Most hated driving behaviour of other motorists?

bazzaang

Drivers like that should be strapped to the front bumper and driven through the gravel pit

wolvesinwales

https://www.middlelanemorons.com

MarkyMarkD

one-non-blonde wrote:

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.

Yes, BUT there's a similar road near me, with AMPLE space to overtake in the centre of the road (which is 3 lanes wide at least). About one in five times I overtake here, some MORON driving the other way suddenly decides to drive in the middle of the road (i.e. in MY part of the road), normally using main beam and horn! What IS their problem?

MarkyMarkD

Chocoholic wrote:

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: .

Yes, BUT there's a roundabout near me where the main road takes a ninety degree right turn - the roundabout only has 3 exits (or one entrance and two exits) and you SHOULD go right in both lanes as it's a dual carriageway exit. But numpties turn right in the RIGHT lane, and then pull into the LEFT lane on the dual carriageway immediately, colliding with people who have CORRECTLY gone round in the left lane.

IvanOpinion

I always remember a senior policeman telling me that 'if you approach a roundabout correctly then there should be no need for indicators, but you should use them because there is always some pratt that does not know how to use a roundabout'. Since then I believe that the highway code has been modified to replace some 'shoulds' with 'musts'.

The highway code is very clear about how roundabouts should be negotiated and if you are in any doubt then you should re-read it.

Ivan

IvanOpinion

What is it about people who drive German cars - there must be some of that Bavarian arrogance built into the motor...guess who got cut off by some bimbo this morning while on her mobile phone ... registration taken and passed to police. :mad:

BMW - Bimbo Motor Wagon ... for Bimbos and has-been executives that usually own a bimbo or two.

Ivan

aeuerby

So there we were this morning on our way to Asda. At a small roundabout there were 2 cars in fromt of us. The first was going left but was straddled over both lanes, pulled out no indicators and wobbled in the vague direction they wanted to be in.

The second car was in the right hand lane so we pulled upto the left hand lane (no indicators at this point as we are going straight across!!) I said "I bet this woman will be going straight across"

Sure enough as we set off and are slightly ahead this women then starts waving hands and arms because she feels we have cut her up. Even though she is in the wrong lane and not indicating.

It's people like her that give women drivers a bad name!!!!!!!!!!

WHA

From my days as a police/advanced driver, if you were going straight ahead at a roundabout, you could use either lane. The left lane being for turn offs upto 12 o'clock and the right lane being for turnoffs after 12 o'clock. I don't think it has changed.

eels_2

Bargainbabe wrote:

Middle lane road hoggers I F($*)($&% hate it. Makes me really really angry and it makes me break the law and undercut to prove a point. I ain't no perfect driver, but i do know that (1) the rule of the road is keep to the left and (2) there is no such thing as a "fast lane" or a "slow lane" on the motorway!

Be careful of antagonising other drivers whose style you disagree with. My Hubby hates middle-lane hogs & racy boys. We joined the M4 at J8/9 the other Saturday morning and as we went onto the slip road in the left hand lane another driver came round us very fast and was abviously going to undertake the guy in the right hand lane so Hubby dearest speeded up to block him. Said driver (silver VW estate) went past us with accompanying hand signals that seemed to indicate hubby was a merchant banker or such-like.
When on the M4 he sat in the left lane doing 60. We sat behind him. When we wouldn't go past he pulled onto the hard shoulder & then pulled in behind us. He either sat behind us in the left lane or just off our rear bumper or right next to us in the middle lane. At one point he pulled off the motorway, went round a roundabout and re-joined behind us. We sussed that he was following us and was waiting for us to come off the motorway where we would then have to stop at a junction.
By this time I was very scared as I found this to be threatening. To cut a long story short instead of coming off the M4 at J6 we ended up on the M25 & came home on the M40 & I hardly spoke to hubby for the rest of the weekend!
Luckily, because he gave up, we will never know whether he wanted a word, to swing a baseball bat or to pull a knife.
Please remember for evryone's sake that 2 wrongs don't make a right & that bad drivers may also be bad people.

boofy_2

Why is it all road sense goes out of the window in car parks? Hardly no-one indicates when they turn into a space. They just pull out of junctions in the car park while looking the other way.

Also, when you allow other people to go first on a road - THERE'S NO THANK YOU!!! There's also no thank you when you are waiting for someone to reverse out of a space!

To be continued .........