On the afternoon of March 3, along the Kikuyu-Wangige road under the Nairobi-Nakuru highway flyover, the driver of a VW Passat station wagon car stubbornly declined to give way to a siren-wailing ambulance, blocking it for two minutes.
Less than 50 metres ahead, the same driver obstructed those behind him by stopping to 'give way' to motorists from Sigona entering the main road, instead of the motorists waiting for an opening to enter the main road. It is my conviction that the driver did not deliberately block the ambulance and that he also gave way where he should not have, because of his limited understanding of traffic rules and regulations. Similar ignorance had a few minutes earlier been displayed by the driver of the matatu I was travelling in, when he almost entered the belly of a trailer, on cutting across a 'roundabout' instead of going around it. He and his tout had the guts to complain about the 'bad' driving manners of the truck driver!
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