Your bad driving encounters

When driving down a country lane. Driver going opposite direction doesn’t pull into the wider area which is on their side when they saw me. So have to reverse myself or drive onto a verge. About 8 years ago, I did this and got a puncture from striking a hidden rock in the long grass.
 
Lovely encounter on the A303 this morning with a T5 transporter that decided to wait until I was right on his rear quarter to overtake the car ahead of him without indicating...

At least it wasn't the Tanker yesterday morning with only side lights on in the dense fog, also on the A303, albeit single carriageway this time. Was like something out of Silent hill with initially a shadow and then a large object suddenly appearing from the mist.
 
I seem to be encountering quite a few morons on the A3 in recent weeks in particular. People sitting in the wrong lanes, morons flying up to the back of you and then sitting about 10cm from the rear bumper, idiots swerving from lane to lane over and undertaking people like they're playing need for speed. It's ridiculous!

Also had a numpty in an old Audi TT trying to race me on the M23. He kept pulling along side me and then flooring it expecting me to do the same. I ignored him for a while until he disappeared and then about 10mins later he flew past me again this time racing another numpty in a G wagon!
 
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Obviously I didn't quite catch the start of it, but assuming you mean the Transit on the road in front of the Audi, he was waiting to pull in to where the refrigerated truck came out of, so couldn't exactly go anywhere else (or even reverse back to give the truck a bit more space with the Audi right up his ****). It wasn't exactly helped by the blue Focus trying to park inside the back of the truck as soon as he'd pulled out, blocking the van from turning, and meaning the truck had no room to manoeuvre between the parked Mitsubishi and the Audi.

Basically **** poor driving and impatience all round - any number of those vehicles just holding back a bit to allow a HGV to complete its manoeuvre would have allowed everyone to get back on their way a lot quicker, however (IMO at least) the only one actually driving like the end of a bell was the Citroen who decided to drive on the wrong side of the road past obviously queueing traffic and then undertake on the pavement.
 
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Got one on my CCTV this evening where someone drives into a stationary van on a narrowing due to park cars, where the van had priority to proceed anyway. Gave the poor fella my details so he can send the video to insurance.
 
had a few in the last week or so

Last Thursday we had snow, some drivers still being perhaps a bit too cautious (15 in a 40 on a reasonably clear road 25-30 would have been a reasonable speed). Anyway I came up behind this car doing 15mph and slowed down myself, glance in my mirror to see a van coming up behind me at around 35-40mph. The van slams on his brakes and realises he isn't going to stop in time so swerves and ends up with the front end of the van level with me before dropping back. Driver starts wildly gesturing at me and the promptly sits so close to the back of my car that I could see his headlights in any of my mirrors.

Next one was Tuesday just gone, driving home from work in nose to tail traffic and see an ambulance approaching from the opposite direction, ambulance going at a fair pace with blues and twos going, car from a side road to my right decides its a good idea to pull out and turn right with no actual gap for him to slot into. Ambulance has to brake hard because the car is now blocking its path and with next car in the side road having pulled forward no room for the ambulance to get through until our traffic queue manged to do some shuffling around, mounting kerbs etc to make a gap that the moron could pull into.

One from last night, as I was walking back to my car, there was heavy traffic on the road I was walking alongside. There is one lane heading out of town and two heading into town, both lanes heading in are at a standstill and one heading out is moving normally. A car decides to pull out of a side road across the two lanes heading into town and rather than stopping at the "centre" line to make sure nothing was coming, just continues on without a care in the world, another car (girl from my team at work and her boyfriend) has to stop sharpish and driver leans on his horn. Apparently when the driver confronted the idiot he claimed to have not seen him.

Last one was tonight one the way home, same junction as the ambulance incident, was driving along and slowing for traffic ahead when someone decides to pull out of the junction, I assume to slot in behind me, but hasn't read the road properly because I was almost at a stop right in front of him (would have been at completely stop just beyond the junction so wouldn't have been blocking it entirely) in fairness to the guy he looked rather sheepish and did apologise
 
Funnily enough, I went through a junction today which is notorious for people jumping the lights, witnessed 3 people do it over the course the 5 hours I was in the area.

Ironically this junction is directly outside the police station in Torquay.
 
Saw plenty today up the A34, these always seem to happen at night, do people not have their side mirrors set right or something and don't see headlights?!

