Priceless! - What this Merc driver did to an elderly woman and how she responded
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Speaking of being honked by an impatient driver..
I was out test-driving a customer's car the other day, and approached a 4-way intersection.
The road I was on was a stop sign road, so I stopped to give way to the traffic on the crossroad, and just as I did that, and older lady (driving a car) arrived at the intersection from my left on the road I had to give to.
She stopped right in front of me on the other side of the road; clearly she needed to do a U-turn.
That's OK; I waited for her to do one, but she then had to wait a bit for a car to pass which was approaching her from my right. So she had to wait for the car to pass. Only a delay of a few more seconds.
By this time, another car had arrived behind me, and also to wait.
After not too long a time, the driver behind me honked their horn at me to get going (or was it at the older lady doing the U-turn? - noone knows). Probably another rude, impatient tourist.
I just ignored this fool as you should, and when it was clear to go I crossed the intersection.
So, here's a question for you all on road rules to test your knowledge; was the procedure for me waiting for her to do the U-turn the correct one?
Or; should she have waited for me as well as the oncoming car that passed her?
I was out test-driving a customer's car the other day, and approached a 4-way intersection.
The road I was on was a stop sign road, so I stopped to give way to the traffic on the crossroad, and just as I did that, and older lady (driving a car) arrived at the intersection from my left on the road I had to give to.
She stopped right in front of me on the other side of the road; clearly she needed to do a U-turn.
That's OK; I waited for her to do one, but she then had to wait a bit for a car to pass which was approaching her from my right. So she had to wait for the car to pass. Only a delay of a few more seconds.
By this time, another car had arrived behind me, and also to wait.
After not too long a time, the driver behind me honked their horn at me to get going (or was it at the older lady doing the U-turn? - noone knows). Probably another rude, impatient tourist.
I just ignored this fool as you should, and when it was clear to go I crossed the intersection.
So, here's a question for you all on road rules to test your knowledge; was the procedure for me waiting for her to do the U-turn the correct one?
Or; should she have waited for me as well as the oncoming car that passed her?
The issue wasn't whether a collision would or wouldn't have occurred; it was about right of way.
I wasn't turning; going straight ahead (and at a stop sign).
The answer to the question is; I am approaching a carriageway, so the traffic in that carriageway has right of way.
In other worlds; I had to give way to the lady making the U-turn, because she was already in that carriageway.
She had to wait to do her U-turn because she had to give way to traffic going in both directions of her carriageway before she could proceed with her U-turn with safety.
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There is also the matter if driving politeness, as indicated by the guy behind rooting his horn.
When I lived in England some years ago, drivers were exceedingly polite. They would stop driving along a main road to allow a car to pull out from a park. They would wait patiently for a car coming in the other direction on a narrow street- and so on.
But in Asia and Mexico drivers are extremely aggressive.
The polite countries have some of the lowest road accident rates per vehicle km in the world.
Australia I think is a few levels below polite but many levels above the sort of aggressiveness shown in some countries. Accident rates seem to correspond to this. Australia's rate is low on a world scale but not as low as England and some European countries.
When I lived in England some years ago, drivers were exceedingly polite. They would stop driving along a main road to allow a car to pull out from a park. They would wait patiently for a car coming in the other direction on a narrow street- and so on.
But in Asia and Mexico drivers are extremely aggressive.
The polite countries have some of the lowest road accident rates per vehicle km in the world.
Australia I think is a few levels below polite but many levels above the sort of aggressiveness shown in some countries. Accident rates seem to correspond to this. Australia's rate is low on a world scale but not as low as England and some European countries.
Agree.
I found the US drivers a lot less aggressive overall, when we lived there.
They still have their road rage knuckleheads, but waay less than the attitude here, from my observation.
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