Things changing for the better
Way back in 2005 and 2006 my wife and I traveled to just about every place in Mexico that one would want to go and reported on it here in what I am told was the longest thread ever at this board with ...
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Tourist are considered easy prey...rear end vehicle collisions and payouts happen a lot when they see a foreign license plates"
Can't help it, I get limp with laughter after I read some of this stuff.
FACT: If you are going to make a LEFT on an undivided 2-lane non urban highway AND there is a SAFE AND PROPER PLACE for you to pull off the highway onto the right shoulder, you must do so. Wait until all traffic passes THEN make a safe left turn. This is LAW state-by-state in all 31 Mexican states. If such a pull out area exists and folks behind you rear-end you YOU ARE AT FAULT, You pay for all damages and fines. No they are not going to cite a person who did not pull off into a ditch or if there is a curb or dropoff.
Stop and ask a PFP or SSP to read the law chapter and verse out of his big black reglas de transito book.
Once again a quirky law morphs itself into tourism racism. You ought to study the law regarding paralelos in towns and cities, and multi-axle vehicles and no left turns for all vehicles.
Can't help it, I get limp with laughter after I read some of this stuff.
FACT: If you are going to make a LEFT on an undivided 2-lane non urban highway AND there is a SAFE AND PROPER PLACE for you to pull off the highway onto the right shoulder, you must do so. Wait until all traffic passes THEN make a safe left turn. This is LAW state-by-state in all 31 Mexican states. If such a pull out area exists and folks behind you rear-end you YOU ARE AT FAULT, You pay for all damages and fines. No they are not going to cite a person who did not pull off into a ditch or if there is a curb or dropoff.
Stop and ask a PFP or SSP to read the law chapter and verse out of his big black reglas de transito book.
Once again a quirky law morphs itself into tourism racism. You ought to study the law regarding paralelos in towns and cities, and multi-axle vehicles and no left turns for all vehicles.
