OK so...this weekend I had to go away to a Scrabble tournament and one of the gentlemen from the club drove us there and back. How we made it in one piece I don't know. On the way there was heavy rain and mist and the inside of his car had condensation that would not clear.On the way back it was dark.
Main problems are:
He has no concept of direction it seems-we hit a kerb twice whilst turning around as he couldn't see where the road was due to condensation on the inside of the car.On the way back we had to slam on the brakes as he 'didn't realize there was a bend there.'Going around corners we would drift out wide and at least once ended up in the oncoming lane.We ended up straddling the centre line several times,including once on the slip road where we were heading straight towards the central barrier because he couldn't decide whether to be in the staying-on lane or the exit lane.
He has no concept that there are other people around.Twice whilst looking for the site,he saw the sign so stopped without any indication-once across a roundabout and then instead of realizing he had missed the exit,reversed off and drove the wrong way down the road.
And he meanders.Coming down the motorway,we would drift from one side of a lane to another without him realizing-it was only the bdonkbdonkbdonk of the rumble strips that alerted him to the fact.Once we ended up going along the hard shoulder.
Once we drifted so about a quarter of the car was in the next lane as something was coming up behind in that lane.
I seriously thought we would end up in an accident at some point.I have decided I will not be in his car again,but how I can tell him that I don't think he is safe to be on the roads?
Main problems are:
He has no concept of direction it seems-we hit a kerb twice whilst turning around as he couldn't see where the road was due to condensation on the inside of the car.On the way back we had to slam on the brakes as he 'didn't realize there was a bend there.'Going around corners we would drift out wide and at least once ended up in the oncoming lane.We ended up straddling the centre line several times,including once on the slip road where we were heading straight towards the central barrier because he couldn't decide whether to be in the staying-on lane or the exit lane.
He has no concept that there are other people around.Twice whilst looking for the site,he saw the sign so stopped without any indication-once across a roundabout and then instead of realizing he had missed the exit,reversed off and drove the wrong way down the road.
And he meanders.Coming down the motorway,we would drift from one side of a lane to another without him realizing-it was only the bdonkbdonkbdonk of the rumble strips that alerted him to the fact.Once we ended up going along the hard shoulder.
Once we drifted so about a quarter of the car was in the next lane as something was coming up behind in that lane.
I seriously thought we would end up in an accident at some point.I have decided I will not be in his car again,but how I can tell him that I don't think he is safe to be on the roads?
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