A COLAC driving instructor says motorists must change their behaviour behind the wheel during winter or they’ll find themselves “in strife”.
Instructor says drivers must change
Colac driving instructor Paul Uytdehaag says motorists need to adjust to winter road conditions or face the consequences.
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As a parent instructing a learner, the driving of some fully licensed drivers horrifies me. I’m working hard to make sure my son is learning to drive correctly and well, but when he is overtaken on double white lines on a curve on the princes highway, it shakes his, and my, confidence. He was in a 100km zone, doing around 95 in wet weather, and suddenly finds himself having to brake to avoid a collision with an illegally overtaking vehicle. He had to brake to give the driver room to get back on the correct side of the road and avoid the oncoming vehicles!
We are also sick of being tailgated by aggressive fully licensed drivers when he is doing the speed limit, having to brake to avoid fully licensed drivers who have failed to give way, particularly at roundabouts, and braking to avoid fully licensed drivers who cannot manage to use their indicators, or who swerve onto the wrong side of the road while lighting a smoke!
If these are the people setting an example for the new generations of drivers, we have a problem.
Shall we start on the cyclists? The bicycle lane is there for a reason. Why are they riding on the very outside of it? How can we give them a metre clearance when there is no room to do so because of their own bad habits. This particularly applies to the ‘training’ cyclists who are a hazard all of their own. Three or four abreast, failing to stop or give way at intersections, and my personal favourite, blocking the entire left hand side of the road out at Alvie when doing their ‘races’. They are giving all other cyclists a bad name. They need to remember that the same road laws apply to them too.