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Driving on wrong side in France is easily done
Reader provides a warning based on experience
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To the Editor,
Your article about a head-on collision between two vehicles in south-west France caused by an Irish driver reportedly on the wrong side of the road reminded me of something similar that happened about four weeks ago.
I have driven to and from my second home in France for the last 26 years. Recently I turned left out of a track onto an A road in Dordogne.
I was merrily driving along when a car came around the corner on my side of the road! I was on the wrong side!
Thanks to the quick thinking of the driver, the car ‘overtook’ me (fortunately, nothing was coming the other way), but it didn't half scare me.
I had done exactly the same in a village the previous week, but realised pretty quickly and crossed over. It is easy to do and very scary. I was lucky.
C.A., by email
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