What in the world possesses some motorists I will never know.
The other day I had to travel to Durban and back in pouring rain.
It was the kind of rain where, if the trip had been for a social outing, I would probably have cancelled.
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But it was for work so off I went, the wipers flapping wildly and fingers clenched on the steering wheel.
It didn’t really surprise me too much when the East Coast Radio traffic report highlighted three major accidents in various places.
One was on my route.
Most motorists resigned themselves to the inevitable calf muscle-cramping ‘clutch and crawl’ progress.
Even those who prefer manual vehicles have to admit driving an automatic is so much easier in these situations.
Yet, despite all this some folk continue to drive like absolute lunatics.
Are they really in such a hurry that they are willing, even eager it seems, to put their lives at risk?
You could say it’s surprising there aren’t MORE accidents.
Back home a few days later, on a sunny afternoon I had the joyful experience of some young fellow driving a snazzy new sedan sans plates, trying to overtake on a coastal road.
I’d understand if I was going 30km/h but I was sticking obediently to the speed limit.
This guy seemed especially keen to kill himself and others by trying to overtake on a bridge, on a double white line, with a sharp curve in the road just up ahead.
I sped up just enough to prevent him from going through with such unbelievable folly.
There was no apparent reason – as in an emergency – to justify the reckless move. He probably just wanted to test the car’s power.
Thankfully, my turn-off was around the bend, but I was a bit startled when the car followed me.
He soon pulled off into the driveway of a house along the road.
Why the hurry then?
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