Road rage!!!

Rolandtheroadie

Dont care any more. I'll concentrate on protecting me and mine's, I can spot an !!!!!!! driver a mile off.

optimus_primera

Car drivers on motorways/dual carriageways, who pull in right in front of Lorries hit their brakes and expect a fair few tonne of lorry to stop as quick as they can ..............

But most of all ......... Drivers who think their driving licence is a right, not a priviledge.

Harry_Flashman

darich wrote: »

4 - people not wearing a seatbelt.

6 - as a passenger, when the driver kicks the car into neutral and coasts rather than keep the car in gear. (not looking for a debate whether that's right or wrong - in my opinion it's wrong and bugs me )

And these are any of your business why?

Strider590

People who drive about in the dark or fog or snow with either NO lights on OR stupid barely visible parking/side lights!!!!!

I seriously feel like getting out of my car and wringing their necks!!! I would LOVE to know WHY they f*cking well do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they think it saves fuel then they're utterly !!!!!!!!


OH AND!! People who park at the roadside (parallel parking) in two spaces and leave a half car gap between them and the end of the parking area (before a driveway or yellow lines). Why do this??? if you parked up to the lines you'd leave an extra space AND still have no risk of being blocked in!
When I park for work some mornings there must be 15 to 20 wasted parking spaces and dozens of cars circling the area looking for a space.
I swear one of these days I WILL use my car to push them into one space, the inconsiderate morons!!

Though I did report one for having no road tax and it was promptly clamped, then shortly disappeared altogether

juno

I was on a 3 or 4 lane motorway (can't remember) on Saturday. I was overtaking in the 2nd lane (ie the "normal driving lane" rather than the "lorry lane" as I have no idea about the inside and outside and whatever names). Then a van came up behind me and started flashing its lights and doing its horn and scared me I have no idea why it did it - it could have overtaken me in the other lane, and I wasn't driving constantly in that lane so it wasn't like I needed someone to force me to move over.

It also did it later to someone else in a small car.

Lum

Was it a van or a small HGV?

Anything over 7.5 tonnes is banned from the outside (ie. rightmost) lane of a 3+ lane motorway, so drivers of these find slow middle lane hogs especially annoying.

Not saying you are a slow middle lane hog, but one person's "safe distance before pulling in front of someone" is another persons "you could fit 3 cars in there".

That said, please don't refer to the second lane as the "normal driving" lane. The inside lane is the "normal driving" lane, all others are overtaking lanes. Obviously I am not including the hard shoulder here.

Strider590

juno wrote: »

I was overtaking in the 2nd lane (ie the "normal driving lane" rather than the "lorry lane"

And that's where your wrong, it's not a "lorry lane", it's the lane everyone should be in when they're not overtaking..... It is the "normal driving lane"!!

Middle and outside lanes are for overtaking.

kittykarate

anewman wrote: »

One should use their indicators to indicate their intentions to others. It therefore improves your observation skills if you look for when and when not to indicate. For example there's no point indicating on a roundabout when there's no other cars, or cars waiting to pull out to know you're taking the next exit. There is no excuse for not using indicators at all when in the presence of others.

One thing that really gets my goat is some drivers who think because there are no other cars around they don't need to indicate, not caring that pedestrians and cyclists are there and making decisions based on the information available.

As part of my walk to work, I have to cross the road half way up a slip road off the A34 (legitimate crossing, has dropped kerbs etc.). It's a tricky place to cross as people are hammering up it at 50mph. About 50% of these don't indicate, so I can start crossing thinking the slip road is clear, and someone pulls on and I have to rush to the other side of the road.

Lirin

Would be very easy to get outraged about other drivers....

Had a car last night who tried repeatedly to undertake, despite the fact there was no room in either lane- rush hour traffic, and a motorway 20 miles long- pretty much remains gridlocked for a bit.
He even used the hard shoulder. He didn't appear to be emergency response/ services, was busy talking to a blonde thing in the passenger seat. He didn't get past here as a Lorry pulling off an exit made him stop in a hurry, before carrying straight through the exit and on up the motorway.
I was doing 55mph- can't do much more than that tbh, traffic's very tight, and I don't recall him getting ahead of me at all- wasn't engaging in anything with him- just watching his efforts.

juno

Strider590 wrote: »

And that's where your wrong, it's not a "lorry lane", it's the lane everyone should be in when they're not overtaking..... It is the "normal driving lane"!!

Middle and outside lanes are for overtaking.

I was using the names from the site linked to earlier - I explained I don't know the terminology for inside lane etc, and the fact I used quote marks should show I wouldn't normally refer to them like that.

So I shall refer to them like that if I'm quoting somebody, thanks.