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Award a good driver for their good deed Award
flag or warn a bad driver of their bad action Flag
notify a driver of a physical danger or hazard with their vehicle Hazard
send a flirtacious message to a driver you liked Wink

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Award Flag Wink Hazard

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

To "Flag" a driver, is to warn a driver of his/her rude and/or careless behavior that you have witnessed.

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 : Pennsylvania
  • 9/1/10 7:23am - driver ran red light heading eastbound on Montgomery Avenue at Winding Way.  This violation wasn't even questionable - the signal had turned green and the lead car had started to enter the intersection when the Jeep came flying through.  Luckily, he was in the left-hand lane or someone could have been killed.
    ENE8834
    Lower Merion
    September 1 2010
  • 8/23/10 8pm - heading westbound on Lancaster Avenue (Route 30) from Ardmore to Bryn Mawr at 50mph in a 25mph zone IN THE RAIN.  Audi kept getting stopped at traffic signals, so I kept catching up.  I will admit that I DO go over the posted limit on this road, but I don't weave around traffic during a rainstorm at twice the posted speed limit!

Is this wire a "ticky-tack" foul?
    HFK9716
    Lower Merion
    September 1 2010
  • Driving along in the left lane, equal speeds all around.  Up speeds this motorcyclist to the right, but can't find a reasonable space to squeeze between any cars. But why should that stop a blue-blooded American male?! So he swings behind me, tailgating so closely that I can see the zits on his nose. His patience lasted all of 7 seconds, when he decided he wanted to move up in the crowded lanes, so he whipped around in front of me... except that there was no room to do so, and he found himself BETWEEN 2 cars! He obviously had no freaking clue what he was doing, wobbling on his little bike. I backed off, scared for my paint job. Look at this freaking IDIOT! His ego was obviously bruised because he knew he looked like a total doofus. So of course he sped up, driving BETWEEN and NEXT to cars on the highway! He periodically realized he was in a death/life situation, so he'd hit his brakes and look concerned, pulling in behind a car or 2. But his weiner got the better of him and he persisted in his actions until he could rocket away from all of us cars who saw him making his stupid moves. It was the big-boy version of a kid covering his eyes and running off the playground because all his friends saw him sucking at kickball. ******** Mister, get the HE*L off the roadways until you can curtail your infant reactions and learn to ride. You're making a bad mark on real motorcyclists, and I don't want your pasty brains glued to my grille.
    MRV-40
    78 East, near 33 exits, Easton
    August 27 2010
  • I-279 South headed towards Pittsburgh before Veterans Bridge
Vanity Plate 'GH' prefix to license plate number
Rude and inconsiderate.
    20145
    Pittsburgh
    August 26 2010
  • Traveling south on McKinght Road taking Pittsburgh Exit and down I-279 towards town
On Thursday August 26th about 9am
Extreme tailgater with risky lane changes, whoever you are, your not thinking, get a clue.
    777-KD9
    Pittsburgh
    August 26 2010
  • This took place at 7:40 am on Friday, August 13, 2010. I was walking west on the south side of Forbes Avenue. I came to Schenley Drive, which I needed to cross. It was clear; as I entered the intersection a car approached from my left, on Schenley. He rolled past the stop sign and came right at me. I stopped, and he drove right in front of me. 

