Atlanta Suburbs and Car Accidents - a trend?

[acroyear]

This is the second time I've been to the 'burbs of Atlanta this year, and the second time that *every day* I have been here, I've witnessed a car accident either first-hand or being delayed by one.

Yesterday I was in delays for 2 of them.  The day before, one happened 3 cars right in front of me.

And this is all BEFORE the New Years Eve parties have started.  Most have been in broad daylight, usually at stoplight intersections where one person should be by virtue of a red light, giving the other the right of way.

So what gives?

Even driving in and around DC I can go for weeks without seeing one. Though the traffic reports certainly say they're happening, they don't happen on my 30-mile round trip to work and back, nor on my excursions into Maryland for morris practice and rarely (1 a season) to the faire in Annapolis.

Yet 1 extended weekend, 5 accidents, just like the extended Memorial Day weekend all those months ago, and I'm certainly expecting more tonite.

Comments

[sunnidae]

It's all that WiFi and XM radio.

[piraterogue.livejournal.com]

You think that's bad, try commuting here. My daily avaerage of accidents driven past is 3. That includes weekend days where the furthest I get from my house is the grocery store 1/4 mile away. Also that does not include accidents that have no visible damage. I myself have averaged one rear-ending a year. That's me being rearended. Most of them no damage, but still that's insane. Now you understand why Atlanta is rated the absolute worst in the country for traffic.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I lived in atlanta for 7 years, and then moved to DC. DC is far worse. in seven years in atlanta, I never had to turn my car off and sit for half an hour on the highyway waiting for an accident to clear, I had that not so long ago. In atlanta I went 7 years without a bump on my car, I've had two since I got back here. In Atlanta my commute was just under a half hour, in DC it's an hour and five. In atlanta, my commute was mildly complaint worthy, in DC it's considered pretty normal, and not worthy of complaint.

I see an accident at the same intersection every week or two, and the road is closed for more than a half hour every month or two at that intersection. Just where and when you drive.

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Oh, I dunno... I got caught by the *beginning* of rush hour one day and it took me 1 1/2 hour to go what *should* have taken about 15 minutes. No accidents, and I was told that was completely normal for that part of the just north of Atlanta suburbs... as well as warned that trying to go *through* Atlanta during rushhour was an insane thing to do.

(um, yeah, I was following directions, had a fairly urgent errand to try to complete *and* didn't have a map of the area... and had been warned that generally most of the little roads in that area don't go anywhere)

Both cities are bad... but remember, Atlanta is mostly imported drivers lately... and a *lot* of them are from NYC and the DC area (especially NYC... and I've come across a few from the Boston area as well... so they've got more than enough insane drivers in that area now).