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Guess who were out and about on a late Sunday night?  Tailgaters and red light runners.  At the large multi-signal intersection at Tujunga and Riverside/Camarillo, some impatient asshole in a champagne-colored sedan didn’t feel like waiting for the light to change green.  So guess what?  After waiting for about 15 seconds, he just decided to plow forward despite the consternation of honking and high beam flashing drivers around him.  Typical L.A. arrogance at its finest.  About 15 minutes earlier, we were driving on the 101 Fwy west, witnessing an unusually large amount of senseless tailgating.  Speeders and erratic lane changers always abound at night, but excessive tailgating?  What’s the point when traffic is so light and you simply need to switch lanes?  To make matters worse, people were tailgating in all lanes of traffic.  This is a photo of what looked to be an old 1-series Mercedes with a license plate starting with a 3 (likely L.A. native) that was tailgating another sedan in the #3 lane of traffic at 70+ mph.  There was literally 15 feet separating the two cars.  When we eventually got a good look at the driver, we saw a clueless-looking, scruffy old man who seemed to be either falling asleep behind the wheel or drunk off his ass.  By the looks of him, he probably wasn’t aware of how fast he was going or how close he was to the car in front of him.  So my guess is inebriation.  Unfortunately, we never got a good look at his license plate to report his reckless driving to the officials.  But there you go…I figured I’d write it here and let Karma do the work.

Filed under: aggressive, clueless, speeding, tailgating