Driving Diary

Regarding “Danger Ahead: Spotting Highway Hazards Abroad” (Travel Insider, Jan. 10): This was a superb subject superbly handled. I just wish you had been able to provide even more data and details.

I’m sure many of your readers, as I did, responded with a rush of memories of incidents.

I can vividly remember a German autobahn driver suddenly realizing that his 150-plus kilometers per hour (about 93 mph) was a tad too much, less than a block from the autobahn’s ending in Munich. Fortunately, the only casualties were his tires, which left mounds of rubber and a fabulous stench.

In Italy, when I was in the left-turn lane on a four-lane road at an autostrada entrance, with my turn signal on, a vehicle passed me on the left as I commenced the turn.

In France, on an open stretch of wide two-lane road with only an oncoming motorcycle in view, it was disconcerting to see the driver blithely heading straight for us on the wrong side of the road.

DAVE HARLOWE

Sherman Oaks