I couldn't believe what I saw.

Because you have a licence, you are allowed to teach someone else to drive.....and because you have a licence you think you know how to drive !!

And you wonder why so many kids get killed ??

I wonder how many parents would pass if they sat for their driving test at the same time as their kids ????

Same thing happened to me recently on the road from Windjana to Tunnel Creek - stuck behind a 2WD Ford Territory doing about 20-30kmh for about 10km - I flashed my lights after a while because they were so slow hoping that they'd see me and let me pass - lo and behold they pulled over so I indicated and started passing - at which point they too pulled to the right hand side of the road in front of me and I almost collected them. Turned out that they were driving around a washout, and hadn't seen me at all.

Guess the lesson is don't expect people to see you through the dust!

..and so many people wonder why there are such major issues with NT drivers.

That Steve, is a prime example of why Govt should legislate driver training programmes be conducted by trained and qualified individuals.

The absolute minimum should be a one day session teaching proper vehicle control before they are let loose on the roads with (often incompetent) parents as teachers.

Jim.

When I was 17 , I was driven off a bridge by a truck I was passing.
Unbeknown to me he had slowed down because a mini had come out of a petrol station, and without looking behind or beside had started to overtake while I was overtaking him.

The police did not have any sympathy for me when they interviewed me at the hospital, because it was my responsibilty to advise the person being overtaken by sounding my horn.

You do not mention horns at any stage, but it is the overtaker's responsibilty to let the person being overtaken know they are there. It is extremely unlikely that anyone would move right with the knowledge that someone was there, so I suggest he simply did not know.
Regards Philip A

Gday Steve,
You certainly get them..hey?
Had some idiot doing about 70km on the south Stuart Highway the other day on my way to work, After they were overtaken buy about 5 cars, a truck and three buses they decided to speed up.....right as the bus I was on were along side!
Brainless twats! (you dont know if DIO is up this was do you?)

Cheers

I can sympathsize. Last time I came out of Jim Jim I was passed in a creekbed by a Fritz in a Britz doing a zillion miles an hour. I had to stop and tell him to put the hubs in at the next one. Grrr....

On the news now, bus crash in Kakadu, maybe they were out practising again ...

T.E.E.T.......Scary stuff....made even worse by the quality of instruction the kid was getting. Ended up sideways in a table drain on a run to the cape one year. Bunch of feral treehuggers, complete with tibetan tea cozies on their heads, had pulled up in their vw beetle in the middle of the road, after a corner, so they could have a toilet break and swap drivers.

Hairy ( NT )....I dont think its a monkey either - obviously something futher down the foodchain like a federal govt employed OH & S / Workers Comp brainwashed office staffer.

Best Off Road....It is highly unlikely that the govt wiil bring about EFFECTIVE driver education. A driver who has been taught - or learnt - vehicle handling at..different speeds / in wet and dry conditions / on bitumen or gravel roads / cornering or in a straight line and carrying different loads would understand the need to " drive according to the conditions ".
Can you imagine the revenue loss if everyone UNDERSTOOD the need to drive according to the conditions.

Gronk.....You hit the nail on the head. They are taught to pass the test - not how to drive. I doubt any of them these days would understand how the vehicles nose dips and it leans to one side when braking in a corner. Its much more important that they know how many inches to be parked from the gutter or a thousand confusing speed regulations.

Phillip A......Understand how you feel. I ran a bloke off the road once when he tried to pass me - while I dodging a semi entering an intersection. Legally, because I was on the incorrect side of the road at the time - I was at fault. The fact that the bloke who went off the road stated that he thought the truck would get us both as it stopped, blocking half the road - was irrelevant. The semi ???..took off leaving 6" deep holes in the dirt from wheel spin. Driver never even got out of cab. The bars#*+ knew what the real cause of the accident was.

Madfisher.......Happens in every state these days ....its a nice way to double application income. Once - you got failed because of unsatisfactory driving ability.