Your bad driving encounters

tom_e said:
I've definitely moaned about this in the thread before but it really boils my pee, pretty much every time I drive out of my road I end up having to pull up short from the turning and wait for someone to manage to make it back onto their side of the road :mad:

I think it gets my back up so much because in the car it's an irritation if they catch me but if it happens on my bike I'm in a whole other world of crap.
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I have this quite often. I turn right from a side road to go home. Drivers who turn right into the side road usually cut the corner. There’s nothing to achieve from doing this - bar increasing the risk of sending the area into a traffic jam. The lines are painted well.
 
Just had a van pull out from a side road right in front of me. I was doing 50, luckily there was nothing coming the other way and I managed to get round him or I would have 100% piled into him.
Look in my mirror and he's pulling into a lay by without a care in the world.
****.
 
Saw someone driving with a 'porthole' in their windscreen today. It wasn't even stubborn ice - it was a powdery type of ice which took very little effort with a scraper.
 
Today I nipped to the shops and parked in those silly 45° parking bays that you drive in nose first and reverse out. Came to reverse out and a car kindly stopped to let me out, que impatient karen, you know the type, late 40s, mutton dressed as lamb, in a Fiat 500 flying round said stopped car and almost into my right rear quarter panel. She stopped, loads of verbal, ironically about paying attention which I pointed out.

Affirmed why women are in my top 3 categories of worst drivers.
 
cheesefest said:
Saw someone driving with a 'porthole' in their windscreen today. It wasn't even stubborn ice - it was a powdery type of ice which took very little effort with a scraper.
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I used to hate being hate for work only to walk outside and my car was a block of ice and then spend 10 minutes for the widescreen to clear! Not excusing this person as they are just lazy!
 
I was behind someone yesterday dawdling at 20 in a 30 (for no reason, no parked cars), and to top it off they had there interior light on. For reference this was at 5pm so pretty dark, I'm amazed they could even see the road, just utterly stupid to drive with it on when it's dark.
 
Today, a taxi in front of me got fed up in the lane going straight ahead so he went down the left turn only lane and cut everyone up trying to go straight ahead. Then about a quarter of a mile later, at a mini roundabout, he stops to let the passenger out.

What an absolute 8ell end
 
cheesefest said:
Today, a taxi in front of me got fed up in the lane going straight ahead so he went down the left turn only lane and cut everyone up trying to go straight ahead. Then about a quarter of a mile later, at a mini roundabout, he stops to let the passenger out.

What an absolute 8ell end
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If you got the licence plate details, report it. Licencing are obliged to investigate. If they don't and the reported licencee is involved in a further incident then the licencing dept can also be held liable.
 
Resident said:
If you got the licence plate details, report it. Licencing are obliged to investigate. If they don't and the reported licencee is involved in a further incident then the licencing dept can also be held liable.
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I think I remember the taxi licence number and the make and colour of taxi.
 
Last night me and about 8 other cars stopped at red light, quite a busy junction in the daytime, anyway this Audi driver decided he didn’t want to wait so slowly drove past us , crossed onto other side went through a red, then got stuck behind cars at another set of red lights 40 metres from the first set, once through sped off doing about 60+ in a 40.

I see this a lot on my way home from work, shame no police about when this happens. There is some absolute tools on the roads.
 
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beachBOYken said:
Last night me and about 8 other cars stopped at red light, quite a busy junction in the daytime, anyway this Audi driver decided he didn’t want to wait so slowly drove past us , crossed onto other side went through a red, then got stuck behind cars at another set of red lights 40 metres from the first set, once through sped off doing about 60+ in a 40.

I see this a lot on my way home from work, shame no police about when this happens. There is some absolute tools on the roads.
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This is where cctv can help.
 
Interesting one this evening, overtook a bloke in a Mercedes on a single NSL road. Nothing wrong right? He gets on the horn and flashes me, then at the lights where the road splits in to two lanes, makes a pretty dangerous move to get in front of me again :confused:

If my wife wasn't in the car I'd probably have knocked on his window to find out if he was ok but I'm not getting in to any altercations with her around.

Rather odd behaviour.
 
Diddums said:
Interesting one this evening, overtook a bloke in a Mercedes on a single NSL road. Nothing wrong right? He gets on the horn and flashes me, then at the lights where the road splits in to two lanes, makes a pretty dangerous move to get in front of me again :confused:

If my wife wasn't in the car I'd probably have knocked on his window to find out if he was ok but I'm not getting in to any altercations with her around.

Rather odd behaviour.
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Mercedes driver, says it all
 
Tonight probably one of the closest near-misses I've had. Driving at work (12ton double deck bus), down a bus lane when a car comes down my offside, gets his bonnet in front then attempts to take a left into a junction we were just about to pass. Literal millimetres from hitting him and he shouts through his window that he was indicating so I should have let him across. Yeah. I should stop an entire bus with no notice.....

CCTV downloaded and forwarded to our police liaison, she loves handing out FPNs although I hope it'll be straight to Dangerous drive for the muppet.
Diddums said:
Interesting one this evening, overtook a bloke in a Mercedes on a single NSL road. Nothing wrong right? He gets on the horn and flashes me, then at the lights where the road splits in to two lanes, makes a pretty dangerous move to get in front of me again :confused:

If my wife wasn't in the car I'd probably have knocked on his window to find out if he was ok but I'm not getting in to any altercations with her around.

Rather odd behaviour.
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You insulted his fragile ego. He has a Mercedes don't you know. He is 'considerably richer than yaou'...

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