Your bad driving encounters

lordrobs said:
I genuinely think I'd get less tailgating if I was to be sitting up the chuff of the car in front but because there is a couple of second gap I think it doesn't register that I'm actually travelling as fast as I can and would be going quicker if the road was clear.
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lots of tailgating in the NSL 3m section to our village - different priorities or poor memories of the road ? which has a couple of nice bends where heavy vehicles will brake,
but, people don't hold off behind them though to allow them to enjoy the bends, and just crowd in bunches, too close, all braking.
 
lordrobs said:
Motorway / dual carriageway driving is getting worse in the UK.
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The number of people slamming on the brakes for no reason causing a ripple effect is getting silly, and you know they are braking for no reason most of the time but can't ignore it just in case there is something you've missed.

What should have been an hour up the M5 a few days ago took about half an hour longer due to people's bad driving causing completely avoidable delays.
 
Infidelus said:
That's because everyone drives far too close to the car in front instead of using the two second rule.
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That is often part of it - a common one is where a broken down car is sitting on the hard shoulder and for some reason some people slow down unnecessarily causing those too close to other cars to brake causing a ripple effect that turns into it taking 15 minutes to do what should be 2 minutes of road.

With the added fun in one case just before a junction of a Range Rover in the outside lane diving to the hard shoulder and driving along it at speed with their hazards on in what I assume was an attempt to take the junction nearly crashing into the broken down car and then being blocked by those in lane 1 when they tried to bully their way out.
 
Infidelus said:
That's because everyone drives far too close to the car in front instead of using the two second rule.
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Yes and no. While they do drive to close, I've noticed people's reaction times are shocking. I've seen glaciers move quicker :p . This is painfully obvious on roundabouts, where I'm on the and somebody has had an age to pull on, but decides to do so just as I'm almost at their turn resulting in me having to slam on
 
The rage that some people take behind the wheel with them as well is incredible. I went shopping last night and on the way back there were some roadworks on the A47. If these had planned to continue into the day I'm sure they'd have had another setup but basically lane 1 had been coned off and the slip road now approached lane 2 via a narrow route layed out with cones at an incredibly sharp angle which made merging tricky.

I was in the MX5 so helpfully had an uninterrupted view looking over my shoulder. The 1 series a little way in front committed to the merge but there was an MG SUV coming at speed. It wasn't anywhere near being a close call but the MG had to slow down to about 50. Cue tailgating, light flashing, beeping etc. for the next two miles.

As soon as lane 1 opened the BMW pulled over and accelerated from 55 ish to about 70. The MG obviously had to make a point and overtook the BMW then weaved straight in front in a non existent gap, brake lights strobing as the car was thinking it was some kind of emergency stop to then take the exit slip. Honestly if it wasn't for ESP and ABS that MG would have been facing in the wrong direction.

All because they had to slow down a touch. Crazy.
 
lordrobs said:
The rage that some people take behind the wheel with them as well is incredible. I went shopping last night and on the way back there were some roadworks on the A47. If these had planned to continue into the day I'm sure they'd have had another setup but basically lane 1 had been coned off and the slip road now approached lane 2 via a narrow route layed out with cones at an incredibly sharp angle which made merging tricky.

I was in the MX5 so helpfully had an uninterrupted view looking over my shoulder. The 1 series a little way in front committed to the merge but there was an MG SUV coming at speed. It wasn't anywhere near being a close call but the MG had to slow down to about 50. Cue tailgating, light flashing, beeping etc. for the next two miles.

As soon as lane 1 opened the BMW pulled over and accelerated from 55 ish to about 70. The MG obviously had to make a point and overtook the BMW then weaved straight in front in a non existent gap, brake lights strobing as the car was thinking it was some kind of emergency stop to then take the exit slip. Honestly if it wasn't for ESP and ABS that MG would have been facing in the wrong direction.

All because they had to slow down a touch. Crazy.
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Genuinely don't think I've seen anyone driving one of those new MG SUVs do so in a manner in accordance with the rules of the road.

Personally if I'm on the motorway and approaching roadworked slip roads, like you describe, I move over and clear the lane to allow safer merges.

Even regular slip roads, if I know it's a busy one then I'll move over. A little forward planning and courtesy just keeps thing moving.
 
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