What the!!

Well thank you so much the guy in the Nissan Patrol, who waited and waited and waited, until I was about 5 metres from him, then he attacked, Yep straighout in front of me and then to add insult to injury he turns off the road some 2 minutes later, so what was that all about? answers on a postcard please.

Why is it so many motorists have this death wish? The only problem with that mindset is that they are looking to take someone with them, they are not content to kill themselves, tell you what guys, leave me alone. I have no intentions of dying, so stay away from me please.

Here are another couple of potential suicides from yesterday, why is it that when a car or van pulls into the left, the driver sees no value in checking his mirros to see if there are any vehicles coming that might hit him.

They pull over and then open the car door and step out, soory I don'y see the big superman logo on your chest proving that you are not a man of steel and that if hit by a 1 ton car at 50kph you are going to get badly damaged.....don't do it!

Pedestrians

Well it had to happen and in truth I have avoided the issue, but as the days roll on and this situation arises daily it’s about time it was tackled. I must admit this phenomena is not isolated to New Zealand, on the contrary, I have seen it in various parts of the world, but it is a dangerous practice and needs to stop.

I am not sure of the statistics but I suspect that they are high. So what is this phenomena, well it’s pedestrians…… There that’s done it, now I am in trouble, however this happens on such a regular basis it just has to been raised.

Next time you are out driving check it out. So you are driving along the road safely I might add and suddenly 50 -60 metres in front of you a pedestrian will now attempt to cross the road, that’s OK that’s not the problem, this is the problem, they are not actually going to make it, unless you slow down or take some evasive action.

However the intrepid pedestrian has got a secret weapon and it’s this. As long as they don’t look at you they won’t get run over, so they will never look directly at the driver in fact they will take every opportunity to avoid eye to eye contact. On that basis as long as they don’t get to see the whites of your eyes they won’t get run over and hospitalised, mmmmm tell that to the paramedics everyday. 85Kgs Vs 1/2Tonne I wonder who going to come off worse.

Garbage

Well it’s Monday and only two people have tired to kill me. The first was on the way to work the second on the way home from work, do I suspect a conspiracy here? Mmmmmm

So to the guy in the flash little Mazda 3, ya missed me! I must admit it wasn’t for the want of trying, guy pulls out into traffic making a left turn totally oblivious to oncoming traffic. ME and then floors the pedal and shoots off up the road, seems he was late for work, continue driving like that and your career will be sort lived. About 10 mins later I had caught up to him at a set of traffic lights, so we ask, what was that about?

On the way home it gets better, 18 tonne garbage truck not only decides to pull out into traffic, but this idiot decides not to turn left to join traffic flow, oh no that would be dangerous, but logical this crazy turns right into oncoming traffic. ME what an idiot, I had to swerve extensively and he did get the horn.

I can't wait until the school run starts, then it will be fun, again.

Tourists

So the holiday period is over, the accident rate is the lowest for some years but it is still far too high. However it was revealed today that the police are targeting tourists to help improve their driving standards whilst driving in NZ……  doh!...

I must be missing something in the translation, whilst any initiative to keep me safe is welcome, given the numbers of tourists to NZ compared with the actual numbers of accidents; surely the emphasis needs to be on improving kiwis driving skills, just more bureaucracy and government intervention without tackling the real issues.

But then anything that deflects from those issues seems to be the way National prefers to run the country. Come on NZ you can do better than that. Stop scape-goating and face the real issues, that of drink driving, tackling this one key issue will no doubt decrease the number of road accidents and deaths on the road massively, but then it's to easy so not likely  to happen.

Just because the death toll was down this year does not mean that the drink driving problem as gone away, just that drivers did not get caught.

Death Toll

Well the statistics are in for 2009 and yet again the death toll hits double figures, 12 at the last count. For those of you tracking such information you could argue that this is less than half last years total of 25. However tell that to the families involved.


Whilst these figures are a possible welcome sign of maybe a downward trend in the death rate, the likelihood is that it is a temporary blip and that New Zealand will be back on killing ways 2010.

The police have indicated that the majority of these deaths were due to bad driving. I rest my case. This is a case that I have repeated over and over again. New Zealanders are BAD drivers.