Next stop, ban and....

The only bit that seemed properly dodgy was the overtake on the 120d. That was done out of frustration and penis size. He knew he was faster but her needed to show it as soon as possible, thus he committed to a slightly dangerous overtake when he should have pulled back in behind (especially as he would have known about the huge straights coming up).

I've driven as fast as him on an A road, faster indeed but I tend to be far safer where overtakes are concerned. I highly doubt I would overtake someone if there were at (or near) the speed limit for example.15-20 mph below the speed limit thought and I start to look for opportunities.

As for double white lines, those are painted by manual labourers, I often question their location sometimes and often think they are just there as a 'warning' system for people that have never driven the road before. There are a number on my daily route to work and I know for a fact that you can see across the field if any cars are coming round the corner, obviously a new road user wouldn't know this though so double white line it.
 
Matt82 said:
I bet they didnt, that guy was driving like a berk.

I expect a few people on here get their foot down from time to time, but not during the day with other cars about doing silly overtakes. There were a couple times in that video where you could hear he had bottomed out the suspension etc he was driving too fast and i bet he has his bacon saved regularly by dsc etc
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Give over, it wasn't that crazy at all.
 
Clarkey said:
Give over, it wasn't that crazy at all.
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He was using the fact that other road users generally try to avoid incidents though. For example, his 120d overtake relied on the fact that the oncoming car would not be incredibly stubborn and just drive right up to the white line without slowing down. That's a bit of an arsey attitude to have on the road really and actually will end in a crash at some point due to another driver not concentrating 110% as a fast driver will be.

I wonder if he's going to the diesel rolling road :p
 
Hades said:
I beg to differ and I honestly hope he gets his collar felt before he hurts someone else.
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Up north its not that bad. your ave Biker will do much more random things than this...... the only bad/super dumb thing he did was post it on the tubes
 
Spunkey said:
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Is it just me or...

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One said:
As for double white lines, those are painted by manual labourers, I often question their location sometimes and often think they are just there as a 'warning' system for people that have never driven the road before. There are a number on my daily route to work and I know for a fact that you can see across the field if any cars are coming round the corner, obviously a new road user wouldn't know this though so double white line it.
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Eh? The locations of white lines aren't just left up to the guys on the ground to paint as they feel like. They will have been specified when the road was designed and always for a reason, be it due to the layout and visibility on the road, or as a traffic calming measure on a road which has a history of accidents resulting from overtaking. The "manual labourers" will lay them exactly according to the technical drawings which come about as a result of these specifications; they don't just give the surfacing crew a tin of white paint and tell them to paint what they think.

Millwall.FC said:
Fits the BMW stereotype nicely doesn't he. Nothing I haven't seen a BMW do on the A2 before.
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Well firstly, I drive on the A2 every single day and I rarely see this sort of driving, from a BMW driver or anyone else, mainly because it's too busy most of the time. And secondly, the A2 is a dual carriageway which in places is 4 lanes wide - hardly a problem to do 100MPH+ if the road and traffic conditions permit. Sounds like you might have a bit of an axe to grind :p
 
Conscript said:
Eh? The locations of white lines aren't just left up to the guys on the ground to paint as they feel like. They will have been specified when the road was designed and always for a reason, be it due to the layout and visibility on the road, or as a traffic calming measure on a road which has a history of accidents resulting from overtaking. The "manual labourers" will lay them exactly according to the technical drawings which come about as a result of these specifications; they don't just give the surfacing crew a tin of white paint and tell them to paint what they think.



Well firstly, I drive on the A2 every single day and I rarely see this sort of driving, from a BMW driver or anyone else, mainly because it's too busy most of the time. And secondly, the A2 is a dual carriageway which in places is 4 lanes wide - hardly a problem to do 100MPH+ if the road and traffic conditions permit. Sounds like you might have a bit of an axe to grind :p
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You could be right ;) 3 encounter's all were bmw's!!
 
Terrible over taking - Into oncoming traffic, over double whites, past joining junctions. Sitting in the over taking position for far far far too long instead of moving up when a suspected safe over take is in sight. Also, following another car through an overtake? Fool.

Terrible road positioning - Taking racing lines like an idiot and not road lines. Despite oncoming traffic continued to clip central white lines or at times presenting his ENTIRE offside to the opposing lane over double whites.

Commentary - WHAT commentary? Missed most of the really important hazards and talked about nothing much other than his speed.

In short, terrible driver riding his luck.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Terrible over taking - Into oncoming traffic, over double whites, past joining junctions. Sitting in the over taking position for far far far too long instead of moving up when a suspected safe over take is in sight. Also, following another car through an overtake? Fool.

Terrible road positioning - Taking racing lines like an idiot and not road lines. Despite oncoming traffic continued to clip central white lines or at times presenting his ENTIRE offside to the opposing lane over double whites.

Commentary - WHAT commentary? Missed most of the really important hazards and talked about nothing much other than his speed.

In short, terrible driver riding his luck.
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Yep and you if you look at the numbers you will find people like this don't have accidents that often but the people that drive 5mph under the speed limit and are not concentrating course more accidents to the ave member of the public, its not nessesery them having the accidents but course them without them ever knowing because there not paying any attention.
 
Can't believe some people are defending him, I've done a bit of spirited driving in my time but not like that.

Maybe I'm getting old, I drive a company car these days and stick to the speed limit as I'd like to keep my shiny new car.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Terrible over taking - Into oncoming traffic, over double whites, past joining junctions. Sitting in the over taking position for far far far too long instead of moving up when a suspected safe over take is in sight. Also, following another car through an overtake? Fool.

Terrible road positioning - Taking racing lines like an idiot and not road lines. Despite oncoming traffic continued to clip central white lines or at times presenting his ENTIRE offside to the opposing lane over double whites.

Commentary - WHAT commentary? Missed most of the really important hazards and talked about nothing much other than his speed.

In short, terrible driver riding his luck.
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Its what I was thinking watching it - he was reading the road like a racetrack (surface conditions and contours) and completely over-estimating his ability to read other hazards - almost blind to other road users and no allowances for things that indicated possible things to adapt his approach to like the possibility of school children running out in one bit.

I can just imagine it going something like "nice bit of gravel that... *bam* runs into an oncoming lorry"
 
What a *****. Even seems proud of himself doing his "commentary of speed" while his diseasal engine rattles in the background*.

*Haven't had a pop at diesel's for a bit and felt a need ;)
 
Apart from a couple of dumb overtakes I bet most of us have driven like that or even faster on NSL roads
 
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