Another moron on the road!

Hawk Tuah

Hawk Tuah

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What is it at the moment. My first day driving for a month and another idiot pops out.

I was driving up a relatively empty bluebell hill (just out of maidstone). I'd managed to knick off work an hour early, so the traffic was quite light. I was probably pushin 90, nothing too mad. I'm in the outside lane and I'm approaching two cars both moving quite slowly, probably around 60, one in the middle lane and one behind in the inner lane.

As I'm approaching the car in the inner lane, an Audi A4 1.8T decides to put his foot down. God knows why considering he's just driven the last few miles at 60. As I'm approaching rather fast he pulls into the middle lane behind the other car. At this point I didn't start braking, as you'd expect the guy to wait for me to pass then pull out. No, about a second before I'm about to overtake he swerves out into the outside lane.

At this point I start braking so I dont go into the back of him, only to see the guy in the Audi giving it the shaking open fist sign at me. This so winds me up, after all he's just pulled out infront of me forcing me to brake pretty heavily. Then to top it all off, be slams his brakes on in front of me! :eek:

Fortunately, I had kept quite a good distance. I've had too much experience with this kind of idiot to get caught out. He then swerved back into the middle lane forcing the car he's just overtook to slow as well. :rolleyes:

Unbeleivable. :(
 
I guess the speed limit is there for a reason :p

Fair enough it was there mistake, but you probably wouldn't of had to brake so hard at 70.
 
The blokes a plank but if you are going to tank along at way over the speed limit you need to be prepared for this sort of thing and are not in any real position to complain, he'd not have bothered you if you were not doing 90 so...
 
andybtsn said:
I guess the speed limit is there for a reason :p

Fair enough it was there mistake, but you probably wouldn't of had to brake so hard at 70.
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this is what I was thinking really but there was certainly no call for what he did could cause major accidents.
 
i was just coming back from my nans today, go to a small junction either left or right. i was going left. on the right there is a bit of a blind corner i guess, but i couldnt see any light reflections on the floor (its raining v hard). So i pull out and this idiot bombs it round the corner, breaks hard and tooting his horn, i continue for a few metres to next juntion, the idiot pulls up on the wrong side of the road and starts shaking his fists!. It was his fault. He looked pretty mad so i just went.
 
Gotta love people who can't judge speed. But yer you've always got to expect other people to do the stupidest things.

One thing I do hate which is along similar lines is people who think just because they're indicating from the middle lane to come into the outside that that automatically means that you're letting them out and they just move out! Muppets.
 
My biggest pet hate is when, your sat at a roundabout, you wait because the car coming to your right is not indicating, so you think they are going straight ahead. Next thing you know they turn in where your waiting to pull out off, so your sat there like a plum for no reason. :confused:
 
[TW]Fox said:
The blokes a plank but if you are going to tank along at way over the speed limit you need to be prepared for this sort of thing and are not in any real position to complain, he'd not have bothered you if you were not doing 90 so...
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And I bet you have never cruised above the speed limit in your life Fox?
 
Memphis said:
And I bet you have never cruised above the speed limit in your life Fox?
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That wasn't my point, you should know my feelings on speed limits and speeding if you post here often.

My point is that if we chose to speed, then we can't really blame others for things like this, most other road users simply expect other cars to be doing the speed limit and don't allow for the fact they might be doing 90, thus, if you are going to die 90, you need to be THAT much more aware...
 
And tonight, I had to suffer a fool who was flashing people who had their main beams on.

Fair enough. Except he was sat a foot from my bumper at 60mph, blinding my rear view and adding to the trouble of those with their mains on :rolleyes:
 
Memphis said:
And I bet you have never cruised above the speed limit in your life Fox?
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He wasn't having a go at him for speeding, he was sayng that if you want to go considerably faster than the speed limit, you should be prepared to leave a very big margin of error. If you are on a 60mph road and travelling at 90mph, people on the inside lanes will probably assume you are travelling a little faster than them and hence will misjudge your speed. That's why numpties pull out. They're not all stupid ****heads, they have made an error in judgement which is easy to do, we're only human.

Hence, when you want to break the speed limit, make sure the conditions are suitable and be prepared for people to misjudge your speed. On a 60-70 road, a lot of drivers will assume you to be doing 60-70, as long as you're prepared to take this into account then travelling at 90mph shouldn't be a problem as long as the conditions are suitable.

Had I have been in your situation, I'd have brought the speed back a touch when I noticed the Audi making a move. I'm not saying you did wrong, it's just that through experience it usually turns out to be the proper thing to do.
 
Bug One said:
What is it at the moment. My first day driving for a month and another idiot pops out.

I was driving up a relatively empty bluebell hill (just out of maidstone). I'd managed to knick off work an hour early, so the traffic was quite light. I was probably pushin 90, nothing too mad. I'm in the outside lane and I'm approaching two cars both moving quite slowly, probably around 60, one in the middle lane and one behind in the inner lane.

