I never had any problem on the road in my 10 years in GCCs. But these 10 years I spent in other GCC countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE.
Driving in Qatar is a different experience!
I have stories like others: one time at E ring when there was roadworks and only one lane was available, I had one mad man (expat) driving behind me and flashing the headlights and almost hit my car. all cars ahead of me and myself were driving at reasonable speed in that single lane road. The only way to get the hopeless guy pass is to get all other cars fly or to get his car jump, when we get to the two lane road, that driver passed me and came to my lane and slowed down too much for a long distance as if he wants to punish me!
Other story similar to this but with Qatari driver at the round about. That Qatari went creasy when I could not “fly over” the car in front of me to let him pass ( I was governed in the middle lane with cars in front of me)! When passed the roundabout he get very close to my car from the side as if trying to hit my car and made signals to show me that he is ready for physical quarrel.
The third story was with Qatari when I was new to Qatar two years ago, I was driving and suddenly the car in front of me hit the break suddenly. I applied horn and the Qatari driver went after me for almost 2 kM, almost to my home.
I have many other stories of road abuse. This kind of things never happened with me anywhere else. Only in Qatar
I never had any problem on the road in my 10 years in GCCs. But these 10 years I spent in other GCC countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE.
Driving in Qatar is a different experience!
I have stories like others: one time at E ring when there was roadworks and only one lane was available, I had one mad man (expat) driving behind me and flashing the headlights and almost hit my car. all cars ahead of me and myself were driving at reasonable speed in that single lane road. The only way to get the hopeless guy pass is to get all other cars fly or to get his car jump, when we get to the two lane road, that driver passed me and came to my lane and slowed down too much for a long distance as if he wants to punish me!
Other story similar to this but with Qatari driver at the round about. That Qatari went creasy when I could not “fly over” the car in front of me to let him pass ( I was governed in the middle lane with cars in front of me)! When passed the roundabout he get very close to my car from the side as if trying to hit my car and made signals to show me that he is ready for physical quarrel.
The third story was with Qatari when I was new to Qatar two years ago, I was driving and suddenly the car in front of me hit the break suddenly. I applied horn and the Qatari driver went after me for almost 2 kM, almost to my home.
I have many other stories of road abuse. This kind of things never happened with me anywhere else. Only in Qatar