VIPs on the road: We voted to end this crude culture!

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A vehicle with the number plate KU 4566 was behind me at about 1 p.m. from somewhere near Temple trees right up to the Beleka junction on 21 June. It was a white, tinted, big Pajero. Although the road was full of traffic and there no room to move at all (I was determined to stay on my lane as the law required), the driver of this vehicle kept blinking and tooting his horn as if we must all leave the road and let this VIP travel fast.

I thought that on 8 January 2015 we voted to end this ugly and crude culture. Why should someone else’s trip be more important than those of all others using the road? It may well be that the VIP travelling in the vehicle did not realise what a culturally-low person was driving the vehicle.

But they must remember that both the boss and driver are enjoying a salary given by the taxpayers of this country.

As is the case usually, when all this was happening, there was no policeman in sight or even if they were, they did not intervene to uphold decent road manners.

R. Perera

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