Editor:
What a true and wise column from your hand (Lock it up, leave it out, Optimist, March 18).
I fully agree people should pay 100 percent attention to traffic, not screens or devices.
I am old school: I do not want a car with huge info screens. I want buttons and knobs and common sense.
I have been living in Thailand for 14 years. Thailand has the doubtful fame to be world ranked number two of most fatal traffic accidents, after Libya.
Important reason to leave Thailand was the road safety (for my child). I can tell stories absolutely mind boggling.
On another topic. Last week I drove from Ladner to Tilbury Island so after turning left at The Great Junction I sorted the lane going to Tilbury.
I speeded just a bit, 85 to 90 km instead of 80. Because doing 85 still makes you a turtle when checking other motorists.
So while driving in the correct lane a brown Kia behind me starts bumper/fender glueing, suddenly moving and overtaking me at the right....while at my right he hung out of his window. Middle finger, shouting, cutting me of until the fork where he turned to Vancouver.
I would strongly like to ask Delta Police to monitor this leg of road towards the highway. Crazy situations and road rage there on a daily base. Many 'motorists' seem to need to race to work or whatever making that road a deadly arena.
To the driver of the dark Kia I have a message: can I meet you once and have a drink. I will tell you some experiences from Thailand about traffic and it might cure you from traffic fury.
Hendrik Vanbeek
