An incident in the south of Tenerife ended with several cars overturned on the road, emergency personnel from the firefighters of the Island working on the scene and resulted in long queues… in both directions.
How is this possible? In a video posted on social media by the profile @cosa_famosa you can see how the accident on the TF-1, towards Los Cristianos, forces cars to pass through a lane on the right side.
Meanwhile, heading towards Santa Cruz, a driver captures the entire sequence while driving with one hand. In the image, the vehicle’s rearview mirror shows more cars behind in a queue. Traveling in the left lane of the TF-1, the speed is lower than that usually maintained by cars on this side of the road, causing obstruction for the proper functioning of this lane.
Various violations are committed stemming from the well-known rubbernecking effect. This occurs when people driving on a road stop to stare or pay attention from their vehicle to something unusual: a traffic accident or a car parked on the shoulder.
[–>While you devote attention to that event, you slow down because you are not watching what is happening on your own road and fear having an accident. Ultimately, the accumulation of people doing this causes queues on some roads where no accidents have been reported.
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An occurrence that is becoming common on our roads and leads to more accidents than there should be. Just like the violation of remaining in the left lane while the right one is empty, something increasingly easy to spot and classified as an offence by the Directorate General of Traffic.
