While driving through Żebbuġ towards Mdina I was in the right lane as my intention was to go around the roundabout at the entrance to Żebbuġ (after the Toyota garage). There were cars behind me and to my left, the lane to go into Żebbuġ. I left plenty of space, keeping as close to the roundabout as possible.

I glanced to my left and there was a car cutting across into my lane, just inches from my passenger side. He followed me to the next roundabout where I stayed in the right lane to turn right to Attard. As we went onto the roundabout, he accelerated up the inside and quite deliberately cut across my front. If I hadn’t braked hard, there would definitely have been a collision.

Now, I’m a relaxed kind of guy, just minding my own business on a Saturday morning. I can’t understand this deliberately belligerent attitude by drivers in Malta. Of course, some of the readers will tell me to go back to my own country if I don’t like it. Well, I just might leave Malta, which is headlined as such a really friendly country. On the roads, it is not friendly at all; quite the opposite.

By the way, that stick thing on your steering wheel is called ‘indicators’. Those are flashing things that give other road users an inkling as to what your intentions might be, but then you probably don’t know yourself!

Dual carriageways are not two roads going to the same place. If you’re driving a truck or a heap of junk at 30kph in the right lane, get into the left lane.

Rear seat belts are not just there to hold your shopping, they’re there to stop little Johnny or Mary being catapulted through your windscreen when you have an accident. But then, little Johnny or Mary are probably on mummy’s lap in the front, so it doesn’t matter, does it?

Being in the left lane approaching a roundabout when you want to turn right is not too smart. Ditto being in the right lane when you want to turn left.

Using your horn instead of brakes as you blast through the narrow village streets, cutting corners and trusting in the Almighty that nothing is coming, is stupid and annoying to residents in those villages. Stop it!