Most hated driving behaviour of other motorists?

pinkfluffybabe

• People who wont let you in at the on ramp of the motorway when it is busy
• People who drive too close to you at 70/80 in the fast lane on a 50mph in the wet
• People who dont adjust their driving in bad conditions and scare you by looking like they are going to wind up in your backseat
• White van men
• Big trucks who decide to overtake each other, cant get up to speed and block both lanes with their slowness
• People who go though red lights behind you
• People in Volvo's for their generally bad driving (Controversial I know)

Gaz_Hammer

Middle lane road hoggers

The Police call them CLODS (centre lane only drivers)! My opinion is that they must be frightened of falling off the edge!

The other day I was driving behind someone (won't say if Male or Female for fear of repercussions - LOL!) who failed to notify anyone of which direction they wanted to go. I pulled up alongside and called out that they needed to get their car to a garage for repair as their indicators didn't seem to be functioning! All I got in return was a completely puzzled look

It made me laugh!
Gaz

wolvesinwales

It's the law in Wales that cars have to have their indicators removed when imported. I can often be seen shouting ' oh you're going that way are you ???

I am also an undertaker on motorways, as to it being illegal i'm sure in the highway code one of the reasons for undertaking is when there is slow moving traffic on the outside lane

Bargainbabe_2

Young lads (in their 1.2 Novas, with a neon blue light glowing underneath, bass thundering out of a sound system that actually costs 4x more than the car) trying to race you at the lights. I just love blowing them away.....

apintofstella

Driving home in the dark down A or B class roads (and occasionally motorways) and meeting other folk with their lights on FULL who forget to turn them off. ARGH ban them say I they don't do anyone any good anyway... If you can't see where you're going slow down!

also agreed on most others and especially hate these
- Big trucks who decide to overtake each other etc.
- ALL White van men
- MOST BMW/Merc drivers but especially those who pull out in front of you practically at point-blank range, obviously pretending we wee-car-drivers don't exist
- Big trucks who overtake you in the snow when there is no 'road' showing and cover you in snow before cutting right back in... (that's a fairly recent addition )
- people who park within 1m of junctions you're trying to turn out of and can't see a thing.


[On reading this I now know why my horn has needed replacing!]

MarkyMarkD

apintofstella wrote:

Driving home in the dark down A or B class roads (and occasionally motorways) and meeting other folk with their lights on FULL who forget to turn them off. ARGH ban them say I they don't do anyone any good anyway... If you can't see where you're going slow down!

Conversely, those who crawl along country/A/B roads in the dark at 30 mph with their main beam permanently OFF so the person behind (me) can't see whether it's safe to overtake or even where the s***ding road goes!

Ditto to all the other posts re under-taking on motorways. Anyone who middle lane hogs should be shot!

Gaz_Hammer

Anyone who middle lane hogs should be shot!

Totally agree as that should reduce the amount of cars on the road by at least 50% if not more.


Gaz

Paul_Varjak

Daytona_nev wrote:

Dunno if its just me, but i've noticed in the past few months a huge increase in the number of people who either don't bother to indicate, or use it as an afterthought, as if its part of the manouvre itself.

I think the problem is that the acronym for MIRROR SIGNAL MANOUEVRE (MSM) is a palindrome! Read it backwards and the spelling of the acronym is the same but its meaning changes to: MANOUEVRE SIGNAL MIRROR!

Wouldn't have thought of that if I hadn't taken my Omega 3 today!

lady_noluck

Another thing that annoys me is when I'm driving 30mph in a 30mph zone and I have some tit up my a**e. I am not getting a speeding ticket just because he's impatient.
So just to ensure I really annoy him I wait till I get to a point where he can't overtake then slow down to about 15 mph. If he wants to ride up my butt then he can for a looooooooong time. Then I let him overtake and ride up his butt!
I know it's childish but I don't do it if anyone's behind him. Mmm maybe I need to source some anger management courses.......

SnowyOwl_2

Can't stand tractors on A class roads, especially when the A class road is one of the busiest and scene of the most fatalities in N.Ireland. Eg tractor chugs along causing chaos as the queue behind has to slow from 60 mph to 25 mph and it gets longer and longer and people try to over take when its really inadvisable but they are so frustrated. Next thing you know he wants to do a right turn, so off he goes at 25 mph into the outside lane, then stops to wait for a long enough break in the oncoming traffic for him to get across. It is so dangerous.

Also can't stand it when I see lorry drivers and bus drivers on their mobile phones trying to negotiate a roundabout, or change in gear...it really makes me cross.

Indicators in N.Ireland are also outlawed, especially if you are a pensioner or a teenager, or if you're smoking a cigarette, on your phone, have a toddler in the car, in a hurry, not in a hurry, going round a roundabout or in a busy supermarket car park. Maybe it's just me who isn't telepathic?