Stupid and Uninformed Drivers

[Happy]

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Traffic entering from the side roads just drive onto the main road making traffic on the main road to either brake hard or change lanes using the horn but strangely enough the traffic does flow quite well and we never saw a crash.

I cannot find statistics right now, but from memory China's human road kill inches toward 100,000 a year.

I know with 1 billion plus you have plenty spares and percentage doesn't look too bad, but still quite a few burials if you ask me.


Edit:
Not exactly what I've seen before and not as bad and 'estimate' only (whatever it means)

http://www.factbook.net/EGRF_Regional_analyses_AsiaPacific.htm

China 1995 Road fatalities 71,495 Deaths per 100,000 pop 6
India 1995 Road fatalities 59,927 Deaths per 100,000 pop 6

 

[glenn_r]

A couple of pics showing Xiamen's off peak traffic...

 

[CanOz]

Thanks for the photos Glenn, very tidy looking city, err relatively i mean.

So what were your impressions of China? Have you got something on the travel forum?

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[awg]

3 examples in two days, I dont do much driving, and am very defensive these days, some people need a brain transplant.

1) Car pulls up in middle of the road, and begins reversing at high speed.
I only just have time to hit the horn, he stops a metre from my car, then screeches off?

2) nearly wiped out by a dark sedan driving at night with NO lights at all

3) on the way home, pass by a car parked in a terrible spot on a sweeping bend. It has the rear windscreen smashed. It is parked in exactly the same spot as 2 previous cars that were hit from behind and totalled. Outside someones place, a wealthy homeowner, judging by the size of their spread.
I cant believe they keep parking cars there

 

[Zaij]

I love the 'it's not me that's the bad driver, it's everybody else' attitude car drivers have.

 

[nunthewiser]

mmmm stupid and uniformed drivers

on friday night i was stuck behind a pissy driver , his speed was varying between 40 and 80km/hr

he was weaving between both lanes on NWCH wonthella which is a dual laned highway

i had a passenger/witness

i overtook said pissy driver as i felt it was safer to be away from them rather than close to them , i overtook at 73kmhr as that was the speed to get past them

the speed limit on that part of the highway is 60kmr

as i overtook, a stupid and UNIFORMED driver registered me at 73kmhr and fined me $150 bucks and 2 demerit points

i pointed out my reason for my speed and my passenger/witness also confirmed my reasons

this was ignored

the drunk driver continued weaving on his way while i got booked

at least the pissy driver got a luckybreak from forcing me to go around him

the moral of the story is ... its better to drive shiitfaced at 2am on a friday night rather than try and provide a safe passage for yourself and your passenger whilst being completely sober

by the way i was driving a taxi at the time and have an obligation to provide safe passage to a paying passenger

can we get a big AMEN for them boys in uniform keeping our streets safe for them drunken fools out there

 

[websman]

All of you Aussies are uniformed drivers. You're suppose to drive on the right hand side of the road...NOT THE LEFT! Duh.....

 

[Mr J]

All of you Aussies are uniformed drivers. You're suppose to drive on the right hand side of the road...NOT THE LEFT! Duh.....

"The market can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent".

I dare you to come here and drive on the correct side :.

 

[Boggo]

All of you Aussies are uniformed drivers. You're suppose to drive on the right hand side of the road...NOT THE LEFT! Duh.....

Siamese twins walk into a pub in Ontario and park themselves on a bar stool. One of them says to the barkeeper, 'Don't mind us, we're joined at the hip. I'm John, he's Jim. Two Molson Canadian beers, draft please'.

The barkeeper, feeling slightly awkward, tries to make polite conversation while pouring the beers. 'Been on holiday yet, lads?'

'Off to England next month,' says John.
'We go to England every year and rent a car and drive for miles, don't we, Jim?' Jim agrees.

'Ah, England !' says the barkeeper. 'Wonderful country... the history, the beer, the culture.'

'Nah, we don't like that British crap,' says John.
'Hamburgers & Molsons beer, that's us, eh Jim? And we can't stand the English - they're so arrogant.'

'So why keep going to England ?' asks the barkeeper.

