I've heard it said about prisons, mental-health institutions and toilets. Now I add traffic lights. You can tell how civilised a country is by how its drivers mind the traffic lights (and traffic circles).
Five or six years ago, a friend and I saw a Nigerian businessman do a jaw-drop when visiting Accra for the first time. "They actually obey the lights?" He asked. He said the lights were useless décor back in his country. We had a sneaky suspicion that he was self-deprecating too hard.
That kind Nigerian gentleman; he visited five years too soon. Every morning at the Regimanuel traffic lights on the Spintex Road, I barely hang on to dear life after three 'Hail Marys' and four near misses.
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Guess the young new drivers are not being told about obeying traffic lights by their supposed trainers and the corrupt DVLA. The new ones ignore and the others follow....
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I haven't observed that younger drivers are more likely to flout traffic laws than older drivers.
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