MIAMI -- The Channel 10 Problem Solvers have a new mission, and part of it is focusing on the traffic nightmares in South Florida.

Investigative reporter Jilda Unruh is taking a camera on the road and confronting some of the worst offenders -- wait until you hear what they say. (To read the first part of Jilda's story and watch the video, click here.)

The Problem Solvers discovered, while on drive patrol, few of those they caught driving like lunatics even cared that they'd done something dangerous, and all of them had an excuse

The Problem Solvers caught one guy behind the wheel of a navy-blue Porsche in the center lane at 17th and Alton Road on Miami Beach. The green light turned yellow. Four seconds later it turned red, but that didn't stop this driver from brazenly turning right from the center lane.

The Porsche driver then took a left across double lines to pull into a Shell gas station, and got out of his car still talking on his cell phone. Was he in need of gas? No -- he'd driven like a maniac to buy a pack of cigarettes, Unruh said.

She asked him, "Do you often make a habit of turning right from the middle lane in front of oncoming traffic?"

He answered, "Uh, no."

"Well, you did just that," Unruh told him.

He responded, "OK."

"What were you thinking?" Unruh said. "What were you thinking? That's illegal. You could have caused an accident."

He answered, "I don't think so."

"You were also talking on the phone weren't you?" Unruh asked.

"I don't think so," the driver said.

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When Unruh said, "You don't really care," he got into the car and slammed the door on her.

The Problem Solvers saw another guy in a Mercedes SUV pulling two jet skis on a trailer. He cut in front of the Problem Solvers vehicle missing it by inches in order to avoid having to stop behind a city bus. The Mercedes driver then zigged-zagged in and out of lanes to avoid another bus and made a U-turn on a side street to park.

Unruh confronted him. "That was a really good move back there sir. Do you do that often?" she asked.

"No," the driver answered.

The guy didn't have much to say after that.

"That was our vehicle you nearly crashed with," Unruh said. "Do you often cut people off just to get out from behind a bus when you're carrying two jet skis? You drive like that often?"

The driver slammed his car door shut.

"What were you thinking?" Unruh said.

The Mercedes driver pulled away.

Meanwhile, a working stoplight didn't keep a white pickup truck from cutting across two lanes of traffic to turn left from the right lane, even though there was a clearly marked left turn lane. So what was his excuse?

"I'm sorry if I made a mistake," the truck driver said.

"A mistake?" Unruh said. "That's a totally illegal maneuver!"

The driver's response -- "OK."

At least he was somewhat contrite, but not the next maniac the Problem Solvers encountered.

A maroon Buick driving north on Biscayne Boulevard in the right lane cut left in front of a yellow SUV, crossing two lanes of traffic to make a U-turn.

She did use a turn signal, but lost points for attitude when Unruh finally caught up with her.

"I'm Jilda Unruh with Channel 10. Do you always make a habit of turning from the middle lane, two lanes across to make a U-turn?"

"Only when I'm forced to," the woman answered.

Unruh asked, "What forced you to?"

"I work here, and if I had to go all the way up there to get back to work."

"To get to work?" Unruh said.

"You think I didn't see you?" the woman said. "I knew I could get in front of you!"

Unruh said, "You're that good, huh?"

"I'm that good, hon," the woman answered.

"Are you a lunatic?" Unruh asked her.

"I am," she responded.

"You are? You're a lunatic driver, huh?" Unruh said.

"Absolutely," the woman answered, before walking away without turning around.

Confronting dangerous drivers isn't advisable. But it's what the Channel 10 Problem Solvers plan to continue to do for you as just one of the ways we plan to tackle South Florida's biggest problem: our traffic woes and lunatic drivers.

In coming months the Problem Solvers will take on more long-term traffic concerns: road construction and the extra stress on commuters; why some road signs don't make any sense, and other traffic related questions we get from you.

E-mail them to the Problem Solvers.