Your bad driving encounters
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Some of the way to work had someone come up behind me, tailgating, on the phone, huge Dalmatian in the back untethered bouncing from one side of the car to the other... you have to wonder...
Then got stuck in heavy traffic and someone 4-5 cars back was tooting the horn and gesturing at people to move... not sure where they thought people would move to...
Then got stuck in heavy traffic and someone 4-5 cars back was tooting the horn and gesturing at people to move... not sure where they thought people would move to...
j'accuse the police - on this A10 roundabout 2 police cars with flashing light and a couple of cars all stopped on outer lane on East side of roundabout this evening/night
police didn't seem to have the intelligence to put warning signs, or re-park a vehicle several hundred meters before the NSL roundabout -
coming south on the A10 you don't have good visibility of the roundabout until you are on top of it - nobody expects the spanish inquisition.
police didn't seem to have the intelligence to put warning signs, or re-park a vehicle several hundred meters before the NSL roundabout -
coming south on the A10 you don't have good visibility of the roundabout until you are on top of it - nobody expects the spanish inquisition.
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100% agreed.
Or they were busy dealing with whatever they were there for. It being an NSL roundabout is irrelevant, you should be slowing well before it anyway.
Going to work yesterday was interesting - gloomy wet weather with lots of spray and something I've not generally seen - loads of people without headlights or any lights on at all (unlike some posters I've not seen it that much in the past with most people having their lights on), with all the spray being kicked up it did make quite a difference in visibility. Quite a few people going slow due to the weather but far slower than needed - I overtook one doing 30 in a NSL which wasn't ideal but the conditions were OK for doing the speed limit though I could understand people doing a little slower, but not that slow. The best bit was a couple of people on the dual-carriageway going fairly slowly yet without a single light on and remonstrating with people going past way too quickly for the conditions... 
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ok - I could have added they hadn't just stopped the cars - otherwise I'd have expected a queue of traffic,
but like with a pile up on a motorway if the speeds are higher, then, thinking you need to give people more warning, makes sense - like positioning your yellow triangle if you broke down.
Agreed. He was a bit cheeky but I have pulled out in smaller gaps than that (and then waved an apology to the car I made slow down)
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Whilst I don't condone complaining to the company about it, pulling out like that just because the nearest on coming car is turning into the road you're emerging from shouldn't be seen as acceptable. We all know the stupid position moped and motorcycle drivers like to take when following a vehicle, positioned right in the blind spot, one foot from the rear offside bumper. In that scenario, they can't see a car emerging and the car emerging can't see the bike rider.
Bike rider opens it up as the car in front of them turns, finds a car in the middle of the road. The biker is stupid, but as we all know, you've got to drive expecting the unexpected and you'll be at fault in that incident for pulling out when you don't know it's clear.
Bike rider opens it up as the car in front of them turns, finds a car in the middle of the road. The biker is stupid, but as we all know, you've got to drive expecting the unexpected and you'll be at fault in that incident for pulling out when you don't know it's clear.
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Exactly the antics I was forced to report a grandparent for. Refused to acknowledge how dangerous he was because he'd been driving 70yrs and knew better.
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My late grandmother was a danger on the roads. Used both hands to use the gearstick! Plus she made a 10 mile journey into a 15 mile one as she avoided a sharp right turn.
Invent something outrageous
If it happens again, you'll have to do the dashcammer classic, find someone pulling out of a junction / onto a roundabout way ahead of you, break the speed limit massively to get there before they've finished what was a perfectly acceptable manoeuvre and lay into the horn (minimal braking) as you skim inches past their bumper.
Edit - oh and don't forget to shout 'YOU'RE ON DASHCAM' for when you send it to a compilation video channel to make sure it gets included.
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WASTED!
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Wrong thread perhaps...
I actually had someone try and do that to me I think pulling out from one roundabout - I took advantage of someone else causing traffic already on the roundabout to slow momentarily to cheekily pull out - but I actually got going rather than so many people do of pulling out then just sitting there. The way one of the vehicles was trying to close on me I definitely got the vibe they were hovering over the horn button.
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Maybe your the bad driver
. I think sometimes it's perspective, somebody pulled out on me the other day and did 40 in a 60 (I had to slam on). I'm sure they thought I was the dangerous one as I overtook them.I saw a Doris go straight on in a right only lane on a roundabout and almost cause a crash, intact in notice a lot of these poorer drivers are getting on a bit, or driving suvs (or both
).Maybe your the bad driver
I saw a Doris go straight on in a right only lane on a roundabout and almost cause a crash, intact in notice a lot of these poorer drivers are getting on a bit, or driving suvs (or both
Been a lot of posts on social media locally braying for lower speed limits at an accident black spot after yet another fatal accident - but knowing some of these people they are mostly split between those who drive well below the speed limit and appropriate speed and think they are a safe driver for it and it is more about bringing everyone down to their level rather than caring about making the roads safer, or those who just ignore the speed limit anyhow...
To be fair even with more than 20 years of driving experience I still hate roundabouts - classic 2 Lane, 3-4 roads are one thing but so many now are poorly signed, inconsistent application of the theory, etc., irregular shaped with sometimes additional interstitial sections and so on.