Strangely Brown wrote:Horse wrote:"I am an advanced driver, and I had right of way"
Letter in IAM magazine, about an incident at a roundabout.
Hmmm. Feels like you are reading what you want to read rather than
what is actually written.
He said, "
and I had the right of way" not "
therefore I had right of way" - I'll leave arguments about "right of way" vs "priority" out of it.
As written there are two separate statements, indeed separated by a comma. [He] is an advanced driver,
and [he] had right of way.
Personally I think it's a pretty cheesy and self-important thing to say anyway but
it doesn't say what you seem to think.
If you're reading directly from the letter in the magazine, fair enough. This particular issue was published when it was A5 format. I was a member from mid-1980s to about 1999.
My memory is of those two phrases being used. Then thinking that his advanced skills should have been used to prevent the incident occurring, rather than justify his own actions.
There were other things in the magazines that caused me to wonder about the members. Again, from memory:
- Asking about colours of marker studs on motorways (not querying why they were particular colours, but asking what were the colours used). IIRC, Ted Clements' column had this, someone had written to him or head office to ask! He answered it, but didn't suggest looking in the Highway Code.
- After an article on car theft, a complaint that four 'commonly-used' tools were illustrated - as if thieves wouldn't know, but would be learning from the magazine! [Tools shown included a corkscrew, wire coat hanger and a 'slim Jim's]
Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.
