Most hated driving behaviour of other motorists?

leftieM

Pet hates are:
- People parking in urban clearways
- Baby on Board stickers (like I was going to drive into the back of them if I hadn't seen that!?)
- Stupidly huge 4x4s (Why? to make sure that, when they run over a prole they finish them off properly? To make sure the world runs out of oil quicker? To crush cyclists against lampposts?)
- Drunks driving at 20 mph and weaving all over the place (better than driving at 40mph I suppose)
After years of research, I have concluded that if we took all BMW and Golf drivers off the roads and anyone who turned up for their driving test with a souped-up car was immediately turned away, the world would be a safer place.
That is purely a scientific viewpoint and not merely my opinion. Honest!

SidB_2

gk172 wrote:

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

These are the drivers that drive me wild. If you're a driver who panics in an awkward situation don't drive. Even a 1.3 can go at 70 mph.

Turnip

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.

Are you sure? That's the question i got wrong in my theory test a few years back... I put indicate right then left, the answer they had was don't indicate!

My worst - drivers sat at a junction, indicating and poised to turn... except they don't turn, even in the biggest of gaps. Take a closer look, they're on the phone!!! I had to pull out from the right hand lane once, the driver on the phone gave me a funny look like I was doing something wrong

aeuerby

Turnip wrote:

Are you sure? That's the question i got wrong in my theory test a few years back... I put indicate right then left, the answer they had was don't indicate!

No it's definately don't indicate until you have just passed the exit you don't want and then indicate left. Must always indicate on a roundabout You certainly don't indicate right then left, that's even more confusing!!!!!

Angela.

Chocoholic

*Impatient drivers who overtake just to get one car in front! They have to stop at the lights just like I do lol .

*Not indicating when turning into a side road, almost flattening me as a pedestrian - then making rude gestures when I frowned and muttered "You weren't indicating!"

*Wrong use of indicators (when they bother to use them) on roundabouts and using the left lane to come off at the third exit (after 12 'o clock position so in effect turning right). I was taught to exit a roundabout in the left lane but it's impossible with twits who go right around in the left lane level with me :mad: .

*Using mobile phone when driving :mad:

*Drivers who speed in 30 or 40 mph limit areas

*Drivers of white vans and some other colours too but nearly always white vans (I think they went to a different driving school to the rest of us!).



Ahhh, that feels better .

BTW everyone, please have patience with some of us who I drive a 1ltr, it can do 85-95 on the motorway but takes time to build up speed especially if going uphill. Have my foot to the floor sometimes but it's not enough for some people (particularly BMW drivers!). Cheers


Choc

WHA

By pure co-incidence, just experienced another case of a complete pillock on the road this lunchtime. I was turning right onto a main road at a fairly nasty blind junction, few cars about, waiting for a "people shifter" type of car to pass from right to left. It slowed down, no indication, I thought it was going to turn into my road - then, still no indication, it stopped in the middle of its lane. Nothing from its driver. Because it was relatively large, I couldn't see past/behind it, so I had to edge out just in case something was over-taking it - luckily the cars behind it were waiting in line and I turned OK - giving the driver a long toot and an angry look as I passed. When I passed it I could see it had a huge array of flashing lights at the back - it turned out to be some form of unmarked police car - heaven knows what it was doing, but it would have been professional for a police driver to actually give me a clue as to what he was doing, and then perhaps not actually block my view at quite a nasty blind junction - he was clearly concentrating more on the traffic behind him and flashing his lights at them, to completely miss the problems he was causing in front - if this had been the "old fashioned" type of police car with lights on its roof, it would have alerted me to what it was. Afterwards, I thought I had perhaps been a bit too keen on the horn and the "look", but then again, even if he was a police driver, he was still driving badly!

I had another problem with a policeman the other day. Due to an accident, our main road was closed for a few hours. As normal, complete chaos around side roads. As I knew my house was a good few hundred yards before the accident scene, I drove around the cones at the junction and drove down the "closed" road - I had done this a few times before as there is literally no other access to our house - normally there is a PC at the junction who lets us through, but not this time. Further down the road, say a mile, a PC is parked across the road in his car - windows up, cosy! I stop and walk towards his window - window opens and I receive a tirade of abuse for going past the cones - before he bothers to ask why and where I am going. I calmly explain and he "grunts" that the road is closed - I ask how I am going to get home - he "grunts" again that I have to park my car on the road and walk - not too easy with a pram and a couple of toddlers who can't walk that far, but I do as he says and struggle down the road. I reach home eventually after carrying them both and pushing a pram - accident is still a good mile or so away. Road still closed for another couple of hours and then re-opens - I walk back to the car, leaving the kids with a neighbour - there's a sodding parking ticket on it, and several others, just a few minutes after the road was re-opened - not even council wardens - ticket issued by a PC - probably the one who told me to park there in the first place. I'm not paying and am looking forward to my day in court! Sometimes I really wonder where we are going with the way the police are now.

juno

Chocoholic wrote:

*Not indicating when turning into a side road, almost flattening me as a pedestrian - then making rude gestures when I frowned and muttered "You weren't indicating!"

If you're already crossing the road then you have right of way if they turn into the side road.

loobs40

Middle lane drivers on motorways Aaaarrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I do a lot of motorway driving and they literally drive me to distraction. It doesn't matter what I do: undertake, flash lights, dirty looks, they sit there hands firmly clamped on steering wheel looking straight ahead.

recently I noticed that the electronic motorway signs were showing a message along the lines of 'Don't hog the middle lane' and still these morons were ignoring it.

shrek101

Drivers who and use there mobile phones whilst driving, I notice many of these drivers are young woman (I aint against woman drivers) I just observe peoples behaviour when driving.

Speed merchants who couldn't careless about the speed. Even on streets that are 30 mph it can be dangerous particularly when there's a lot of parked cars about.

Some drivers who wont slow down (as above) when a pedestrian crosses the road, as said they have right of way but some drivers think otherwise.

Drivers who wont stop at pelican crossings when on red, when they have plenty of time to, or try and rush people along.

Nile

One of my favourites are lane closures on motorways.

We all get plenty of notice that a lane is closed up ahead but there's always plenty of drivers who leave it until the cones have almost closed their lane off before they try to force their way into the next lane.........while the rest of us have been slowing down and queuing patiently.

This happened to me once when I wasn't in my own car and didn't worry quite so much about being carved up. The idiot on my right thought I'd back down and let him force his way in......but I didn't and the truck behind me didn't either. It was excellent watching in my rear view mirror as he parked up and waited for a gap to appear in the traffic.