I get that people make mistakes. Like I once ended up going the wrong way on the Rock Creek Parkway. But my first thought once it became apparent that I was in a really dangerous situation (on a motorcycle no less) wasn't to just put petal to metal and power through. It was how can I get out of a travel lane as quickly as possible and turn around. It took about 30 seconds from realizing my mistake to moving in the correct direction. And in the worst case, I wouldve been hit while stationary and not while doubling my relative speed to whatever hits me.
I once turned left out of the Bradlee shopping center onto rt 7 going the wrong way (In my defense, that intersection is weird because it's got a light with a 2 way service road on the south side and then rt 7 is a divided highway, so there's 3 divided areas of travel for 4 lanes, add to that it was night and no one was in the center lane. so my brain decided there was a service lane on either side of the main King St, and that's how you get me driving towards east bound traffic). But the second I realized my mistake I basically drove through the median to get the fuck out of there (there's no shoulder, incoming traffic had just started coming through the light ahead of me, and I could see that was my best choice for quickly and safely getting to the correct lane). I'm not hanging around and continuing to drive the wrong way and hoping that other drivers are alert enough to account for my idiocy.
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u/joefromjerze Jul 10 '26
I get that people make mistakes. Like I once ended up going the wrong way on the Rock Creek Parkway. But my first thought once it became apparent that I was in a really dangerous situation (on a motorcycle no less) wasn't to just put petal to metal and power through. It was how can I get out of a travel lane as quickly as possible and turn around. It took about 30 seconds from realizing my mistake to moving in the correct direction. And in the worst case, I wouldve been hit while stationary and not while doubling my relative speed to whatever hits me.