I raised my arms in a "what gives?" shrug. He slowed and started shouting. He rolled down the window as his car came to a stop and shouted, "Get off the street, faggot!" I stepped back and leaned down to get his eye, and I said, "Pedestrians have the right of way. I was in the intersection before you rolled past the stop sign." He didn't give any sign of comprehension. He just kept shouting the same words: "Get off the street, faggot!" His speech was slurred. The car stopped; at first I thought he was parking and was about to get out. In fact it had just stalled. He restarted it and drove away, still shouting.
    ESG-0066
    Pittsburgh
    August 13 2010
  • 8/12/10 ~8pm - driver heading ENE on N Georges Hill Drive ran red light turning left onto northbound Belmont Avenue.  The car ahead of him entered the intersection on "orange;" he just gunned his engine and plowed through a solid red signal
    ESC4311
    Philadelphia
    August 13 2010
  • High speed tailgater
    6NJ-271
    Pgh I-79S I-70W
    August 10 2010
  • This guy needs to stay in New Jersey!  He rode his break the whole ride on 95 and the Vine Street Expressway! He almost came to a complete stop when cars when coming onto the Vine Street Expressway even though they have their own lane.  He was afraid to drive next to a tractor trailor so he was going about 40 on 95 around the curve on to the Expressway.  Stay off the road!
    YJG-96R
    Philadelphia
    August 5 2010
  • Attempted passing on ramp, cut off passing in traffic, Tailgating, Speeding. Female with dark hair, your license should be revoked, roads are not safe with drivers like you out there.  
Date/Time: Wednesday July 28 925am
Location: North Hills traveling south on McKnight Road taking Pgh Exit, 279 south Veterans Bridge
    GNS-2418
    Pittsburgh
    July 28 2010
  • 7/20/10 6:47pm - driver ran red light making left turn from Merion Road northbound onto Bowman Avenue southwest-bound
    EHA8937
    Lower Merion
    July 21 2010
  • Van came up behind me when I was in the correct travel lane WB on I76 where is splits into 3 lanes headed to WW Bridge, S Philly, or the airport.  He was very close to my bumper and I slowed slightly to encourage him to back off my wheel.  Not a good idea!  He got frustrated because he could not get around me and in the tunnel he actually tried swerving into my car (a 2010 Infiniti) so I had to accelerate to get aheadand away from him and basically block him from ramming into my car by getting ahead of another truck.  He then kept going at 90 mph weaving in and out of cars. I followed him up the Platt bridge as he almost caused several other accidents and took a picture of his license plate, then I pulled alongside him on 95 and snapped a picture of him.  He was laughing hysterically.  Totally creepy.  He was a  40ish white male, perhaps eastern european descent, medium build, bad teeth.
    YTC9824
    Phildelphia
    July 15 2010

  • Latest Blogs for United States : Pennsylvania

    YOU ALMOST KILLED A PEDESTRIAN!   Thursday, August 26, 2010

     Black SUV - you live in a townhouse in Seven Fields. After you nearly plowed into my car on Ft Duquense Boulevard you almost killed a man. He landed on my car and I'm glad the cameras at the hotel caught you.

    That's ok. I caught up with you. You're lucky I consulted Pittsburgh Police about you before you I got a hold of you. Reason #1,231 I can't stand people from cranberry.

    upset79 

    DMJ 6843   Monday, June 14, 2010

     Older model Dodge mini-van (light silver) - Extreme road rage, reckless driving

    ajexelby 

    Jeepers Creepers, pick a lane!   Friday, January 15, 2010

    O-dark-thirty, my usual commute down US1 through Delaware Co and Chester Co, PA. Drivers are generally jobholders like me on their way in early, beating otherwise heavy traffic after 7. Perp is driving a 90's vintage dark green or gray Jeep Grand Cherokee in the left lane past Granite Run Mall/RIddle Mem Hosp, and normally the left lane here Southbound tends to slow because many vehicles turn left at PA452 at the top of the rise. Jeepers Creepers is in the left lane behind a sedan and the right lane is pretty clear, so I am advancing a bit faster on the right. Just as I get to where he is, he abruptly, with no signal, moves over into my lane almost hitting me, causing me to slam on the brakes and swerve to the right, into the shoulder, almost hitting some construction debris. I lean on the horn. He swerves wildly back and forth, eventually settling again in the left lane. I hang back. We draw even near the intersection, I look over and he waves wildly as if I had done something wrong (go figure). A few miles later things are calm, two lanes with light traffic, he is on the right, I pass smoothly on the left, no gestures of any kind, he leans on his horn as I pass. I move over to make my left turn, and stop to wait for the light, and as he goes by he leans on his horn again. Watch out for this guy, he has a chip on his shoulder for being a crappy driver.

