Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
NigC said:But most of my close-calls have been while I was pootling along happily when suddenly.....
The only defense against that is to keep off the roads.
Not blaming the victim at all but there is something in that statement.
Basically what you are saying is that they happen when your guard is down, so there is a defence against that, by being yourself more alert than the drivers around you are
It's irritating that we can't pootle along happily like Sunday drivers out for the scenery but unfortunately we do have to have one eye for scenery and the other for hazards coming from all directions