We need safer road junctions

Isn't it about time the planning authorities started to construct safer junctions of fast highways. What usually happens is that drivers turning left have to slow down and stop and wait in a fast lane. Recently, a good friend of mine was seriously injured as a car travelling at about 120 kpm ploughed into the back of a line of five cars queuing up to turm left.

In Turkey, particularly on fast roads with blind bends, drivers have to turn right off the slow lane, go into a loop which leads to a halt sign. There they wait, off the main highway until it is safe to nip across. At juctions such as these, accidents are rare.

On motorways in the UK, drivers always leave on the slower left, even when turning right geographically. Left turns are safer in Britain - right ones abroad. It doesn't take a genius to understand the sense of that, so why do road builders make junctions that are inherently dangerous - often lethally and fatally so.
Robert Leslie Fielding