slow drivers

Mrs_Arcanum

colino wrote: »

Well done all you drivers filling the gaps in our Police Force by enforcing your own rolling road blocks. If you had actually developed your driving skills since fluking your drivng test you would know that one of the tenets of good driving is ensuring you do not cause any other road user to accelerate. That is, change direction or speed because of your actions.
There are far too many people thinking we are still in the 50's and happy to meander down single carriage roads in their euroboxes blissfully unaware of the conga line of people behind them.

There are still drivers out there who have legally never taken a driving test.

I can give prime example of an elderly petrified driver who may well drive at a reasonable speed during daylight, and has probably never had to pass a test: -
At 8 pm ish on a straight but undulating 50 mph road with double & single solid white lines throughout, I was stuck behind an elderly driver (trilby hat and all) who never went above 25 and slowed down every time an oncoming vehicle approached. Eventually he turned off slowing to 5 mph and not indicating until he was actually turning. A huge convoy built up behind him even at that time of night.

Also have a friend who drives at 40 everywhere. :mad: (now has 9 speeding points).

McCoy

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

There are still drivers out there who have legally never taken a driving test.

Still, since people would have had to have been born in 1917 to have missed the introduction of a driving test, I'd venture that the number of people like the man you mention is negligible.

SailorSam

It's not quite true about the 1917 thing for driving without a licence. I've a relative younger than me that's driven for over 30yrs and never been near a test centre.
She's been told but shrugs her shoulders.

McCoy

Well perhaps more correctly drive legally without a licence then.

steve-L

Why all the rush?
Life is for enjoying.

This is just the sort of thing self centred people who can't be bothered to consider other people use to justify their actions.
(I'm not saying that's you.... )
but you don't know WHY someone is not taking life leisurely....

I drive home from work and if I leave on time and if I drive at the speed limit and IF I don't get stuck behind someone doing 30 in a 50 zone for miles I get to put my little boy to bed.

My brother drives to my fathers care home after work.... again, if he drives within limits etc. he can make my fathers day.... see his care-workers before the day shift change to the evening one....

others might simply prefer their kid is not standing outside school waiting to be picked up.... have to give medication to an elderly relative .... or many many things....

People who drive slowly and hold up traffic and don't bother to let other cars past are just as selfish as people who decide to jump under a train to end it.

You can't realistically be continually pulling in to let these supposed queues behind you past, nor should you as long as you're driving within the law.

If you are NOT PAYING attention you ARE NOT WITHIN THE LAW.
You are driving without due care and attention.

If Im at the speed I feel is safe and appropriate (and a good dollop of experience) Then I'm not going faster for anyone theres no need to pull over for some loon

Then you are just as dangerous as that 'loon'.

shaun_from_Africa

McCoy wrote: »

Still, since people would have had to have been born in 1917 to have missed the introduction of a driving test, I'd venture that the number of people like the man you mention is negligible.

The number of people born in the UK before 1917 may be negligible, but the number of people driving in the UK without ever having taken a test here certainly isn't.

Just about any visitor or UK resident to the UK can drive on their foreign issued licence for 12 months before needing to take a test.

There are also many countries whose licences eneable you to drive in the UK for a year, after which time you can exchange it for a full UK licence without needing to take a test.

custardy

steve-L wrote: »

Then you are just as dangerous as that 'loon'.

yes driving relative to the road & conditions
utter madness

steve-L wrote: »

This is just the sort of thing self centred people who can't be bothered to consider other people use to justify their actions.
(I'm not saying that's you.... )
but you don't know WHY someone is not taking life leisurely....

I drive home from work and if I leave on time and if I drive at the speed limit and IF I don't get stuck behind someone doing 30 in a 50 zone for miles I get to put my little boy to bed.

My brother drives to my fathers care home after work.... again, if he drives within limits etc. he can make my fathers day.... see his care-workers before the day shift change to the evening one....

others might simply prefer their kid is not standing outside school waiting to be picked up.... have to give medication to an elderly relative .... or many many things....

People who drive slowly and hold up traffic and don't bother to let other cars past are just as selfish as people who decide to jump under a train to end it.

would you want people driving past too fast?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-21211874

I bet this driver wasn't speeding. too fast fro the road though
I know it well and cars regularly drive down there without preparation for the crossing

steve-L

splishsplash wrote: »

I agree that there are many people who should probably not be driving on the roads. I think particularly, in isolated rural areas, where public transport is not available, being able to drive your car from A to B could be your only means of social contact. I think most people would be very slow to remove that lifeline from someone, and I would be in agreement wholeheartedly with people driving if at all possible.

I read recently about Kerry County Council (ROI) seeking 'Drink Drive Permits' for certain people. I think it's hilarious, but I have to say, I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the idea...

Yep, its not simple.....

We as family wanted the Dr. to take away his license.... the Dr. realised once he did he would have no life.

He only used to drive 2-3 miles, either to the golf club, pharmacy or Dr's.... but he was a real danger to others as well as himself.

Certainly as much or more than someone who can barely stand after a skinful. We are talking about someone so ill they can't feed themselves and who lost consciousness once or twice every hour for anything from a second to a minute. However (with the medication) he was also impossible to dissuade, he was deeply paranoid and would accuse me or my brother of trying to do things from killing him to stealing his savings... he was convinced people came into his house at night.... (could not differentiate reality from day dreams).... and yet the Dr. let him keep the license.

No question losing his license was the end for him, he went downhill very quickly after not getting the stimulation and motivation....
HOWEVER ... he managed not to kill someone (as much I believe just through luck) but it could easily have been the other way about.

steve-L

custardy wrote: »

yes driving relative to the road & conditions
utter madness

Road and condition of the road are rarely a reason for an accident.

Far more common are other conditions such as a kid running into the road, an idiot who's car could go round a corner at 90 going into it at 50 and then pressing the brake...when he could have driven round it at 50 and instead understeers and hits a tree

Your idea of driving relative to the road and conditions might be different to the Ambulance you are fusing to pull over and let past.

martinthebandit

SailorSam wrote: »

My God is this thread still going, a bad tempted driver comes on to have a vent just because someone driving in front of him wouldn't be bullied into putting his foot down, and here we are 175 posts later and he's still complaining that he was the innocent party.

Tempted? I assume you mean temper?

Please show me where I have displayed bad temper? In fact if you review the posts on this thread the majority, if not all the bad temper has been displayed by those who are portraying the opposite point of view to my own.

It seems that some people are discourteous in all aspects of there life.......

Oh well, chin up, jog on as my old Sargent used to say