'It's the only chance Jim gets to drive.'

 

[websman]

"The market can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent".

I dare you to come here and drive on the correct side :.

I drove in Ireland, back in March of this year. I did fine, until I pulled out from a grocery store, on the wrong side of the road...Habit I guess. Regardless to say, I got honked at by a car coming towards me. After that, I stayed on the left hand side.

Actually, driving on the left side wasn't that bad. It's all those roundabouts that got on my nerves.

 

[Kryzz]

well just got out of my first car crash, front bumpers totally f**d, when cued over traffic lights waiting to turn, watch out for people running orange lights is all i can say!!

 

[Boggo]

well just got out of my first car crash, front bumpers totally f**d, when cued over traffic lights waiting to turn, watch out for people running orange lights is all i can say!!

Now for the interesting bit, the first thing the law does is to remove the lights from the equation. Effectively if someone runs a red light coming from the opposite direction as you and you attempt to turn in front of them you are actually in the wrong. I know it seems stupid but thats how it works, you are deemed to have seen the potential risk and could have avoided it !

On another issue, just driving down Shepherds Hill last week and was overtaken by a small car which would have been doing at least seventy in a sixty zone, the disturbing bit was that it was an L plater in his St John's school uniform with Mum (I assume) in the passenger seat and another kid in the back.
What sort of example is that and what will Mummy say when her precious little speedster wraps himself and a few of his mates around a tree once he is let loose.

Amazing

 

[Kryzz]

Now for the interesting bit, the first thing the law does is to remove the lights from the equation. Effectively if someone runs a red light coming from the opposite direction as you and you attempt to turn in front of them you are actually in the wrong. I know it seems stupid but thats how it works, you are deemed to have seen the potential risk and could have avoided it !

Yeah thats what the cop was hinting at when i was talking with him (that i should have waited until the intersection was completely clear), so it looks like i'll be slapped with some driving charge/fine is my guess. It will go nicely with my $350 red light fine i got the other week too

 

[drsmith]

It will go nicely with my $350 red light fine i got the other week too

I'll give you my chair to hide under.

 

[Kryzz]

haha, thank you sir.

 

[Bafana]

Swear to god people should learn how to use high and low beam. Might not matter that much in city streets but in the country it can cause accidents. Rant finished. Anyone who drives from Canberra to just past Gundaroo at around 6.30pm please dip your @%^#$@# LIGHTS some of us have another 80 kms to drive after you get homw safely cause you could see well all the way home. Maybe my rant wasn't finished after all.

 

[Mr J]

Yeah thats what the cop was hinting at when i was talking with him (that i should have waited until the intersection was completely clear), so it looks like i'll be slapped with some driving charge/fine is my guess. It will go nicely with my $350 red light fine i got the other week too

The fine will be about failing to make a safe right-hand turn. Guy who turned in front of me got slapped with it.

Swear to god people should learn how to use high and low beam.

Doesn't seem to matter with xenon headlights, as they blind me in either setting. I have no idea how they were classed as appropriate. I can't use the rear-vision mirror if I get a 4wd behind me.

 

[trainspotter]

I just lurve the ones that pull out in front of you from a side street and proceed to s l o w l y drive up to 40km/h in a 70km/h zone !! Horn and finger both working fine thank you very much.

 

[Smurf1976]

Now this one is truly ridiculous! 3 separate accidents, by the same driver in the same car, in about 1 minute. And the weather was fine and sunny when it happened...

http://www.examiner.com.au/news/loc...n-serious-after-minute-of-mayhem/1623341.aspx

 

[Boggo]

Now this one is truly ridiculous! 3 separate accidents, by the same driver in the same car, in about 1 minute. And the weather was fine and sunny when it happened...

http://www.examiner.com.au/news/loc...n-serious-after-minute-of-mayhem/1623341.aspx

Lock the stupid idiot up, what would she have hit next, a school bus or a school crossing.

Licences should only be valid for a maximum of 5 years then everyone should have to sit a test of ability and knowledge.
If the fail rate is not at least 20% then up the standard to the level that would eliminate the idiots.