re accident report in article jun prl philips nl mcardle prl philips nl owen mcardle writes in article ranck vtvm cc vt edu ranck vtvm cc vt edu wm l ranck writes in article jun bcrka bnr ca whitton bnr ca mark whitton writes it turns out that the trailer lights were not hooked up to the truck yep basic rule never expect or believe turn signals completely around here and many other places people just don t signal at all and sometimes the signals aren t working sometimes they get left on the scary bit about this is the is the non availability of rear lights at all now living in the netherlands i ve learned that the only reliable indicators are those red ones which go on at both sides at once some people call them brake lights once they light up expect anything to occur in front of you it s not just the dutch though however i never realised how much i relied on this until i got caught a few times behind someone whose lights didn t work at all once i d sussed it out it wasn t so bad knowing it is half the battle but it s a great way to find out that you ve been following someone too closely now i try to check for lights all the time cos that split second can make all the difference though it shouldn t be necessary i know owen what used to peeve me in canada was the cars with bloody red rear indicators you d see a single red light come on and think now is he stopping but one brake lamp is not working or does he have those dumb bloody red rear indicators this being survival you have to assume he s braking and take the appropriate actions until such time as the light goes out and on again after which you can be reasonably certain it s a bloody red rear indicator ivan reid paul scherrer institute ch ivan cvax psi ch gsx f rg wd si you porsche me pass dod
