Your bad driving encounters

Rroff said:
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.
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I agree, there are a few on my commute (beverley to hessle) where they've been changed and they were far better before, but sometimes it feels like some of these planners just want to change layouts to justify their jobs.
 
Driving along side a car for a mile. He then decides to sweep across two lanes to go to the right turn filter for a supermarket. He had plenty of opportunity to change lanes.
 
Model 3 on the A3 this evening clearly roadcaptaining for everyone. 60mph in the fast lane, tailback for miles, knowing exactly what they're doing and doing it on purpose. Eventually I pass on the left and just stay there as the lane was mostly empty, so he puts his foot down, brake tests me and tries to herd me back in to his mile long tailback, before putting his foot down and hammering down the road at what must've been 100mph+.

Eventually I catch up and go past him again, move in to lane three and start driving defensively, making sure he can't get past me again. Cruise set to 73mph and off we go. A few attempts to try and cut past me again are swiftly eliminated by me changing lanes to make sure he doesn't get past. During all this the tailback starts coming past him and I'm seeing a few cars give him the finger as they go past and a bloke in a van even gave me a thumbs up for forcing him to move over.

I'm seeing a lot of this behaviour lately, not sure if it's always been like this and I'm only noticing because I have gone from doing 20 miles a week in London to 80 miles a day on the A3 or if it's really a thing lately, but it really does boggle my mind. Nowadays I'm just calm and let them get on with it but ten years ago I likely would retaliate and then escalate until I "win".

On a better note however, I saw a chap in an SD1 V8 on the A311 and lowered my window to hear that burble a bit, he clearly saw this as he dropped a gear and floored it past me. I gave him a massive thumbs up and his face lit up like a Christmas tree. #carfriends
 
Couple of guys in a modded M3 and C63 AMG with pop and bang maps driving like ****. AMG power sliding out of roundabout due to the wet / slippery conditions.
 
Got behind a police car which was doing 40-50 in an NSL general driving standard wasn't great with poor forward observation - always possible they'd just been on a traumatic call out though and/or dealing with a situation but still.

Then overtook people going well below the speed limit, about 50 in a 70, approaching a new speed limit but then they don't slow for the new limit so catch me up with them doing about 50 into the 30... why can't people just drive normally.
 
Diddums said:
Model 3 on the A3 this evening clearly roadcaptaining for everyone. 60mph in the fast lane, tailback for miles, knowing exactly what they're doing and doing it on purpose. Eventually I pass on the left and just stay there as the lane was mostly empty, so he puts his foot down, brake tests me and tries to herd me back in to his mile long tailback, before putting his foot down and hammering down the road at what must've been 100mph+.

Eventually I catch up and go past him again, move in to lane three and start driving defensively, making sure he can't get past me again. Cruise set to 73mph and off we go. A few attempts to try and cut past me again are swiftly eliminated by me changing lanes to make sure he doesn't get past. During all this the tailback starts coming past him and I'm seeing a few cars give him the finger as they go past and a bloke in a van even gave me a thumbs up for forcing him to move over.

I'm seeing a lot of this behaviour lately, not sure if it's always been like this and I'm only noticing because I have gone from doing 20 miles a week in London to 80 miles a day on the A3 or if it's really a thing lately, but it really does boggle my mind. Nowadays I'm just calm and let them get on with it but ten years ago I likely would retaliate and then escalate until I "win".

On a better note however, I saw a chap in an SD1 V8 on the A311 and lowered my window to hear that burble a bit, he clearly saw this as he dropped a gear and floored it past me. I gave him a massive thumbs up and his face lit up like a Christmas tree. #carfriends
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It is just London I am afraid. Way too many plonkers and people who got their licence from some third world country. Coming off the A12 yesterday there were 3 smashed cars on the hard shoulder of the M11 and today a smashed up I3 (Plod was scratching his head on how to move it) on the A12 about a mile before the junction to turn off onto the M11. I haven't been into London for a good few months and both days have been 13+ hour days whereas mostly I am done in 9-10. You try and plan yourself as best as you can but there is always some sort of accident or traffic that puts you back hours.

You just need to ignore it really and block it out as you will just get stressed. I am always telling myself to calm down when around London.
 
