On the Road again.

Yesterday as I was driving on I-95 from Philadelphia area to Baltimore area where I drive a couple of times a week I was paying particular attention to my driving habits. Now I have been driving for some 40+ years and I realized how bad my driving habits can be. Instead of driving in the far right lane as I am suppose to do according to the Law I found myself driving in the middle and far left lane. While driving through Delaware where the Speed Limit on I-95 is 55 miles Per hour I was thinking. Why doesn't the state of Delaware have a speed limit of 65 like the states on both sides of Delaware on I-95. Every time I enter Delaware I find a big traffic problem. It is always backed up. Now I have driven in almost all of the United States and I find that the smaller states have the biggest problems. Maybe it is just my perception of the problem. I listen to the CB Radio where most of the Truckers stay and I hear the same complaints from the Truck Drivers. This is not to say that the other states don't have problems but Delaware just seems to me to be more congested. In the State of Maryland on I-95 most of the time I do see police officers out on the road trying their best to keep things in check. They use unmarked cars. This is not to trap the motorist but it is a deterrent that helps keep the motorist to obey the laws. This is almost an impossible job. There are just more motorists than police officers so they cannot be everywhere all the time. I know this because at one time I was a state police officer in the state of Colorado. My job was not only to keep the laws and try to keep the motorists from breaking the law. The biggest part of the job was to assist the motorist if they needed assistance. Now the other day I saw a stranded motorist on one of the Interstate Highways on the opposite side of the road and on my CB radio I went to channel 9 (the distress channel) and radioed a State Police officer to ask him to assist the motorist and his reply was "I am a police officer and not a mechanic." Now I thought the police officers were suppose to help the public but I guess in the past few years since I was a police officer the attitude has changed. If it has God help us as the police officers don't seem to want to help. I only hope that this was a police officer that is in the minority and the attitude of the others is to help if needed. Not just to keep the laws and issue citations. I hope this is the case. So the next time you are driving out on the nation's Interstate system keep an eye open and see if your perception is the same as mine. I would like to know if my observations are just my own or do others see the situation the same way I do. I do know by the observations that I have made that many drivers on the road seem to drive like the laws do not pertain to them so they seem to drive with any regard for the laws such as posted speed limits and the other laws. If they could only see in the hospital emergency rooms the some of the problems that are created by not obeying the laws that have been created and the accidents that happen maybe they would have a little more concern for the law. I know that most people seem to have the attitude that "nothing is going to happen to me because I am a good driver." Well they don't call them accidents because they were planned. If they were planned there would not be a need for EMS personnel, Hospital Emergency rooms and Rehab centers. Also the cemeteries have many people that said "Nothing is going to happen to me because I am a good driver." Maybe it wasn't their fault but that doesn't change the outcome of the accident. A person that has died as a result of an accident is DEAD and that can't be changed. If this has happened to someone that you know or someone that is in your family you know what I mean. Please don't let it happen to you. So please give this a little thought and let me know how you feel about this. Thank you.