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Alas, too true – soccer moms in their SUVs or mini-vans believe they own the road AND that they’re indestructible (and the LOOKS you get if you happen to get in front of one when she thinks she’s got the right of way, because don’t you know it’s worse to kill a child than an adult? An adult no longer has his or her life ahead of him or her, you know. Only children do).
Worse than Mini-vans are Volvos. The false sense of ’safety’ allows overconfidence. Put someone in a ’safe’ car with full coverage insurance and they’ll happily drive it off a cliff.
I live in Florida where there are a lot of retirees, so I would put the elderly at the highest risk!
Too many times I have seen some soccer mom in her mini van or SUV, talking on her cell phone, not watching any part of the road and staring mindlessly at something else.
I see this daily!
That’s stupid. It has nothing to do with the kind of car she drives that she’s on her phone.
I think elderly people score highest. They’re so slow sometimes, which isn’t a problem when you’re sitting or walking but it’s terrible on the road. Driving only at half the speed of the other traffic at the highroad, that sort of things.
I was ran over by an old woman on the way to school many years ago.
She just asked if I worked for the local news paper, and then drove off.
WHAHAHAHAHAHAA!! my friend was hit by an ambulance a few years ago
Where I live the highest risk is yuppies driving huge trucks (that they really really don’t need).
As a rule, the elderly drive slowly and carefully. While they have slower reflexes and bad vision, they often try to be safe when driving. Soccer moms in general (the kind driving huge SUVs or minivans while chugging venti 7-pump no whip white mocha lattes and chatting on cell phones with their little soccer mom friends) drive with no concern for other human beings and they pay very little attention to the laws designed to keep all of us safe from dangerous and careless drivers.
This makes no sense to me!
The elderly are old!
They will die soon!
They should hurry up and get there!
Before they die!
Old people don’t drive fast but some of them are TERRIBLE drivers. One little old lady I almost ran over the other day. She was going down the acceleration ramp (called this for a reason yo) onto the Interstate. At the end of the ramp where she should have been merging into traffic, she comes to a dead STOP. I was looking behind me at the traffic coming up, trying to see a good spot to merge into, and I just happened to turn my head and see her at a dead stop at the end of the ramp about half a second before I slammed into her. Naturally I assumed she would be speeding up, merging etc.
It pissed me off so bad. If you’re so old you are afraid of merging into traffic on the interstate, for pete’s sake, don’t drive on it.
Yeah! I agree, if you’re afraid of traffic, take public transport. Oh the nerve of those clueless drivers, who THINK they can drive really well
Graph obviously done by a teenager.
I agree, Both Soccer moms and Teenagers are HORRIBLE drivers. I am continually amazed at the fact these bubblebrained kids are allowed to drive. And soccer moms, oh god. I stay at least 2 cars behind them until I can pass them by 3.
PARENTS TAKE HEED: Your Children are NOT doing what you want them to do. Don’t let the “No way Dad, I’d never do that!” and the attempt to look innocent/cry/plead ever fool you.
id like proof of that… and not all kids who say they wont do it actually do it.
Did you skip your own childhood or sumthin? If my mother told me I couldn’t do something, it made me want to do it EVEN MORE!
There were times I had no earthly intention of doing something…
until my mom said I COULDN’T DO IT!
Actually, the best proof that my mom is one of the biggest culprits of teenage delinquency behind the wheel was the morning (three days after I got my license, I might add) she told me not to use my cell phone while driving. I had just seen the MythBusters episode about driving with a cell being akin to driving drunk, so I happily obliged. Then, while driving, I got a call. I didn’t answer. I got three more calls in rapid succession, and when I got to the store I found my mom had left four messages on my phone, all saying “why aren’t you answering your phone?!” in varying degrees of anger.
I’m 25 and my mom still does that. She fusses at me about talking on my cell phone behind the wheel and then will call me while I’m driving through a snowstorm and either yells at me when I answer or leaves 15 messages saying “ARE YOU HOME SAFE??? WHY AREN’T YOU ANSWERING YOUR PHONE??????”
Second the agreement here… there is a reason they have higher insurance rates… you need to put teenagers after the Soccer Moms on the graph.. they have that whole ‘I am invincible’ thing going on. Or the ‘I have never been in an accident, therefore I am a good driver’. uhh.. you have been driving for 2 months, give it time…
Driving While (being a) Soccer Mom ought to be a felony offense!
