legally parked not broken down ?
just remembered never put my warning triangle back into boot of newer car - I don't know what your liability is if you don't do something (other than death/destroyed car)
Your bad driving encounters/irritations
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just remembered never put my warning triangle back into boot of newer car - I don't know what your liability is if you don't do something (other than death/destroyed car)
I could probably count on one hand with fingers to spare the number of cars with LED headlights I've seen with one not working. The most common LED failures I see are rear lights on much older cars e.g. Audis and Mercs, and front DRLs on Vauxhalls, particularly previous-gen Astras for some reason. That's not counting those where someone's installed cheap eBay LEDs themselves of course.
I agree the potential cost of replacement if you're one of the unlucky ones is an issue, but I do think overall as LED lights become standard on more vehicles it'll lead to fewer vehicles driven routinely with lights not working.
I know I'll probably get a lot of flak for this, but honestly, I tend to find a lot of female drivers just lack common sense on the road. Sure, there are terrible male drivers but I tend to find they're aggressive or reckless rather than being away with the fairies.
Case in point, last weekend I was approaching the roundabout below. It has 4 exits, one at 9 o'clock, the other at 12, then 3 and the last back on yourself at 6. Every road leading to this roundabout widens as you enter the roundabout, allowing free traffic flow as two cars can enter and fit easily onto the roundabout (see Clio for scale).
So as I'm approaching, there's a mini hard right, giving way. I enter the roundabout alongside them to go straight over and I'm then beeped at because they thought for some unknown reason, you should position right to go straight over....
Female driver, and what annoys me the most is people beeping when they're the ones in the wrong.
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Obviously practical realities but this is why I try to stay staggered on roundabouts now and don't commit where possible until it is clear what people are doing. I'm finding a lot more people who'll just use the left lane to go all the way around to exits after straight over as well.
Brook 1 me 0.
My earlier post about the M20 Brook must have been cursed as this morning I was caught in ~40 minute delays as an HGV had broken down London bound. At the time, the traffic wasn't obviously backed up before the point of no return, so I ended up passing the last junction to escape onto the A20.
I've got important interviews to do on Thursday morning so probably going to have to make an extra early trip up to the office to mitigate the same luck happening again
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My earlier post about the M20 Brook must have been cursed as this morning I was caught in ~40 minute delays as an HGV had broken down London bound. At the time, the traffic wasn't obviously backed up before the point of no return, so I ended up passing the last junction to escape onto the A20.
I've got important interviews to do on Thursday morning so probably going to have to make an extra early trip up to the office to mitigate the same luck happening again
.Literally had the same this evening. Two lanes entering a big traffic light controlled roundabout with four lanes on it, and people use the left entry lane to go into the third lane on the roundabout to turn right. My nearside bumper was nearly taken off by an X5 turning right using the left lane.
It's not like they race off the line to do it, knowing they're in the wrong lane but it doesn't matter if they floor it, it's more a case of being completely oblivious.
I wonder if coloured tarmac lanes will help these idiots understand basic lane discipline.
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To be honest I'd rather see coloured tarmac lanes on roundabouts as a guide - might force some decent planning as well - so many these days if you are approaching for the first time it isn't intuitive how to use the roundabout.
This one in the town I work in regularly catches people out: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GKE9sMkfJctfDvZe9 because they expect to be able to go straight over in lane 1, and for most of my life lane 2 was straight over only but in recent years can be used for straight over or right - a lot of old timers still approach it the old way.
Coloured lanes on roundabouts don't work for those who are still going to be an ass.
The roundabout just up the road from my office was changed over a year ago now to segregate traffic to different clearly marked lanes.
From this link, you can see the left side is joining the roundabout. This is the way I head back home and prior to the works, the left lane went left to the first exit or straight over to the second exit. Since the change the left lane is left only, with the roundabout clearly marked as so. The right lane is now ahead to the second exit and round to exit's 3 and 4.
It's fine if people don't act like a hobnob, but unfortunately people still insist in taking the least queued lane to just go where the hell they want to.
The roundabout is effectively a "turbo" roundabout, modelled on ones that originated in the Netherlands, but the bit that didn't make it to the two that I regularly drive through in Kent, is the physical kerbs/edgings that keep vehicles in the lanes that they commit to. The painted sections are just that, paint. They don't keep you in the lane to take you to the expected exit, you can just decide to move where the hell you want to.
