There are many people driving vehicles today who are still meant to be in the driving school, many drivers do not know the rules of driving. Your car should be well taken care of, hence, you have to understand the mindset of the different types of drivers in the country. Please note that this discourse is not a generalization. In other words, it doesn’t necessarily mean that these are the exact type of people you’ll meet using the Nigerian roads daily, we might have different opinions about this and hence, you’re free to add yours. Here are the types of people you’re probably going to meet while using a Nigerian road from my experience.
1. The learners The first category is the learners.
These
set of people are usually slow and always stay at a particular side of a
lane so as to make space for other oncoming drivers that will be
overtaking them because of :speedophobia’. They barely know a thing
about using the road. They usually don’t seem to understand or use most
important road signals. Some in this category instead of using the
learner sign, they’ll choose not to because they feel it’s degrading.
2. The meticulous drivers
This
category comprises mostly of old men and few women. They strive towards
perfection while using the road. They barely overtake any vehicle and
when they do, it’s probably the slow trucks and tankers. They always
strive to maintain an average speed and wouldn’t mind if they are
overtaken by lots of vehicles. Almost every dad and old person in
Nigeria falls in this category.
3. The rough riders/speeders This
category consists mainly of young boys, with their flashy cars who
think they’re in the fast and furious movie or they’re a driver in the
need for speed game. They drive to overtake every other road user like
it’s a car racing with loud music emanating from their vehicle. This
category runs into the risk of road accidents mostly. The often times
act as competitors on the road who constantly need to get ahead of other
drivers and is constantly annoyed when someone gets in the way. That
driver can be identified by the constant need to accelerate when someone
tries to overtake them or closing the gap to prevent someone from
getting in front of them. This is the category where danfo drivers fall.
4. The road greeters
This
is one of the annoying category of road users. They are the ones that
stop their vehicles on the lane just to start exchanging greetings or
passing information instead of parking by the side of the road hence,
blocking other oncoming vehicles and the more annoying part is that
people will be complaining and shouting at the duo, they still will act
deaf and continue conversing.
5. The unnecessarily slow pokes
This
is the most annoying category of all. This category just slows their
vehicles in an expressway just for nothing sake making every other
vehicle following them to maintain the same speed with their vehicle
till you find a space to overtake them. I once had an experience that
made me feel like going back to ram the man’s trunk.
6. The Stoppers
This
category derives joy in stepping on their car brakes unnecessarily.
They step on their brakes even when the need is not there and it is more
annoying when you’re directly following the vehicle on an expressway
because (s)he will keep showing you the brake light and sometimes will
stop abruptly and before you can interpret the signal, you’re already in
collision with the bumper probably because of the speed you were
maintaining.
7. The Know it All
The
next type is The Know-it-All, who thinks they are surrounded “by
incompetent fools” and often keep themselves happy by shouting
condescendingly at other drivers while being protected in their vehicle.
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