This Fort Wayne driver says this illegal driver maneuver is way too common around there.
Allen County-area driver and Redditor /u/toliein shared headshaking dashcam footage from earlier last year (Sept 18, 2025) to the /r/mildlybaddrivers subreddit showing one of Fort Wayne’s worst pulling a truly atrocious right turn from the wrong lane just feet from OP’s front bumper.
Check out the dashcam footage embedded below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incident happened near the intersection of W Jefferson Blvd. and the slip road with Catalpa St. (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As the dashcam shows, OP is driving eastbound along the 3000 to 2000 block of W Jefferson towards Nebraska.
As he approaches the slip road onto Catalpa, a driver kitty corner to OP in the left lane, without warning, makes a right turn feet from him into Catalpa.
Thankfully, OP had some distance between him and traffic and was able to not get entangled in that driver’s bad driving.
Regardless, it was an illegal driving maneuver.
“My blood boils when I see such behavior,” one of the top comments from /u/Totallynormalname_ reads.
“A bad driver never misses their exit,” /u/johnfornow added, commenting an oft-quoted axiom in these bad driving subreddits.
“When driving school talks about defensive driving, this is what they’re talking about,” /u/Melodynaxclarke pointed out.
In Indiana, making an illegal turn from the wrong lane is treated as a moving violation that carries points on your driving record once you’re convicted, with most improper‑turn type offenses typically assessed around 4 points under the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles system. (DMV.ORG)
Fines for such moving violations vary by county court, but many other traffic infractions in Indiana run in the low‑hundreds of dollars plus court costs. (DMV.ORG) Points usually stay on your record for two years and can lead to higher insurance rates or administrative action if you accumulate too many. (in.gov)
This kind of driving happens often in Fort Wayne, I’ve seen more bad drivers in the last 5 years than I have in the decades I’ve lived here.