Reflecting on a near miss

[Grahamm]

It's nice to see all the sound advice- I follow the watch the front wheels one.

Me too, although one time I damn near emergency stopped on a roundabout because I saw that the wheels on the vehicle at the next entrance to the roundabout were rotating. I subsequently realised that it was some sad chav with those stupid spinning hubcaps that keep rotating even when the vehicle is stationary

Fortunately they appear to have gone out of fashion!

Yet with all this talk of adjusting speed, planning escape routes and the rest not one person has mentioned the horn-
Doesn't matter if it's a junction or roundabout, You see wheels turning the very first thing you do is push that motherfuckin horn!

It takes more time to get your thumb to the horn button than it does to hit the brakes (presuming your fingers are already on them which mine tend to be in such a situation).

Having said that, I do sometimes pre-emptively move my thumb onto the horn button in a situation where someone could pull out (whilst readying my right hand on the front brake).