Driving Kentucky Backroads

[DJD]

Driving to my first job today to test some fiber I decided to take some Backroads and drive past the Kentucky river instead of the interstate to see how high and muddy it was. On my way a car leaves me standing still at a light...I'm guessing he wanted to be first on these twisty roads?? Anyway, I'm driving for about 5 minutes and every once in a while I catch a glimpse of this guy ahead of me flying over a hill or zippin down a straight section of road and I'm thinking ...MAN he is flying and better be careful!

For those of you here in Fayette county it's the Athens Boonsboro road from I-75 toward Halls on the river...anyway I come around a corner and a oncoming van is flashing his lights fast so I slow down and sure enough that guy had just wrecked his car. I mean plastic parts are all in the road along with dirt and rocks from hitting the side of the hill. Steam is rolling out from under his hood and the car is resting against a tree....the car is trashed!!! Looked to me like he hit the corner to hard and his tires slipped which made him smack into the hillside and it spun him around to the opposite side where a tree stopped him from going down the side of a small hill.

He is standing there so I ease up...tires crunching the remains of his rear taillights, rocks and front grill and ask if he is ok? He says yes but to call the police since he has no cell phone....which I did. I got out and talk with the guy to make sure he wasn't injured, bleeding or if anyone else was in the car and the fella in the van had stopped and was also helping so I left since he was fine.

But, the look on his face spoke to me...."yes I'm the one who blew past you", "yes I'm the one driving like Jeff Gordon only in a Oldsmobile with bald tires" and "yes I'm the one who wrecked trying to set a speed record on the wet slippery Backroads". Considering the area, he was dang lucky he didn't flip his car or roll off the side of one of those embankments!!! Gotta be smart on those twisty wet roads!!

[MrSplitshot]

I'm convinced that some of the dumbest drivers in the world are in Fayette Co.

Driving to work in the rain the other morning took me forever because of the morons slamming into the backs of other cars because they were too **** stupid to slow down and increase following distance.

I won't say that I never took my Mustang on some fast rides on a twisty or two...but not in the rain...

[kygorski]

With out a doubt,the dumbest,most brain dead drivers you will ever meet, are in cumberland county Ky.I swear i was in a line of pick up truck traffic, that appeared to be following a turtle! The long bills on the ball caps seemed to collide when the the driver and passengers talked. A trip on hy90 in either direction from and to burkesville, was mind numbing.