Outrageous Traffic Incidents and Reckless Driving Charges of the Week

April 8, 2009

TrafficSchoolOnline.com has been helping drivers dismiss their traffic tickets since 1997. Naturally, in over 12 years of business, we've heard some unbelievable traffic ticket and driver safety stories from students enrolled in our online traffic school course. And until this week, we thought we'd heard it all.

Oh, how wrong we were. Over the past few days, we've witnessed some unbelievable stories related to unsafe driving, reckless speeding and idiotic behavior on the road. Here are a few of them.

Ohio Man charged with drunk driving — on a barstool.

Driving drunk is never a smart thing. Not only could you face a traffic ticket and a trip to traffic school online or an online defensive driving course, but you could also kill someone.

In one of the most peculiar stories of the week, an Ohio 'driver' faces drunken driving charges after crashing his barstool. Yes, that's correct. You're not seeing things. He was driving a barstool.

A motorized bar stool to be exact. According to the driver, the vehicle can travel up to 38 mph. And according to reports, the charged driver had consumed 15 beers before getting behind the… um… wheel. Not a good combination, if you ask us.

While an online traffic school and online defensive driving course doesn't cover motorized barstools, everyone at TrafficSchoolOnline.com will be watching this one closely to see how it plays out in court.

Get the whole bizarre story from msnbc.

Oregon driver charged with speeding after being clocked at 103mph — and you won't believe what she does for a living.

Here's something you'll learn not to do in online traffic school. On Sunday, March 29th, a woman from Salem, Oregon was charged with driving 103 mph in a 45 mph zone. For those of you without a calculator, that's 58 mph over the limit. Again, that's not a typo. 103 miles per hour.

The kicker? The speeding driver had worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation DMV since 1988. We're not making this up.

According to reports, the reckless driver was attempting to teach her grandson what not to do behind the wheel. At TrafficSchoolOnline.com, we think it would have been a lot safer, and smarter, to simply tell the grandson not to speed. Or enroll him in an online traffic school as a refresher course.

But what do we know? Get the whole story on this reckless driver.

Andres 3000 gets caught driving over 100mph

It seems like 100 is the magic number this week. Andres 3000 of Outkast fame was clocked driving 109 mph in Atlanta.

The music sensation is now free on a property bond to the tune of $1,200 and is scheduled to appear in court on April 29th.

Mr. Benjamin (no, 3000 isn't actually his last name) might want to take a look at taking an online traffic school course, much like the one offered by TrafficSchoolOnline.com. Given his excessive speed, it might not necessarily eliminate his ticket entirely, but the information he'll learn might be enforcement enough to help him drive within the limit.

Got something even more outrageous?

If you have a story related to traffic tickets, unsafe driving, online traffic school, defensive driving programs or developing traffic laws in your city or state, we'd love to hear about it. Send an email to news@trafficschoolonline.com with a link to the story and we'll share it with the world.