I occasionally rant about the lack of polite drivers in my
area.
But here’s one area where politeness does not pay off.
From the article:
“A driver in the oncoming lane motioned for him to turn and
he did when the driver of a blue van in the far lane didn’t see him and
collided with him,” Idaho Falls Police Officer Brandon Harkness said.
People do this all the time at this intersection. And some of
them get a little insistent – and then miffed – if you brush them off and stay
in that left-turn lane even though they’re “being nice” and stopping the
traffic so you can go.
I’ve been in a similar accident – nobody ended up on their
side – because someone was nice, and I went without considering what was coming
in the other lane.
It was stupid of me.
So don’t be nice in this situation. And if someone’s being
nice, give them the brush-off and don’t go. Because nice people are nice but
they can’t control the second lane of traffic, who don’t know why traffic in
one lane is stopped and rather than reflect on that, just go into the other
lane and proceed through. Which is right, per the right-of-way.
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