As I'm approaching the car in the inner lane, an Audi A4 1.8T decides to put his foot down. God knows why considering he's just driven the last few miles at 60. As I'm approaching rather fast he pulls into the middle lane behind the other car. At this point I didn't start braking, as you'd expect the guy to wait for me to pass then pull out. No, about a second before I'm about to overtake he swerves out into the outside lane.

At this point I start braking so I dont go into the back of him, only to see the guy in the Audi giving it the shaking open fist sign at me. This so winds me up, after all he's just pulled out infront of me forcing me to brake pretty heavily. Then to top it all off, be slams his brakes on in front of me! :eek:

Fortunately, I had kept quite a good distance. I've had too much experience with this kind of idiot to get caught out. He then swerved back into the middle lane forcing the car he's just overtook to slow as well. :rolleyes:

Unbeleivable. :(
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I was in a car once to do an observed drive for the IAM. The guy I was with was around his early fifties and was doing really well, I had seen him drive a few times and he managed to always keep a good pace up and was controlled when it mattered.
On one occasion, I was getting him to do a commetated drive, when I saw a grey 3000GT approaching us from behind at a very rapid rate of knots, we were cruising at around the speed limit on an dual 'A' road, and the GT must have been doing at least 90 maybe a 100 or so.

The guy I was with had been commentating well and had noticed the car approaching, good I thought he seems in control, when all of a sudden he said, "****it why should I let some young herbert in his souped up jap **** get past me" and swung out into the lane about thirty feet in front of this GT, to this day I do not know how the GT did not end up in our boot, he must have had the reactions of superman and the worlds best brakes.

Then the driver of the car I am in rants on about "the youngsters today always in a rush everywhere, that should slow 'em down a bit".
I grabbed the steering and got us back into the nearside lane, then the hard shoulder, knocked it out of gear and pulled the handbrake gently to slow us down to a stop, I swapped seats with the guy and drove back to his house.

The GT driver just carried on, I guess in a state of shock, we never did see him again.

Needless to say I never drove with that bloke again, and gave a full and frank account to the group chairman, and recommended that he not be allowed to continue his membership.

If I could have taken his licence off him I would have.

I often say when driving you must always expect the unexpected, but I never expected that, then, but I always do now.
 
Suprised about what you did Entai - all IAM observed drives I have been on I have been instructed that myself and myself alone is in charge of the car, and none of the observers are insured to drive associate members cars.

How did you drive the car back? Bit dodgy doing it using DOC extension, what if you had an accident?
 
[TW]Fox said:
Suprised about what you did Entai - all IAM observed drives I have been on I have been instructed that myself and myself alone is in charge of the car, and none of the observers are insured to drive associate members cars.

How did you drive the car back? Bit dodgy doing it using DOC extension, what if you had an accident?
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Quite correct, but if you think I was letting him drive me around again after that, forget it, i'll take my chance with not crashing thanks.
 
I thought 70mph was the minimum on the motorway? Lol :p

Come on, I bet most people here do at least 80, some a lot more ;)
 
I saw a couple of morons in those mobility scooter things putting their lives in danger today. One was travelling down a busy A road hugging the centre white line and the other was attempting to use a roundabout with 4 interconnecting dual carriageways. That person was very lucky not to be completely wiped out by an Astra coming round the roundabout.
 
Serj said:
I saw a couple of morons in those mobility scooter things putting their lives in danger today. One was travelling down a busy A road hugging the centre white line and the other was attempting to use a roundabout with 4 interconnecting dual carriageways. That person was very lucky not to be completely wiped out by an Astra coming round the roundabout.
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I would have rode up beside them kicked them off and stole their mobility scooters.

Lol, jk, not really, I would have just overtaken :p
 
I didn't think theres much i could do really. I didn't want to get out of my car and tell them to get the hell off the road because it was pretty busy (irony is that there's a perfectly good kerb besides both roads and also a pedestrianised tunnel under the dual carriageway).

I obviously couldn't call 999, i didn't have the local polices number and i didn't have time to drive to the local police station. Even if i did any one of those things they'd be there too late to do anything. May aswell let them get on with it :rolleyes:
 
Serj said:
I didn't think theres much i could do really. I didn't want to get out of my car and tell them to get the hell off the road because it was pretty busy (irony is that there's a perfectly good kerb besides both roads and also a pedestrianised tunnel under the dual carriageway).

I obviously couldn't call 999, i didn't have the local polices number and i didn't have time to drive to the local police station. Even if i did any one of those things they'd be there too late to do anything. May aswell let them get on with it :rolleyes:
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In these situations there is now a new number. 101. I'm actually really ashamed that this new number hasn't had nearly enough advertising or media attention for everyone to know about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4786082.stm

Oh and 90 on a pretty clear 70 road is hardly tanking it along. Plus I did anticipate it. I doubt I'd manage to avoid someone pulling in front of me then brake testing me otherwise.
 
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