The other turbo roundabout is a much less complex setup, but again, just painted areas to keep traffic in the expected lanes.
That is true but I see as many people who seem to be struggling with understanding how to use a roundabout as those that are just driving poorly without consideration for others in the first place.
Off the top of my head I don't think I've seen one of those in the flesh, at least not setup completely like that.
I tried to explain staying staggered to a family member a couple months ago after they were in an accident with another car on a roundabout, but they had a stubborn response of "why should I have done anything differently? They were in the wrong, not me!"
Situation sounds similar to what you've described in your last sentence. Both family member and the other car were already on the 2-lane roundabout - other car on the left lane and family member on the right lane. They were both approaching the second 12 o'clock exit, which had two lanes on exit. Family member wanted to take that second 12 o'clock exit. However, the other car on the left-hand lane wanted to continue round the roundabout in that lane, and family member didn't anticipate this as they were alongside each other, so they collided.
The M60 at Simister island has some coloured lanes, it’s seen better days but it has separated lanes by colour, which still doesn’t work lol the google maps car even shows someone incapable of navigating lanes with colours, the Renault.
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do feel for innocent third party, I do wonder if the driver was under some kind of influence, how he couldn't see nor avoid the cars was beyond me let alone stop to ask himself why the big truck was changing lane....
Legally parked outside a row of shops & houses.
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Wait till its xmas eve and you go in to pick up a pack of sprouts, its carmaggedon in there!
Thats perfectly legit so long as they're indicating right.
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hate this time of year had to go to hospital and drivers attitudes just make me cringe. roundabout i enter to go straight ahead ....karen in new transporter waiting on first entry she sees me i see her . she waits till im on the roundabout then pulls onto it and promptly has to stop because her exit isnt clear.i managed to stop without contact, she then starts mouthing off and making gestures at me.
had to laugh kid in passenger seat of her van looks at her then me and just turns away in disgust. what a tool.
. had to laugh kid in passenger seat of her van looks at her then me and just turns away in disgust. what a tool.
Went to a Sainsbury's on Christmas Eve last year and a lady was shouting and having a meltdown over a lack of parsnips
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Nearly pulled a PIT manoeuvre on a Tesla last night.
I was on the roundabout, I could see them coming towards the next entry on to it but they didn't look like they'd made their mind up if they were going to chance it.
It then looked like they'd thought "yeah *** it, I'll boot it and miss everyone" which they would have done until they spotted the police car waiting to join at the next entry which made them do the "oh **** better not boot it can I still make it!?" dance which led to them crawling out on to the roundabout and me coming very close to meeting their rear quarter.
I was on the roundabout, I could see them coming towards the next entry on to it but they didn't look like they'd made their mind up if they were going to chance it.
It then looked like they'd thought "yeah *** it, I'll boot it and miss everyone" which they would have done until they spotted the police car waiting to join at the next entry which made them do the "oh **** better not boot it can I still make it!?" dance which led to them crawling out on to the roundabout and me coming very close to meeting their rear quarter.
I try to avoid the full rush hour traffic, but can still catch it heavy on my commute across the city. Last Friday on my way to work I was circling a roundabout in fairly slow moving traffic (if it was a clock face I joined at 6 o'clock and was exiting at 3) and this old guy in a small blue Suzuki charged forward and tried to force his way in front of me from my left (using the clock face he was approaching from road joining the roundabout at 12 o'clock). I declined to let him in front of me and he responded by beeping his horn and gesticulating at me like a crazy person. Perhaps it's fortunate that I couldn't hear what he was saying...
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AHH I see you've been driving near me
. It's amazing, I see maybe 3 or 4 near misses on my commute due to poor driving. Last night when I was going home I was in the right lane for straight ahead (2 on/2 off), a lady pulled out from the left side while I was on the roundabout, then stopped Infront of me. I had to slam on (although maybe I shouldn't just to prove a point). If she had put her foot down, it would have been tight but ok, it was the complete stop, when nothing was Infront of her that almost caused a crash.This is the kind of thing I am referring to when I was mentioning how EVs are turning people into bigger risk takers due to the acceleration they offer compared to ICE vehicles. Sure, they can allow safer overtakes, as the overtake takes less time, but they can also give driver's over confidence in more unsafe situations where they pull out on people.