Blindsided
Posted: Mon 22 February, 2010 Filed under: Driving, People, Weather 2 Comments »This morning the weather while driving was truly fucking foul – icy, heavyish snowfall (heavy for the UK anyway) and a few dollops of fog to just top it off.
And yet still there was a significant percentage of drivers who didn’t have any lights on whatsoever. Well into double figures during my drive this morning. There were even more with only one working headlight, but at least they had one light working.
I simply don’t understand the logic that says “I don’t need to use lights”, although I suppose it’s something similar to the entire “Problem [x] will never happen to me”. I just think it’s another example of where people really should be done more regularly for driving without due care and attention.
I think it’s probably people who have cars with automatic headlamps. My car switches the lights on at dusk, or if you go through a tunnel, but not in poor visability conditions in daylight. You have to switch them on manually, which shouldn’t be a problem tbh.
Yeah, that’s fair enough.
But all the same, if you can’t see out the sodding windows, you turn the damn lights on. If everyone else around you has their lights on, maybe it’s time to take the hint and join the crowd?