Thread: Timattalon's MX5 woes

I just about got involved in a serious prang due to these bloody things - well the import MX5's. A club day for them, about 40 all in a row travelling together and the import ones had the front yellow fog lights on. I was travelling towards a gentle left hand corner, as the approaching line of cars rolled around their right hand the yellow fog lights passed behind the car in front which gave the appearance of a row of blinking yellow lights... Now to set the scene a bit more, this was on an overcast day not quite dark yet but at the point where a lot of people would flick their headlights on.

The issue here comes from the fact that in my lane on the road, a dark grey vehicle was waiting to turn right into a driveway and the driver while indicating did not have their headlights on so the only visible light at the back of the car was the flashing yellow right indicator - which completely blended into the rest of the flashing orange lights on the oncoming lineup. And when you are doing 90-100 and travelling towards a stationary object that is the same colour as the road and not showing any visible lights, once you resolve the fact that it actually exists it's basically too close to stop. Luckily there was enough shoulder for me to slide past on the left, I went past at about 30 and I think gave the driver a hell of a fright (similar to what I got!).

That there, is a prime example of some bits in the road regulations that most drivers either don't learn, forget or completely ignore - stationary vehicle on a lane must display warning lights at the back (the good old brake light triangle, left right and high stop) and if you're turning right against a line of traffic pull off to the left and wait clear of the road!

Had a family friend get severely injured in a little mazda too, rear ended at an intersection which shunted her into the traffic crossing. Luckily it was a fairly slow speed set of hits but it folded the thing up like a coke can. Took a few months but she got over it, and brought a toyota surf(?). That's my experiences with MX5's anyway...