# How on earth do people end up and KEEP DRIVING the wrong way on the highway?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 18, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-on-earth-do-people-end-up-and-keep-driving-the-wrong-way-on-the-highway/464092 "2008-09-18T03:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-on-earth-do-people-end-up-and-keep-driving-the-wrong-way-on-the-highway/464092/21 "2008-09-18T16:18:14Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Now I’m thinking of _Planes, Trains and Automobiles_. > > Once I was in the front passenger seat of a car, with my girlfriend Karla sitting in my lap. Her monozygotic twin sister Karen was driving, and drove us up a highway exit ramp. A cop was coming along just as she emerged onto the highway, and promptly pulled us over. > > Karen turned to Karla and said “I don’t have my license! Quick, give me yours!” (So I guess that’s some form of fraud as well as bad driving.) Wwwwwhat? Like I’m gonna let my brother screw up _my_ driving record and insurance rates. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-on-earth-do-people-end-up-and-keep-driving-the-wrong-way-on-the-highway/464092/22 "2008-09-18T21:21:00Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Wwwwwhat? Like I’m gonna let my brother screw up _my_ driving record and insurance rates. Well, at least they were identical enough to get away with it. (Though I never got to make the truly detailed comparison I would have liked.) ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-on-earth-do-people-end-up-and-keep-driving-the-wrong-way-on-the-highway/464092/23 "2008-09-19T03:40:14Z")
I was a passenger in a car driven by someone who had just returned from France to the UK. He began to pull the car across to the right hand side of the road but heard us all yelling at him in time to avoid the bus that was just pulling away from the stop on that side. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-on-earth-do-people-end-up-and-keep-driving-the-wrong-way-on-the-highway/464092/24 "2008-09-19T04:14:51Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > I was a passenger in a car driven by someone who had just returned from France to the UK. He began to pull the car across to the right hand side of the road but heard us all yelling at him in time to avoid the bus that was just pulling away from the stop on that side. I would like to add that in Ireland, people are incredibly nice about cars on the wrong side of the road. Of course, most of the roads were too narrow for two lanes, so everyone drove smack down the middle, and swerved at the last minute. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-on-earth-do-people-end-up-and-keep-driving-the-wrong-way-on-the-highway/464092/25 "2008-09-19T11:01:47Z")
First time I drove in the States I was being incredibly careful to keep to the right, especially when turning left at junctions. Middle of Miami - strange (enormous) car, slightly lost - I take a left into the right hand lane of a four lane undivided road. Unfortunately I hadn’t seen that it was a one one way street going the other way and there are four lanes of traffic - released by the previous set of lights - heading straight towards me :eek: Fortunately there was the entrance to a drive in bank just in the right place that I could turn into, get out of the way of the traffic, stop and start jibbering! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-on-earth-do-people-end-up-and-keep-driving-the-wrong-way-on-the-highway/464092.md?page=1)