Yep, I officially hate Illinois drivers.

I know this topic popped up not long ago about Ohio and Illinois drivers and how bad they suck. Well, now I have two small dents in my rear bumper from one. Not only was the douchenozzle riding my ass, not paying attention, but as I stoppedfor the stop light (and 3 other cars ahead of me) he rear ends me. Seriously? I get out, he gets out shouts "Why did you stop? Thats my brother in law there!" hops in his car and takes off.

Wait.... not only did he hit my car, now he's taking off? Are you berkeleying kidding me? So I hopped back in the car, called 911 with the wife holding the phone and started following him, relaying his information, plate number, car etc. Then he starts driving like a mad man passing cars over blind hills and around corners etc. I was not willing to do the same thing to keep up.

Head back toward the interstate where the 911 dispatcher said one of the officers would meet me. He pulls in a few minutes later and we hand him the plate number, car description, driver description etc. He gets in his Tahoe, and a few minutes later comes out saying that the plate was not valid in 2014 or 2015 which is all that Illinois shares with Indiana for registration records. WEll, now we know why he ran.

So... you run across a silver pontiac vibe 2009-10 body style with Illinois license plate 637 6586 please do me a favor and run that sorry son of a bitch off the road and into a pole.

Bobzilla wrote: So... you run across a silver pontiac vibe 2009-10 body style with Illinois license plate 637 6586 please do me a favor and run that sorry son of a bitch off the road and into a pole.

See folks, that right there is how you end a rant!!!

Sorry to hear about your car Bob. I share your disdain for hit-and-run E36 M3heads.

While I admit that Indiana drivers are overall about the best that I have ever encountered, Illinois drivers are not that bad assuming you're not in Peoria. Iowa drivers are frickin horrible though.

4 way stops and roundabouts:

Enter at you own risk.

Well that whole situation sucks! Born and raised in Illinois. I hate Chicagoland drivers. Get away from the city and people are much nicer on the road. Mostly.

I live in Illinois. I get these Jack wads 5 feet from my bumper and I wonder what's wrong with that guy?????

Then some dazed out chick flies by without a clue how stupid her driving is.

clutchsmoke wrote: Get away from the city and people are much nicer on the road. Mostly.

Man, I tend to find the opposite. Although admittedly I do almost 100% of my driving on the highway on long road trips (work from home, so little commuting here).

In and around chicago, people will move right if you "flash to pass", and often they do it without the help. Very few people sit and camp in the left-most lane. Now, there are still idiots passing at 20 over in the right lanes, but overall the highway driving is soo much easier to set your cruise and leave it.

Get out into the boonies, (WI, IL, IA, IN, OH, NE, PA, doesn't seem to matter), and suddenly it seems like people are impressed by the size of a semi truck so they drive right next to them for miles on end. And they don't use cruise control. And they don't move right when you come up on them in the left lane, and they really don't know what to do when you "flash to pass". They can't merge either, but luckily they don't have to very often.

to the OP, I will be on the lookout.

In reply to Bobzilla:

Sorry to hear about your situation.

Not all Illinois drivers are bad. I know that when I cross into Indiana, not much has changed, so there is no reason to drive differently.

I will agree that once out of the major metropolitan areas, it gets better, but I drive I-57 every single day and there are people that just have somewhere they got to be and drive like total asshats.

I think you encountered an exceptionally E36 M3ty driver. We have them in all states.

Out of state visitors in any state tend to be on one end of the spectrum: The ones that drive 5mph under or the ones that are doing 20mph over, driving erratically.

