I’ve not seen it in this format. I’m surprised Italy is not higher. The things I’ve seen and experienced on Italian roads will stay with me forever.
190cm_Lietuvis on
I thought ours was higher.. Speed limit of 50 basically means 80 here and if you drive at the limit you get a caravan
TheJewPear on
It doesn’t surprise me. Two things I’ve noticed on my first day of driving here:
Many drivers are awful at keeping safety distance behind. They just have no understanding whatsoever of this concept. I’m talking about drivers that will be less than 3 meters behind you on a highway doing 120kph. This is especially true if they think you drive too slowly and there’s just one lane (mind you, I never drive on the left lane, only use it for passing cars and then go back to right/middle).
And the other common sin is that when drivers pass you from the left (if you’re lucky) they cut right in front of you. They don’t speed nicely ahead and then switch back to your lane, they will just hop back to your lane 20cm in front of you, causing you to break. So again, lack of understanding of safety distance and response times.
Add to that the fact that most drivers seem to think speed limits are minimum limits and not maximum limits, that 50 means 80 and 80 means 110, and that a lot of them drive mediocre cars with mediocre tires… and you’re gonna get a lot of accidents, and pretty bad ones.
Menkhal on
And r/portugalcykablyat strikes again.
FacetiousInvective on
As a person who (rarely) drives in Romania and keeps it at a steady 50km/h in cities/villages, it is incredible how big of a line I can make behind me, while having nobody in front basically.. which means most people are going over the speed limit.
Not just that, but they also tailgate you like crazy. I like to keep at least 10-15m between me and the next car but they stay at like 1 car length..
I can’t stand impatient drivers.. so naturally I stopped driving for my sanity. I guess all those impatient people are thankful too, since I won’t bother them with my respecting the speed limit.
The_Grinning_Reaper on
A better metric would be e.g. mileage-based. Per resident really makes no sense as the mode of transport can be quite different.
letzmakeithappen on
France should be very red.
Entire_Classroom_263 on
Motorbike tour in norway it is.
Cornflake0305 on
Just went on vacation in Greece and I can fully understand why their numbers are so high.
People there drive like absolute morons (especially the dumbasses on mopeds). The infrastructure is weird as hell, some intersections make no sense and the on / off ramps are basically constructed to make the likelihood of accidents as high as possible. Also, lots of people with completely destroyed / ancient and unserviced vehicles.
McCretin on
Having taken a few taxis in Malta, I’m genuinely surprised that it’s so low
Questionsaboutsanity on
what happened to those numbers?!
s0ngsforthedeaf on
Most Brits will say that people drive badly. But most of it is either speeding or being impolite (cutting people off etc).
People follow the laws at junctions and ‘wait their turn’. A lack of doing that seems to be the problem in Europe.
k66lus on
While Estonia isn’t particularly good on this statistic, i went to Rally Poland in 2017. I have never been so consistently scared behind the wheel than i was driving the smaller Polish B roads around the rally.
Ynwe on
Yep, when you see an eastern European driver here in Austria, it’s better to double your distance from them.. genuinely seen some insane maneuvers, are driving schools a joke in EE?
korenredpc on
Portugal, WTF? i always thought you people where easygoing.
JadedArgument1114 on
For Portugal, a big part of it has to be the wide assortment of slow moving vehicles/tractors/etc that force you to pass them in sketchy spots and dummies who park in the road and turn on their 4 way flashers and go into a cafe or whatever.
mightyboosher77 on
In fairness I’m just back from Portugal and our taxi driver said there were four speed cameras in the algarve and two were broken so wonder if that has anything to do with it?
VigorousElk on
r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
Professional_Area239 on
It would be more meaningful to show road deaths per 1million km driven.
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I’ve not seen it in this format. I’m surprised Italy is not higher. The things I’ve seen and experienced on Italian roads will stay with me forever.
I thought ours was higher.. Speed limit of 50 basically means 80 here and if you drive at the limit you get a caravan
It doesn’t surprise me. Two things I’ve noticed on my first day of driving here:
Many drivers are awful at keeping safety distance behind. They just have no understanding whatsoever of this concept. I’m talking about drivers that will be less than 3 meters behind you on a highway doing 120kph. This is especially true if they think you drive too slowly and there’s just one lane (mind you, I never drive on the left lane, only use it for passing cars and then go back to right/middle).
And the other common sin is that when drivers pass you from the left (if you’re lucky) they cut right in front of you. They don’t speed nicely ahead and then switch back to your lane, they will just hop back to your lane 20cm in front of you, causing you to break. So again, lack of understanding of safety distance and response times.
Add to that the fact that most drivers seem to think speed limits are minimum limits and not maximum limits, that 50 means 80 and 80 means 110, and that a lot of them drive mediocre cars with mediocre tires… and you’re gonna get a lot of accidents, and pretty bad ones.
And r/portugalcykablyat strikes again.
As a person who (rarely) drives in Romania and keeps it at a steady 50km/h in cities/villages, it is incredible how big of a line I can make behind me, while having nobody in front basically.. which means most people are going over the speed limit.
Not just that, but they also tailgate you like crazy. I like to keep at least 10-15m between me and the next car but they stay at like 1 car length..
I can’t stand impatient drivers.. so naturally I stopped driving for my sanity. I guess all those impatient people are thankful too, since I won’t bother them with my respecting the speed limit.
A better metric would be e.g. mileage-based. Per resident really makes no sense as the mode of transport can be quite different.
France should be very red.
Motorbike tour in norway it is.
Just went on vacation in Greece and I can fully understand why their numbers are so high.
People there drive like absolute morons (especially the dumbasses on mopeds). The infrastructure is weird as hell, some intersections make no sense and the on / off ramps are basically constructed to make the likelihood of accidents as high as possible. Also, lots of people with completely destroyed / ancient and unserviced vehicles.
Having taken a few taxis in Malta, I’m genuinely surprised that it’s so low
what happened to those numbers?!
Most Brits will say that people drive badly. But most of it is either speeding or being impolite (cutting people off etc).
People follow the laws at junctions and ‘wait their turn’. A lack of doing that seems to be the problem in Europe.
While Estonia isn’t particularly good on this statistic, i went to Rally Poland in 2017. I have never been so consistently scared behind the wheel than i was driving the smaller Polish B roads around the rally.
Yep, when you see an eastern European driver here in Austria, it’s better to double your distance from them.. genuinely seen some insane maneuvers, are driving schools a joke in EE?
Portugal, WTF? i always thought you people where easygoing.
For Portugal, a big part of it has to be the wide assortment of slow moving vehicles/tractors/etc that force you to pass them in sketchy spots and dummies who park in the road and turn on their 4 way flashers and go into a cafe or whatever.
In fairness I’m just back from Portugal and our taxi driver said there were four speed cameras in the algarve and two were broken so wonder if that has anything to do with it?
r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
It would be more meaningful to show road deaths per 1million km driven.
Portugal is not more dangerous than Italy🧐