The sign below warns that the next 10km is an accident
blackspot – that sign could be altered to read ‘next 100km’ or even next ‘500km’.
Within ½ hour of entering Romania we had to hit the brakes hard on a handful of
occasions. Scary stuff…
Having driven over 5000 miles to date we have found the
standard of driving really good – even in Italy! We aren’t the fastest
aerodynamic vehicle on the road but other drivers have been very careful when
overtaking us and when needed we pull in to let vehicles past. There are very
few laybys on Romanian roads though.
In Hungary we saw loads of billboards indicating they had
received European Funding although we could never quite work out what it had
been spent on – it’s quite obvious here in Romania, it’s going on the road network.
A massive project is underway throughout the whole country to build new
motorways which must be long overdue as the main roads, and consequently all
the traffic including the huge TIR lorries, thunder through the centre of all
the towns.
We and one German plated car were the only vehicles we saw sticking
to the 50kph speed limit in towns as a convoy of inpatient irritated drivers
built up behind us. They overtake with no consideration about the presence of or
speed of approaching traffic, often whilst driving through towns and are generally
on their mobile.
Looks like the new roads can’t come soon enough.
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