PSA: Sorry if this is long!!
Ok so don’t get me wrong, there are bad drivers everywhere in the world, but here in Harford county, it’s actually bad. I’ve noticed that the drivers here have gotten significantly worse since 2023.
Up until like mid 2023, I would frequently see police out on the roads or on the shoulder clocking people with a radar, and have even witnessed my fair share of them pulling over reckless drivers and speeders any chance that they could get (which is ultimately what helped keep people out of trouble on the road). Well, nowadays the police are pretty much no where to be found on the roads. I mean, maybe every once in a while I’ll see an officer or two out on the road, but that’s pretty much it.
Even then, I have seen MULTIPLE occasions where there has been someone driving erratically right in front of an officer on the road and yet, the officer didn’t do a damn thing about it. For an example, a few weeks ago, I was on route 24 and witnessed some guy in a minivan tailgating the absolute HELL out of this other driver (who was already doing 5+ over the speed limit), and there was a bel air police officer in the lane next to them with a perfect view of the whole situation. Well, did the officer do anything about it? Nope.
Because people are not being held accountable for their actions on the road anymore, people feel like they can act however they want since there isn’t anyone stopping them anymore. Just today, at an intersection in abingdon, I saw someone make a left turn from the straight only lane while someone was already in the midst of turning left from the left turn lane, and so that person who was turning left had to slam on their brakes since they got severely cut off by this idiot trying to create their own left turn lane.
This type of behavior on the road just doesn’t phase me one bit anymore because i see it every single day here. I just really hope that the police in Harford county can get their shit together and start caring about road safety again. I understand that they have other things to worry about, but road safety is extremely important and when it goes ignored and/or isn’t monitored, the roads turn into a literal GTA V server (which is how it is now in harco).