Your bad driving encounters

cheesefest said:
Or leave that amount of gap behind the car in front of them. Which I have seen many times in my 21 years of driving.
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I like to leave a decent gap (able to see tarmac) infront of me just incase I get rear ended (can't remember if the highway code recommends a distance). At lights I'll pull upto the line though (unless there's the green cycle block across it).
 
Rroff said:
Bit of road that frequently irritates me
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I think the fact the speed limit doesn't change until 33s in your video throws people off - they've got to 40, they were happy at 40, they've selected the right gear for 40 and now they need get a shift on again and without dropping a few gears most cars are going to take an age to do a 40-70 run whilst still on the incline. Then you reach the crest and get the mix up between the cars that wanted to accelerate but couldn't who now start speeding up and the cars that are planning to just sit at 50 until they reach Yeovil.
 
Kenai said:
I think the fact the speed limit doesn't change until 33s in your video throws people off - they've got to 40, they were happy at 40, they've selected the right gear for 40 and now they need get a shift on again and without dropping a few gears most cars are going to take an age to do a 40-70 run whilst still on the incline. Then you reach the crest and get the mix up between the cars that wanted to accelerate but couldn't who now start speeding up and the cars that are planning to just sit at 50 until they reach Yeovil.
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That is the other thing which does my head in at that spot, you get so many different approaches to the delayed speed limit change. Quite a few people accelerate, if they can, from the first set of lights to whatever speed they are going to do all the way to Yeovil. Then you get people who are going to take the right hand junction near the end of the video and sit in lane 2 at 40-45MPH all the way from the lights without a care...
 
Made myself the bigger **** today by getting irritated by a car sat in the outside lane of an empty dual carriageway and dropped to 4th for a full throttle undertake... which is less dramatic than it sounds when driving a 1.4 TSI.

I'll look out for the selectively edited clip to arrive on UK dashcams or something with the driver expletively describing my dangerous driving :p

Must have been having a bad day because I normally just absorb that type of annoyance and add it to the suppressed stress that will probably see me having an aneurism some day :o
 
Nothing like driving 4 hours across the country and back again to make you despair a little bit :D. Majority of the route is just A1 which is typically not too awful but joining into the A14 near Cambridge/Peterborough where they have recently widened the road to 3/4 lanes is just insane, when I was driving the road was relatively quiet so in reality just two lanes would have been fine but soo many people just hanging out in the 3rd/outside line and not over taking. I just end up really pedantically overtaking them and then coming all the way back over to the inside lane, need more French driving lane etiquette!
 
OG said:
Nothing like driving 4 hours across the country and back again to make you despair a little bit :D. Majority of the route is just A1 which is typically not too awful but joining into the A14 near Cambridge/Peterborough where they have recently widened the road to 3/4 lanes is just insane, when I was driving the road was relatively quiet so in reality just two lanes would have been fine but soo many people just hanging out in the 3rd/outside line and not over taking. I just end up really pedantically overtaking them and then coming all the way back over to the inside lane, need more French driving lane etiquette!
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Sometimes on a long motorway journey, to break up the boredom I'll "orbit" a middle-lane hogger if traffic it light.

Into the outside lane to overtake, back over then back into lane one, slow down so they overtake me then repeat. I like to see how many times I can orbit before they get the hint. 16 is me record (Audi MLH)
 
Heading home on the A1 lastnight, busy rush hour 60 mph stretch of dual carriageway, and ahead I see brake lights and swerving, then a few hazard lights. Immediately I thought something must be in the road, so I slow down and put my hazards on, looking for whatever it was in the road then all of a sudden a cyclist comes into view just a few metres ahead, no lights, dark clothing...

I had to swerve slightly into the right-hand lane to avoid, stuck hazards on for the HGV behind me who must've put the fear of god into the idiot with its horns.

I just couldn't believe it. Talk about a death wish.
 
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It's also taught when you do your bike licence in case the car in front stalls/stops for whatever reason it gives you room to manoeuvre around them so some drivers probably carry the same thing over when driving cars.
 
Yaayuh! said:
Heading home on the A1 lastnight, busy rush hour 60 mph stretch of dual carriageway, and ahead I see brake lights and swerving, then a few hazard lights. Immediately I thought something must be in the road, so I slow down and put my hazards on, looking for whatever it was in the road then all of a sudden a cyclist comes into view just a few metres ahead, no lights, dark clothing...

I had to swerve slightly into the right-hand lane to avoid, stuck hazards on for the HGV behind me who must've put the fear of god into the idiot with its horns.

I just couldn't believe it. Talk about a death wish.
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I saw a woman doing something similar a few weeks ago, with no helmet and a child on the back :rolleyes:. I hate ninja cyclist, and at the moment ninja joggers and dog walkers.
 
