Stop the Maryland Unsafe Driver

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HANCOCK — A 73-year-old Hancock man was killed Thursday night when he was struck by a car as he was walking across Md. 144 at Casper Road to retrieve his mail, Maryland State Police said.

Read the ENTIRE story at the Herald-Mail.com:

via Maryland: Pedestrian killed near Hancock.

(We don’t know what happened other than a pedestrian was killed. Imagine living a wonderful life. You are 73 years old. One day while you are going out to the curb to check your mail, WHAM! You’re dead.  The driver of the car has to live with the guilt the rest of her life. Making things much worse of course is that we are in the Christmas season.

Perhaps this is a good time for everyone to make the commitment to drive safely. Drive to arrive – alive. Drive to be conscious of the safety of those around you.

Th bad-driving pandemic that plagues our state will never subside UNLESS each of us makes a conscious decision to change our driving behavior. There are too many Marylanders driving as though they are immortal even when six-hundred die in Maryland every year.  Countless animals are killed, people are injured.

Stop at stop signs and red lights out of respect for the law and the safety of others.

End aggressive behaviors that make our highways dangerous.

Do not drink and drive.

Set an EXAMPLE for others this holiday season. It may be the greatest gift you can give. Fewer dead and injured during the holidays is a great idea. You think?)

For the past two years StopBigBrotherMD.org has been documenting the expansion of speed cameras in Maryland. Last year a bill sponsored championed by Governor O’Malley authorized the use of speed cameras in school zones and freeway work zones anywhere in the state. We argued that this new power would be abused, that it would diminish the legal rights of drivers, subject drivers to mass surveillance, and that it would be viewed as a cash cow by local governments and a way of taxing out of town drivers.

Read the ENTIRE article at StopBigBrotherMD.org:

via Maryland Speed Cameras.

(StoptheMUD.org (no affiliation) has mixed feelings. On the one hand, unsafe driving in Maryland is pandemic. Aggressive behavior is common. Few people stop at red lights and stop signs especially for right turns. Traffic deaths remain in the 500-600 range every year. Then on the other you have politicians that look more to traffic cams as revenue generators after having skipped education and traffic enforcement. Red light cams make enforcement less personal and that’s good for the politician because then the politician does not have to support the police and really tick off constituents.

There are way too many bad drivers but StoptheMUD believes the problem is best fixed by our citizens deciding to obey the law. There would be NO REASON for traffic cams if most of us drove safely and not the other way round. Our energy should be directed at changing behaviors that are killing people. )

MUD Tailgating a safe driver. Aggressive, angry, dangerous behavior causes death.

Photos for the MUD FAQ.

This one taken South bound Highway 4, South of Prince Frederick, on Saturday April 17, 2010 around 10:30 AM. Driver was speeding in the number one lane (well in excess of 55 MPH) and followed the safe driver at an unsafe distance then pulled a “MUD in your eye” maneuver to get around the safe driver.

Dangerous, angry, aggressive behavior that kills.

A potential Maryland road killer.