Your bad driving encounters

Biker spotted with no gear other than a helmet and some boots. Was in T-shirt and shorts. Goodluck with the meat crayon slide.

Another one was an elderly lady who parked on double yellows in the town centre. I said to her that the parking wardens patrol this frequently and she may get a ticket. Got a response to thank me but she was only going to go for 5 minutes. Okay then.. Hope you get the ticket. :D
 
Bike riders never fail to amaze me at this time of year.
On my way to work this morning I was overtaken by sports bike at what must have been well over 90mph (I was doing 55 and he came past me like I was standing still) wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and trainers. I get that it's hot out there but seriously......
As an ex-biker I'm very well aware of the damage you can do to yourself even when wearing the correct gear. To ride like that with nothing but cotton and skin is just insanity.
 
this afternoon on the way home from work down a busy main road I was approaching a red light , the traffic on the opposite side had already stopped

A small pick up style van (kind of like an Isuzu trooper with cab) with orange flashing lights and hazards on heading towards me drove in the middle of the road at a high ish speed (looked a fair bit bit faster than the 30 limit) , passed all the cars stopped at the red , (maybe 20 or 30 cars) and drove right through the red over a junction with cars already turning onto the road

When I first seen it I thought it must be an emergency vehicle (but why orange lights? :confused: :confused: :confused: ) , then as it got close I seen it was a new emergency service , duh duh durrrrr - a van for a block paving company

Must have had an emergency patio to do

I wish I had a dashcam , don’t think I’ve seen ever such blatant and reckless driving tbh
 
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JBuk said:
with orange flashing lights and hazards on
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My dad was following a construction firm van a few weeks back which pulled into a road off stuck their orange flashing lights on as they did it and tried to do a u-turn nearly hitting my dad who had to brake hard and gave them the horn which upset them and they started ranting something like "Can't you see from the lights it is urgent" (can't have been that urgent as they seemingly had time to stop and argue with my dad).
 
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Rilot said:
Bike riders never fail to amaze me at this time of year.
On my way to work this morning I was overtaken by sports bike at what must have been well over 90mph (I was doing 55 and he came past me like I was standing still) wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and trainers. I get that it's hot out there but seriously......
As an ex-biker I'm very well aware of the damage you can do to yourself even when wearing the correct gear. To ride like that with nothing but cotton and skin is just insanity.
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They're just built different :p .
 
Was driving to work this morning, as I usually do. While travelling on lane 2 on the A1, I notice this grey 2010 Mazda2 ahead in lane 1 constantly straddling lanes and often actually changing lane without indicating then immediately back into lane 1. I was doing around 72 MPH at this point and they were driving much slower, possibly 60 if I were to guess, so I ended up overtaking them. Had a quick glance at the car while driving past and unsurpisingly, there was a young lad driving while very obviously using their phone :mad:

I was well ahead now and didn't see them for a couple miles since that. After those couple miles though, I was in lane 1 that time and the Mazda managed to catch up. I could see them in my mirrors approaching from behind, but in lane 2 this time. They were still constantly straddling lanes like before. Just as they finished overtaking me, they suddenly hit their brakes and cut into lane 1 right in front of me without indicating.

The nice gap I had in front, between me and the car that was previously in front, was cut by this moron. Had I not have hit my brakes, they definitely would've made contact with my car when they changed lane.

And to top it all off, after this, they were in front of me and opened their window. Stuck their hand out and was doing inappropriate gestures to presumably me, probably to try and rile me. I wasn't fazed though. Dropped back and they ended up leaving at the next junction anyway. Driving is sometimes that little bit unpleasant when you encounter idiots like that.
 
Last week traveling on the a19 at around 2 in the morning I encountered a Audi traveling the wrong way running from the police.

Brown trousers moment for sure, slammed the trucks brakes on and missed him by inches, dread to think of the carnage caused if we collided.
 
Had to under take a guy at a set of lights on the dualie out of Aberdeen tonight, looked in the passenger window to see he was actually mucking about with the straps of a kid in a booster seat.

Looked in my wing mirror to make sure I was clear of him and clocked the L on the front of the car.
 
can't find it on youtube - volvo have a new add where father gives keys of car to his newly passed daughter, and she's only able to spot various risks on road ,
like overtaking blindspots, courtesy of the car's tech - brave new world ...
[looking for the add saw volvo just have a recall on some bevs/phevs due to camera softtware update that can/has caused brake failure video
https://thebrakereport.com/urgent-brake-failure-warning-for-volvo-evs-and-hybrids/ ]
 
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Todays 'pavement pizza' award goes to these two...

