While walking along country roads we get the close-up look at the driving patterns of vehicle drivers. It’s confounding that so many drivers are either ignorant of the laws; inconsiderate of others and of the property of others and operate in a “just plain unsafe” manner.

For instance, we observe that a fair number of drivers seem to be unable to keep their vehicles within the road markings (the white lines and the yellow lines). Don’t you see it a lot; driving LOCL (left of the center line) and ROFL (right of the fog line). NOTE: The fog line is that white line on the extreme right of your lane; actually in Pennsylvania these are called road edge lines. Driving ROFL can get you a ticket or a citation.

AWFUL and LAWFUL

We’re not using the above as acronyms … we are using them as words to describe the results of LOCL AND ROFL. AWFUL outcomes and un-LAWFUL acts.

Particularly, we observe drivers driving LOCL or ROFL when they’re headed into a left or right turn in the road. Problem with this is, when you drive LOCL or ROFL you’re infringing on another driver’s lane, a pedestrian walking or running or some property owners lawn or flowers.

Other driver actions we observe include the increasing number of drivers that are driving way faster than the posted speed limits. They are zooming and a bunch of them are yapping on their mobile phones. What’s with this penchant to have to be talking or texting? We wholeheartedly endorse those states where the legislators have the cajones enact laws making electronic device use while driving as illegal as driving while under the influence. Both of these selfish, diminished skills acts often result in tragedies like the one on Route 322 last week.

 

 

 

So, for readers who want to know more about the rules of the road in Pennsylvania, click on the picture below.