A driver in a VW Tiguan drove banked into a drainage ditch just to avoid stopped traffic. Impatience or a sign of badly designed roads?
Texan and Redditor /u/BruhGang69420 shared headshaking smartphone footage to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit from earlier last week (Sept 24, 2024) from Bellaire showing a driver in a black VW Tiguan recklessly driving into a drainage ditch and continuing at an angle just to bypass traffic stopped in front of a turn lane.
Check out his smartphone footage below.
[oc] It’s not that serious bro..
byu/Bruhgang69420 inIdiotsInCars
The incident happened on W Loop S just below I-610 just before Exit 6 onto Bellaire Blvd and Evergreen St (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As his footage shows, he’s stopped on W Loop S on lanes headed straight.
As this screenshot of the area shows, once traffic piles up in lanes headed straight, it effectively blocks drivers trying to turn left.
Undeterred, one arguably reckless driver in a VW Tiguan, not wanting to wait for traffic to clear, takes matters into their own hands and drives into a banked, drainage ditch, bypassing traffic altogether.
“Yo, what are you doing, brother,” we can hear OP or OP’s passenger yell out, seeing the buffoonery playing out before him.
“Yo, we in Houston now,” OP replies as the Tiguan hopes back onto level road and into their turn lanes .
“Car loves a good belly rub,” /u/thelastemarblerye humoursly commented.
“Nah, I get it actually. Destination on the other side of the highway, have to make this U-turn every day. And every day the light is backed up 3-4 cycles, but no one else is making a U-turn. You’re just stuck there for an extra 15 minutes every f***ing day,” /u/tbrand009 sympathized.
“There are many areas in and around Houston where there are no alternate routes. It’s a huge reason why traffic here is so god awful.”
To be fair, no harm, no foul, although a police officer observing this would probably pull him over.
I’d say, if your vehicle can handle this irregular angle of driving (before the tipping point) and you’re willing to risk it, more power to you.
Although, if you get it wrong, it’ll be an expensive repair bill.