Absolutely honking down with rain yesterday and many driving with absolutely no lights on making them almost invisible in those conditions and yet again a couple of idiots with main beam on both Ford Eco-Sports strangely?
 
robj20 said:
I do it all the time. Because so many people don't know how to use a handbrake and like to sit with their foot on the bake blinding those behind.
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To be fair many cars are setup with auto hold that does this by design. I never touch the handbrake button in the Leon. It holds the brakes on for me when I'm stopped at the lights and the handbrake automatically comes on when the ignition is switched off.

Probably more one for the headlight grumble thread but I had a Tucson sat behind me with its main beams on the A11. GEEEZ they are annoying. You normally get a bit of glare when the driver behind is oblivious to their mains being on but these things were outright offensive! They were about to get some rear fog light flashing to alert them to their oblivious headlight usage but instead ended up with another car between us. so I was only half blinded as one or other of the two cars behind weaved left and right.

'right mirror glare... left mirror glare... right mirror glare... left mirror glare...'

Thankfully they seemed to go into zombie mode and randomly dropped their speed for half a mile which got me further up the road with a good number of cars between us.
 
robj20 said:
I do it all the time. Because so many people don't know how to use a handbrake and like to sit with their foot on the bake blinding those behind.
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As has been mentioned recently in the thread, many autos and EVs have no equivalent functionality to putting the car on the handbrake when stopped at lights, etc.
 
It’s like wacky races every time I go out driving. How do these people pass their test?

Today people were driving 20mph under the speed limit on a motorway / A road presumably because it was foggy. But not foggy at ground level, you could see for 100s of metres at ground level, but because it was foggy in the sky, say 50ft above the ground. FML.
 
Yesterday, on the exact same stretch of road I posted about earlier, another idiot performing a ridiculous overtake on a cyclist. They were going up a hill we were going down, so you can imagine the cyclist was pretty slow. They overtook the cyclist as we were passing them, my other half was driving and she had to squeeze right over to her left. The poor cyclist wasn't given 15cm let alone 1.5m of space.

This one might sound spiteful of me, but I have zero sympathy for people who own SUVs and aren't able to drive such large vehicles, especially when they have the most ridiculous seating position.

We were following a Tiguan up a access ramp to a multistorey car park, at the top of this ramp you have no choice but to turn right as straight ahead is a metal barrier. The barrier forces you to go to the ANPR gates and separates those coming in from cars on the other side who are driving around the level. This Tiguan drove straight into the barrier, she was approaching absolutely fine but for some reason, straightened the steering up.

She turned right in front of us after passing the ANPR gates and you could make out her silhouette. She was absolutely tiny and her line of sight barely made it over the steering wheel, it was a hell of a crunch. I was laughing in the car when it initially happened.
 
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Stu999 said:
It’s like wacky races every time I go out driving. How do these people pass their test?

Today people were driving 20mph under the speed limit on a motorway / A road presumably because it was foggy. But not foggy at ground level, you could see for 100s of metres at ground level, but because it was foggy in the sky, say 50ft above the ground. FML.
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Bet they had rear fogs on too :rolleyes: .
 
Due to the ongoing roadworks on the a30, poor driving is a regular occurrence having to merge in turn twice on my commute. Quite comical how people navigate their lives with such poor driving prowess…
 
Mekrel said:
Yesterday, on the exact same stretch of road I posted about earlier, another idiot performing a ridiculous overtake on a cyclist. They were going up a hill we were going down, so you can imagine the cyclist was pretty slow. They overtook the cyclist as we were passing them, my other half was driving and she had to squeeze right over to her left. The poor cyclist wasn't given 15cm let alone 1.5m of space.
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I was following a cyclist today (yesterday now) and as the corner started to flatten out they started moving their arm in a kind of ambiguous manner, some cyclists will, misguidedly, wave you on in those circumstances if they can see it is clear but I wouldn't personally go for it unless I can see for myself. But I was thinking it was maybe that and positioning to go past them, turns out they were taking a right at the exit of the corner - would have been a bit clearer if they'd taken up a dominant position as we came around the corner rather than turning right across me from the left hand side of the road.
 
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Rroff said:
I was following a cyclist today (yesterday now) and as the corner started to flatten out they started moving their arm in a kind of ambiguous manner, some cyclists will, misguidedly, wave you on in those circumstances if they can see it is clear but I wouldn't personally go for it unless I can see for myself. But I was thinking it was maybe that and positioning to go past them, turns out they were taking a right at the exit of the corner - would have been a bit clearer if they'd taken up a dominant position as we came around the corner rather than turning right across me from the left hand side of the road.
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If only there was some sort of proficiency test for cyclists :D .
 
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