    Pipo57 

    Older drivers   Sunday, January 03, 2010

     WOW! I think after a certain age, people should get a driver's test. I live on a street with older people and i was watching the guy who lives across the street from us park. Well lets just say that he's very good at playing ping pong off my car and the person behind him. It's not like it's the first time he's done this. I've watched him a couple of other times. It's not like he's damaging anyones cars but come on now.It's like what could you say because you don't want to be mean to him becuase he is older but really i wish there was a site that you can report people!

    mommy2lars 

    DE PC411479   Friday, November 06, 2009

    Little girl driving an SUV can hardly see over the steering wheel, but that's no excuse for running someone off the road entering a construction zone!

    luvmykia 

      Wednesday, August 05, 2009

    Driver with plate enw 7222 tailgated me for about 1 mile, passed my car in a right-turn-only lane, after passing, went over the speed limit, and then tailgated another car for several more miles.

    orchidsnv 

    Why do these people manage to live...   Monday, July 27, 2009

     Going home the other day across about a mile long bridge in heavy traffic with heavy merging from the right, some idiot in a little Kawasaki sport bike came tearing across the bridge, easily at or over 100mph since he was BLAZING past people in the far left lane who were doing 80-85 (they're a whole other ball of crazy). He was ducking and weaving between the lanes to pass people and, at one point at the end of the bridge, even squeezed himself along the shoulder between the left lane and a bridge abutment. He was in and out of my sight in about 8 seconds.

    I kept hoping that I'd come across him farther up the road, his head firmly planted in the median and his bike in a million pieces, but no such luck. If somebody had changed lanes in front of him and caught him, they'd have been dead. As fast as he was moving, that bike would've torn through just about anything and its passengers, save for large commercial vehicles like a bus or big rig.

    I'd say there's never a cop around when you need one, but as fast as he was going in that heavy of traffic, I don't think it would matter anyway. They'd have to dispatch a helicopter to chase him.

    ctbdrive 

    Meth Clinic Crazy driver   Wednesday, July 22, 2009

     I have had two run-ins with the same aggressive driver about two months apart. Both times occured at around 5:30pm on Parkside Avenue adjacent to the Mann Music Center. The driver is a 60ish black female with handicapped license plate PA 8146L in a white or light gray PT Cruiser. On both occassions, I was the first car at the red light on Parkside Avenue heading East and she cuts off all of the cars behind me by driving at a fast pace in the right shoulder. Then she gets very close to the side of my car and attempts to cut me off by going through the red light. Both times there happened to be a bus that she almost hit and also almost hit a temporary median. I honked on and then she proceeds to get more aggressive swerving, honking, and on both occasions stopping, opening the door and making strange gestures.

    I think the true issue is she is a crack whore because both times she came to a halt at the meth clinic (aka Parkside Rehabilitation) and hobbled to the door. Anyway, she is a danger to society and should not be driving anything other than a wheelchair.


    jaimz7 

    Control Freak   Wednesday, April 22, 2009

    Today on I-70 west bound in Maryland, near the exit for US Rt 40 at Hagerstown, MD, a control freak woman insisted on making sure I could not get around her. Keep in mind the interstate was wet and treacherous.  She drove a late model black Nissan Titan pickup. I make it a point to never tailgate so this should give you an idea of how absolutely ignorant of a move she was about to make!  I repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to get around her and finally, just when I looked behind me and then to the right to find the coast to be clear, at the instant I looked forward to prepare to move around her to the right she slammed on her breaks, I locked up mine and swerved to miss her by several inches and after nearly crashing my car, I struggled to regain control and she zips off to the right for the last US 40 exit. This I knew was a ploy because you see, she has a PA plate like me so I knew that this was a BS move to evade me (going back 40 East, the opposite way). She knows what she did. I figured she would have to eventually head back north to PA like me so I waited for her near the PA line and sure enough, here she comes. Didn’t take long, she obviously looped back around and continued on I70 west and then up I-81 North. At the state line just getting off I-81 north bound to US RT 11 south bound, I got behind her and got her license plate  PA # YPL-9563.  I’ll remember you, miss YPL-9563. And to the rest of you out there, beware of this control freak’n bitch. She'll speed up and try to C-block you in!  She’ll try and crash you if you try to get around her! Absolute f'N HAZZARD.  You know, she must think she pays more highway tax than I do or anyone else for that matter because she sure thinks she owns the road.

