Stupid drivers :@

Kavalree

Kavalree

Kavalree

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Phew, what a bloody day!

Did a nice easy drop in Shrewsbury and on the way back to the yard in Crewe, some pleb pulls out of a junction onto a 60mph road without looking, we had NO time to react, he pulled out about 7 meters ahead of us. Luckily the driver swerved and decimated the back of the estate that pulled out. All that remained of his car was the front...

NOW, before you start saying how wrong it is to post things like this, he was a first responder, off duty, and he was fine, other than shock :confused::eek:

Arrived back at the yard 5 hours late due to this. The wagon now has a shattered drivers side light.

Police and ambulance said he was VERY lucky, and we are thank full he survived. Still shocked he did to be fair.

Just thought I would share this, and remind you all, LOOK BEFORE YOU PULL OUT ONTO A COUNTRY ROAD. Class 2 wagons, even empty, take awhile to stop in the wet, bear that in mind.
 
Theres some fools out there alright, i crept around the back of someone on a roundabout earlier - it goes to 2 lanes both to join the m66 he was inside i was ouside. he was so irate for no reason he actually feigned ramming his car into mine when we pulled up next to each other 30 metres round the round about at the set of lights. it really made me feel like jumping out and grabbing the guy out of his car. it was really wet conditons and very dangerous behaviour.
 
Adam_151 said:
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Go read a dictionary then. :D

1. Kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage of.
2. Drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something)

On another note, I got brake tested today by some blacked out Audi in the outside lane of the M5 and all because ( I assume... having reviewed the footage on the camera just now) I didn't let him out from behind a lorry in the second lane.
How close this followed on from the thread the other day about indicators holds true.
He was indicating to pull out to start with, some other unobservant T-wat behind him nearly carved up someone else already in the outside lane.
Along comes little old me down the slip road and out into the fast lane behind a larger van not thinking much at all about the blacked out chav mobile up the chuff of said HGV in middle lane.
As I passed the chav his indicator wasn't on..
On my merry way picking up speed, back to the middle lane whilst it's clear. I don't move back to the nearside lane, even though there is a large gap due to the fact there is a junction ahead (like to give them some free space to get on to the Mway without hassle)
Anyway I'm catching up with the car in front in the middle lane but see chav mobile making good ground in the outside lane, so I ease off instead of pulling out in front of him and holding him up.
Just as he passes me, I'm on with the indicator and out behind him, before I get too close to car in front of me.
What do I get as pull out behind him.. Brake lights. :rolleyes:
So I ease back away from him and he's off again.
I move back to the middle lane, then he does further ahead and then slows down. :confused:

GIVE US A ****ING CLUE. :mad:
 
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Many drivers see an HGV coming and think "oh great! a slow truck" and pull out accordingly.

Never mind a puddle jumping class 2 ;) - try stopping with 44tons pushing you along....

You have my empathy OP.
 
Nearly got knocked off my bike twice today, both times the drivers' faults. Just goes to show a lot of drivers are just incompetent, blind, and can't work out simple road situations so that everybody can use the road safely. Sad really.
 
Looks like the roads were dodgy all over today. I was on the M1 following this gti who was doing a steady 95-100 in the outside lane then this idiot in the middle lane pulls into the outside lane for no reason other than to cut that guy up...but he then puts his washers on in an attempt to soak the gtis screen!!? Some dangerous muppets on the roads!
 
This scares me immensely. Not the fact that I'd hit a car, but probably because without any witnesses they could probably lie and claim I rear ended them.

I've had two incidents like this recently - both in the Clio, fortunately.

The first was a Mondeo waiting at a junction with a good 50 meters visibility up the road - as I come around the corner, he pulls up to the junction and waits, and waits, and waits, until I'm less than 10m from the junction, he pulls out as slow as anything. Full brakes would not have prevented an accident, so instead it was a case of slowing down as much as possible with the brake pedal buried in the bulkhead, until he was on my side of the road, brakes off and then swerve around him at the last second.

The second one was similar, except I kind of saw that one coming and had prepared myself, giving myself more time to react.
 
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