Three in a week. All leaving many friends and families sad.

One question: What was a truck doing parked on the main road on Knapton Hill at 9.45 pm?

Casual Observer posts over in the other world:

"Let's be real... The problem isn't the government, it's with us bad drivers... Do we really need the government to tell us how to drive? Methinks that 'draconian' measures would only be met with more grumbling about 'why don't they go solve some real crimes and stop harrassing people for stupid stuff'... It's about personal responsibility...... and respect for other road users..."

I couldn't agree with you more CO. And there are some decent drivers out there. Not everyone's a dope. Unfortunately though the Government and it's administrators play a direct role in creating an environment where bad driving is allowed to flourish. Bad driving isn't just about not being able to steer correctly. It's starts with what kind of "attitude" one is going to have even before getting on the road. There is an incredible amount of "I don't give a crap about anyone else" going on. And it's in direct correlation with what the Government and It's Ministers have been showing in recent years.

1: Ministers are allowed to have over-sized cars directly going against what was in the law books. Or even have more than one car. With outriders. Ego's first.
2: Ministers can park their cars wherever they seem to please directly against what's in the law books. Even if they know it's in a dangerous area. Ego's first.
3: Certain Construction companies can skirt the laws and use illegal vehicles for hauling goods and the Head Minister says he's not going to stop it?
4: Trucking companies can haul gravel without proper tops to contain it thus allowing spillage which directly leads to accidents.
5: Numerous walls get hit and are never fixed thus leading to both a dangerous situation as well as giving the sense Government doesn't care.
6: People are allowed to randomly double park cars throughout major congested areas and the authorities just sit and watch them on candid camera.
7: Repeatedly bad drivers are not taken off the road for long periods of penalty.
8: Government has never cracked down on the two, three, four cars that are being used by sons and daughters through the apartment loophole.
9: Government spends millions on "alternative" transportation only to cripple it with ridiculous hours of operation and playing hide and seek with the keys and the Union drivers.
10: $Millions on tourism expense and nadda for all the pot holes. Which can kill you.
11: $Millions for travel expenses but still holding the Police off from paying them square and getting more on the roads.
12: Ring Ring.... do I hear a cell-phone ban?

Can you hear me now?  At the end of the day when you have such an incredibly poor showing from the Government what more would one expect from the dopes driving the road? I've driven throughout the world, Bermuda is the one place where I feel I am in defensive driving mode at all times.

I beg to differ.

CO is great with the advice (especially on how there should be mutual respect on the roads) but I suspect she isn't the saint on the road that she makes herself out to be.

I don't claim to be perfect and the original post proves that, but I find it suprising that so much is made of my *bad* driving (based on this one incident) and only lip service is paid to the person with all the road rage...the woman who decided to aim her car at me. 

People shouldn't aim their cars at anyone on purpose.  If you think they should, or have the right to if a bike is microscopically on the wrong side of the road (while stationary and trying to avoid someone baring down on them), then you are part of the problem and shouldn't be lecturing anyone.

Here we go again with another lecture.

Smokes...when your dad is nudging over to scare people on bikes what will be the net result if he misjudges and kills someone?  MORE death on the road. 

Incredibly you even suggest that the worst part about him doing this is that he might chip his paint.

Carry on with the lecturing and jokes about making bike riders into hood ornaments ala CO or perhaps even actually nudge someone off the road ala Hare Buddah and brag.

Yup...I am the problem clearly.

 

I never professed my innocence...in fact I fully admitted my offense.  Why do you, CO and everyone else keep trying to twist what I wrote into me attempting to prove myself blameless?

The point of my initial thread was NOT an attempt to say I was right in any way shape or form.  It was designed to ask a very simple question "WHY" did the woman feel that my actions warrented an incident of road rage which endangered her freedom and my life?  What I got back was a number of fingers pointing directly at me as being the poster boy for the ills on Bermuda's roads.  No real insight...just "yea she was wrong...but YOU......" 

So, when you come out with a funny story about your father is now tending veer over and to scare bike riders and how the worst consequence is that he might scratch the paint on the car...it is like deja vu to June 2008 or as recent as yesterday.  Very hood ornament-like.

I capice....I am probably the most conservative driver out there. 

See...you say two wrongs don't make a right.  I committed the first offense in my little incident....the second wrong was committed by the woman driving the car.  Two wrongs don't make a right.  Her wrong (the second one) is good for a chuckle though I suppose...or perhaps a wee finger waggle before launching into the guy who she almost hit about how he needs to "buck up".

Some people have that type of writing style.  By putting you in the extreme position (regardless of what you've written), stretching a point becomes easier.  Forgive the unintentional racial reference, but seeing things in black and white all the time only increases the intolerance.

Don't worry about those dim bulbs at BIAW; I'm sure the members here see the absurdity of their statements.  Bragging about nudging someone off the road sounds about right for the most hypocritical pseudo-Buddhist I've ever heard of.   

"Forgive the unintentional racial reference, but seeing things in black and white all the time only increases the intolerance."

I disagree. The fact that CO is both black and white one would assume she sees things from both sides of the street. Who's gonna argue with that?

Grass-shopper - The best part about sitting on a fence is you can take pot shots at both sides.