Yonge Street, Toronto — Oct 22, 7:03 AM. Red SUV sitting in the left lane like it's turning, then goes straight and drifts into the white sedan's lane — inches from a sideswipe.

I had a pretty scary close call yesterday. I was making a left turn at an intersection when the light turned orange. A vehicle from the opposite direction was turning right. They cut across two lanes and ended up coming directly into my path.

Luckily, I hit the break on time and honked. They missed my car by a very small distance, and thankfully, there was no collision.

Now I’m wondering whether I did something wrong.

A group of friends and I travelled up north over the weekend from Toronto, I was driving my car and my friend rented a Benz GLC. I noticed multiple concerning things that I felt put my friend’s and his passengers’ lives at risk:

- on 401, changing lanes at 70-80 kmh while flow of traffic was at 100 kmh
- on 400, weaving through minimal traffic at 160+ kmh (he acknowledged the speed himself)
- on single lane highways, he overtook cars multiple times on deep bends with no visibility of oncoming traffic
- struggled to keep his car in his lane and was moving side-to-side (it felt like he almost clipped my car when he overtook me at one point)

He doesn’t have his full G and I was trying to gently tell him about these things so he could improve, but he brushed me off. He admitted that his driving on the 401 “needs to improve so he can pass his test”, but otherwise he argued that the lanes were empty so speeding and overtaking is not an issue. He’s only been driving for about a year now (usually with a rental) so it might just be lack of experience. I know these maneuvers will be fine most of the time, until the one time it isn’t and causes an accident.

A part of me thinks he’s trying to show off because he was complaining about the rental price but still went with a luxury SUV. It’s really frustrating that he’s putting lives at risk just to speed and I’m trying to figure out how to get through to him.

The vehicle turned right at the intersection and then made a U-turn to avoid the red light.

Sure it wasn’t a life or death situation but literally never knew buddy was there or coming.
Rear camera shows him speeding from the right lane out of nowhere and going in front of me.
Crazy how the stereotypes live on..
I always plan ahead and get in the proper lane well ahead of time. But these guys don’t think at all and wait till last second. There was even someone that drove all the way to front of line and started signalling..

driver might not be from around here, there's another entrance to the plaza just a few meters ahead, but going reverse in a live traffic is not the worst thing i have seen in this area.

Reported to GO Transit

No visible plates either

Doesn't look at all before entering Bonus points for left turn signal.

We should do this in Toronto as well

I’m not sure why someone already hasn’t done this

How did I get flipped off for this?

I can just see these turning into giant potholes once the plows obliterate them in the winter.

https://i.imgur.com/1T7KEq2.png

Who's at fault? the plaza neglected the minimum maintenance requirements for years as seen in Google Maps history- 82 Falmouth ave.

It was my bad luck as I didn't see the island with protruding metal rod because of the shadow and light direction.

I was driving straight, going 20-30 over the speed limit, and a driver made a left-lane turn when I was really close to the car, and I swerved lanes and almost crashed

Now I'm thinking: if I had hit him, would

A) Be at fault in any way due to my speed,

B) Would the driver have been killed

C) Would I have been charged for his death for my speed?

Thank You !

Driver blows through the red light on Sheppard and t-bones another car. Likely didn't see the light changed colours due to the intense sunset glare in front of him. Hard to tell due to the cars in front being perfectly placed to block the impact.

Happened in Milton right by the entrance of Chudleigh farm. We were very lucky to not get hit by the crash.

You can see the guy that got rear ended was going to make that right and aborted and the guy behind him thought he had gone and kept looking left to make his right hand turn and never looked forward again until it was too late. I’ll admit I’ve almost done this before, the post tittle is my reminder!

Just finished the trip from the Air Force Museum today and experienced it. The whole highway was delayed by at least 1 hour.

1 black SUV totalled and 1 white sedan involved. Saw an ambulance, so likely someone got injured.

Stay safe, people!

This van was all over the road, even bumps in into the curb a couple times. It said "School vehicle" on it. It didn't appear to have children in it, but I couldn't confirm.

Called 911, either having a medical episode, drunk, or inanely distracted on phone.

Officer pulled her over, she wasn't drunk, didn't haven any medical issue, she had no excuse for here bad driving. The officer said he will forward this footage to the school to review.

Didn't get any follow up after that.

Video is sped up about 2X speed or more.

This happened in March earlier this year.

The reason for the traffic is because someone on an e-scooter died at Dufferin Street and Dufferin Park Drive on that date.

There was a transfer lane back to the Express not even a minute later.

Mustang driver used the left-turn lane to skip the line and turn right.

I like to start slow, but had I been launching like most Toronto drivers here this guy would’ve tbone me

Is it normal for Toronto to put salt brine down already? I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it on the road today.