Your bad driving encounters

[cheesefest]

i'm not sure why people are complaining.
When parents are dropping/picking up their kids, traffic rules don't apply to them.

Police should do a random spot check on schools and fine those lazy parents. No, they have no rights to park where they fancy either.

One place I lived and travelled to work on bus, I could get a bus 20 mins later during the school holidays as the parents' selfish parking at the three schools on the bus route added 20 mins to the journey.

 

[cheesefest]

Friend's gran lives in a cul de sac about 100m from the primary school - which was built after she moved in. She has been living there for 47 years. Only last year parents started to park on these people's drives! Friend was there doing some gardening for her gran and saw one of the mums pulling up in her drive. Friend asked the mum please could she not park there. "I have my rights". Err no you don't. Others in the cul de sac had similar encounters with selfish parents. Since then, every resident in the cul de sac of 16 properties have installed parking bollards of various forms at the bottom of their driveways.

The only people that are allowed to park in people's driveways are guests, tradespeople such as gas engineers, plumbers and people like mobile hairdressers. Or on very rare occasions where neighbour is having driveway done, having new windows installed etc.

 

[theone8181]

Friend's gran lives in a cul de sac about 100m from the primary school - which was built after she moved in. She has been living there for 47 years. Only last year parents started to park on these people's drives! Friend was there doing some gardening for her gran and saw one of the mums pulling up in her drive. Friend asked the mum please could she not park there. "I have my rights". Err no you don't. Others in the cul de sac had similar encounters with selfish parents. Since then, every resident in the cul de sac of 16 properties have installed parking bollards of various forms at the bottom of their driveways.

The only people that are allowed to park in people's driveways are guests, tradespeople such as gas engineers, plumbers and people like mobile hairdressers. Or on very rare occasions where neighbour is having driveway done, having new windows installed etc.

I'd be putting the bollard up after someone parked on my drive, but apparently that's against the law for some reason (wonder if you could put a sign up saying unauthorised vehicles will be detained?).

 

[Dis86]

I'd be putting the bollard up after someone parked on my drive, but apparently that's against the law for some reason (wonder if you could put a sign up saying unauthorised vehicles will be detained?).

I used to live near a school and people often blocked my neighbours drive. He took to smearing dog crap on their door handles. Genius.

 

[cheesefest]

I used to live near a school and people often blocked my neighbours drive. He took to smearing dog crap on their door handles. Genius.

Genius!

 

[theone8181]

Justified I'd say.

 

[Richie]

I'd be putting the bollard up after someone parked on my drive, but apparently that's against the law for some reason (wonder if you could put a sign up saying unauthorised vehicles will be detained?).

It's illegal to prevent someone accessing the public road network so, by blocking someone who is on your drive, you're doing just that.

 

[peterwalkley]

Friend's gran lives in a cul de sac about 100m from the primary school - which was built after she moved in. She has been living there for 47 years. Only last year parents started to park on these people's drives! Friend was there doing some gardening for her gran and saw one of the mums pulling up in her drive. Friend asked the mum please could she not park there. "I have my rights". Err no you don't. Others in the cul de sac had similar encounters with selfish parents. Since then, every resident in the cul de sac of 16 properties have installed parking bollards of various forms at the bottom of their driveways.

The only people that are allowed to park in people's driveways are guests, tradespeople such as gas engineers, plumbers and people like mobile hairdressers. Or on very rare occasions where neighbour is having driveway done, having new windows installed etc.

... and I have a right to take a lump hammer to anything on my property Got to be really bad if they've all had to resort to bollards on their drives.

 

[Resident]

Sounds like the Fat Fighters International meetings hosted at the community centre on my road. People attending are too lazy to walk a few m down the road (there's plenty of parking), so they double park, blocking the pavement, park right on the corner blocking visibility, and across peoples' drives. Instead of looking for a quick fix meeting, maybe the stupid fat **** should try tackling the root cause of the problem?

Once, whilst at work I was waiting for my departure time at a stop outside a community centre. They were hold one of those slimming world type meetings. A behemoth of a woman waddles out, wedges herself into a car and then drove 50yrd down the road, went into the chippy and then exited with 2 carrier bags full. She then wedged herself back in the car, drove another 60yrd-ish, pulled onto a driveway and went into the house.

 

[tom_e]

Once, whilst at work I was waiting for my departure time at a stop outside a community centre. They were hold one of those slimming world type meetings. A behemoth of a woman waddles out, wedges herself into a car and then drove 50yrd down the road, went into the chippy and then exited with 2 carrier bags full. She then wedged herself back in the car, drove another 60yrd-ish, pulled onto a driveway and went into the house.

Bet she'd had a really good meeting and lost a whole lb so had to treat herself.

 

[Haggisman]

It's illegal to prevent someone accessing the public road network so, by blocking someone who is on your drive, you're doing just that.

What if... the bollards were just far enough apart that there was space for them to get the car through - and I mean only just, with ~1" each side? Technically you wouldn't be blocking them in, just making it very difficult for them to exit without damaging your property (and bollards can be expensive!)

