Today I almost got broadsided by a student driver who failed to yield at an intersection.

[bluesbassman]

A block from my house is an intersection where my street tees with the main street and a parallel kind of frontage street. The frontage street has to yield to my street. So as I'm making a left hand turn off the main street on to my street, this student driver comes zooming up the frontage street and blows right through the intersection. I slammed on the brakes just in time and avoided a collision. The frontage street continues on and loops around to join the cross street at the other end of the block my house is on, and by the time I had parked and got out of the car, the student driver and her instructor came down the back street and pulled up to the house.

It was my daughter. I asked the instructor if she failed. She said no, just that my daughter needs to pay more attention to yield signs. My daughter is a varsity Soccer and Lacrosse player, yield is not in her vocabulary.

Oh man, I'm in trouble.































Actually she's a great driver, she just blew that one. THAT would have been a great call to have to make to the insurance agent.

[Duer 157099]

1. That is too funny

Glad you both made it through unscathed though, but pretty funny. And yes, I'd like to hear that insurance claim call...

[bluesbassman]

3. Thanks and yeah the look on her face was priceless.

No harm, no foul.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear bluesbassman!

Um, NO, you are not the one in trouble...

It's your daughter who is!

Yikes! I'm glad there were no collisions, and that you're all OK...

She needs to be WAY more careful!

[bluesbassman]

4. True that Peggy.

I'll be grinding on her for a while about yield signs. She is a good driver though, so hopefully she can get this detail squared away.

[Ikonoklast]

5. She was lucky it was you.

Another driver may might not have stopped...

I don't even want to think about that.

[bluesbassman]

8. In more ways than one.

Now I know one of the things I need to drill her on.

She's really lucky it wasn't her mom she almost hit. If that had been the case she probably wouldn't get her license until she was 25.

[siligut]

6. Frontage streets are confusing to a new driver, they don't really seem like streets

She will get the "hard" rules down and I am sure this little incident helped. Good thing her instructor is realistic.

[bluesbassman]

9. Heck, they confuse me and I've been driving since 1974!

She'll get it though.

[Myrina]

7. I almost got broadsided yesterday too ...

... pulling out of the access-road from where I work onto the main thoroughfare. By a blue-haired asshole in a gorgeous brand new Jag. One of our company's CEO-type folks. I guess traffic laws, or the concept of common decency, doesn't apply to them.

Would have been nice if he'd have injured me so I could sue his miserable ass in civil court, though.

[bluesbassman]

10. Glad you dodged the accident too.

[riderinthestorm]

11. Took my 15 yr old our for her first driving lesson in our car on the road

She's had 4 hours BTW for the class (and a lot of miles on our own property) but hadn't been on the road in our car...

We have a '99 Honda, 238k miles that needs suspension work (that we're obviously NOT doing) and she learned almost immediately that taking the corners too fast was a BIG mistake! She also was oblivious to turn signals....

But overall for her first time out with me, I was okay with it. She's way better than her older sister was behind the wheel the first time! Good luck with your daughter

[bluesbassman]

12. Good luck to your daughter too.

Worst part is it means they're getting that much more independant (guess that's the best part too. )

[emilyg]

13. I taught my daughter how

to drive in a cemetery.