I believe it is a nation wide issue. I travel a lot and have moved around a lot. Career military (retired now) and work for the military so around places with mainly military but not all can be attributed to that. Once in Tacoma, WA it took me 2 hours to travel 8 miles behind a car in snow. Driver must have put 100 miles on the odometer to travel the 8 miles. In Fairbanks, AK can always tell first winter folks by them sliding through intersections. Here in North Alabama, I've been rearended by someone not heeding stop signs. I've had an large SUV park against my car in a parking lot (I was centered in the slot, RX8). Left turns from the right lane almost hitting me. Almost sideswipped a few times, mainly from large SUV's. My daughter has been rear ended twice. Once stopped and agreed to pull out of the street into a parking lot, the other lady pulled into the parking lot and back out the other side never stopping. She also got sideswipped into the median that flipped and rolled her car. Offender didn't stop. Have had numerous people pull out of parking lots without looking. Almost hit them or almost hit me. When that happens I sure am happy with the HPS pads I put on the car. Getting worse around here with influx of new people here. Have also seen 2 people with books propped up on the steering wheel reading while they drive. It also seems that turn signals must be an option that no one buys on their cars around here. Would almost seem like it could be me but I'm an attentive driver and my events are less than friends here. Some of which are driving instructors, I've also done some driving instuction. Now this is over the course of a several years though. It does add up and seems to be more frequent.

I spent Saturday driving to, from, and around Chicago.

berkeley my life.

wlkelley3 wrote: My daughter has been rear ended twice.

Quoted without comment. (Sorry Wendell, it was just too easy to resist.)

I am confused.. even though the car is not registered at the moment.. it still has plates on it. Should not be that hard to find who those plates were issued to

mad_machine wrote: I am confused.. even though the car is not registered at the moment.. it still has plates on it. Should not be that hard to find who those plates were issued to

The registration was not from 2014 or 2015, which is all the information that Indiana has available on the spot.

I had never seen anything like this till I moved to DC. Everyone has one it seems like.

mtn wrote:

mad_machine wrote: I am confused.. even though the car is not registered at the moment.. it still has plates on it. Should not be that hard to find who those plates were issued to

The registration was not from 2014 or 2015, which is all the information that Indiana has available on the spot.

Bingo. If I had unlimited funds, I'm sure it would be wholly possible to hire a private detective to find this E36 M3wad off that information. But the police here cannot.

Flight Service wrote: I had never seen anything like this till I moved to DC. Everyone has one it seems like.

I had seen those going into NYC...

neon4891 wrote:

Flight Service wrote: I had never seen anything like this till I moved to DC. Everyone has one it seems like.

I had seen those going into NYC...

First time we saw them was NJTP on the way to NYC to meet a friend for the day. I find that completely ridiculous that people are that poor of a driver that you have to take extra steps to keep your vehicle nice.

This goes back to my theory that all safety and nanny devices be removed from all vehicles for 10 years. Lets thin the herd down and get rid of some of hte morons out there for a while. Stop cheating Darwin.

mtn is wrong. Illinois drivers are that bad. I live here. I know.

What you really need to do is find them at a rally and run them off the bridge they're on!

Bobzilla wrote: I find that completely ridiculous that people are that poor of a driver that you have to take extra steps to keep your vehicle nice.

Parallel parking in crowded cities is kind of a contact sport. Even if you remove the safety devices, the speeds are low enough that all you're going to get is a bunch of scuffed bumpers without any Darwinian thinning of the heard.

Also, no mention or reference to Illinois Nazis yet.

Appleseed wrote: mtn is wrong. Illinois drivers are that bad. I live here. I know.

Yeah I live here too and I wouldn't go as far as to say all Illinois drivers are bad.

It's like any other situation. You don't notice the good drivers, you only notice the bad.

I don't consider myself bad, but I imagine that a few times I've gotten aggressive while driving, I've made somebody somewhere think I'm a bad driver.

Elderly Illinois female driver in the overtaking lane on US24, running side by side with a Semi, I came up behind her and put my headlights on to advise I was traveling faster (68 in a 65 zone), I was at least 3 car lengths behind her. She then increased her speed and moved over as she passed the truck. This lady then hangs her head out the window, gives me the bird and screams at me as I continued on my way, I still have no idea what I did to upset her.

IA drivers are so bad that in SD the form used for writing up accidents has "IA" pre-printed in the drivers license blank where you would normally put the state for the at fault driver.

In reply to aussiesmg:

You haven't had fun until you're in traffic on I65 between Indy and Chicago and get to witness IL vs WI road rage........WI drivers in my opinion are awesome.