Influencer documents the dangers of driving in Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — With 18 pedestrian deaths and countless car accidents this year, street safety is more important now more than ever.
Sarah Young, also known as, “Lunatic Trooper” on social media started going viral after compiling her dash-cam footage of dangerous drivers around Bakersfield.
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By sharing her real-time reactions, viewers can’t help but relate.
“And it’s bizarre to me how the moment that I put up either a specific intersection or a specific style of driving — the amount of people even just speaking about it prior to even putting it up, the amount of people I interact with that would have the same story and they’d be like, ‘Oh my God, that happened to me. I can’t believe it,'” Young said.
Her real-time reactions to these dangerous situations have gained thousands of views. Including, a way that she avoids “flipping the bird.”
“Knife hand! Knife hand!”
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“The knife hand for me personally, It’s an old military term. I think it’s still used in today’s day and age, but a lot of it has to do with just having a point of authority. I try not to use the bird because I think that conveys a lot of maliciousness. I think it shows a seriousness, like pay attention sort of thing,” Young said.
She puts a spotlight on the annoying things that drivers experience regularly like people using bike lanes as passing lanes.
“I get cut off here all the time. But when you have millions of people saying the same thing, recounting the same scary, dangerous situation, or even having full proof of I was hit at the same spot with the same encounter, it proves that what I’m doing is not just impacting me and my future family. It’s impacting so many people daily that is it necessary to leave this as it is?”
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