Thread: VERY CLOSE CALL ,TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

Originally Posted by jonesfam

Drove back to Doomadgee today, 10.5 hours of pretty much un-eventfulness except I had 2 clowns try to KILL me.
First was a tourist. Single lane with wide flat edges West of Georgetown. We are coming towards each other so I back off & move left with2 wheels on the dirt (standard procedure), but notice this bloke isn't moving off to his left? ........

I hate this!
Have to drive lots of single lane tarmac/dirt shoulder roads to and from work and the amount of drivers who won't move half over to the dirt shoulder never ceases to wind me up!
Either their cars are too precious or they think "you're in the 4wd, you move to the dirt!" (which is kind of fair enough I suppose... )
Worst offender is an old fella in a hilux who looks like the white moustachioed Monopoly money fella you see in the maccas adverts who simply refuses to get off the tarmac. I go past this guy every day, luckily usually at a point where the tarmac is wide enough for 2 cars, but it is quite satisfying when the occasional truck passing him finally forces him to move to one side
At the other extreme are people who give a thank you wave/finger off the wheel for moving over

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A group of high school kids skylarking on the M1 at 02:00, I nearly ran them over.
I phoned 000, asked to be connected to NSW police and it rang out half a dozen times, each time the operator said "I'll try another number." Eventually a Telstra person took the message and the cops called me back ten minutes later. I'm glad I wasn't hanging on by my fingernails, waiting.

Well I have to say that I reckon some sort of message is getting through to people. I drove from just north of Brissie to Mission Beach (near Cairns) & back last week without any major, or even minor for that matter, incidents. Even at the never ending roadworks drivers were patient, attentive & courteous
Strange thing is that on the way up, on a weekend, I spotted 10 or more "Candy Cars" but on my 10 hour Mackay to home trip I saw only 2 regular plod cars, one hiding behind a tree at roadworks 40kph zone, which I have no beef with whatsoever. He was having a stern chat to a cove in a Patrol with camper trailer. Having worked in roadwork areas off & on I never felt comfortable having vehicles going past a metre from me, even at 60 kph, in a 40 zone.
Steve

Originally Posted by Saitch

....... Having worked in roadwork areas off & on I never felt comfortable having vehicles going past a metre from me, even at 60 kph, in a 40 zone.
Steve

On a recent trip to the States, we rented an RV. Driving from Arizona back to LA on the dual carriageway with 3 lanes either way, we came to a Roadworks Ahead sign. About fifty metres further on, was the road works, with a bunch of guys patching the right hand lane. Three witches hats closed the lane, and there was a sign telling you to slow down to 60mph! Not a lot of OH&S stuff going on there!!