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I'm still not sure if I did anything wrong here since the situation was a little weird, but here goes...
I had to take my mother to work this morning...no road work was happening on the main road that goes through town. On my way back home, I was on that road again about 10 minutes later. I pass a long line of dump trucks and water trucks and I see a regular car with its hazards blinking on the other side of the road. No accident or anything - looked like someone just had to stop and maybe use a phone or something. No opposing traffic driving slowly in my lane. No pretty orange signs alerting me to road work. No similarly pretty cones in the road. No flaggers.
Oh, but wait! A wild flagger appears! But not where I think he'd be - rather than be in the middle of the road, he's on the very edge of the road in the other lane with his sign kinda down at his side rather than in front of him where drivers could really see it, and right beside him is a road work sign (also on the other side of the road).
I did not see this guy until I was already halfway past him, and I feared if I slammed on my breaks (since the "stop" side of his sign was facing my way), someone would rear-end me. No flagger a few yards before this guy on my side of the road telling me to stop either.
I've just never seen a work zone with so little notice of its presence. I worry either my mother or I will get pulled over (since we share a car) and ticketed because I did this. Did I do wrong here when I honestly did not even see this guy because my view of him was obstructed by a fleet of bloody trucks? I think I have to call myself out as a sucky driver in any case.
I had to take my mother to work this morning...no road work was happening on the main road that goes through town. On my way back home, I was on that road again about 10 minutes later. I pass a long line of dump trucks and water trucks and I see a regular car with its hazards blinking on the other side of the road. No accident or anything - looked like someone just had to stop and maybe use a phone or something. No opposing traffic driving slowly in my lane. No pretty orange signs alerting me to road work. No similarly pretty cones in the road. No flaggers.
Oh, but wait! A wild flagger appears! But not where I think he'd be - rather than be in the middle of the road, he's on the very edge of the road in the other lane with his sign kinda down at his side rather than in front of him where drivers could really see it, and right beside him is a road work sign (also on the other side of the road).
I did not see this guy until I was already halfway past him, and I feared if I slammed on my breaks (since the "stop" side of his sign was facing my way), someone would rear-end me. No flagger a few yards before this guy on my side of the road telling me to stop either.
I've just never seen a work zone with so little notice of its presence. I worry either my mother or I will get pulled over (since we share a car) and ticketed because I did this. Did I do wrong here when I honestly did not even see this guy because my view of him was obstructed by a fleet of bloody trucks? I think I have to call myself out as a sucky driver in any case.
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