Richard D wrote:[XAP]Bob wrote:Debs wrote:The oncoming car driver was good to react so quick, he avoided a head-on collision.
For their own sake, yes they were, unfortunately it just reinforces that the manoeuvre was 'safe' and/or 'good'...
And that for me is part of the problem.
Quite aside from the lack of negative consequences of bad driving (no detection/enforcement as there are too few Police/it's judged not to be a priority), bad driving like this has positive consequences for the bad drivers - they get to their destinations faster (only by a few seconds, but it feels much better to them). And each time they avoid death/injury/collision it just confirms in their minds that the manoeuvre was the right one for them to take. All positives, no negatives.
The solution is to stat shooting some of the tossers.
Any shooting should be done with a camera!
I would argue that in the incident i witnessed the offending car driver only just got away with it, the oncoming car did an emergency-stop manoeuvre and swerved to give room which put his passenger wheels up on the side of road grass verge. It was close enough that skid marks may have been left on the dangerous driver's underwear. Also, these days any motoring villain of reckless intent has to hope there are no cameras around to record the event, even thought they may get away with it so many times but; what goes around comes around... eventually