Editor:
I was driving home from Sechelt towards Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast Highway last Monday. As I approached Flume Road, I turned my right-turn signal on and slowed down to make the right turn onto Flume.
I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw two cars behind me. The car immediately behind me signalled left to turn left on Lockyer Road. The second car following behind him was impatient and then pulled right onto the gravel and started to pass both of us on the inside, driving very fast. I slowed to a crawl because I realized that he was barrelling along and would hit me if I turned. He sped past me on the inside and then I made my turn.
This is the second time this has happened to me. Last May, a 92-year-old man passed our car on the inside at the same intersection when my wife had been driving. She had signalled a right turn to go down Flume off the highway in an identical situation. I was in the right front passenger seat and could not believe my eyes when a car sped by us on the right inside at full speed just as we were starting our right turn. The very old man avoided a deadly crash by passing us at 80 km/h. He clipped our front right panel and then sped on for another 20 yards, hit a telephone pole on the other side of Flume and then bounced back 10 yards into the forest, almost killing himself.
Had we been another second or two more into our right turn, he would have likely T-boned our car and killed us.
We need traffic lights at the intersection of Flume Road and the Sunshine Coast Highway. It’s extremely dangerous there and I understand that there are accidents there almost every week. We need traffic lights there before somebody dies!
Johnny Clarke, Roberts Creek
