This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Some of the bad driving you see on Saskatchewan roads never ceases to astonish me. Just surf a few social media sites that follow traffic and you might be astounded not only at the number of transgressions but the type that is actually taking place. I mean the vehicle flipped on its roof on McKercher – as someone noted in the comments – how fast would you have to be going for that to happen. I often, on the drive in to work early in the morning see people weaving or slowing down and speeding up. I’m never sure if it is someone drunk or just jacking around but I know I don’t want to share the road with them. On the other hand none of us are untouched by making mistakes when driving. How many times have you ever just slid through a right turn on a red light without coming to a full stop? Or how about going through a red because you are actually looking at the green light a block away? Or just got in your vehicle to go home after work, for instance, and suddenly realize you’ve travelled several kilometres completely on auto pilot and unaware of your surroundings? This came to me after I recently glanced at a road sign and thought to myself, I know instinctively what to do but if I had to sit down and re-write my driver’s ed test – I wonder if I could quickly and succintly indicate what all the road signs mean. which makes me wonder if there shouldn’t be some mandatory revisiting of you driver’s test after you have been on the road for a certain number of years. Like a quick refresher course. Never hurts to get back to basics.
Should a “refresh” on driver education be mandatory
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