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Was waiting to pull out of a multi storey car park this afternoon, huge hail downpour, road was covered in a hefty layer of ice. Saw a car go past, immediately thought, they’re going too fast for the conditions. A minute or so later my light goes green, turn left onto the road, 100m down the hill at a junction saw said car with the hazards on having ploughed into the back of two cars in both lanes at the traffic lights :rolleyes:

This wasn’t a light hail shower, it was at least a couple of centimetres of round slippery hailstones.
 
VaderDSL said:
Was waiting to pull out of a multi storey car park this afternoon, huge hail downpour, road was covered in a hefty layer of ice. Saw a car go past, immediately thought, they’re going too fast for the conditions. A minute or so later my light goes green, turn left onto the road, 100m down the hill at a junction saw said car with the hazards on having ploughed into the back of two cars in both lanes at the traffic lights :rolleyes:

This wasn’t a light hail shower, it was at least a couple of centimetres of round slippery hailstones.
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Is that what you call instant karma?
 
I almost had a couple of crashes last night, one of which did shake me up. 1st one, some guy in the left lane decides to straight line the roundabout, while I'm turning right so I had to slam on.
The one that really shook me up though, was the guy that pulled Infront of me in a 50 zone (was doing 50-55), then decided to go at 30. I almost rear ended him as I (stupidly) assumed he would get up to speed and not go dangerously slow. Just to top it off, there was a gap behind of about half a mile so no idea why they pulled out.
Saw an awesome case of poor driving this morning too, driving down a dual carriageway and a guy is coming off it to go on the sliproad, he decides to slam on down to 45 before he even gets on the (empty) sliproad. I just don't see how there can be this many poor drivers.
I almost got Tboned by a learner the other day as they didn't give way at a given way (was in a proper instructors car so I assume dual controls).

Rant over:p.
 
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theone8181 said:
one of which did shake me up. 1st one, some guy in the left lane decides to straight line the roundabout, while I'm turning right so I had to slam on.
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Had a couple of people do that recently, which is why as much as I can I try and stay staggered, though difficult to do sometimes.
 
Rroff said:
Had a couple of people do that recently, which is why as much as I can I try and stay staggered, though difficult to do sometimes.
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Straight lining roundabouts seems to be a real issue now.

Last year my dad had someone do it to him, how the XC90 driver didn't spot the 40-ton HGV to his right I have no idea as he hit about half way down the truck & made contact with the 2nd axle.
 
Sunday morning travelling down the M5, just joined from M49, so in the left lane with a caravan to my right, caravan dithering to get past me, no room for me to speed up to get in front and no gap behind her for me to slot into, but back off as much as I safely can (dropped to about 40) as the caravan in along side my door the driver decides she can pull into the left lane. I slam on my brakes and hit my horn, she continues to move to the left, guy that was behind her passes her, I move into lane 2 and can see him having a go at her. As I pass her she acts completely oblivious to the fact that she's nearly sent me into the Avonmouth Docks
 
Now that I've calmed down. One from yesterday at work.

I'm driving a 12.5t double deck bus, ~23 passengers, it's broad daylight and on a straight 40mph road. There's constant traffic streaming in the oncoming lane. 200-230 yards ahead is a T-junction on my left and there's a Volvo waiting to emerge. I i get closer, probably 90 yrds Mr Volvo decides he's gonna pull into my lane and wait for someone to let him in. I hit the brakes (and horn to warn others) and came to a controlled stop about a foot off his drivers door. He then opens his window and asks what the hell I'm playing at, could I not see him waiting.

Reported it all to our police liasion, just wish I could be there when he gets the visit from a traffic officer handing him the TOR paperwork filed for dangerous driving.
 
Resident said:
Reported it all to our police liasion, just wish I could be there when he gets the visit from a traffic officer handing him the TOR paperwork filed for dangerous driving.
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Thats insane, you got to wonder what people are thinking sometimes.

Out of interest will the police prosecute based on your statement and (I assume) footage from the bus?

Iamzod said:
Straight lining roundabouts seems to be a real issue now.
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The NRD round Norwich is a hotspot for this, for some reason they made it three lanes on the roundabouts - most drivers treat it as one
 
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Siliconslave said:
Thats insane, you got to wonder what people are thinking sometimes.

Out of interest will the police prosecute based on your statement and (I assume) footage from the bus?
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My formal statement & the footage/telemetry from the bus. Most of our fleet has at least front mounted camera, one in the destination board and one mounted at dashboard level in front of the driver. A lot of them also have forward facing cameras mounted on the upper rear corners for a flank angle view.

If he pleads not guilty then I'll have to go to court and basically read out my statement.
 
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