I spent most of the time on my advanced driver training doing rural road driving.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6644945.stm
I think a lot of the problem is that many people, regardless of age dont know how to drive properly on 'rural' roads. The roads are no more
dangerous than any other assuming you know how to drive them, its just what you have to look for thats different - a different style of driving that
many arent used to.
I spent most of the time on my advanced driver training doing rural road driving.
Dont you worry yourself. Those tossers will send four cars out and the approved overtime will run out in four days. they will get told to get back to
Bell street in Dundee. They will then be put on Chav patrol in Dundee to chase the five year olds on the mini motos round the schemes.
To find a cop in rural Scotland They are so spread thinly it almost like they have got lost when you do see one.
I am regualrly amazed by other people's driving on the local back roads. I have always lived in the countryside (my boss seemed suprised by the fact that I have gas! ), and daily have to swerve to avoid some fool going round a tight bend far to fast, or just plain not realising how tight the corners are, and understeering into my path. Happens a lot more with sat navs being used, as the little roads I used to use as shortcuts due to being deserted now have a lot more traffic due to being "the shortest route". You also find people braking very suddenly as they've failed to heed the "turn left in 200 yds' warning, only to discover their turn is just after a hair pin, or is completely un-sighted.
What they fail to mention is that the bulk of the dangerous overtaking is due to the increasing proliferation of slow bastards
Also, since the 1960's, the majority of fatal crashes have been on country roads, yet its talked about like its big news.....
fact is if you crash on a deserted road and nobody finds you you will quite possibly die. Also it will take longer to get to hospital, its not rocket
science ffs.
*ankers
All a question of how statistics are presented.
A high percentage of fatals on country roads are down to joy riders -- as are a very high proportion of the accidents involving uninsured drivers
With harvest season approaching the biggest danger on back roads is those bloody high speed tractors tanking round blind corners taking up 75% of the
available road width.
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Originally posted by DIY Si
I am regualrly amazed by other people's driving on the local back roads. I have always lived in the countryside (my boss seemed suprised by the fact that I have gas! ), and daily have to swerve to avoid some fool going round a tight bend far to fast, or just plain not realising how tight the corners are, and understeering into my path. Happens a lot more with sat navs being used, as the little roads I used to use as shortcuts due to being deserted now have a lot more traffic due to being "the shortest route". You also find people braking very suddenly as they've failed to heed the "turn left in 200 yds' warning, only to discover their turn is just after a hair pin, or is completely un-sighted.
Last time I drove in scotland, I couldn't believe how many traffic cops there were - this was going to the west coast for some yotting. Beautiful
driver's road - several sets of cops on bikes hiding behind hedges & some jam butty cars too. Maybe they were having a purge then too.
And it's all true - slow buggers, teenagers who think they're immortal & lardy spanners who go faster than I can (in the tintop) where
its possible to overtake & slow to a crawl on every bend - or just when there's someone coming the other way.
In fact - let's face it, the problem is other bloody drivers - all of 'em!!
Bob
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Originally posted by Bob C
.........some yotting...........
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Round here it's 4x4 drivers (sorry to be sexist but usually female) going to the stables driving round puddles so they don't get mud up the side of the Disco. It's the countryside, you are going to hit cowsh!t and you don't see many cleaning up after their steed either. They also ride in gaggles so they can chat to each other and expect you to steer up the bank to get round them.