It happens everytime there's a bit of rain here in Perth.

We're driving back from a restaurant last night and all the dickheads are out doing wheelspins in the wet etc. I saw at least 6 on a 10 minute drive doing burnouts, with some moron losing it completely while coming out of a sideroad and spinning the wheels. His back end went and he done a full circle, thankfully the oncoming traffic wasn't going too fast and they managed to slow down in time.

I'm really growing to enjoy my time here in Perth, but I still find the driving and mentality of drivers absolutely shocking.

(please note that's not to say people don't drive bad in the UK, but it's just so much more prevalent here).

I don't think it is just Perth either!

A woman trashed her car in front of me coming north on the F6 in to Sydney near Waterfall yesterday in the wet.

I still say they should learn to drive in manuals. They would appreciate car control much better than a stop/go go-cart automatic.

Yeah, i hate automatics and i wouldn't drive one if i was paid to, i don't think there's any control in an automatic and it freaks me out that there is no gears to slow the car down.

The drongos were out in force here too.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...003402,00.html

wot an eejit

I could think of worse names

They have sh*t for brains...oh hang on...they don't have brains!!

They totally infuriate me!!!

So what about the Perth drivers? They must infuriate you more, surely?

You can override an Auto gearbox, to use the gears to slow down... well, at least mine can...

Drivers here are just not used to what happens when the road gets wet, I think a lot of it is down to inexperience of the change in road conditions, rather than anything else, although of course there are "some" idiots.

Dry conditions = 1 ft behind the car in front of you as slipstreaming saves you petrol

Wet conditions = 6in behind the car in front of you to save petrol and keep your car dry

Speed up towards amber lights in the wet and then beep at the idiot in front who stupidly slowed down in preparing to stop

Add in poor street lighting and road markings makes for a fun time driving.

Also add in the young lads in their V8s with no idea how to drive in these conditions (or any conditions for that matter).

Recipe for disaster.

Don't move to Singapore then - near death experiences every day.

Last time we were in Perth all the Aussies we met complained about the driving there but I only saw one piece of wanky driving equivalent to Singapore all week. Here, it's literally every 3-5 minutes.

Don't know what you mean by that question??

Anybody who drives carelessly infuriates me

Because of the preceding link to an article on one spectacularly genetically-challenged Brisbanite and it was a poor attempt on my part to draw an inference between that article and your criticism of driving standards here...

Sorry. Won't happen again....

Stop complicating matters