Why are there so many rubbish drivers around?

PiKe

PiKe

PiKe

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I've noticed this more recently for some reason, the other day there was a Corsa infront of me that randomly mounted the grass verge whilst going round a right hand corner! Carried on like nothing had happened.

Many times I've had people pull out on me when overtaking on dual carriageway, do people not actually check their mirrors?

Then yesterday on a dual carriageway again overtaking someone, as I'm nearing them they start drifting over the white line!

It's ridiculous how you have to preemt every little thing others do in order to stay safe :mad:
 
Yes, there are bad drivers everywhere. There have always been, and there always will be.

Some days you come across more than others.

The one day you may make a mistake, and someone will see you. They will then go and tell all their mates that there are more bad drivers around.
 
I was kinda taught to think that every other car on the road is a liability and expect them to do something stupid.
 
I had an experience yesterday.

Winding country road, I am going around the bend and then I see a VW Sharan or something really similar on my side of the road! I brake as hard as I can, and luckily the guy behind me did as well!

The Sharan was overtaking a cyclist on a blind bend, and gave him so much room, more than was necessary.

Was actually quite scary as I would have gone head on into him and probably injuring the cyclist in the process if I hadn't braked as hard as i did!
 
PiKe said:
I've noticed this more recently for some reason, the other day there was a Corsa infront of me that randomly mounted the grass verge whilst going round a right hand corner! Carried on like nothing had happened.

Many times I've had people pull out on me when overtaking on dual carriageway, do people not actually check their mirrors?

Then yesterday on a dual carriageway again overtaking someone, as I'm nearing them they start drifting over the white line!

It's ridiculous how you have to preemt every little thing others do in order to stay safe :mad:
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It's the holidays, I've been dodging pedestrians and idiot coach drivers in Bowness all week.

Stop walking into and on the road with your head in the clouds people...
 
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Recently i have seen more idiots not paying attention when two lanes are converging, im sure their cars must have been company owned as they weren't bothered about denting them.
 
I noticed this just as a pedestrian; was waiting to cross the road at a t-junction, notice a girl in a 206cc indicating to turn right so I wait for her to turn before crossing. As she turns she almost runs me over as she mounts the high curb and almost destroys her rear passenger side alloy in the process. She carries on completely oblivious.
 
Oncoming drivers straddling the centre line and passing ridiculously closely even after i've moved all the way to the left seems to be the flavour of the week. Happened 3 or 4 times in the last couple of days :/
 
Anim said:
I was kinda taught to think that every other car on the road is a liability and expect them to do something stupid.
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+1 for that :D everyone is threat :p

If you put motorways in the driving test, and had a retest every 5 years or so you could solve SO many problems - less bad drivers, less crashes, reduced congestion because less people are on the road....

What do you have to be afraid of with that, if you're a good driver? The only people who object are those who know they're unsafe

Rant over.... for now :p
 
I had a few the other day. I was following a guy who was braking for speed cameras, despite going 10 mph lower then the limit.

I was following another sunday driver, was considering over taking him, pulled out to get a better look, decided I couldn't see far enough so I go to pull back in, he jumps on his brakes. Idiot, complete and utter idiot.
 
I notice it every day.

Lights go green, "oh wait, erm, yes, first, gear, clutch first of course, erm... dammit handbrake, let's check my make up in the mirrors, what's that noise? people hooting at me?! stuff 'em. Right let's pull away... damn the light's gone red...."

Other things are people on their mobiles paying no attention on the road at all, people not indicating which in town is lethal. People driving like a rally stage which is so so dangerous. People who have no spacial awareness. Etc.. the list goes on.


However, I have made mistakes, or been impatient and driven a little bit stupidly, I've made people swear at me, I have probably at some stage been one of those drivers (except the mobile phone thing).
 
My default position when driving is that everyone is going to do something stupid or deliberately try and kill me.

The ones I'm seeing a lot of at the moment are the ones who play speed roulette; their speed is selected at random, can change at any time and is entirely unconnected to any signage or road conditions.

I followed someone back from the cricket yesterday who was alternating between 30 and 40 in a 50 limit, but then when she got to the town with a 30 limit she obviously felt more comfortable and so put her foot down. Very strange.
 
Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. It's how you predict, react and handle other peoples mistakes that can make you a better driver.

The last time I made a mistake (bad lane selection on a roundabout by me + young upstart in his Fiesta ST unwilling to let me in = a cut up) he was still beeping his horn at me 2 miles down the road :rolleyes:
 
driving too and from work is the worst time for bad drivers I find, because people do the same route every day, they seem to zone out and cause accidents

idiots that stick to your rear bumper on a small B road are annoying, a few squirts of windscreen washer does the trick, and makes them MAD :)
 
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I experienced the most amazing bad driving last week, I pulled out of a roundabout with plenty of room and some silly bint coming from the right decided to plant her foot to the floor whilst pushing the horn through the back of the steering wheel, she then decided to cut in front of me on the dual carriageway and slow down to 10mph whilst waving her arms around like a mental patient followed by some bizarre random lane changing manuevres, after about the 5th time of cutting me up (no exaggeration!) she swapped lanes again so I sped up on the inside so she couldn't get in front and try and put me off the road again, I looked into her car and she must have been at least 70 years old and was waving a notepad and pen at me. I don't think I've ever seen such an extreme reaction to a non-situation before.
 
I'm starting to get less and less tolerant of idiots these days. Peope who dither around drive me mad, sitting in the outside lane of a 40mph dual carriageway at 35mph, taking 6 years to pull away from the lights, changing lanes without indicating, blah blah
 
bledd. said:
idiots that stick to your rear bumper on a small B road are annoying, a few squirts of windscreen washer does the trick, and makes them MAD :)
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I don't know if this was coincidence but twice when my roof has been down I've had some Muppet squirt his washers at me (I wasn't sitting on his bumper), unfortunately for them, they don't seem to understand aerodynamics so I stay dry :)
 
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