Puddle splashing cars!

Gilbert2

bob_bobson wrote: »

Gilbert2 - no doubt you are a poor driver - one of the sniggering ignorant

Not at all, the point of this thread is that somebody was out walking in a country lane full of pot holes in torrential rain and moans about getting a splash.

How ridiculous.

Gilbert2

preable wrote: »

The woman was rude thats the issue

No, it sounds more like the driver of the car was so aghast because a pedestrian moans about getting wet in, errrm, the rain, that they laughed it off as being so ridiculous for words!

If I constantly ate cream cakes I'd be fat, why would I blame ASDA for selling them to me?

It's a similar thing, some people will just blame everybody else for everything.

Gilbert2

custardy wrote: »

try dealing with them on two wheels

Absolutely agree.

Gilbert2

*gem* wrote: »

The pot hole is on their property from what I can see but it is also a bridleway and I will ring the local council tomorrow to see if they can help. There's only two potholes on the fairly long lane and if you had bothered reading my posts, it was totally avoidable as the lane is nearly twice the width of her car and it is only used regulary by the two cars the family owns. Btw the pot hole is dry now! It not a waterlogged, muddy place either.

I did read your posts, which is why I pointed out that you were not the driver of the vehicle so you could not possibly know if it was safe for the vehicle to avoid the pot hole or not.

You just say it was possible, yet you were not the driver. Pedestrians don't always see what a driver is concentrating on or what a driver has to anticipate.

We only have your side of the story and I cast doubt on it simply because you were not driving the vehicle.

*gem*

Gilbert2 wrote: »

Not at all, the point of this thread is that somebody was out walking in a country lane full of pot holes in torrential rain and moans about getting a splash.

How ridiculous.

Excuse me...Were you there?

A country lane full of pot holes! No it has two and the driver decided to go straight through the one near me!

Torrential rain! Wrong again, it wasn't raining and hadn't for 24 hrs!

My point was proven when her husband came down while she and her teenage daughter were ranting at me and managed to go round it with plenty of space! Oh, and it wasn't a splash...I was soaked with mud which has ruined my coat and boots!

Btw, I don't need to be the driver to see what she was seeing and she could of at least said sorry! Manners don't cost anything! Thanks for that though!

Gilbert2

*gem* wrote: »

Btw, I don't need to be the driver to see what she was seeing and she could of at least said sorry! Manners don't cost anything! Thanks for that though!

Look, I'm sorry.

Maybe go around to this ladies house and have a chat with her then?

If she did cover you in mud on purpose then that is a horrid thing to do. But let her have her say and take it from there.

I hope everything is sorted out.

bob_bobson

"Look, I'm sorry."

No you aren't. You clearly believe that pedestrians are an inconvenience and should be ignored.

bob_bobson

I regularly drive the same routes daily, I know where puddles form in heavy rain, as do lots of other drivers.

There is one in particular that always form right by a bus stop.

Not only do drivers know this notorious place, but so do the bus users, which is why they stand away from it in heavy rain to not get soaked because drivers cannot avoid it, it is simply down to the design of the road.

There is a difference between splashing pedestrians on purpose and unavoidably splashing pedestrians.

So because you know where the puddles are you can slow down sufficiently to avoid splashing them, yet you choose not to. The design of the road is a very poor excuse.

fannyadams

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2044466_driver_guilty_of_road_rage_splash_assault
and
While the law does not specifically state that splashing pedestrians is illegal, many vehicles have been prosecuted for such behaviour under the Road Traffic Act 1988, which states it is an offence to perform a clear act of incompetence, selfishness, impatience or aggressiveness which causes inconvenience to other road users.

but don't get me started on the MUD - which is also a prosecutable offence but none of the PLOD round here G.A.F.

1940sGal

*gem* wrote: »

It is serious! I don't expect to go out and come home drenched in mud. Sorry. Does it rain mud where you are then?

It was completely avoidable on a wide country lane with no other traffic and to have her laughing at me when I showed her the state I was in says to me she did it on purpose.

If it were me I'd be filling a couple of buckets full of muddy water and be giving her windows the same treatment. But that's just me.