Most hated driving behaviour of other motorists?

pinkfluffybabe

Dont even get me started on people using phones while driving! :mad:

andy88_2

The most unforgivable case of 2 lorries alongside each other is when they're from the same firm, probably going to the same place. I was stuck like this in Germany for at least 15 minutes one night. The car in front was straddling the lanes, flashing his lights occasionally. Some of those old autobahns don't have a hard shoulder all the way. Eventually I used it on a newer part, to put up with mainbeam lights until out of sight. I turned off, stopped for a short time, and rejoined a different motorway. They were still alongside each other nearly 2 hours later, but now with 3 lanes.

Queenie

Daytona_nev wrote:

You should have said " No Dear, he's a f"£&^g &)sehole.....*




* = joke

ROFL



For me it's those !!!!!! who use the left hand lane on a main roundabout to take the RIGHT exit.

Oh and mini roundabouts - why do people who are going ahead, use their right indicator? When I used my right indicator on a mini roundabout in my little brum brum, the bus driver in his double decker got the shock of his LIFE when I actually *did* turn right (he'd assumed I was going straight on and had to slam his breaks rapidly to stop from turning me into a tin of sardines!)


In all of my experience, the classic came when I was travelling home and I approach a major roundabout. I need to go straight across, not left, not right but straaaaiiiiigggggghhhhhhttttt ahead.
As I get half way across, a lorry driver pulls out from the left, then see's me (I'm breaking too as I'd just had my hair permed and didn't want decapitating after that expense!) and shouts: "USE YOUR INDICATORS, you stupid effing woman!" :eek:
He didn't hang around long enough to explain to me *where* the "going forward" indicators were
I have wondered since if perhaps that is the purpose of hazard warning lights:- both indicators flashing means you are going straight ahead at a roundabout!

IvanOpinion

As per others, pratts on their mobile phones as they weave all over the road and cut corners. I think the fine should be changed to at least £400 after all these people are gambling with other peoples lives.

An how about the same pratts on their mobile phones while filling their car with petrol. Maybe they should lose their license they are obviously to stupid to read road signs (because they obviously can not read the 'no mobile phones' sign on the pump).

Ivan

Daytona_nev

You're still supposed to indicate when you're going straight ahead. !!!!!!!!!

Its called using the left indicator immediately after the exit before the one you are about to take. i.e. letting people know you are about to leave the roundabout at the next exit. There are no circumstances on a major roundabout where you don't need to use any indicators.

Queenie

Daytona_nev wrote:

You're still supposed to indicate when you're going straight ahead. !!!!!!!!!

Its called using the left indicator immediately after the exit before the one you are about to take. i.e. letting people know you are about to leave the roundabout at the next exit. There are no circumstances on a major roundabout where you don't need to use any indicators.

but I hadn't finished passing that bit to have any time to indicate

WHA

My pet hate is when people are trying to be helpful, but at the wrong place and wrong time.

For example, if I am turning left onto a main road and there is a steady stream of traffic from right to left, why is it always the last car in the stream that lets you out - completely pointless - you could have turned quite easily after it - clearly he didn't use his mirror to see there was no-one behind.

Then, when turning right onto a main road, you find that a driver in a stream of traffic (either direction) will stop and wave you across despite there also being a stream of traffic going in the opposite direction - so you can't pull out unless you are going to push in - gets everyone annoyed, not least the queue behind the "considerate" driver. Then he carries on anyway, leaving a slow moving queue behind him, making it more difficult to pull out when the other direction clears!

Then you get drivers who wave you on/across, holding other cars back behind them, when you can't move forward anyway (i.e. road ahead blocked or side road blocked) - the other driver may not know that but then gets annoyed (not to mention the cars behind), when you stay put.

