WE'VE just driven 3,600 miles across the United States from Chicago, Illinois, all the way across the West to Los Angeles, California, arriving back home this week.
Guess where we saw the most stupid examples of driving? On our drive back home through Lincolnshire, of course, and nowhere in the USA.
Overtaken on the B6403 just south of Grantham by a middle-aged bespectacled man doing a minimum of 85mph, re
gardless of the blind bends and dips. Moments later as I waited for a safe time to overtake a tractor we were almost swept off the road by another imbecile behind me who decided to pull out and overtake me and the tractor and to hell with the blind bend ahead.
No wonder when we returned home LAST year we found our son, thankfully alive, but our second car smashed to pieces. He'd stopped and been about to turn right into our village from the B6403 when he was struck by a middle-aged woman who decided to ignore the double-white lines, the junction warning signs and the speed limit, in order to overtake a tractor behind him. Fortunately he saw her in time.
Her brand-new car hit his wing, bounced off and exploded as it hit trees.
God save us – what a county. You have to go and drive somewhere else to realise how utterly appalling the driving is round here.
Guy de la Bedoyere
Welby
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