Just this morning, after dropping my daughter off at school, I was driving down a two lane, one way street coming upon an intersection with a light. A van, coming from the intersection, from my right, blows "his" red light, and makes a left, going against the flow of traffic and coming straight at me in my lane some 20 meters away. I hit the brakes and then the guy in teh van makes a left hand turn into a parking lot. Mind you, the left that he took, from the road that he was on, is at a diagnol from the road that I was on, therefore, making that left was totally blind.

Obviously, he did this to avoid going around the block and approaching the parking lot from the correct flow of traffic.

Granted I live in a part of the world that driving skills and habits are probably one of the worst that I have ever seen anywhere in the world. But still. Taking a blind left hand turn to oncoming traffic on a read light really takes the cake. All because he wanted to save two minutes of his life in not going around the block like a decent driver would.

Iggy

P.S. No offense to the soccer moms but, these are the ones that really scare me. - 1.3 kids in the back the other kid (making the traditional 2.3 kids) in the dfront seat no seat belt on, drinking her Cafe Latte, talking on the cell phone, putting on make up all the while driving the car and telling the kids to calm down. Oh did I forget to mention that they usually brake very unexpectedly?

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