[Katsunami]

The thing I mentioned above, cars squeezing in between much bigger vehicles, actually happened today on my way to work. A small car almost got crushed in between a truck and my bus. The situation is attached in a sketch.

There is a busstop at B. A truck drove by (black), and the bus started to pull out of the busstop, right after it (orange), being trailed by other cars (yellow). A small car (red) tried to squeeze in between the truck and the bus, from the side street, even though that street has shark teeth (edit: as in, the cars on the big road towards the crossing go first).

Obviously, the bus driver slammed the brakes down an almost trashed the horn, and still the driver of the small car got out shouting and screaming.

(Don't ask me why that car, didn't just use the main road. The only reason to come out of that street is when you're coming off one of the driveways belonging to the few houses that lie along the side street; and it's not allowed to drive through that side street the other way around. It's a one way street.)

I see this shit happening *constantly*.

Yesterday, an older man on a bicycle almost got run over by a car turning to the right, because he (the old guy) thought "I can make that green light." He couldn't, and the cars on the main road got a green light and started driving. He decided to just go through the red light and almost got caught by the first car turning right.

I still wonder what kind of fools these people are.

And then I'm not even talking about the (sometimes very) old people on bicycles who suddenly lose balance and swerve onto the road and stuff like that, which can make traffic very unpredictable.

While I won't be trying stupid things in traffic, I'm afraid my ability to react fast enough to situations like these, such as cars suddenly stopping, changing directions, or cutting in front of me unexpectedly is very limited.