Video collage of a driver who runs red lights, uses left turn lanes at intersections to go straight and cut off advancing traffic, and uses the left turn lane to pass moving traffic. This has been going on for over 2 years now.
In response to several comments here and on other websites:
"Why didn't you turn this video over to the police?" That was my plan and I fully intended to, but shortly after uploading this video the weather turned just awful with all that snow rolling through the state and that left me very busy clearing it every day and very short on time, so I didn't have time to bring it to the county sheriff's office. In the meantime I never thought to look back here after uploading so I had no idea all this was going on with the social and news media coverage. Now that the local media turned it into a shitstorm I really have no interest in having my name and identity attached to this.
NOTE: I have uploaded all the original videos and made them available to the Kalamazoo Public Safety/Sheriff's office. All they have to do is download the videos and confirm that nothing has been altered about the appearance of the car of the license plate. Beyond that, any legal action they take is up to the police and prosecutor.
"How can you describe the driver when the windows are so tinted?" The side windows aren't tinted, or aren't tinted very darkly at all. When that car is beside mine it's quite easy to see the driver. I didn't get photos/video of that driver because operating the camera in that way would have been a much greater distraction to my own driving. Pressing record when it's sitting on the dash board is no more difficult than pressing a button on the radio or heat controls.
"You can't prove who's driving." Correct. The driver looked young, about early 20s, but I have no photographic identification of him.. The registered car owner is described by the media as being 51 years old who claims several different people had access to the car. I'm guessing the same car driving in the same way on the same route at the same time range every single day with the driver of the description I provided can be enough evidence for the registered car owner to figure it out and give a good yelling-to.
"Why don't you get a life?" How much more fulfilling of a life do you expect me to get during the daily drive between work and home? I have nothing else going on during that time, saw someone driving dangerously and breaking major traffic laws every day, and felt someone should do something about it.
"How obsessed are you to record video on someone for two years?" That's incorrect and the news media got it wrong on that. This set of videos only spans the last 6 months or so. It was two years ago, the spring or summer of 2012, that I first started noticing this same car driving like this about the same time of day. When I started seeing the same car doing the same things again in 2013 I decided to get a dash cam mount. As dumb luck would have it, as soon as I had that I never saw this driver again until the spring of 2014 in order to start getting video. Getting there to see it (and record it) was simply a matter of timing.
"That music is awful." Well, that's just a matter of your own personal opinion. There is plenty of popular music that I find to be just awful as well. Again, personal opinion.
"What music is that?/What song is playing at x:xx?" All the music heard here can be found at http://remix.kwed.org for free public download. When possible I'll respond to requests of specific song titles.
"I drive like that all the time." Well, I hope someone makes a video upload of you doing it for your local police to question you about as well.
"[statements of general appreciation]" Thank you very much.
