Is undertaking illegal here?

ozankoys


Joined: 20/06/2008
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Message Posted:
20/06/2010 10:56

Following on from the threads about the terrible driving here it appears from our observation that it is the Cypriot girls who are the worse culprits for driving whilst both smoking and talking on the phone.

After being incensed by their normal pattern of sitting on your back bumper, then overtaking on the inside & cutting you up by then swinging back into the fast lane dangerously close to your front I did wonder if such manouevres were actually legal here as we know that undertaking is legal in some countries.

catalkoykid


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 1190

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 10:57

who you want burying lol

zookeeper


Joined: 17/03/2010
Posts: 168

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 11:00

Fast Lane? What's that? Where can I find one in TRNC?



Zookeeper' first husband

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 11:01

I knew what an overtaking is and thanks now I know what an undertaking is. Any relations to undertakers? I bet if they keep driving like that they may meet their undertakers soon.

As far as I know it is illegal to "undertake" but do the police ever care? I see so many cars parked on zebra crossings and nobody cares.

ismet

ozankoys


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 905

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 11:06

Yes we are astonished that there are not more accidents and more need for undertakers (or funeral directors to give them their posh name) the standard of driving here never ceases to amaze us

ozankoys


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 905

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 11:06

Zebra crossings are another thing - have never seen a Cypriot stop at one - do they know what they are for?

spanna


Joined: 12/01/2009
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Message Posted:
20/06/2010 11:49

May also be worth noting that 'fast lanes', as in the UK are for 'over taking'. Remember the public information films... stay left unless overtaking!!

BoTanica


Joined: 22/12/2009
Posts: 714

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 12:17

message 6:



I slowed down to let someone cross over on a very faded crossing near Tantooni restaraunt on the Girne road, and almost got someone killed when the idiot in the other lane wouldn't stop!! I am now very wary of slowing down and allowing someone to cross if there are cars in the other lane........

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 13:49

If you intend to stop and let people walk across the road - position yourself so that no other car can get past you whilst stopped, sad but it is the only way to try to keep pedestrians alive!! Defensive driving is the only answer on the roads anywhere in the world, no worse and no better in the UK when I left just people were so scared of being caught on camera or nicked by a sleeping bobby that they obeyed the law when they thought they would get caught!

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 20:08

Bless !! thought this thread was info required on setting up funeral services LOL

kibsolar


Joined: 14/09/2008
Posts: 552

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 20:16

with more then 20 years driving experience, a total crash with injuries... and countless "half accidents".... drive slowly, defensive and try not to get involved into "their business", meaning trying to kill others... or, see it different: enjoing the incentive to break a (another) law...

you are right msg 1... not only the males are the bad ones... the girls are terrible too.

teatime


Joined: 20/10/2008
Posts: 852

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 20:42

Msg 1 "then overtaking on the inside & cutting you up by then swinging back into the fast lane dangerously close to your front"



Are you sure that you were not in the wrong by driving in the "fast lane" whilst not overtaking and they were trying to make a point to you?

Vidal


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 867

Message Posted:
20/06/2010 21:01

Im sure these lunatics think they are brilliant drivers, they dont realise they only got home in one piece because us normal drivers make allowances for them.

The number of times I've seen a driver pull out from behind me, straight into the path of a car coming the other way. You know you have to pull back to let them back in or there is going to be a crash.

ozankoys


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 905

Message Posted:
21/06/2010 09:55

Hi no I was not in the wrong as we had just come out of the roadworks going up the hill towards Lefkosa there were very slow moving trucks & lorries in the slow lane and I was around 2 vehicles length from the car in front in a long queue of traffic

teatime


Joined: 20/10/2008
Posts: 852

Message Posted:
21/06/2010 10:28

OK ozankoys, it was only a thought as there is a lot of it goes on in UK, i.e. the dreaded centre lane hoarders on motorways, when the nearside lane is empty. What happened in your example is therefore unexcusable and dangerous driving.