Driving standards, or lack of, in the UK today

Morning,

not one of my usual topics (don't worry the adult nature of my blog will return .....) but every time I think it can't get worse, it does.

The standards of people's driving in the UK is getting worse, quickly. It is heading to being as bad as driving in some places in Europe - I have driven in France, Germany, Italy, Cyprus and other places, and I would say Cyprus and Italy are the worst. But we are catching up!

Just yesterday, I was driving home in the rain - soaking wet roads and rain falling, with a van sitting so close behind me I couldn't see its grill or even all of its headlights, and we were travelling at 70mph down a dual carriageway. If I had had to break hard, he would have been on my back seat.

then, driving through a housing estate, go over the brow of a blind hill, to go down the hill to find a car half over the central white line (yes there is a clear and recently re painted  central line for a change) so had to break and swerve as he had no intention of either slowing down or getting back onto his own side of the road. 5 mins later going round a corner, another car crossing the central line - at least he did swerve back.

And lastly, bearing in mind I only travelled about 15 miles, a car comes out of his driveway, looks left AWAY from the traffic that would hit him first and then pulls out without even looking the other way - so horn blaring and swerving round him, as did the car behind me. Lucky the other lane was clear wasn't it.

Now, all of these vehicles were British registered, so can't jump to the foreign driver blame game - some of them are atrocious and I am guessing have yet to take a UK driving test, but many of ours are just as bad..

No licence? Don't car? Arrogant? Badly taught? (they can't all have had bad instructors!)

Yes, our roads aren't in a good shape and in many places the lines have worn away. But we all know the rules of the road, and to stick to our own side and look before we do anything... doesn't seem o happen anymore

Anyway, rant over (not even mentioned that funny orange flashing thing) and must ehad out to face the traffic again

laters xx

rally death

much as it is sad that someone has died whilst watching a rally, i really don't see how the sport or anyone connected can be blaimed.

it was just one of those things, a racing incident!

there is no way that you could plan / predict what could happen at any point, of what is at times a very unpredictable sport. I mean, can you guess how any particular driver will react with any part of a rough circuit and a specific car, with unknown weather conditions?

No, so lets hope common sense prevails and no stupid H&S rules are put in place that restrict a great sport

Ouch! bleeding wasps

I read yesterday about a poor man that was out for a walk, minding his own business. When he accidentally tripped and fell into a bush / shrub. Unfortunately for him it was home to a wasp's nest. Out they swarmed and attacked him, resulting in his getting stung over two hundred times! HE was rushed to hospital and treated. But OMG that must be painful, and scary. That many wasp's swarming around you, must be hard to think that you will ever get away or survive. Made me think though, what purpose to wasp's actually serve? Any idea anyone? Bee's we need for the pollination and honey, but wasp's?

Waste of police time

What is it with wasting the time, and resources, of our police force nowadays. Not only do they waste time prosecuting a couple that FOUND a lottery ticket on the floor. Yes, it was a winning ticket, yes they cashed it in. But my view is the original owner lost it, they FOUND it. They didn't steal it, mug her for it or anything like that, they found it on the floor. They get an 11 month suspended sentence, yet real thieves, burglars, shop lifters, mugger's and worse get away with much less, or even just a caution... if they even get taken to court, how many get off as there is no CCTV so the good old police and CPS drop it as lack of evidence? Add to this the investigation into the fatal crash resulting from a police chase. Yes, I feel sorry that a 16 year old died, it's a waste when anyone dies. But he did steal a car, he did try and drag race a Subaru in his Mercedes, he did make off from the police after initially stopping. And he had been bailed for car theft just 24 hours earlier - bit of a pattern? So what did the police do wrong in this instance? Nothing. They did their job, and yet still get investigated for doing it. The youth that dies sped off at up to 130mph, so who is to blame here?