Casa Santo Estevo

I do not think we need a study to tell us this.
I feel some other counties should have been added to give a better overall picture.
This article is a few weeks old, but has just started appearing on news feeds for some reason.

cricketman

The study didnt really tell us anything no? What would your conclusion be? My conculsion would be that there isnt one

Retired in Euskadi

I'd conclude that you cannot trust French questionnaires.
I just do not believe that only 50% of Spanish drivers respect the 'safety distance'; I reckon 99.9% don't!
As for Brits driving too fast, the French questioners have obviously never driven up or down a Spanish mountain road doing 40kph & had an idiot overtake.
It confirms my suspicions that you cannot trust articles in ABC!!!

Casa Santo Estevo

But is was a study done by the French and is repeated in a lot of news feeds.

My conclusion: is that the study is faulty and should have covered a lot more countries to give a more accurate result.


For those who do not read Spanish here is the news in English.

BobNorth1951

As an Australian who has driven up to six months in the UK and on the Continent a few times (Spain, France, Germany, Sweden) in the past seven years, I find British drivers are extremely polite and courteous.
Coming in from a side road, for example, they will invariably leave a gap to come on to the main road.
I found the further south you went in Europe, the more drivers sat on their horn to let you know you were driving on their personal stretch of road. In Britain, it was with some reluctance that the hooter was used at all, and only then, just before impact.
If all drivers were as courteous as in Britain, I feel the road would be an easier place to drive on.

andyrich666

Have you ever driven in London or the home counties ?

If I am at a light and its gone green and no one is moving I will use the hooter, I think the only reason its not so bad in the UK is the drivers are violent and will use violence when a horn is used against them, here you touch the horn and it wakes people up, In London your likely to get whacked with a baseball bat, when you look at it that way, Brits are worse.

Casa Santo Estevo

Like this maybe?

andyrich666

This for me is typical of a UK driver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfdvIfT8H5c

One of my fav's, and maybe what amideislas could resort to ?

Retired in Euskadi

Totally agree.

andyrich666

Suggest you look here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...age-title.html

and if the mail is not good enough

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3146781.stm

andyrich666

Has anyone here sat a Spanish test, I know a few who have and not one can answer how they are taught to go round roundabouts in any manor and I don't think many know either, its not like they don't like a roundabout here is it ?

Retired in Euskadi

Ah, road rage. The British are a somewhat aggressive nation & with road rage they carry out what they so often threaten; the Spanish merely pretend to it!

agoreira

Suggest you do a search in Spanish for road rage incidents. I'll give you a starter, one where a policia gets a beating, there are loads to pick from.
http://www.antena3.com/noticias/soci...030800065.html

Dick Dasterdly

Precisely.
The Spanish version of road rage is to stand there for ever and a day shouting, screaming and waving their arms about in a threatening way like five year old kids.

They are even more enraged and shocked after doing it to the wrong person and suddenly finding that their lights have gone out.

Always get your retaliation in first is what I always say.

IamStu

I have to give the Italians credit.
They are bad drivers but they know this and admit it. I guess they know how to laugh at themselves.