Also, if just by chance, you ended up doing some DIY on your drive just in front of their car, and accidentally dropped a load of nails/screws just in front of their tyres then I'm pretty sure you would have done nothing wrong. It would be a real shame if they were to drive over them and end up with a puncture, but these things happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Stu999]

Second week in a row my bus to work has been overtaken on a suburban, 30mph road by an impatient goon.

It’s the express bus too so it’s not that it stops at every stop and it certainly felt like we were doing 30mph.

WTF people!

 

[Resident]

Second week in a row my bus to work has been overtaken on a suburban, 30mph road by an impatient goon.

It’s the express bus too so it’s not that it stops at every stop and it certainly felt like we were doing 30mph.

WTF people!

Happens all the time. Same with people sitting in the right/left turn only lane to then cut up the bus thats going straight ahead

 

[Diddums]

This week has been really odd so far. I've had four instances of people almost crashing in to me, one of which was partially my fault and the other three were absolutely 100% not my fault. Had I not evaded these people they'd have hit me. Two in black Range Rovers, one exiting a roundabout at the same time as me just decided to change in to the left lane and right in to me had I not hit the brakes.

The other also just decided to change lanes right in to me again causing me to take evasive action and the third was a Royal Mail chap who was clearly lost as he was all over the place. When he almot hit me I beeped at him and he looked like he was about to have a mental breakdown.

Other highlights include an electric bicycle on a dual carriageway and my personal favourite which I see more and more frequently, people stopping on slip roads to wait for a gap in traffic, rather than speed up and merge in correctly.

Honestly half this country is only alive because of the alertness of the other half, people are basically zombies nowadays.

 

[Haggisman]

Second week in a row my bus to work has been overtaken on a suburban, 30mph road by an impatient goon.

It’s the express bus too so it’s not that it stops at every stop and it certainly felt like we were doing 30mph.

WTF people!

I think this is a psychological thing. Same as having to overtake a car with L plates or cyclist. They are "slow", so must be overtaken, even if they aren't actually going slow; I've been tailgated and overtaken in my partner's car with L plates on in a 30 limit, whilst doing 30 (on the satnav, ~32 indicated on speedo), only for the person then to sit at 30mph indicated in front of me, forcing me to slow down...

 

[LuckyBenski]

I think this is a psychological thing. Same as having to overtake a car with L plates or cyclist. They are "slow", so must be overtaken, even if they aren't actually going slow; I've been tailgated and overtaken in my partner's car with L plates on in a 30 limit, whilst doing 30 (on the satnav, ~32 indicated on speedo), only for the person then to sit at 30mph indicated in front of me, forcing me to slow down...

This, to the extreme. I owned a Smart for 9 years. It was my first car and I explicitly drove at the speed limit or above to be honest... In London that's just normal, mostly 25 in a 20, and on motorways I aimed for 85mph cruising.

The amount of people forcing you out of the way or tailgating and flashing, whether in London traffic or the outside lane on the M25 and M4, was just bonkers. Especially annoying as while I drove at 85, slowing down to 68 to pull into the middle lane and make way, getting back up to speed takes AGES in that tiny 999cc toy

I now own a Toyota Yaris MPV like some pensioner and pootle around saving fuel at 58 on the motorway, and stick to limits in London... No one gives me any grief. Go figure.

 

[Dis86]

This week has been really odd so far. I've had four instances of people almost crashing in to me, one of which was partially my fault and the other three were absolutely 100% not my fault. Had I not evaded these people they'd have hit me. Two in black Range Rovers, one exiting a roundabout at the same time as me just decided to change in to the left lane and right in to me had I not hit the brakes.

The other also just decided to change lanes right in to me again causing me to take evasive action and the third was a Royal Mail chap who was clearly lost as he was all over the place. When he almot hit me I beeped at him and he looked like he was about to have a mental breakdown.

Other highlights include an electric bicycle on a dual carriageway and my personal favourite which I see more and more frequently, people stopping on slip roads to wait for a gap in traffic, rather than speed up and merge in correctly.

Honestly half this country is only alive because of the alertness of the other half, people are basically zombies nowadays.

You're turning in to me. Took your sweet time!

 

[cheesefest]

Drivers who get impatient with learner drivers.

They probably have forgotten about when they learnt to drive.

I always treat driving school cars with dignity and understand that some learners are nervous

 

[Dis86]

Drivers who get impatient with learner drivers.

They probably have forgotten about when they learnt to drive.

I always treat driving school cars with dignity and understand that some learners are nervous

Nervous drivers shouldn't be on main or busy roads. Let them use those roads once their confidence and competence increases to a suitable level.

 

[Rroff]

Nervous drivers shouldn't be on main or busy roads. Let them use those roads once their confidence and competence increases to a suitable level.

That is impractical in many places - you [some people] need to tackle some of these situations to build up confidence with them. I started off with my instructor driving around a trading estate which back then was fairly quiet, but these days those kind of places are an obstacle course of parked cars with frequent goods vehicle traffic.