Twice in the past week, I have the identical fright..
thinking about it, I now remember that it can happen often.
But getting so close twice in a week really imprinted it in my feeble head.
Turning left....
In both cases to reach the destination I needed to cross over a double 'no passing' line... no rebase.
That doesn't preclude you from turning into a driveway...
just for passing/overtaking other vehicles.
In both cases, I put on the left turn indicator.... click, click, click
Twice, the car behind passed before I had a chance to turn.
Once in Cabarete, and just now in Cabrera
Today was a mild miss..... passing car swooshed by me well before my turn but still startled me.
Last Tuesday in Cabarete, was way too close.
The car passed at the last minute and had to swerve further left to avoid hitting me.
Unluckily, a pedestrian was walking alongside the opposing lane towards us.
He barely missed being killed or maimed.
The passing driver had words with him and then followed me into the driveway (to which I had turned)
A German (apologies to those countrymen)... he was belligerent from the start.
Started to instruct me that the double solid lines meant that I couldn't cross them.
Says he who had crossed them to pass me... clearly out of bounds!!
I gave him my opinion about the double line in no uncertain words.....
which were opposed to his thinking.
We got nowhere , but there was no damage/harm done.... luckily.
You need to be so careful
I have my mirrors adjusted to avoid side blind spots on both sides.... but whew !!
this was close.
Just reporting what happened and , as I said, I now remember having this 'sneaky quick pass' before a left turn a few times before.
Either ignorance or disregard for the rules of the road - IMO.
thinking about it, I now remember that it can happen often.
But getting so close twice in a week really imprinted it in my feeble head.
Turning left....
In both cases to reach the destination I needed to cross over a double 'no passing' line... no rebase.
That doesn't preclude you from turning into a driveway...
just for passing/overtaking other vehicles.
In both cases, I put on the left turn indicator.... click, click, click
Twice, the car behind passed before I had a chance to turn.
Once in Cabarete, and just now in Cabrera
Today was a mild miss..... passing car swooshed by me well before my turn but still startled me.
Last Tuesday in Cabarete, was way too close.
The car passed at the last minute and had to swerve further left to avoid hitting me.
Unluckily, a pedestrian was walking alongside the opposing lane towards us.
He barely missed being killed or maimed.
The passing driver had words with him and then followed me into the driveway (to which I had turned)
A German (apologies to those countrymen)... he was belligerent from the start.
Started to instruct me that the double solid lines meant that I couldn't cross them.
Says he who had crossed them to pass me... clearly out of bounds!!
I gave him my opinion about the double line in no uncertain words.....
which were opposed to his thinking.
We got nowhere , but there was no damage/harm done.... luckily.
You need to be so careful
I have my mirrors adjusted to avoid side blind spots on both sides.... but whew !!
this was close.
Just reporting what happened and , as I said, I now remember having this 'sneaky quick pass' before a left turn a few times before.
Either ignorance or disregard for the rules of the road - IMO.