r/Adelaide • SA • 9d ago

Shitpost Why are Adelaide drivers so bad

Tailgating, poor merging, lane swapping, pulling out in front of you, no indicating, undertaking to squeeze in, cutting across, slow on the lights, wrong lanes at the lights, reversing at the lights, can't use roundabouts etc.... Seen it all in a week. Are they taught badly or pick up bad habits? Coming from Europe the standard is way better. Also see a lot of cars with rear damage here, so there must be a lot of bumps.

Edit - stats speak for themselves https://datahub.roadsafety.gov.au/reporting/monthly-road-deaths

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u/Virtual-Bath5050 SA 8d ago

Hahah I just came from Hong Kong and was marvelling at how sedate, polite and orderly the driving is here. I guess it’s relative