Traffic sucks, even worse when someone is involved and seriously injured or killed. See them happen on the road infront of me all the time here in LA, surprisingly more often at night when traffic is low and people can cruise at 80, leaving only the dumbest going over 100 and weaving in and out of lanes to pass other cars like it was 2-mph conjestion. They jerk the wheele too quickly going too fast, typicaly on a turn (to further prove their lack of intelligence or understanding of physics) and go into a slide. Most don't recover or don't know how and make it worse, slamming into the concrete median, sound walled shoulder, or if they're lucky go plum straight off the shoulder or into an impact-friendly K-rail in excess of 80mph. I think it was just last month or the one before that here in the LA area we had two fatal accidents one day after the other during mid-rush hour involving motorcycle CHP officers. The worst one was the first, officer giving a ticket on the right shoulder to a SUV when a darwin-award nominee came bareling down the emergency shoulder bypassing traffic with his black sedan in excess of 90mph, needless to say he didn't see or have enough time to stop and avoid sandwitching the CHP bike officer. There isn't a legal means just enough to punish idiots like that. My rule of thumb is that there is not a single reason ot ever be going faster than 70 or 80 (given you have the conditions to slow down in time to be going slower than 60 or 70). Do one decent tour of highway community service and you'll quickly learn to recognize and respect the difference in aftermaths between collisions occuring at 60 (you can probabley still hod up to your weekend plans) or 70 (lucky if you don't stay in the hospital for less than a week) or 80+ mph (pudding).
