I was driving on the highway yesterday and passed a set of skid marks, diagonal to the traffic lanes and ending at the median barrier. So I was imagining the incident during which the driver had to slam on his brakes and end up going more-or-less sideways across the road. I find myself doing this sometimes when bored while driving. Sometimes on surface streets, I see circular skid marks, perhaps from some kid doing donuts on the street.
Anyone else look at the skid marks and wonder at what happened?
Yes, I do spot this kind of thing. Another is long burnout patches along desolate straightaways from people racing. Aerial shots of airport runways, too.
It’s interesting how often you can notice where a car fire had occurred. The asphalt is textured and darker or the concrete is stained. Another one is seeing the dark stains after a bump in the road. A lot of vehicles are actively leaking and drips tend to drop off when going over a bump.
There’s a stretch of I-5, north of Canyonville, I think, where there are two sharp turns and the speed limit drops down to 50 MPH. The guardrails there are pretty marked up with accompanying debris and it’s easy to imagine people speeding through without realizing how sharp the turns are.
I had the same thought when reading the OP but your fingers type faster than mine :sigh: My comment would have been more smart aleck than yours, but then you are no doubt a nicer person than me
I expected stupid references to fecal stains on underwear but tried to word the OP carefully enough not to avoid that. Apparently I wasn’t careful enough.
No apologies needed, at all! Several of us were given a smile and a chance to joke around a tad. You did us a mitzvah that lightened our day a bit. Plus answered the OP ? I hope.
Of course the OP got a couple of stupid jokes infecting the thread…
Sometimes on cloverleaf ramps, you can see signs that someone swiped the guardrails as they were going too fast around the curve. Personally, when I’m accelerating up a ramp, I’m trying to go as fast as I can while still maintaining control of the car, so I can see how this happens.
You see the trails cross twice that means they spun. You see them go partway up the Jersey barrier then reflect back out across the lanes to the opposite shoulder you know they were hauling ass. You see damaged shrubs on the outside shoulder then a large tree missing a bunch of bark or scuff marks up the face of a bridge support & you know somebody died or nearly so.
As somebody said up-thread, burn scars on the pavement are obvious & fun too.
I do a quickie accident reconstruction on the evidence every time I see some. And on I-95 in greater Miami I see lots of them. Folks be drivin’ crazy an’ shit around here.
Yes! I always do reconstruction in my mind when I see tire marks on the road. It helps that my job for a few years involved knowing a lot about road infrastructure and how poor engineering and maintenance contribute to or cause accidents.
