Road rage!!!

joanne_d_3

King_Nothing wrote: »

Just because you're going at that, it can mean a) your speedo is not accurate, or b) the person behind you wants to go faster.

I regularly cruise on motorways at around 80+, so coming up against you pootling along in the outside lane at 65/70 ain't gonna best please me, so put it in someone elses shoes who would happily tailgate you because of that.

"pootling along" ? It's morons like you going 10+ mph over the speed limit which makes our roads such a dangerous place to be !

You say "80+" as if it's something to be proud off !

I hope you get caught and loose your licence before you serious hurt or even worse kill someone !

Imp

Things which annoy me:

1) People who don't stay behind the give way line on roundabouts. I'm in the left hand lane, you in your van/4x4/people carrier are in the right hand lane. We can both see traffic on the roundabout. Now you start to edge forward and because of the shape of your vehicle, you completely block my view so I have can't go until you have gone.

2) People who think that people joining a road from a sliproad have priority. I'm being overtaken, so am maintaining my speed to make it as easy as possible for you to adjust yours to join ahead or behind me. Instead, you push your way on where I am and we end up three abreast with two lanes.

3) When I'm pulling away from a roundabout or junction, I am going to be making progress, accelerating. This shouldn't surprise you, so why do you try and overtake me and are then surprised when I'm accelerating up to the speed limit and your apparent overtaking opportunity disappears.

4) If you are turning onto a side road, pedestrians have right of way if they are already crossing the side road. Don't drive at them and expect them to scatter out of your way. Wait.

5) Pulling right out of a side road, don't pull half way across the road and block all the traffic from your right until a gap appears in the direction you want to go. Wait until the road is clear in both directions, or turn left and find somewhere to turn around in.

Imp

Paradigm wrote: »

Not sure if this is classed as road rage, or if you have them near you, but I'd like to take a cricket bat to the idiots who thought it was a good idea to have pedestrian crossings 20-30 yds from a roundabout on every exit!

Perfect for fouling up the traffic & making the roundabout pretty much pointless.

Problem is, people will cross the road where they want to cross the road. You either put the crossings where they will be used (close to the junctions) or accept people will cross there regardless without the aid of crossings.

Lum

herewegoagain2010 wrote: »

I've lost count the amount of times I'm on the roundabout and they kept rolling forward into the first lane on the roundabout.

Ahh, that's something completely different to what I was thinking of. I thought you were on about people who don't stop even though you're there, you think they're going into the side of you but they slot in behind.

Seems odd that it happens so often though. I wonder if there is a visibility issue, such as a massive sign or wall preventing you from seeing oncoming cars on approach or at the give way line.

There are a few junctions like that around my way. My car has quite a long bonnet, and I have to stick out about a meter into the junction and press my head pretty much against the windscreen before I can actually see around the obstacles to check for oncoming traffic.

pulliptears

On the subject of crossings....

Some nights if its raining im a nice mum and go and pick up DD from high school. There is a one stop shop with a large carpark just down from the school so I tend to park up and sit and watch life go by. Its by a crossing, manned by a lollipop lady, the problem being that the timing of the lights is all wrong.

When the lights go to red lollipop lady goes out and crosses the children, but, the lights stay red long after she has returned to the kerb. I have observed that there are a vast amount of drivers out there who watch only the lollipop lady and not the lights. This means that with every red cycle usually at least one car will jump the lights in both directions. Add to this a group of high school kids who watch the lights not the traffic and you have children running directly into the path of the cars.

Its been like this for years, at one point our local plod came up with bikes and went after the jumpers but it could all be easily resolved by simply changing the timing.

Lum

joanne_d wrote: »

"pootling along" ? It's morons like you going 10+ mph over the speed limit which makes our roads such a dangerous place to be !

Exceeding the speed limit is not necessarily dangerous, despite 10 years of advertising by the last government claiming otherwise in order to justify putting cameras everywhere.

As for pootlers. Had one on the M4 today, 63mph (measured by GPS) in lane 3 of the M4. Undertook them using lane 1 as there was no-one else around for half a mile either way.

Of course they gave me the middle finger, and then moved into the middle lane to carry on driving. :mad:

King_Nothing

joanne_d wrote: »

"pootling along" ? It's morons like you going 10+ mph over the speed limit which makes our roads such a dangerous place to be !

You say "80+" as if it's something to be proud off !

I hope you get caught and loose your licence before you serious hurt or even worse kill someone !

lol calm your passion. It's morons like you who think speed = death, so sorry to break this too you, but; bad driving, bad judgement, and poor skills kills people, not speeding by itself. :rotfl:

Someone in the outside lane of a (weather permitting) steady flowing motorway (not nose to tail traffic) going less than 70 mph is a nuisence to other road uses, and should have better judgement to go faster than the car in ther other lanes if they're performing an overtaking manouvere.

So what if I cruise at 80 mph, just means I get to my destination quicker than the nervous drivers doing 50mph in the inside lane, or Mr. middle lane owners club driver doing 60-65 in the middle lane.

I could cruise at 90-100 mph in some instances, doesn't mean I'm going to die in a ball of fire 1 second later, and take out a combined bus load of children and nun's.

Strider590

Imp wrote: »

5) Pulling right out of a side road, don't pull half way across the road and block all the traffic from your right until a gap appears in the direction you want to go. Wait until the road is clear in both directions, or turn left and find somewhere to turn around in.

While I do find that people blocking my lane for no reason is extremely annoying, I also find myself in a similar (but more difficult) situation every single day.

I live 100 yards from a junction (on my right) between two of the busiest roads in my area, I have to turn right, I cannot turn left because it opens out to a dual carriageway, I have no choice but to push my way out because when the lights at the junction are green there's heavy traffic both ways and by the time they're red im faced with a queue blocking me on the far lane.
What I often end up doing is pulling out and lining my car up parallel to the stationary traffic, which depending on whether they're complete idiots, may or may not upset anyone.
What always amazes me is how people cannot see that if I simply waited for a gap both ways id be there literally ALL day.

King_Nothing

Lum wrote: »

As for pootlers. Had one on the M4 today, 63mph (measured by GPS) in lane 3 of the M4. Undertook them using lane 1 as there was no-one else around for half a mile either way.

Of course they gave me the middle finger, and then moved into the middle lane to carry on driving. :mad:

It boils my !!!! having to undertake people, because it's bad practice in theory, but how you can sit in the outside lane of a motorway or dual carriageway and just saunter along, when there's no cars infront of you for miles, and you're not even overtaking the cars in the left hand lanes, you're just making progess, is beyond me.

I've never seen a response from them, because I don't cut them up at the first chance, I wait, and I'm usually about 300 miles infront of them before I venture into their private lane. :rotfl:

joanne_d_3

Quote by King nothing

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So what if I cruise at 80 mph, just means I get to my destination quicker

I could cruise at 90-100 mph in some instances,



Yeah...as i said previously.....MORON !

OBVIOUSLY YOU THINK YOU ARE KING OF THE ROAD ?

Never mind , im sure once you get to 20 years old you will loose the boy racer attitude.