It's official, mimsers are a danger to incompetent drivers who don't spot them.
OK it is the Mail. :-)
tinyurl.com/3vngl6l
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From the article...
"Transport Department figures show 143 accidents a year are caused directly by slow drivers."
143! ..
"More than a quarter (27 per cent) of drivers questioned want an explicit ‘ slow lane’ on roads to combat slow drivers."
So they can drive more quickly.. in the slow lane perhaps.
Even by Daily Mail standards, it's terrible journalism.
No wonder journalists hack phones now. They can't get stories to make sense ...
Cretinous:-)
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Got stuck in a queue of traffic behind one on the A420 between Oxford and Swindon the other day. He pulled out very early to pass a lorry on one of the few stretches of dual carriageway and then took the whole length of the dual carriageway to slowly pass the lorry.
He then did exactly the same on the next piece of dual carriageway. Almost as if he was deliberately doing it. An elderly 'mouth breather' in an old, maroon Renault.
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One of my secret overnight stops along that road tubby tommy, at the BP garage.
Parking for only three lorries and let in for coffee and the toilet during the night:)
Happy days!
Pat
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>> More than a quarter (27 per cent) of drivers questioned want an explicit ‘ slow lane’ on roads
>> to combat slow drivers.
Nah, the rules of the road as is are actually pretty good, if followed!
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The rules of the road as we have them would be perefctly adequate IF all the users made allowances for everyone else.
Having been blessed with various driving courses that allow me to relatively safely 'press on' (when the conditions allow), I still get frustrated by those who wish to go slow AND expect others to conform to their wishes/standards...which is plain ignorant in my book.
I genuinely don't have a problem with others driving more slowly, it's their prerogative and perfectly legal...however...there are many who could drive slowly and significantly improve their efforts to allow others to drive at the pace they'd like to as well...but they choose not to, or even actively prevent others from doing so.
For example, when riding a motorcycle in France, many, many car drivers will actively move over on an 'A' road to let you past. Does that happen here? Rarely.
Second example. If travelling along a (usually 2 laned) French Autoroute and you find yourself catching up another vehicle that they themselves will need to pull out and overtake something as well ...that vehicle will invariably pull out AFTER you've gone past. In this country they'd do so BEFORE you get there..and make you throttle off or brake.
Third example. On Scottish single track roads, despite the local custom and signs everywhere advising 'Allow Overtaking' (with a diagram showing an arrow going in to a layby) , tourists from other parts of Blighty will keep you behind them, held up in a queue...
Why? Pig Ignorance rules o.k. in this country and the often evangelical wish to get others to conform to your standard...when a bit of common sense, courtesy and politeness would be benficial to all.
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Mimsers. - madf
