Driving through the busy thoroughfares of the city during the peak hours can be quite traumatic. Forget the bad roads, the lack of driving etiquette is enough to drive you crazy.

When traffic is moving at a brisk pace, a car on the left suddenly swerves to the right, leaving the driver behind fuming. At another signal, a driver turns without signalling. In the night, headlights resemble lights at a discotheque, blinding oncoming drivers. Curses fly, the blood pressure shoots up and you brace yourself for yet another battle on the roads.

Police say common problems include changing lanes without warning, not parking within the stop line at signals, ignorance of the significance of traffic lights, wrong overtaking, over-speeding within city limits and using dazzling headlights.

Only in July from July 1 to 15, Coimbatore police booked 444 cases of over-speeding, 159 of dazzling headlights, 865 of bad overtaking and 79 of wrong side turning.

As for a peculiar problem facing Coimbatore, City Police Commissioner Karan Singha says: "Lane violation. People here have no idea as to how to switch lanes."

I think we who drive or ride on the roads are very much responsible for today’s poor traffic condition because it depends upon us that how we behave while driving or riding.