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Little side story - about three weeks ago I was on my way home, divided highway, three lanes per side. I'm in the middle lane, there's a Maxima maybe eight-ten car lengths in front of me, and a older clapped out Corolla or something similar in the right lane. The Maxima starts drifting into the right lane without a directional, leaving the Corolla no place to go. He overcompensates and goes right to avoid the collision and ends up way over in the breakdown lane almost clipping the guardrail at the shoulder. he collects it and gets back out into the right lane, missing a state cop running radar in the breakdown lane by five or six car lengths.
State cop pulls out and I'm hoping he is going after the maxima, but instead he lights up the Corolla. Corolla stops and the officer gets out, and is screaming at the driver through the passenger side window. (I had witnessed the whole event, so I pulled in behind the police car.) Officer starts back to his car, sees me and I signal him to come over, at which point I explain what had happened. He asked if I thought the Corolla could have done anything differently, to which I replied no - he did what he had to to avoid the accident.
Turns out the officer looked up in his rear view mirror and thought he was going to be wiped out, all he saw was the Corolla coming at him - adrenalin was flowing and he was P*SSED! This was on the heels of three recent incidents, at least one of them a fatality, with officers getting hit at night. He thanked me for stopping, went back to the Corolla without getting into his car to run the plates etc. I believe I saved the driver from a HUGE headache.
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