In my opinion, the proliferation of roundabouts, traffic lights, humps, etc has made driving far harder - we now tend to get constant streams of relatively slow moving traffic, making it harder to cross or turn into, than we used to. When cars were "free-er" they tended to go a bit faster, but there were more "gaps" between, making it safer to cross or join.

gk172

I live in east kilbride which is polo mint city all roundabouts and very few traffic lights which on the whole is good and trafiic keeps moving but i gotta agree i think some makes of cars are just not fitted with indicators especially bmw owners and big saabs you know the type big powerfull cars - it must be an oversight when manufactured:mad: also i find the owners of those mentioned cars were also born without manners, up at the retail park i dont know how many times ive had to slam the brakes on cause some muppet has pulled out without even looking so maybe they are illiterate and can read 'give way' signs. I dont venture onto motorways anymore, ive had a few occasions where in my old escort (only 1.3) i tried entering motorway and no one let me in and it paniced me somewhat so now i dont put myself in that possition even though now i have a nice new 1.8 mondeo which truely can shift. But the best bit is the looks of the drivers when im overtake some crawler when i go flying by them only for them to not happy at a female driver overtaking them and find them trying to get by me.;)

aeuerby

People who sit and dawdle in the right hand lane because they are turning right 3 miles down the road. There is a duel carriage way in Doncaster that my husband always has to undertake on because of such people.

BMW drivers that have lost their indicators and nearly take your bumper with them when they pull in in front of you.

People who drive with fog lights on when there is no sign of fog - infact it's a perfectly clear sunny day.

People on the phone/picking their nose/ears. I was doing a road safety thing last year with my daughter's school. A driver went past on the phone and picking his other ear at the same time. Yuck!!

Pensioners doing 20mph in a 40/50mph zone.

Funeral processions holding up traffic resulting in a 2 mile tailback. When I go I want to be rushed there not dawdled!!

Angela.

one-non-blonde

WHA wrote:

My pet hate is when people are trying to be helpful, but at the wrong place and wrong time.

• I also hate it when someone ignores the normal rules of the road to try and help out as half the time I don't think it's safe or they've misinterpreted what I'm trying to do, leaving everybody frustrated.
• What about the old men who think that cos you're a woman you can't reverse. This either happens in car parks or outside my own house when a passing do-gooder will try and guide me in or out by waving their arms around and shouting in a wildly over-exaggerated way, stopping all nearby traffic and generally being extremely patronising. The embarrassment this causes generally results in me failing dismally at the manoeuvre I was attempting, meaning the aforementioned 'samaritan' strolls smugly off thinking he's done me a huge favour and is now even more determined to assist next time he meets a 'damsel in distress'.
• Also, near me there is a single carriageway with extremely wide lanes which a lot of people try and treat as a dual carriageway, throwing away all normal overtaking sense and disregarding that oncoming vehicles are also trying to drive 2 abreast. I stubbornly sit in the middle of the lane and refuse to pull over to allow cars to pass... he he he.
• People that stop in the right hand lane at roundabouts or traffic lights when the left hand lane is clear and they're going straight on. It's a superiority complex thing.
• Slow drivers that pull over and sit in the overtaking lane without increasing their speed on a dual carriageway because they'll be turning right 4 miles down the road...
• As already mentioned drivers that don't move over (when there's room) to allow other vehicles to join the motorway at anywhere near the speed of traffic flow. Having to do a standing start on a motorway is so-o-o-o-o dangerous. Added to that are drivers who don't accelerate enough on on-ramps so you're hitting 70mph traffic at 30mph.:eek:
• Drivers (usually of white vans) who undertake without giving the driver in front time to move over or complete their manoeuvre.
• Think the one that angers me most though is if I'm sitting in a loooong line of moving traffic (say stuck behind a tractor or caravan on a country road) and someone zooms up from behind and overtakes when there's nowhere for them to go and not enough time to pass everyone at once... I'M NOT SITTING HERE FOR THE GOOD OF MY HEALTH YOU KNOW!!! (Bet these are the same people who jump queues in shops, etc.) Bad of me but I always close the gap in front of me and refuse to let them pull in.