Your bad driving encounters

Minor bit of bad driving today. Obvious queue of traffic going nowhere yet the driver pulled onto the roundabout anyway blocking the next exit. It got them literally nowhere and held up a, not best pleased guy, in a Fiesta for a couple of minutes.

The driver in question... me. I was on autopilot I guess and its something that really bugs me when other drivers do it so I was doubly annoyed with myself.
 
lordrobs said:
Minor bit of bad driving today. Obvious queue of traffic going nowhere yet the driver pulled onto the roundabout anyway blocking the next exit. It got them literally nowhere and held up a, not best pleased guy, in a Fiesta for a couple of minutes.

The driver in question... me. I was on autopilot I guess and its something that really bugs me when other drivers do it so I was doubly annoyed with myself.
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The difference is you recognise your error and try to improve, that's how everyone should be. We all make little mistakes in judgment now and again, I usually just hold my hand up.
 
lordrobs said:
Minor bit of bad driving today. Obvious queue of traffic going nowhere yet the driver pulled onto the roundabout anyway blocking the next exit. It got them literally nowhere and held up a, not best pleased guy, in a Fiesta for a couple of minutes.

The driver in question... me. I was on autopilot I guess and its something that really bugs me when other drivers do it so I was doubly annoyed with myself.
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There's a roundabout in the middle of Beverley like that. People block it by stopping on it (it's a mini) but then you can get past them to turn right (they are coming from my right and turning right, so to my left if that makes sense).
 
The amount of "elephant races" I've seen today in about a 20 mile stretch of dual carriageway is unbelievable. The worst one the lorry overtaking didn't even get level with the back of the one he was "overtaking". He just wouldn't admit defeat. His blushes were spared by the other lorry leaving on a slip road so he could go back to lane 1.

Also plenty of old people with absolutely no situational awareness, just tootling along, not getting up to speed.
 
Stu999 said:
The amount of "elephant races" I've seen today in about a 20 mile stretch of dual carriageway is unbelievable.
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Had that on the way to work Monday - not just trucks but cars and even a learner just not getting going in the outside lane :( it just boggles my mind why people can't just get going and drive to a reasonable speed for the limit and conditions.
 
On the A556 today an Ioniq5 was trundling at 45ish in a 60. I went for the overtake only to notice the Ioniq veering into the overtaking lane I was in. I slowed down to allow the car to get in 2nd lane thinking they might be saving battery life by not indicating lol. Nope, they went back and lane drifted again.

I completed my overtake, and while doing that saw the guy driving the Ioniq was bending down towards his left at 'that' speed doing God knows what.
 
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Brun said:
Presumably you'll voluntarily surrender your licence before this happens?
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I don't see how this relates to my observation but, yes I absolutely would give up my licence. If I'm still here I would probably give up driving by about 65. With all of the delivery services (and I'm sure other technological advancements to come) I most likely won't need a car.
 
Yesterday evening, a food delivery driver driving a car they bought this month (based on v5 date) with a completely bald front tyre and part of the carcass showing in the centre.

This morning, a car overtook us while we were cycling (group of 4 in a line) with a oncoming car needing to slam on the brakes and it pulled in tight to the front cyclist and missing the front car by what must have been less then half a foot. The oncoming car was rightfully very ****** off.

Bonus one: police diversion this morning was along a foot path, not just two wheels up the kerb, but 100m or so with all 4 wheels on the pavement that wasn't much wider then a normal car. Glad I was on my bike and not my car, as I'd have declined it as I can't get up kerbs.
 
On the way to work there was a lunatic coming the other way overtaking someone around a corner - fortunately we were stuck behind a tractor doing 20MPH - any other day would have been a head on collision with combined speeds well over 100MPH... idiot.
 
Stu999 said:
I don't see how this relates to my observation but, yes I absolutely would give up my licence. If I'm still here I would probably give up driving by about 65. With all of the delivery services (and I'm sure other technological advancements to come) I most likely won't need a car.
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Won't know til it comes to it. A relative got dementia and didn't have the faculty left to understand they had abysmal reaction times, awareness etc. Family had to firmly insist they stopped.

When you see some oldy crawling along, chances are they're somewhat aware of their increasing limitations but unless something happens, they're still not willing to give up their independence.
 
Trouble is unless you live in a city then public transport is appalling so people will drive as long s they can. Round here the roads are 50 limits, but good luck getting to anything like that, the vast majority of the time there'll be someone crawling along between 20-40 mph, and there are very few opportunities to overtake.
I think that's why I'm seeing more and more people overtaking when it's not safe, like on blind bends. The frustration is real.
 
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Hotwired said:
Won't know til it comes to it. A relative got dementia and didn't have the faculty left to understand they had abysmal reaction times, awareness etc. Family had to firmly insist they stopped.

When you see some oldy crawling along, chances are they're somewhat aware of their increasing limitations but unless something happens, they're still not willing to give up their independence.
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I had to force the issue with a grandparent. Been told for years be many that he needed to give up but was stubborn and refused. He would routinely fail to stop at give ways/lights

Spoke with DVSA who got RoSPA to assess him. He failed the cognitive tests inside the centre first but they still took him out on the road, or at least attempted to. They failed him before even getting out of the car park.

With an aging population of drivers & one, that in my experience, has become so self-entitled the self-declaration at 70 now needs to be an assesment, both health and ability. As a professional driver, from the age of 45 I will have to have them every 5 years till I'm 65 then yearly after that to keep my PCV entitlement. It's my personal belief that this should be for ALL drivers.

I also believe that from the date you recieve your provisional you should have to submit eye test results every 5 years or face licence suspension as there are FAR too many out on the roads that cannot see properly.
 
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