My Utah Experience
Welcome to Drive The 15! This site was designed to help automobile drivers safely get acquainted to an area long before they actually drive there. A little bit about my trip to Utah...I moved to Pleasant Grove, Utah on January 1, 2005. My parents decided that California was too expensive to live. They wanted a bigger house for less money and so they ended up buying a one there. I had lived in California my entire life and so the thought of "change" sounded like a great idea. Although I hadn't heard much about what there was to do in Utah, I had a pretty good feeling I'd be happy there. When I told all of my friends I'd be moving there, they all told me that there were a lot of very attractive girls in Utah and so that was a "plus" in my mind. The first thing I will always remember about Utah was the fact that there were so many terrible drivers. Whether it was snowing extremely hard, raining a little, or dry as could be, there were always a lot accidents...everywhere. When you live in Utah, you get accustomed to one major freeway, the 15. Getting on the 15 (whether going north or southbound) was always a chore. People would never gain enough speed to get onto the freeway and so they would stop completely on the on ramp and wait for an opening. I think that was a major cause for a lot of the accidents. Another reason was that people didn't know how to drive in the snow. And I mean, come on, if you don't know how to drive in snow, it's not that hard to figure out. Here's all you need to know: drive slow and pay attention. The first 2 weeks I lived there, there must have been 5 accidents within a 2 mile radius.
Now I don't want this entire site to be a huge complaint of Utah drivers (even though that's what most of it is going to be about). I guess what I'm trying to say is that the drivers in Utah need to get with it sometimes. They have the ability to drive a lot better than they choose to do. And this goes for places everywhere...if you're going to get in a vehicle and travel anywhere, you should always drive defensively (as if you were invisible to everyone).