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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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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
  • Thursday 2/4/10 @ approx. 8:30am.  You were gabbing on your phone while approaching the stop sign (2-way stop) @ Broad Street & Jamison Street.  I had no stop sign, and thus the right-of-way, but had to come to a complete stop because your phone call was more important than stopping and avoiding a collision.  Hang up!!!!!!
    YCY-1272
    South Greensburg
    February 6 2010
  • First you aggressively accelerated to get in front of me on the merge onto 422.  Then you jumped into the right lane (which is actually an entrance to 422, not a passing lane) and passed the woman in front of me and then drove on the white do not drive lines through an intersection to cut in front of her.    

The really awesome part is you only arrived home 30 seconds prior to me and I arrived home knowing that I don't endanger people when I drive.  But hey at least I know what you look like and where you live so I can stay the hell away from you.
    FRD-4380
    King of Prussia
    January 17 2010
  • See blog entry under PA-Jeepers Creepers. Everyone deserves to choose a lane - most of the time. Try to avoid moving into one already occupied, without signalling or other warning, thus creating an immediate collision risk.
    HGT-6199
    Lima
    January 15 2010
  • It started on 51 when Zippy the Wonder Fuck cut off the car in front of me nearly taking off his front right side.  And then he cut off ANOTHER car at the ramp leading from 51 to 65 south in East Rochester.  And then he sped along at about 70 MPH and cut off ANOTHER car at the red light beside the Conway Terminal and then had to SLAM on the brakes in front of said car because the light was red (s/he was already inside the painted solid white line that you find at an intersection for a better visual of how close it was.)  And after speeding, cutting people off, and then tailgating/pushing people out of the lane and out of his way, a van in front of him finally slowed down and drove at the same speed as the semi truck in the right lane, effectively cock-blocking Zippy the Wonder Fuck (and I must say good for you driver-of-the-van).  And when he continued to ride on the bumper of the van, I hit him with my high beams.  Which admittedly is a dick move and I generally wouldn't recommend, but he was being a dick, and what goes around comes around.  And that, my dear friend Zippy the Wonder Fuck, is why you got cock blocked and lit up.  Have a sunshine day.
    DVM-3947
    Beaver
    January 7 2010
  • (The license plate is a specialty one, SV for Saint Vincent alum).  Traveling north on 65 towards 51, this fucktard in a Jeep cuts me off, which is annoying enough, but the little bitch isn't done yet.  This person then brake checks ME, after THEY are the ones who cut me off, and then speeds down 51 so I can't pass them until we get to the part of 51 that narrows down into one lane, and then they get real cute and hit the brakes and creep along 15 MPH beneath the speed limit.

WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO TO YOU FOR YOU TO TREAT ME LIKE THAT???  I don't get where people get off pulling this crap cutting ME off and then dickin' around in front of me trying to cause a wreck.  What a little bitch.
    SV-00886
    East Rochester
    January 6 2010
  • Driving south on 65 near Freedom during a snow storm, and this jackass obviously doesn't know what the word "yield" means because he keeps coming down the ramp and nearly clips the front right of my car.  I can't get over in the left lane to avoid him because there's another truck beside me and I can't hit the brakes because the roads are slick and slushy.  Then I see the fucker is also yackin' on his cell phone.  I think the "YHB" in his license plate must stand for "you hillbilly bastard."  You don't own the damn road.  Hang up the damn phone and don't try to force other drivers out of your way in a snow storm, jagoff.
    YHB-6634
    Freedom
    December 31 2009
  • 12/21/09 @ 5:55am - Female driver driving too fast for conditions on RT30 west and I376 east.  Driver tailgated and weaved through traffic without signaling during falling snow and icy conditions.  Also left headlight is out.
    GTE-9229
    PITTSBURGH
    December 21 2009
  • 10/14/09 8am - why are you driving a Hummer if you can't handle it? I watched you open your door and climb out of the vehicle, because you can't figure out how to position the vehicle and access the parking machine from your window.  I then watched you navigate the road - try staying in one lane!
    FTS1416
    Bryn Mawr
    December 18 2009
  • 12/18/09 7:35am - ran red light making left turn on Route 23 at Mill Creek; not yellow, not orange, solid red
    GVT1248
    Gladwyne
    December 18 2009
  • 11/28/09 at 2100hrs:  As US-11 south narrows from two to one, this red car speed by on the shoulder, cutting us off.  About 1 and1/2 miles later we witnessed the same car pass traffic using the right turn deceleration lane.  They cut off about 5 cars who had to slam on their brakes and came very close to causing an accident.  We just stayed back and let them go, hoping that they would cause no one else any harm.
    5FD-G99
    Shamokin Dam
    December 14 2009
  • 11/25/09 5:25pm - ran red light on 63rd Street northbound at Callowhill
    DLN9714
    Philadelphia
    December 11 2009
  • 12/10/09 8:10am - tailgating at 65+ mph on I-76 eastbound from South Street to Broad Street exit
    VAW38B
    Philadelphia
    December 11 2009

  • Latest Blogs for United States : Pennsylvania

    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 

    Government Cars   Tuesday, July 08, 2008

    Just because you drive a car with government plates doesn't give you the right to drive like a jackass.  Swerving between lanes without a signal, cutting people off, only to get caught at every red light with the rest of us.

    mezzanoitaliano 

    A True Road Hazard   Monday, June 30, 2008

    I was waiting for a light to change in Allentown, PA yesterday afternoon, when I noticed a white Grand Am that appeared to be overheating.  The driver stood in the middle of the road, talking on his cel phone, watching has car smoke.  As the light changed, I heard fire engines approach so I pulled over.  The AFD had arrived in the nick of time, as seconds later the car was engulfed in flames.  I took the following pics. 

    dogkatchr 

     

     

     


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