Stuff About Cars

Now, it’s not like me to moan and complain, as you know… but this lunchtime I encountered something that always makes me tut. And this time it scared the bejezus out of me.

I was driving happily along, when the car in front of me indicated to turn left. Fine, I slowed down as the other car drifted left - and then suddenly swung wide to the right before finally turning. Why do people do that? How big can the turning circle of a VW Golf be? This idiot frightened the life out of a fella who was coming the other way. I can just imaging what went through his head as an oncoming car indicating to turn into a side road suddenly swung out and looked as if it was veering over to his side of the road. Whatever he actually did think, it made him swerve too, narrowly missing some cars parked along the kerb on his side of the road.

Below is a dramatised reconstruction of the poor chap’s reaction to this madness…

If one is driving a stretch limo (although you’d have to be a prat to do so), an articulated lorry, a bus or a car towing a caravan, then I can see why one might feel the need to move carefully to the right before a left turn. But on fairly wide roads, to have to do it in a smallish hatchback is stupid. To do it so suddenly and dramatically that you scare oncoming traffic is particularly stupid.

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