Teen is catching San Antonio's 'bad drivers' on camera, posting them on YouTube

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A local YouTube user is years away from being able to legally get behind the wheel, but he is well aware of driving laws and etiquette and has made it his personal duty to keep adults in check through his series of videos capturing the “Bad Drivers of San Antonio.”

“It may actually come as a surprise to you, but I am 13 years of age,” Anthony Florez told mySA.com in an email. “(I) want everybody to learn from drivers’ mistakes showcased in my videos.”

See screengrabs of some of the worst drivers above, or watch some of the most popular videos embedded below.

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The teen has been watching roads throughout the Alamo City, keeping an eye out for mistakes from the passenger seat of his parents’ vehicles since August 2015. Less than a year later, countless clips have been compiled into a series of 25 videos published to his YouTube channel, “BadDriversofCentralTexas.”

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AllState Insurance Company ranked San Antonio as 137 of 200 U.S. cities in their annual report of drivers for 2015. Florez’s footage, captured by his GoPro HERO and a Black Box G1W Dash Cam, proves daily road pet peeves and may serve as reasoning for the low spot.

Although he hasn’t captured an accident, Florez has caught people slamming on their brakes while on the highway, straddling lanes, reversing out of businesses into oncoming traffic, rolling past stop signs, running red lights, last-minute lane changes and cutting off other drivers – pretty much everything typically seen within the first 5 minutes of rush hour in the city.

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“My biggest pet peeve is when people are on their phone while driving, and they know that they have a high chance of causing an accident,” the road warrior added. “Also, when they (drivers) don’t signal to switch lanes or turn.”

When the time comes for Florez to sit through driver’s education courses, he may just cruise through.

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