Good drivers!

One of my readers sent me this comment referring to my item about the police cracking down on drivers using mobile phones.

In Guardamar I saw a woman turning into the main road from a side street. There was a child of about 2 stood in the front of the car leaning on the dashboard (no seat belt on) and the woman driver was on her mobile! Methinks she would have been in severe trouble if the police had spotted her.

Unbelievable! She was presumably unaware of the great risk  to the child.

Apart from the many drivers you see on mobile phones, there are a lot of other incidences of bad driving that you see on the roads here in Spain. Let us put aside the inability of most Spanish drivers to use direction signals and the reckless overtaking manoeuvres that they make.

We've seen countless people on mopeds with a child sat in front of the rider. We even saw one instance where four people had managed to squeeze on one of these machines. How it ever got up the hill to Villas Andrea we will never know.

We've been nearly pushed of the road by drivers who clearly thought that they were in England where you drive on the left. Even the local police Land Rover forced us into the kerb once when we were travelling up Calle Le Vegan.

As for ignoring one way systems - don't let's get started on that one.

I'm not suggesting that British drivers are all good because they are not but they'd have to go a long way to be as bad as some of these locals.