Can anyone better this? :confused:



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No. But a few weeks back there was a big group of maybe a dozen off road style motorbikes driven by young teenagers, doing wheelies etc. as they ran a red light crossing Bristol city centre. They mostly wore helmets (there were a couple of passengers that may have just had hoodies and facemasks) but there was not a single number plate to be seen.

This evening I nearly wiped out a middle aged guy on a (probably illegal) electric bike. I was going around a mini roundabout and had to slam on the brakes as he came from my left and cut straight across the roundabout in front of me at considerable speed - no peddling!
 
jpaul said:
can't find it on youtube - volvo have a new add where father gives keys of car to his newly passed daughter, and she's only able to spot various risks on road ,
like overtaking blindspots, courtesy of the car's tech - brave new world ...
[looking for the add saw volvo just have a recall on some bevs/phevs due to camera softtware update that can/has caused brake failure video
https://thebrakereport.com/urgent-brake-failure-warning-for-volvo-evs-and-hybrids/ ]
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Ironically, at least in my recent experience, Volvo 'drivers' are rapidly becoming some of the worst drivers on the roads
 
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Can anyone better this? :confused:
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Awhile back there was a bunch of lads who looked like traveller types who'd ride around on dirt bikes and quads near where I worked including a kid I'd estimate between 3 and 6 on a quad - not a full size one but a petrol powered one capable of 30+ MPH... fair play he actually had good control of it and well above the awareness I'd have had at that age but still a kid at the end of the day. Loads of people called it in to the police but it took them months to do anything about it.

One time a lad on a dirt bike with a girl probably not much older than 13 on the back went head on with a lorry arriving to drop stuff off to us and was a really near miss - the driver was traumatised and called the police - took him a good 20+ minutes to calm down enough to unload.
 
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Resident said:
Ironically, at least in my recent experience, Volvo 'drivers' are rapidly becoming some of the worst drivers on the roads
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While I agree, it still seems to be in general the bigger the car the worse the driver. I was behind an XC90 tank this morning, no induction, poor lane discipline. I decide to do the sensible thing and make him a small dot in my rear view mirror :cry: .
 
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New high speed record for this bit of road that is notorious for speeding.

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Had a guy pull out on me this morning. I was on my usual commute back home after dropping my son off to the Nursery. 60 mph road, as I approached this junction I slow down as usual for the slight right hander. Noticed the car approaching the give way ahead on my left, and slowed down even more to about 40 mph in anticipation. But this guy pulls out right at the moment when I thought he wouldn't. I slammed on the brakes, hand on horn.

Then he followed up with a weirdest manoueuvre I have seen. He did a u-turn on the single carriageway and went back the same way he came.

Next was an old lady who got out on the live lane from the rear seat with door swung wide open. Absolutely zero awareness for approaching traffic, and didn't even look to her right as I approached. Just got out turned around and went off walking.
 
Audi A3 driver (you can ignore the rest of the post and save some precious time as I am just venting).

I don't know what gives this particular car drivers so much self entitlement. Its pitiful. Late in the evening today, minding my own business on the A556, and driving at 50 mph as per the limit on that section. I moved to second lane and sped up slightly to overtake a slower car. Cue in Mr. B-!end hurling down at what looked to be 70+ and flashing lights and then tailgating.

It was so bad that in my 10 years of driving I had to flick the brake lights on (read as not a brake check but press the pedal lightly so the lights come on, this was only the second time I had to use it in my defence). I then did my lazy lane change to control the speed and the situation happening behind me. Got a good look at the entitled teenage face and his girlfriend next to him.

Marquee brand and small car equals small mindedness.
 
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What is it with road workers and putting out signage in recent years? there is a road closed near me with diversion and closure advanced notice signs for about 3 miles before it - I'm not sure if they did it intentionally badly or just not a single braincell between them but definitely no thought went into the placement - stuck on the road, and it isn't a wide road at the best of parts, where there is plenty of sensible positions on the side, stuck in the road middle of blind bends or other bits where it is difficult for traffic to see what is coming before committing to going onto the other side of the road to pass the signs, etc. - I saw two near collisions earlier from traffic up ahead of me. Unbelievably clueless if not malicious.
 
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