But anyway, overtaking nicely in lane 2 with a steady flow of traffic on lane 1, then suddenly someone almost always indicates and pulls out as I'm approaching them to pass requiring me to brake to slow down in front of them, they then proceed to overtake the left lane slowly... I don't really mind people pulling in front of me if they are then able to just use the throttle to continue a decent pace, but going marginally faster than lane 1 is just not on :p
 
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Not a bad driver as such but on my way to work at temporary traffic lights the person in front of me in the queue suddenly decided to stamp on their brakes to let someone in from a side road - sudden enough forward collision assist kicked in simultaneous with my reaction time - only the second time I've had it kick in in 1000s of miles. (EDIT: On another day I'd have stopped to let the person in but by the time the driver in front of me got there the queue of traffic was moving at a good speed - would have been better if someone in front had let them in before the queue speed picked up).

Not a great driver though as they'd been fairly erratic and obviously not paying much attention in the slow moving traffic through town leading up to that - so I probably should have left a little more margin but I was wanting to catch the lights as they'd been on green awhile and there is a 3-4 minute wait once they go red.

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Lovely encounter on the A303 this morning with a T5 transporter that decided to wait until I was right on his rear quarter to overtake the car ahead of him without indicating...

At least it wasn't the Tanker yesterday morning with only side lights on in the dense fog, also on the A303, albeit single carriageway this time. Was like something out of Silent hill with initially a shadow and then a large object suddenly appearing from the mist.
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A303 has been carnage ever since the things started to get back to normal again from the pandemic and serious or fatal accidents almost every day! the standard of driving on it I think is worse than any other road I do and way worse than before 2020.

I miss the lockdown in that respect:

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Mile after mile when it would normally be rammed with just the occasional vehicle on the A303 (the blue vehicle was with me).
 
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The commute has been nuts since the pandemic, everyone in such a rush. The other week I started waking up early due to taking training supplements too late in the evening so started going to work an hour early instead.. OMFG what a difference. Everyone so chill, it's been bliss....
That is until I got used to the supplements and started waking up "late" again. Damn it..
This mornings was a cracker. Sat behind an HGV on autopilot as my junction was coming up, someone carves up a middle laner and then goes for the non existent gap between me and the HGV. JUST WHY ARRGH
 
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This mornings was a cracker.
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My commute today was fun :s the car in front of me for the first 2-3 miles for some inexplicable reason was doing 40 in the 30s, 50 in the 40s and 40-45 when it was NSL, eventually had a chance to overtake them only to catch up a lorry around the next corner :( and when that turned off a bus - at least they have a reason for doing a fair bit under the speed limit.

Then at the start of the dual carriageway came across someone who'd taken the right lane doing about 35MPH! to try and overtake a cement mixer IIRC which was slowly getting up to speed - the car driver dithered about then decided to try and tuck back in behind the cement mixer at the same time the cement mixer driver I think thought the whole thing was ridiculous and eased off I assume so they'd get past - so they nearly went into the back of it... looked like a couple of elderly people in the car when I went past.

Then had someone pull out to take a right turning off the dual carriageway a good mile or more prematurely and sit there at about 48MPH with a lorry just ahead in the left lane doing 50... couple of cars cut in-between the two undertaking but it was pretty risky - eventually the gap opened up when the lorry was on a downhill and most of the people stuck behind the car undertook.

Seriously just sat there most of my commute saying what the **** out loud :(
 
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Good one yesterday afternoon. Citroen C3 cuts up a Qashqai, and to be fair up until this point the C3 was completely in the wrong.

The Qashqai then starts tailgating the C3, both run through a red light and the Qashqai keeps trying to ram the C3 off the road only stopping when he suddenly has to turn off, can only assume it was because of police car in the petrol station a little further up.
 
If I posted all the red light jumpers and lane hoggers I’d be here all day, but I didn’t expect this across a double white line on a bend. What an absolute muppet, I may take advantage of some overtaking spots, that isn’t one of them:

 
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CaptainRAVE said:
If I posted all the red light jumpers and lane hoggers I’d be here all day
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See plenty of lane hoggers but oddly not many red light jumpers - only seen one this year so far who pulled out of the queue a few cars back from the front at roadworks traffic lights about 5 seconds after they changed to red and went through.
 
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