Another Driving Lesson For the Good Folks Of Barbados
Another morning school run done and dusted, and the usual suspects driving around like they got their driving license from Lego Land! So I feel it is my duty as an advanced driver to give a few words of wisdom for those drivers in Barbados that don’t quite understand what breaking distances are and why they are a good idea.
Every morning I drive along the ABC highway as part of my route for getting the kid to school, and believe me this road is real busy with lots of fairly fast moving traffic. What I cant believe is how close people drive to each other, I suppose that is the why you get so many accidents and people bumping each other on a regular basis.
I personally like to make sure I have enough thinking distance, breaking distance and stopping distance, it isn’t too difficult to achieve. The problem I get on the ABC is that when you leave a proper amount of breaking distance from the car in front, you will always get some idiot that doesn’t understand that the gap is for safety reasons and the fact I value my life and my car, and they will overtake and go into the gap just to sit behind another car.
This morning I watched one of those idiots overtake me and about 5 minutes later they received some rough justice! As I approached a roundabout further along the road, I saw him crashed into the back of another car, I swear there was tears in his eyes and smoke coming out of his ears. That why you have breaking distances you idiot, so that when the car in front of you breaks suddenly you can stop without crashing into them, it isn’t rocket science is it?
A few minutes later another fool that doesn’t understand the concept of keeping an adequate distant from the driver in front them, bumped into the car in front of them and as is usual custom in Barbados they got out of their cars, left them where they were blocking up the road waiting for the police to arrive, all for a wee bump you would need a magnifying glass to find.
I reckon 75% of the road accidents or more in Barbados could be avoided if drivers starting keeping a safe distance from the vehicle in front of them. It is a constant daily occurrence people going into the back of other drivers in slow moving traffic. All it takes is to stop rushing around and make sure you drive a safe distance from the car in front of you, because if you are late you are going to be even later when you hit a car.
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Good on yer! Don’t know if anyone will learn from your observations but keep going.
A new blog. To add grist to your mill, I saw two cars crashed in the school yard of St Gabriels last Thursday, the impact suggests that the car behind was going quite fast!
I pass St Gabriels every day and I see quite a few near misses with people leaving the school without looking, in fact I nearly had a woman go into me a few weeks ago, luckily I have good relexes and breaks!
I just drive like Miss Daisy… If someone is in a hurry i invite them to overtake me even if i am given a good ole Bajan cussing!!!
Funny thing though, how i ususally end up
waiting behind “idiot” at the next traffic lights or major stop.
I like your style Lady Tanner, I like to slow down if someone is in too much of a hurry and they drive too close to me and I keep doing it, until they get the message.
Yuo are sooooo right,I’m bajan and I’m very concerned at the way these people are driving now. Sometimes they don’t want to pass, they just tailgate and urge you to drive faster so that they can chase you. That’s so silly. Also they have little regard for the law, they pass on double yellow lines, pass around corners, pass where-ever they see slightly posible. The place just gone MAD.
I use to think people back home in Scotland were crazy and bad drivers, but here in Barbados it is a whole new ball game. Not so long ago I had two people go into the back of me two days in a row in slow moving traffic. It cost the second guy $1900 to pay for the damage to my car, which came out of his own pocket because he didnt want to put it through his insurance, all for a few seconds loss of concentration.
[...] As I have documented in the past how I feel the roads in Barbados are a crazy and dangerous place, due to how certain individuals chose to driver their vehicles. I wrote an article not so long ago where I gave a few pointers as to how things can be improved, Another Driving Lesson For the Good Folks Of Barbados. [...]