Mountain Driving

From the Summit Daily Crime Blotter on May 8.
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The rules of the road really do rule

Police were called to Copper Mountain recently for a driving complaint. The caller reported that he had been driving west on Copper Mountain Road toward the golf course when a car passed him on the right, then made an abrupt left turn in front of him. The slighted driver stopped to talk to the other driver and asked, "Where's the fire?" The man replied that he was driving too slow. The first driver wrote down the second driver's description and told the responding deputy where the man's car was parked. When the deputy asked the registered owner of the car what happened, he replied that the car in front of him had been driving too slow, so he passed him. The deputy informed the man that Copper Road was only one lane and passing is illegal. He replied that as far as he is concerned, it's a private road and it's two lanes because there is no designation that it is only one lane. The deputy reiterated that it is only one lane. "For me, it is two lanes," the driver replied. He landed himself a ticket for careless driving and improper mountain driving.
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What an idiot - these rural mountain roads (especially if they are undivided) are among the most dangerous roads to drive on on a fatality per mile basis. People drive fast, collisions tend to be of the deadly head on variety, and curves/gorges ensnare a fair number of folks too. It sucks to be trapped behind a logging truck, or a sluggish minivan, but its too dangerous to be playing Monaco GP out there.