Hubber hit

[Rookie101]

sorry to hear about the mishap, get well soon

[Thug]

Hope you recover soon !!

[Oiltrash]

Ai that sucks bigtime...get well soon!!!!!!

[Minion]

 

FFS' date=' when will something be done about the carnage?

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i wish the cops would start charging these #$%^&*s with attempted murder. 

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Enough people die on our roads that it would probably be considered genocide if carried out by a single organisation.

 

The Road Accident fund is bankrupt from paying out compensation claims. The government's response is to reduce the payable benefits, while increasing the tax we pay in the form of the RAF petrol levy. You would have thought that the logical response would be to reduce claims by increasing safety rather than reducing the level of payouts.

I guess logic and the SA government are two mutually exclusive concepts.

 

[TXS cyclist]

Sorry short highjack:

 

get better wouter. in the capital city of traffic circles' date=' cape town, last week, i noticed that very few motorists actually know how to use traffic circles![/quote']

 

 

HR.. you are so right.. 80% of drivers in cape do NOT know the concept of driving through circles.. It just get to me... Really bad. It just amaze me to see them going through a circle. paarl have a few and I always try and give those circles a miss. and when you complain, you have to hear their arguments... Pathetic..! dont know where they got their licenses from..

 

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[Tumbleweed]

another short hijack!

Sorry short highjack:

 

get better wouter. in the capital city of traffic circles' date=' cape town, last week, i noticed that very few motorists actually know how to use traffic circles![/quote']

 

 

HR.. you are so right.. 80% of drivers in cape do NOT know the concept of driving through circles.. It just get to me... Really bad. It just amaze me to see them going through a circle. paarl have a few and I always try and give those circles a miss. and when you complain, you have to hear their arguments... Pathetic..! dont know where they got their licenses from..

 

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sally, i was scared driving through them, let alone riding through themyield signs apparently mean very little in that part of the world.

 

hijack over?     

[UnfitnessFreak]

Hmmm.

 

 

 

 

As a matter of interest, who can tell me the rules of the road regarding traffic circles?

[Ratty]

I almost hit two cyclists on a circle the other day because they were too lazy to stop and look before joining the circle.  I wanted to get out my car and punch some sense into the idiots!!! 

[Dun Man]

Jislaaik Ratty! Repeat after me OOOHHMMM....OOOHHMMM, now dont get so upset, people from both sides, bikes and cars will always drive like idiots, we just need to keep vigilant

[Joe Low]

Hmmm.

As a matter of interest' date=' who can tell me the rules of the road regarding traffic circles? [/quote']

 

Give way to the right and stay off the middley bit.

 

50% of folk use the little ones as 4-way stops which leads to much huffing & puffing, when the other 50% expect the give way to the right thing to be happening.

 

[fandacious]

50% of folk use the little ones as 4-way stops which leads to much huffing & puffing..... 

 

Really? I've never done THAT at a 4way stop...

[Myra]

Hmmm.

As a matter of interest' date=' who can tell me the rules of the road regarding traffic circles? [/quote']

 

Heard this on a programme about road traffic once:  It depends on the type of circle.

 

There are two types - small circles with the yellow bumps in the middle (look like sunnyside-up eggs) and the larger circles with pavement/gardens in the middle that one can't drive over.

 

A person approaching the former must yield to vehicles already in the circle.  A person approaching the latter must yield to vehicles on the right.