haha I guess I don't blame the guy in front of me, hazard lights are a foreign concept here anyways
He swerved very violently, it was probably just as much of a surprise to him as to me
There's very few basketball americans here in CO, but for some FUCKING reason like 10 cars full of them were lined up along the shoulder, I guess they were traveling as a pack or some shit when the truck nig nog lost his wheel and they all pulled over. I would've been completely fine if the cars weren't there, but they were right on the edge of the fucking freeway, not even off in the grass a bit, so when the car in front swerved back and revealed them I was forced to cut hard left immediately after swerving right
The ticket was completely fucked up, I explained what happened to the complete hick meathead of a cop, and explained how with a low slung "wedge" front car like a Miata, the wheel would have either bounced off into oncoming traffic, or worse yet went under the car and flipped it or some shit
this was a fuckhuge wheel off a lifted truck btw, standing upright in the middle of the lane
So I chilled for a couple of minutes after giving the cop my info, he comes back with a $200 ticket and summons for the court 500 miles from my house, I ask him why the fuck I'm getting ticketed, and how avoiding a potentially much worse situation was careless -
"you're the only one that crashed"
so then I had to drive 6 hours to court after a couple of months, with full intentions of fighting this bullshit, but then I find out I would have to appear several more times before I even got a court date, and as a full time college student working 30h/w there was literally no way that was happening, so I got cucked into pleading guilty and taking a plea bargain
A rude awakening for me that this is in fact the USSR
pic related, this was after a lot of the cars had left, it looks pretty mild in that photo but the front of the miata was completely twisted to shit/obliterated