Over the overtaking

Driving home from Tauranga to Whakatane the other night, I saw the Bright Lights.

Though my life was in danger, it wasn't the Bright Lights of the End. It was the headlights of the muppet who was supposed to be driving on the other side of the road.

Clearly he was racing off to the hospital or somewhere of equal urgency, because he decided to overtake right as I was driving towards him.

He missed my car by mere millimetres (I am definitely not prone to exaggeration), all the while I was blasting my horn to gently remind him to please drive on his designated side of the road and not kill an innocent road user. He very nearly took out the car he suddenly cut in front of too, but that's a whole different issue.

Other fun things to watch out for when you commute from Whakatane each day: drivers overtaking trucks on blind corners or rises, drivers overtaking (when you are sensibly driving the speed limit on the TEL) at what seems to be breakneck, very illegal speeds of at least 140km/h, and the usual really terrible indication rates of people.

C McGrath, Whakatane.

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