The approach into the town of Dundas was done a sweeping downhill on the north side of town. It wasnèt quite as hair-raising as the approach of the 200km route, but it was still possible to generate speeds of 50 kph or more by the time we reached the bottom.
At the bottom the hill, there was a sweeping right turn, followed by a couple of hundred metres of flat road before arriving to a pit stop area.
About half-way on the flat, an RTCC sign advised us to “Obey the Rules of the Road”. Just past this sign was a T-intersection, with one of those arcing right-hand turn lanes that linked up with the road I was on.
As I passed the sign, a car made an illegal left-hand turn in front of me (fortunately, I wasn't near enough to him to be in danger). As I reached the area where the right-hand turn lane merged with my road, another driver ignored the yield sign and shot in a few metres ahead of me.
Clearly the Highway Traffic Act includes exemptions for people on four wheels. I must have missed that part.
Regrettably, we saw a lot of brain-dead behaviour on the part of (some) drivers this weekend, a lot more than previous years and more noticeable perhaps because of the weather. Distressing, but it heightened the need to stay alert.
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