You wonder Dick if these people have passed their test or have any respect for other road users or indeed their own lives considering I imagine the conditions were appalling . I had a near miss last week not far from home and the guy driving just either didn't think or had not passed his test . There is a dual carriageway that now forms the historic Scotswood Road [from the infamous Blaydon Races song] and at various points they have sets of traffic lights at the junctions . I was turning right across the main carriageway , oncoming traffic is going at 50 mph as is the traffic on my side of the carriageway .
The traffic lights have a right green filter light when the oncoming traffic comes to a halt . This guy thought it was fair game to turn right across the carriageway I was on before the filter light came on didn't have a clue what was coming and so he went straight into an oncoming Fiat 500 which concertina'd at the front end [ a young girl was driving it and was clearly deeply in shock ] and it ripped the passenger side wing off his car and broke the headlight etc . Luckily the impact didn't flip his backend into me . Thankfully the oncoming traffic stopped because he decided to continue across the second lane onward to the relative safety of the junction road rather than just sit tight until the Police arrived , never be as lucky again because if that had been a bigger car or truck coming at 50 mph he would have been seriously injured .
