Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-19 Thread Wilton Strickland
. Real smart. ;)) Wilton - Original Message - From: ernest breakfield erne...@backyardengineering.org To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic that's the way

Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-19 Thread Wilton Strickland
to go ahead. Real smart. ;)) Wilton - Original Message - From: ernest breakfield erne...@backyardengineering.org To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-19 Thread Rich Thomas
I went there a few years ago, it was kinda weird driving like that. Didn't have any problems, but the shotgun had to keep an eye out when trying to pass or go around random stuff in the road. --R ernest breakfield wrote: that's the way it works in the US Virgin Islands now; Amerikun-style

Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-19 Thread ernest breakfield
mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic that's the way it works in the US Virgin Islands now; Amerikun-style cars driven on the left side of the road. cheers! e n Wilton Strickland wrote: So, Sweden

Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-19 Thread Rich Thomas
injuries only please/Swedish traffic that's the way it works in the US Virgin Islands now; Amerikun-style cars driven on the left side of the road. cheers! e n Wilton Strickland wrote: So, Sweden switched from left hand traffic (LHT) to right had traffic (RHT) in 1967, but even

Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-19 Thread Wilton Strickland
herd ;)) Wilton - Original Message - From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic And even seeing

[MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-18 Thread Wilton Strickland
So, Sweden switched from left hand traffic (LHT) to right had traffic (RHT) in 1967, but even with LHT, many (maybe most) cars were driven from the eft - left hand drive (LHD). Most drivers, then, were already positioned on the left side of the car for better/safer operation in RHT. Wilton

Re: [MBZ] Serious injuries only please/Swedish traffic

2009-02-18 Thread ernest breakfield
that's the way it works in the US Virgin Islands now; Amerikun-style cars driven on the left side of the road. cheers! e n Wilton Strickland wrote: So, Sweden switched from left hand traffic (LHT) to right had traffic (RHT) in 1967, but even with LHT, many (maybe most) cars were driven from