Shouldn’t the y axis be ‘how -badly- driver operates vehicle’?
They should have to be retested when they reach that age! Soccer moms that is.
And what about other countries, where the game is properly called football?
S-O-C-C-E-R
FOOTBALL is a genuine AMERICAN sport
You really are an idiot aren’t you?
There are only four countries in the world that call it soccer. Everywhere else in the world it’s called football. Futbol, Fußball, Voetbal, Calcio, etc. They all mean the same thing: Football.
Quit thinking Throwball is the real football, because it’s not.
Oh yeah, I’m as American as they get and I still call them American Football and Football (or footy; my speaking with so many Liverpool supporters has made me start using some of their slang).
It’s hardly ever struck with the foot and it’s not a ball, it’s egg-shaped, so it’s not football it’s HandEgg.
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME HANDEEEEEGGGG!?!?!?!?
Damn, I was hoping Youtube had confined the soccer/football/”handegg” stupidity.
I remember almost getting run over by some mom when I was trying to cross the street and get to school one morning. The lady had dropped off her daughter, and was coasting forward while watching the girl walk up the walkway to the school. She wasn’t watching where she was going, and almost hit me. The look on her face when she realized what had happened was priceless.
I’d like to add myself to this list, but it is ONLY if you are walking in a parking lot in the middle of the lane and won’t get out of the way when you see a car coming. I just assume you want to be run over.
A logical assumption to make.
In my nearest city, where I work; there’s so many bad drivers to point out. not just drivers but cyclists as well. (I know they save the environment, without emissions, but nothing will save their sorry ass when they bend the law). It’s not just one that’s always bad but two, side by side one is in the bike lane, and the other is on the road.
Also Absent-minded pedestrians, “Thinking” “believing” they can make it across the road safely. The safe crossing point is only 10 or 20 meters away. I could write a list of the worst drivers on the road. what about those drivers that “Think” they have more priority…I think I’ll start writing the list
My nearest city is described as the Hoon capital, it’s written on the road.
Previously I said cyclists are bad road users,
I stand Correct!
I did a brief 15 minute drive, into town one stupid cyclist attempted to cross the road in front of me, I slammed on the brakes, and he went back. And on my way back a GROUP of them! I couldn’t overtake them, it was a blind corner, and one or some ride ONTO the road! I stand CORRECT!
In SUVs the size of an M1 Abrams tank, to pick up their ONE little tiny kid, while talking to their girlfriend on a teeny tiny cellphone the entire time.
Or to pick up their *four* kids, plus all their friends in need of rides. Nice try, though.
I’m unable to figure out what size of cell phone has to do with anything, and I’m nearly positive you’ve never seen a real “soccer mom”.
you should switch the teenager and the elderly, you’re more likely to run over THEM then get run over…
I hate getting run over by *anyone* going 20 miles faster than the speed limit no matter what the road is. After witnessing my one and (hopefully) only decapitation at age 10 in the 70’s, I refuse to tailgate. PERIOD. I also refuse to speed. I can’t afford the speeding ticket on my budget, and I figure they put the signs there for a reason. So stop gnawing on your steering wheel, flashing your lights, and pay attention to the traffic around you. ALL of you. I’ve almost been run over by a lady wanting to turn right on red while I was walking across the street WITH the pedestrian right-of-way, I’ve been hit by a teen wanting to get in my lane from 3 lanes over, and I’ve been hit from behind by an elderly lady not once, but *twice* because she couldn’t seem to make it to a complete stop. Anyone of any age is capable of causing an accident… that’s why they are called “accidents”.
How about ANYbody– soccer moms, 19-y/o princesses, 30-something douchebag males– who are driving vastly outsized vehicles and therefore think they own the road, regardless of their driving ability? If you try to run me down with your Expedition or Tundra or F150, even though you’re calculating it to pass me by centimeters, you’re a dangerous sociopath. Don’t be surprised if/when the sentiment is returned, either on or off the road. Mmkay?
According to insurance.com, Teens are FOUR times more likely to cause a deadly accident than senior citizens.
Experience>texting.
This is a crap graph and crap comments. It is obvious that no one who’s commented knows an actual “soccer mom” and instead is basing their facts off animated movies.
This graph should have “Angry Husbands Who Have to Drive Their Wives’ Minivans”. Those guys can’t help but be assholes.