{"id":7,"date":"2008-08-22T23:11:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T21:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-08-22T23:11:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T21:11:29","slug":"dangerous-overtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Overtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was out with a pupil this evening (OK, 21\/08\/08 –\u00a0I was moving the\u00a0blog) and in the space of less than 15 minutes we had three examples of very dangerous overtaking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

First of all, we’re driving down a 60mph road actually doing 60. This silver car (X615 OGO<\/strong>) with two canoes on the roof rack overtakes the people carrier behind, then us,\u00a0and then a truck further ahead. All in the face of oncoming traffic (and the road is an accident black spot). He was doing at least 80mph.<\/p>\n

Within 2 minutes we reached the the roundabout at\u00a0end of this same road and I’d asked my pupil to turn right. She’d seen this other silver car (KA05 HFW<\/strong>) coming up behind at great speed and – as learners do – she therefore hesitated for a second in moving to the right as the road became two lanes, even though she was already indicating. This was all the female **\u02dcdriver’ (and I use that term very loosely) needed to push past. At least the boyfriend in the passenger seat saw the words I mouthed at them as they went by. I doubt the woman was aware (or cared much),\u00a0driving as dangerously as she was.<\/p>\n

Finally, as we make the right turn and accelerate up to 70mph\u00a0we’re being tailgated by a green VW Polo (V687 FUY<\/strong>). At the next roundabout the female (again) driver tries to overtake on the roundabout in the wrong lane (fails, as my pupil is a good driver and is making good progress). Once we’re off the roundabout, the Polo driver then tries to overtake at a set of traffic lights (fails again, as my pupil is now doing 40mph in a 40 zone). She finally manages to overtake in the face of oncoming traffic less than 200 metres before she turned left into a housing estate. It’s hard to fathom how the minds of this kind of person work.<\/p>\n

You see, there are a lot of people in this world who really shouldn’t be allowed out unsupervised at the best of times – even though it is politically in<\/em>correct to dare say this – and yet they somehow contrive to pass their driving tests when they are clearly abysmal drivers with abysmal attitudes and ought to be on a register somewhere for their own and everyone else’s safety. So they see a learner and their peanut-sized brains carry out the necessary basic computations: learner\u00a0car = slow = overtake<\/strong>. The problem is, if I’m driving (or a good learner) then the ‘slow’ part isn’t correct, but they are unable to correct their calculations. Their tiny minds scream\u00a0‘overtake, overtake’ and they cannot alter that.<\/p>\n

At least they tend not to stay in the gene pool for very long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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