbound. Blue 2011 Ford Escape Limited Edition

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PLEASE STOP!

Saturday, May 05, 2012

phlebotomiss

  Hi, I am a Gig Harbor resident who is concerned about the lack of attention to the law. At an intersection just down the road from my house, and 2 schools, is a 4 way stop that no one seems to obey. (Unless they have to!) I have reported it to police and had an interview (shown below) on KIRO news 7 following a skateboarder accident that happened right in front of my eyes two weeks ago. I made this You Tube video comical so that it h

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TAILGATER

Thursday, December 01, 2011

muddog

 A lady in a white VW tailgated me from the moment we left the school all the way until i turned off to my road to get to my house. She was probably about 2 or 3 feet away from the back of my bumper at all times unless we were at a stop sign, then she was about 6inches from the back of my car. I was going the speedlimit and there were other vehicles in front of me so its like she had a reason to do it. Just in general, she's a horrible driver, freakin tee

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I see it, but I don't believe it.

Monday, October 03, 2011

Wheelman

I didn't take down the license plate so this is where I'll vent my shock and amusement about a clueless driver. It was Sunday night in Seattle along South Lake Union. I was coming up on a red light and an old, faded van that was already at the intersection was stopped halfway onto the crosswalk -- but it was the back half! The front half of the van was in the intersection! Fortunately for him or her there was no crossing traffic so no one was being bl

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

thegreat8

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 downlink/expose/moron.female
 username>>bad.fileextensionname<<BadWookiee
 userhistory=usel.ess
 thought/process<<<infant.ile
 user.BadWookiee.namefile=gaylord.fag

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Aggressive driver

Thursday, June 23, 2011

jesstt

To the gentleman driving south on Whidbey Island...."You need to leave a little earlier to catch the ferry. Slow it down and STOP tail gating people PLEASE" Small island, you can't help but notice people and their actions

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Typical Little Man Syndrom

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Lil_S

May 17th, 2011, Washington vehicle bearing B30422R is a VERY AGGRESSIVE DRIVER and out of control with a deep anger issue. Best part...I got it all on video (and he knows it, yet he couldn't control himself).

While driving on I-5 going North over the bridge, he merged into traffic and began tailgating me badly. I couldn't speed up as traffic was going slow during rush hour. I was concerned, so I slowed down to let him pass (all the while video taping)

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Left turn lane cut-off

Saturday, September 25, 2010

EBColdiron

Was riding the night service in Kennewick.  Was about to turn off the southbound lane of U.S. 395 to W. 27th Ave to Walmart when this Jetta nearly cut us off in the left turn lane.  This guy's an accident waiting to happen!

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389 ZDE

Friday, March 26, 2010

mywacraig

Road Rager - slams on the brakes in the middle of the interstate where speed limit is 70 mph

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Blond female

Friday, February 19, 2010

phoneguy

 The lady who drives Washington plate # 547WNG, a dark blue Volvo needs to learn and understand the laws while she is driving.  Here she is driving northbound from Portland Oregon to Vancouver Washington in the carpool lane which is suppose to be for 2 or more people per car.  She is alone.  Changed lanes a few times without using her turn signals.  Maybe Volvo doesn't equip their cars with that option any longer?  Ha!  She a

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THis is fantastic

Saturday, December 05, 2009

realcheez

 I have my own database of over 1000 stupid/mean/A55/HOV Violator drivers from the past 7 years and finally

I can share them (already sent the list to WSP, lol! They did not respond at all)

is there an HOV category?

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Monday, August 17, 2009

StopIt

This driver was weaving in and out trying to get ahead during congestive traffic conditions. I see her approaching in the rear view and I just like to let people like that go by, so they're far away from me. But she didn't she stayed on my tail because no one else would let her in and nearly hit me everytime I stopped at a light. To top it, her music was so lound it vibrated my windows and of course it's irritating. I didn't want to hear anything.

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Stop Signs Don't Apply to Everyone...

Monday, July 20, 2009

ValueMyLife

 Stop signs apparently don't apply to everyone... I guess. While driving on NE 99 Street today in Vancouver, WA, a woman in a Ford Explorer, plates 168-NZR, decided to not only almost hit and killed the pedestrian on the sidewalk as she blew a stop sign, but she almost killed me and a car that was already stopped in front of her waiting to pull out. She got very upset when I honked at her. WOW! I'm sorry to be so rude, ma'am! Your carele

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