Biggest culprits - inconsiderate drivers?

Joe_Horner

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

U turns are illegal

Err, no they're not automatically illegal. If they were there'd be no need for this sign in places where they are prohibited:

Richard53

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

If you hailed a cab which was facing west but you needed to go east then what do you expect the driver to do fGs?

Do a U-turn, of course.


After checking it was safe to do so. That's the bit they often miss.

heartbreak_star

Today I learned that apparently a partial indicator pack is fitted to new Mercs.

They only work when you're turning, not changing lane.

HBS x

Edwood_Woodwood

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

U turns are illegal.

You left out another option on your poll.

Drivers who don't know the rules of the road, like you!

brat

Fortunately, as the thread suggests, the serious risk posed (risk of fatality or serious injury) is under average for the vast majority of drivers who are generally compliant and law abiding.

rainbowfairydust

need to bump this thread due to the sheer number of plum audi/BMW drivers i have encountered recently..:mad:

yesterday - 2 BMW drivers - one who was doing at least 50 in a 30 zone, on a roundabout at said speed. Overtook me.
Decided he wanted to "beat the lights" and started to overtake the 3 cars that were in front of me - in the opposite side of the road with a stream of cars approaching him - tried to run a red. Had to pull back in very suddenly because otherwise he would have been a dead man... NO QUESTION.

Audi drivers - lack of indication, lane hopping to try & again "beat the traffic", running red lights,nearly ploughing down cyclists and pedestrians at a crossing whilst the light was on red. Fortunately the pedestrian had spotted what was going on..

rubble2

There seem to be a few mentions of women driving New Mini's on here, I can add one of my own.

On a recent trip to the Lake District I was on a dual carriageway and spotted a woman in a mini about to join the road down an entry slip. I therefore moved over into the right hand lane to allow her to join, up ahead there was a lorry in the left hand lane so I stayed in the outside lane and expected her to filter in behind me. Next thing I see is her trying to undertake me still in the inside lane and rapidly approaching said lorry.

She was determined to get past on the inside so I lifted off a bit and she squeezed past the lorry with a couple of feet to spare. She seemed totally oblivious to the potential danger of the manoeuvre.

Strider590

rubble2 wrote: »

There seem to be a few mentions of women driving New Mini's on here, I can add one of my own.

It's not just new Mini's, it actually just in general. There are a certain "type" who if they drive something quicker than a bog standard 1.0 litre, they can get a REALLY big chip on their shoulder.

I recently went out in the kit car, came across a Corsa 1.4 SXI appraching a roundabout with a lorry a few cars lengths in front of it, across the roundabout the road merges to one lane after 200 meters. I went over the roundabout in lane 2, next to the slowly driven Corsa, on the other side I pull level to the back of the truck and prepared to merge, the woman in the Corsa now races up the inside to block me merging, sooooooo I drop to 2nd and floor it, the twin 40's take a deep breath, it pops a flame and I fly past the truck......... Had I been in the Vectra I would have just swung the the car over and forced her to back off.

60 seconds later, queue a whole load of dangerous driving from woman in Corsa who now HAS to catch me, she over takes the truck, overtakes two cars on double white lines and jumps a red light, ALL WITH HER YOUNG SON IN THE CAR!!!

The thing is, any bloke even a boy racer would have given up after seeing how quickly my car can shift, but there's a certain type of female driver who simply CANNOT give up, WILL NOT be beaten and WILL do everything they possibly can to "save face", even if they have no chance in hell.... And yes they often seem to drive a Mini or a Nissan Juke.

arcon5

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

This weekend i have visited a friend who lives in wells (around an hour from bristol) and i had to travel on the M1, M42 & M5 to get there.

During the 4.5 hour journey home , I decided to keep a mental tally of idiotic/dangerous/bully drivers and made a note of the cars they were driving.

When i was in the far lane (and i was doing 70mph -despite going at the max speed allowed - I STILL had drivers behind me up my backside /flashing or gesticulating for me to move into another lane.:mad:. Now i have to admit i am not sure what the "protocol" for this is - but towards the end of my journey it made me rather belligerent towards any driver who was rude and being a bully. It made me angry. I wasnt crawling at a snails pace. These owners just werent happy unless they were doing 90mph.

As I moved between lanes frequently (so i wasnt hogging anyone particular lane for too long ) guess who the biggest culprits were - YEP Audi, BMW & POLO's - .. (although there in the interest of fairness i also noted a couple of daewoo's & and a few ford focus owners to be guilty parties also.

So basically you was coasting in lane 3 at 70mph.

So you don't know how to keep to the left hand lane unless passing vehicles. As well as not knowing the laws when it comes to U turns. Not exactly selling yourself here as a driver.

Iceweasel

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

This weekend i have visited a friend who lives in wells (around an hour from bristol) and i had to travel on the M1, M42 & M5 to get there.

During the 4.5 hour journey home , I decided to keep a mental tally of idiotic/dangerous/bully drivers and made a note of the cars they were driving.

When i was in the far lane (and i was doing 70mph -despite going at the max speed allowed - I STILL had drivers behind me up my backside /flashing or gesticulating for me to move into another lane.:mad:. Now i have to admit i am not sure what the "protocol" for this is - but towards the end of my journey it made me rather belligerent towards any driver who was rude and being a bully. It made me angry. I wasnt crawling at a snails pace. These owners just werent happy unless they were doing 90mph.

As I moved between lanes frequently (so i wasnt hogging anyone particular lane for too long ) guess who the biggest culprits were - YEP Audi, BMW & POLO's - .. (although there in the interest of fairness i also noted a couple of daewoo's & and a few ford focus owners to be guilty parties also.

If you have people behind you wanting you to move left so they can pass it's not up to you to teach them a lesson by holding them up in their desire to break the law.

But - they may not have been intending to exceed the speed limit at all - you may not have been doing 70mph.

How do you know that you were doing 70mph and not around 66 or so which seems to be the favourite speed of the 3rd lane hoggers I seem to come up behind.

Calibrated speedo? Checked your speed with a sat-nav? Either way it doesn't matter - you were a rolling road-block.

You'll be wanting the power to issue fines next.

All you are doing is making people angry and frustrated - and that leads to people doing yet more crazy and illegal things - like overtaking on the left.