Letters • January 04 2004

An Irresponsible, Dangerous and Arrogant Driver

San Gwann
Angelo Vassallo

Allow me to share with your readers a not-so-nice experience that I passed through whilst driving on Monday December 15, 2003, at around 21.15 hrs. I was driving down Naxxar Road in San Gwann on my way to Sliema. I was not alone since I had both my wife and my twelve-year old daughter with me.
As soon as I arrived in front of the Bank of Valletta branch in Naxxar Road San Gwann, all of a sudden I saw a BMW with the registration number ADM-333 reversing at quiet a high speed towards me in the middle of the road. I immediately started flashing my car headlights while at the same time hooting my horn. We both came to a halt.
All of a sudden, as if I was the wrongdoer, the driver of this BMW ADM-333 (I suppose ADM stands for ADAM, and maybe it is the driver’s name) came out of his car, which he left in the middle of the road. He then started walking towards me. He also started shouting and swearing at me, but by the time he arrived next to me, whilst I lowered my window, he backed off and went to speak to someone else who was sitting in a car right in front of the San Gwann BOV branch as if nothing happened.
On continuing my drive towards Sliema I nearly hit an approaching car since I had to go on the right hand side (wrong side) of the road, because as I have mentioned before, the BMW ADM-333 was blocking the left hand side of Naxxar Road.
Watch out for these drivers. Unfortunately, we still do have irresponsible, dangerous and arrogant drivers on our roads.