Don't forget the giant bit of hay stickin oot yer gub!

Oh and yer banjo

Are you insinuating I have a rather large mouth.

what I feel from almost 1 year driving in Perth is that Majority of them dont like to travel at speed limit and when I drive at speed limit they drive just behind me without keeping the safe distance at all. I am sure if I break hard they never can stop their car. Note that I dont HAVE TO drive at speed limit as it is a LIMIT!

Pommie drivers-insanely aggressive, drive on their accelerators, fast but courteous
Perth drivers-insanely stupid, drive on their brakes, just plain rude & retarded

Hey wavy davy, that's mc hammer you got there on yer avatar

Well I am a WA Driver; I never had a ticket in all my years of driving in OZ; Never had an accident; I don't tailgate, speed or duck 'n' weave and I am courteous to other road-users. I got breathalysed for the first time last month: cops didn't even bother getting out of their car after they did a check on me.
I reckon your problem is that there are too many Poms on the road here. I was in the UK a couple of years back. I lived and worked there for 4 years. I saw a lot of tailgating and about the same amount of discourtesy and "dickhead" behaviour over there that you see here. Maybe you just forgot what a dump the UK is and you need to go "back home" and remind yourselves.
Look I don't know where you drive but it seems to me that you are either being nit-picky, or whiney or you simply can't drive.
Cops here pick you up if you drive too slow.
Now if you really want to live on the edge, go to Melbourne and drive around at peak hour. That will give you something to whine about.

I almost read all of this post but felt that the remaining time would be better spent staring at the carpet in my office...

Talk about stereotypical Aussie.

You have carpet to look at, wow, what colour is it?
I only have some white vynil to stare at.

If you want to live on the edge, I can suggest other places than Melbourne

And there it is....the long-awaited post of denial.

If you can't see how poor the standard of driving is in WA, I suggest you get some glasses. You can just look at the number of RTAs that happen in WA as a reflection of this. It's appalling.

Until people like you admit that there is a problem with the standard of driving here it will never improve. There's a problem, that much is blatantly obvious (to most of us).

You are obviously a polite/courteous driver.

But never in my life have I seen such bad driving till I came to Perth.

Drink driving is far more rife here, 'everybody does it' my Aussie colleague bragged to me. Our ex real estate agent told me how he 'crawled to his car after a night on the piss' and drove home.

Because my husband was sticking to the speed limit the other week, an aussie driver stuck his head out of the window and called him a 'W*****r' - very nice, but my husband is on L plates - who is the real 'w****R' here, its not my husband.

He gets tailgated heaps of times and last week had a woman driving towards him on the main road, on the wrong side of the road - heading straight for us - bless her socks, didnt she know which side of the road to be on!

It isnt the fact that there are too many POMs on the road, its the fact there are too many tossers that think speeding, drink driving, tailgating, yelling abuse at drivers sticking to the speed limit is acceptable. I dont give a shit where they are from, does it matter?

The fact is the driving standards here appear to be lower, even my driving instructor said that the UK standards should be adopted here because the driving here is so appalling.

Whether it be a POM, an Aussie or anyone, - whoever drives like that deserves to lose their permit.

Driving is bad here, the nationality of the bad driver is not important - raising the standards and implementing harsher penalities for those caught speeding/drink driving/dangerous driver is.

That's the most succinct way of putting it I think...

Never had an accident hey? I believe you. Though maybe you were that silly cow (with a child in the back seat) who just pulled out in front of me (obviously no indication , mirrors etc) and who nearly caused ME to have an accident by nearly crashing into a lampost.

Ade

Oh, congrats on not being a drink driver. You deserve a medal.

Your sarcasm is sad. No I am not a silly cow and no I don't deserve a medal for not driving drunk. I just don't do it and there are a lot of people like me here. We drive delivery vehicles, taxis, road trains etc. We drive distances in excess of the length of Britain on a regular basis. If we were as bad drivers as you say we are, there would surely be nobody left here. I am fully aware of the carnage on the roads here. Given the size of Australia this is regrettable but not entirely surprising.
I do find it interesting to compare the figures for Oz with the road toll stats for the UK.

Both of the following statements were copied from url's connected with road safety.

"Figures for 2007 have been revised slightly since the publication of Road Casualties in Great Britain: 2007 on 26 June. The number of fatalities has increased by three to 2,946."

"Australia’s 2007 road toll was has increased by 11 over last year’s 1605."

You think you are perfect. You find it impossible to admit that all of WA drivers are not bad and that all Pommie drivers are not good.

Funny, I'm not at all stereotypical. If you knew more about me you would realise what a huge mistake that statement is.

What I know is that it's a mistake to generalise and it is an even bigger one to not do any research before you go off half cocked.

That Lady has it in a nutshell.

To the adiestubbs and "DunRoaminTheUK"s of the world; If you want to do something constructive, set a good example to other road users. Driving around with your head up your ass isn't helpful.

2,950 from a population of 60 million driving on congested and narrow roads versus 1600 from a population of 20 million driving on uncongested broad open roads rather suggests that the accident rate in Australia is much worse than the UK.