"you will typically find yourself sharing a single lane road with anything from a sports car convertible to an old bloke in charge of a horse and cart. Throw in the huge fleet of lorries that traverse Poland and you will commonly find yourself in a situation where traffic is blocked behind said lorries/horse/tractor"Simply not true. Horse and carts are now as common as they are in the UK.The biggest problem with driving on Polish roads is the drivers themselves. Standards are very poor and aggressive and speeds are always fast irrespective of speed limits which are widely ignored. TIRs (Internatuional lorries) drive as fast if not faster than your average car and along with the large number of Polish drivers you will find Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Latwian, Lithianian, Czech and Slovakian drivers. All seem to have a problem driving carefully. You will quite often find a very large lorry tailgating you. The only frustration is that they cannot go even faster. Accidents are common place. They regularly expect other drivers to move over to the hard shoulder (which are used by cyclists and pedestrians mostly) to let them through. You hit any one doing that then its your liability not Lewis Hamilton in your rear mirror.
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Alfie
"you will typically find yourself sharing a single lane road with anything from a sports car convertible to an old bloke in charge of a horse and cart. Throw in the huge fleet of lorries that traverse Poland and you will commonly find yourself in a situation where traffic is blocked behind said lorries/horse/tractor"Simply not true. Horse and carts are now as common as they are in the UK.The biggest problem with driving on Polish roads is the drivers themselves. Standards are very poor and aggressive and speeds are always fast irrespective of speed limits which are widely ignored. TIRs (Internatuional lorries) drive as fast if not faster than your average car and along with the large number of Polish drivers you will find Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Latwian, Lithianian, Czech and Slovakian drivers. All seem to have a problem driving carefully. You will quite often find a very large lorry tailgating you. The only frustration is that they cannot go even faster. Accidents are common place. They regularly expect other drivers to move over to the hard shoulder (which are used by cyclists and pedestrians mostly) to let them through. You hit any one doing that then its your liability not Lewis Hamilton in your rear mirror.