Don't think Utah has the monopoly in that regard. I remember a drive between Laramie and Fort Collins in a early spring snow/ice storm. I-80 between Laramie and Cheyenne was closed and to be honest I was surprised the highway into Fort Collins was still open (shouldn't have been).
Anyway, only a few miles out of Laramie a red XJ come flying past everyone. Happily I soon find him chating with a highway patrol, light all a flashing. However, it doesnt take long for him to come flying past me again.
Not long after a Chevy short bed p.u. also goes along passing the rest of us (the smart ones going, 15 mph or so).
The next time I see the Chevy, he is upside down in the middle of the highway, having missed a turn, headed uphill into an embankment and rolled back onto the road. Several others had stopped to assist, so I kept on driving. The driver was standing, looking sadly at his rig. Obviously uninjured.
Another 10 miles or so along the way, I find Mr XJ about 30 feet off the road, stuck in the snow. Feeling sorry even for idiots, I stop and offer him aride into town. He declines, having been infromed that a tow truck was a mile or so down the road pulling someone else back onto the road. He asked me stop and ask the operator to come get him when he is done.
So I continue down the ice track, find the tow truck and stop. I tell him about the Jeep, but find out the tow truck had broken down and was waiting for another truck to come pull him back to Fort Collins. The road was dangerous enough there was no way I was going to drive back up to tell the idiot.
I still wonder how long he sat there, thinking help was on the way (and probably cursing me, thinking I failed to deliever the message
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Was about the worst drive I have ever had (made worse by my thinking since it was late March I would not need my chains I had left them home. Bad move), but at least I had the satisfaction of seeing truly stupid drivers get their reward.
