No warnings to soccer fans going to Euro 2012 about Polish drivers and Polish roads?

I am in complete agreement with you the idea of holding Uefa 2012 in Ukraine was always Political, even now today as the first game kicks off it is more about politics than football.

I saw many cars from Sweden, Holland, Germany going to Polish/Ukrainian border today. Ask them to comapre traffic between 2 countries when they return (if any).

Did you get their phone numbers?

Oh please. Many Polish drivers don't even know the word "hospitality". And it's about 50/50 on using indicators at best. Deaths on Polish roads statistically are some of the highest in Europe and 3 times higher than in the UK. Denial I think clouds your opinion. Zebra crossings in Poland are a waste of paint and red lights merely a suggestion. I've heard many people describe driving in Poland as the single scariest experience of their lives. I myself was mowed down on a zebra crossing in Krakow when I was 3/4 of the way across. The driver didn't even hit the breaks before hitting me. I have seen driving situations in Poland that beggar belief and I would never have believed unless I had seen it with my own eyes. I have good friends in Poland who are great people until they get behind the wheel of a car. Then generally they become the most impatient, crazy and angry people I've ever met!! Fact. Denying it doesn't make it any less true.

I drive every day and it's not scary.

Scary is walking through certain London neighbourhoods at night alone, or going on steep water slides. Driving is not scary.


Anyone who says "fact" without actually providing facts...

110% agreed!

globalpost.com/dispatch/poland/100921/poland-road-deaths-highway-safet y

thenews.pl/9/7/Artykul/94947,Polands-roads-most-dangerous-in-EU

Factual enough for you? I could give more personal examples but you'd only go into denial and automatically disagree. It's a shame because until the problem is recognised more people will die. I've been driving in Poland for 12 years and regularly across Europe for 21 years and unfortunately have never, even in stereotype hotspots of bad bad driving, experienced tree lined roads of death like I have in Poland. The road to Zakopane from Krakow is notorious for example. Pull your head out of the sand and smell the roses why don't you :)

Possibly the reason you don't find it scary is because you're culturally used to the Polish way of driving, therefore it doesn't shock you. I met a couple from New Zealand two nights ago in Krakow who were driving across Poland on vacation and although they generally liked Poland, they said the driving "scared the **** out of them".

Every country has good and bad things about it, so please don't take criticism of some bad drivers in Poland as a critique on all of Poland and it's people. Plus why would anyone "make up" things about the driving in Poland unless, in their personal experience, they perceived it to be true?

Denial of any bad situation just leads to more of the bad situation rather than a solution, which in this case would be less people dying on Polish roads because of impatient and dangerous driving.

Don`t be silly.

That's constructive

Why are you lying?