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Probably following the GPS instructions on the car phone...maybe,

or, knowing the way Iowa likes to salt roads, perhaps they just felt the need for a solid undercoat.

Ok, you guys are most likely right that someone was not paying enough attention. There is however the slimmest of possibilities that the driver went into the cones to avoid an accident with the car ahead of them. Could've been the "accordion effect" from many cars up ahead and the choice was new concrete or someone's rear bumper. But probably not.

That traffic control is illegal per the Federal MUTCD ( manual uniform traffic control devices). Can't mix devices....in other words, can't have barrel, barrel, cone, delineator, channelizer, etc. Not to mention spacing, taper length, pre warning signs, and so on. A novice lawyer could have that construction company paying to fix that Morons car no problem. I've sat through hour after painful hour of traffic control training and it doesn't matter if it's an interstate, county road, etc.....better have your [bleep] together because the actual person responsible for setting that up or approving it (i.e. Inspector, foreman, city manager) can be held criminally responsible. The driving public is more retarded than a herd of sheep.

And THAT is a fact!!!!!!

I've always believed that God put sheep on the earth to look for a reason to die -
MUCH of the driving public is a VERY small step behind!

Had he been going 107mph, he'd have made it through.

For sure, there were CLEARLY no workers there at the time.

GTC

Before you want my scalp for azzing around here about this, I'd venture that you perhaps missed this recent thread,.....

Link: https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/12054065/1

as you'll see, MANY hear are in complete agreement with your comment.

GTC

You're right, I had missed that.
Thanks.

Oh gee wiz why is it muddy in the middle of the street????

Stupid biotch- bastad needs to be behind bars with the 107 M P H pi$$head, I would love to have been there , honking and laughing!!! $tupid S O B prob. didn't put the cell phone down long enough to know what even happened!!!!!!!!!

This isn't unlike another idiot driver we talked about here some time ago. She was approaching a stopped school bus in the oncoming lane. To avoid stopping for bus's lights, she went right, over the curb, between some trees, and onto the sidewalk. She drove down the sidewalk until she was past the bus. Luckily, some quick thinking person got it all on video.

There's no way they would have caught her on film had she been going 107mph.

It doesn't take too much intelligence on the part of the driver to see that she wasn't supposed to turn there, but looking at the barrels and posts, the spacing and the change from barrels to posts COULD lead a dense person to think that she had an opening into a turn lane. The gap is big enough to drive a truck through.

That's for sure!

Bunch of idiots, all of 'em.










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[/quote]It doesn't take too much intelligence on the part of the driver to see that she wasn't supposed to turn there, but looking at the barrels and posts, the spacing and the change from barrels to posts COULD lead a dense person to think that she had an opening into a turn lane. The gap is big enough to drive a truck through.
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Your giving the driving public too much credit, I could tell 20 years worth of stories but I already have plans today. Fact of the matter....even when it's perfect, people still make mistakes.....People in general are NOT trained to deal with even basic traffic control scenarios and that's ASSuming they are even paying attention. We basically plan for the most retarded driver possible and get shown up regularly.

Unless the cone that was there, is now under the car....

Guess what you Nebraska boys that have blown out your mouths, it was a Lincoln yoot that was driving the car GFY is in order

Heard that the other day, tho didn't hear if he was a recent import or native.

Regardless, obviously had been taught to drive by the owner of the Iowa car, tho.

I don't know the whole story, Could be that a previous idiot had knocked a cone away making it look like an opening for a turn lane or that the construction crew just set it up wrong. Could be the idiot kid saw a slow line of traffic and thought he could cut past on the left. I've definitely encountered plenty of construction zones where I'm going "WTF is this screwy layout and where am I supposed to drive?".

Nobody hurt, so fair to have a laugh.

An article I read said that there was no cone there so he didn't drive over it. It was a large gap but didn't say who was responsible for that. The kid still gets the bill unless he can get a judge to rule otherwise.