Accident avoidence tips 5337

It happens that Graculus formulated :

I saw-was party to a good one just half an hour ago.....

Driving down the main road through a busy village, a car pulled out in front of me from my right to go the way I was going. Lousy manouver, he took off down the wrong side of the road and gradually drifted over to his correct side. I followed him five miles, during which he was constantly turning round to conduct an intense conversation with his sole pbuttenger, his speed plus vehicle wandering all over the place. Eventually we arrived at a wide (but unmarked lanes) two lane roundabout, where I intended to turn right. He gave no signals and took the left lane, so I buttumed I was safe in indicating right and taking up the right hand lane.....

WRONG.... I regained sight of him still there on my left 3-4 of the way round and a little way behind me, as I started indicating to turn off to enter into a single lane exit. As I turned he accellerated and seemed determined to block me. I was already commited, so all I could do was give him as much room as I could on the tight left turn of the roundabout. We missed by just a few inches.

I suppose I should have known from seeing the care and quality of his driving, that he could be expected to do something really stupid.

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Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L)