Something for the weekend?

scbk

Aye maybe, you always seem to fire in full speed, you'd be better off hanging back and letting things develop. Like that taxi on the dual carriageway, I would've held back once he started moving over, to see what he was doing

Wig

Strider590 wrote: »

I don't know why people do this, it's this arrogant "I know everything" followed by "oh I don't remember" when proven wrong with black and white, hard cold facts.... But even then you'll argue against the highway code.

It's this arrogance (and ignorance) which causes half the problems on our roads. You ARE NOT the Police, you DO NOT know better! But then I guess the Police are wrong too, because they just young whipper-snappers who haven't been around long enough to know your version of the law.

I think we should have to do a comprehensive theory test every 5 years, this might hopefully force people to read the highway code and to stop going vigilante to enforce laws that don't even exist!!

I'm not sure what the bold bit is referring to or who it is directed at?

Strider590

Wig wrote: »

I'm not sure what the bold bit is referring to or who it is directed at?

The haters


Pretty sure your the sort who thinks that everyone who overtakes you is "racing past with the engine screaming away", pretty much like my mates grandmother.... She's always moaning about loads of "crazy drivers" overtaking her every time she drives her car, but when questioned further she insists that hitting the brakes to "teach them a lesson" for tailgating her was a perfectly safe and legal thing to do and we already know she drives EVERYWHERE at 20mph.
I can count on one hand how many times anyone has needed to overtake me in the last 12-18 months and when they do, I just think "fair play, it's your funeral....." but I don't start brake testing people or swerving around the road to stop them.

Kilty_2

Strider590 wrote: »

The haters

Wig

s_b wrote: »

i was told that when the line goes across as it does at my arrow then they are closed chevrons and to be treat as an invisible barrier you do not cross
willing to be confirmed ive been told porkies though by the boys in blue

The police were talking balls IMHO Because what they were effectively saying is that there are two areas on the road, that of the broken chevroned area (area 1) & that of the waiting area to turn right (area 2).

What they were saying is that a driver can drive in area 1 and a driver can drive in area 2, but a driver can not cross from area 1 directly into area 2 this is clearly a nonsense IMHO. And I cannot find any reference to it.

To say that because of this line area 1 is not open chevroned but closed chevroned would equally make no sense because a driver has to go on what is infront of him at the time so at the beginning of the chevronned area the driver only sees a broken chevron

I have scanned around a bit on google and found the line in question in Cardiff is broken and the line when drawn in Barry (different county) is unbroken I can only imagine due to it being drawn incorrectly in Barry. I looked in the TSRGD 2002 and did not find a diagram for for a chevroned area adjoining a right turn area.

Wig

Strider, I have no problem with overtakers. But you drive dangerously, and your problem is that you can't even see it (that is to say you don't admit it). I actually believe that you know you drive dangerously but you do it sometimes to make a point at the people who you perceive (rightly or wrongly) to be bad drivers themselves. You probably often drive dangerously just to force yourself around on the roads because now and again you get a bit wound up, you like queue jumping and you hate dawdlers....like the incident with the 206

You really need to calm down on the roads and stop being such an asshat.

Rolandtheroadie

Can you repost the 206 video with around 10 seconds on the start?
I've a feeling that would put a completely different slant on it.

Wig

scotsman4th wrote: »

Can you repost the 206 video with around 10 seconds on the start?
I've a feeling that would put a completely different slant on it.

The 206 is moving forward in the video in the first second (you can see it drives over the white line marking on the road infront of the dropped kerb/curb sp?)

So Strider is overtaking a slow moving vehicle in a residential street. The 206 is possibly going slow due to the bottleneck of the 2 parked cars ahead and the oncoming car. When the oncoming car pulls over aswell, the 206 is given the green light and moves to go through the bottleneck unaware that Strider is playing the fool to his rear right hand side.

If the previous 10 seconds shows a long straight road and the pug is stationary, then fine, the pug pulls off without looking. But I still question Striders ability to see hazards ahead and slow down appropriately, yet again -if this is the scenario- he sees a hazard but continues forward without braking and only brakes at the last second as if to try to make a point to the other driver or to force the other driver to realise their mistake and hope they will brake thus allowing Strider through, the tactic didn't work in this example.

I also can't see any middle finger from the 206, I only see the magic tree?

Strider590

^^ Ugh..... Middle finger clarity lost in conversion (by Youtube).

Can't go any further back because the camera records in 5 min segments and it's near impossible to join two video's together because it's a cheap ebay camera, the file index is shot, it actually records the last 30 seconds of each video around 5 times at the end, media players correct this and play the 5 mins, but my video editor see's a 7.5 minute long file. Tis also the reason why my sound is out of sync in most of my video's.

And no, im not forcing anything.... I admit I have very little patience for bad driving and vigilante's, but I don't set out to look for them. I've even changed routes to avoid the dual carriageway shown, because I don't want the hassle. I believe that queues like that should never happen on a dual carriageway, so now I cut through a small village and come out at the bottom of that road. If there's traffic I get ahead, if not I fall back a few cars (I really don't mind). Ironically this is REALLY "queue jumping", but what they don't see doesn't hurt them.

I know that if I carried on down that road and found myself in the clear lane I wouldn't go against the HWC by swapping lanes, equally however i'd find it hard not to drive into the gap left by a right hand lane blocker (thus leaving him stranded) if I happened to be behind one (because undertaking is allowed if the right hand lane is not moving).

mikey72

Just to change the subject a bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Jo1X6Od8o&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

driver clipping the pavement.

The title

Drunk? Distracted? or just Stupid?

Strider's view, far better in his rear view mirror, so he passes him.

In all my years of driving, I've always wanted drivers like this in front of me, where I can see them, and where they can do what they want, and all I have to do is stop in time, and maybe get the ambulance, or the brush.
(Unless I can overtake someone else as well, then it's their car that works as the crash barrier)
Then if the "Drunk? Distracted? or just Stupid?" driver does decide that now is a time for a nap, it's not me in the front of him.

So what's the opinion, am I better of in front after all?