    RichyRich 

    This one still bugs me   Tuesday, April 07, 2009

     I live in the Silver Spring Township in Carlisle.  Last Saturday night, I had fallen asleep and woke up about 11pm and noticed I was out of Iced Tea. So got dressed and went to the Hess Station that is literally two seconds away from my house. I am making a left turn to get to the store and on the intersection is a Ford Explorer with Silver Spring decals. He is making a left turn and I go and get my stuff and leave. On the way home about 10 car lengths behind me I see SUV headlights. He goes into my mobile home park and turns right on my street. As I am getting out of the car, I notice it is the same police vehicle that I saw leaving the hess station. I was only in the station about 5 or ten minutes as I know the cashier there. He did not ask to speak to me or even turn his lights on. I don't know WHAT I did to deserve that. I have nothing more on my record than traffic tickets but no felonies or warrants and my car is not stolen or out of date with regards to inspections or tags. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but it still bugs me.

    ScottF 

    NUT JOB - EZX-5498   Thursday, November 13, 2008

    Watch out for this guy!!!! Reckless driving - changing lanes without signaling; speeding - over 80 in a 55 zone; no lights in fog & drizzle; cutting people off in two lanes of I-78 to get to exit lane at Lehigh Street. He's a danger to everyone around him & the police need to get him off the road before he kills someone innocent!!!!

    WHY DOESN'T PA HAVE A PHONE NUMBER, LIKE 311, POSTED ALONG HIGHWAYS THAT DRIVERS CAN CALL TO ALERT THE POLICE SO THEY CAN GET NUT JOBS LIKE THIS OFF THE ROAD????

    nnoidone 

    GRG-2873   Thursday, October 23, 2008

     This Parkland High School kid, driving his gf to McDonalds in his dad's maroon Buick before school on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, around 7:15 AM,
    IS A DANGER TO EVERYONE!


    First, he pulls right out of McDonalds onto Cedar Crest Blvd. into oncoming traffic - that has the right-of-way - then he drives down the road, alternating between eating the junk food he just bought, talking to his gf, and searching through the bag of junk food for something else to eat, all the while going 15 mph UNDER the speed limit, causing a miles-long traffic backup, THEN he makes 2 left turns into PHS without signaling!!!!

    Kids who drive like this shouldn't be allowed to drive, much less have passengers that distract his obviously limited mental capacity from concentrating on his responsibility as a driver to everyone else on the road!!!

    nnoidone 

    Keep laughing   Thursday, October 16, 2008

     To the dumb bitch in the small silver sedan who ran me off the road this morning, you need to go back and look carefully at the intersection at route 7 east in Winchester where it comes off the ramp from I-81 northbound. You will notice there are TWO LEFT TURN LANES. When turning left onto route 7 east, the inside lane takes the left lane, outside lane takes the right. Your dumb ass took the right lane from the left-most turn lane, forcing me onto the shoulder. Laying on the horn didn't seem to phase you, and I noticed you at the next light in my rear-view laughing. Keep laughing, uke hunt, your careless driving will soon have only your attorney laughing.

    WAKE THE F**K UP AND PAY ATTENTION, DUMBASS.

    by-tor 

    FVJ 9132   Tuesday, September 16, 2008

     Anyone know thisplate number. They were seen in the Harrisburg cemetery Male & Female, possibly a prostitute any & all info will be kept confidential please contact the caretakes home on the grounds.

    grimreaper 

    parking lot pig   Thursday, August 14, 2008

     It isn't enough that this a-hole drives a huge non-eco friendly monstrosity, (gray Chevy Avalanche, PA plate YMH 1789) but while waiting for band kids to get out of practice at a local HS, he has to take up two spaces in a crowded parking lot, parking across a yellow line, on one day...And then the next, in the evening, he has to park facing other parked cars with his headlights on...directly shining into other parents eyes....This ignorant buffoon needs a drastic lesson in common courtesy. But I am guessing guys like this are entirely too stupid to listen to any advice that may improve their growth process.

    artist2051 

     

     

     


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