Danger ahead: slow driver won’t move over

THE recently announced additional penalty points will criminalise road courtesy. We will no longer be clicking our hazards to thank some considerate trucker who kindly moved into the hard shoulder to allow faster traffic go by.

This courtesy has been an Irish solution to an Irish problem and, frankly, is the only commonsense approach for slow and fast vehicles safely to negotiate the single-lane national road network.

Before it’s too late I wish to thank truckers and tractor drivers for their unfailing courtesy to car drivers. Their road sense often can be the difference between arriving at a destination safe and sane or two hours late, frustrated and full of rage.