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statistics suggest drivers from outside Norway are involved in more accidents than \u201cdomestic-born\u201d ones.<\/p>\nThis article from The Foreigner \u2013 an English language Norwegian news site \u2013 says that statistics suggest drivers from outside Norway are involved in more accidents than \u201cdomestic-born\u201d ones.<\/p>\n
This is the first Statement of the Blindingly Obvious I\u2019ve seen this year. The second isn\u2019t far behind\u2026<\/p>\n
A local Norwegian driving instructor of Pakistani origin says he isn\u2019t surprised, and explains that people who come to Norway bring a completely different driving culture with them.<\/p>\n
Apparently, the statistics show that male and female drivers from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are more likely to have accidents in Norway.<\/p>\n
The first thing I\u2019d point out is that the problem isn\u2019t confined to Norway. It happens in every country where non-native drivers mix it with the locals. The second thing is that it isn\u2019t just Asians and Africans \u2013 British drivers unfamiliar with driving on the right are a big risk wherever they go.<\/p>\n
In Nottingham, several years ago there was a large Irish contingent, and their standard of driving was noticeably, um\u2026 different<\/em>. At the moment Nottingham has a lot of Polish and other eastern European drivers, and they can be very aggressive (especially the younger ones). Older Asian drivers \u2013 particularly around Hyson Green \u2013 are also very suspect.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been to Pakistan and I know what they drive like. My Indian pupils tell me it is the same in India. The older drivers bring that style over here, and will happily park on double yellow lines outside the Asian food stores to go inside and shop.<\/p>\n Hyson Green has the additional problem that many Asian taxi drivers use it as a meeting (and eating) point. As a result, they will think nothing of carrying out standard taxi manoeuvres in gridlocked traffic (i.e. U-turns, turns in the road, etc.) 5 metres away from traffic lights).<\/p>\n In this respect, they\u2019re only slightly<\/strong> worse than native British women in 4x4s picking up their kids from school.<\/p>\n Going back to the article, what is amusing is that they have a photo of a clearly-British car with L-plates gaffer-taped on to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article from The Foreigner \u2013 an English language Norwegian news site \u2013 says that statistics suggest drivers from outside Norway are involved in more accidents than \u201cdomestic-born\u201d ones. This is the first Statement of the Blindingly Obvious I\u2019ve seen this year. The second isn\u2019t far behind\u2026 A local Norwegian driving instructor of Pakistani origin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}