Your bad driving encounters

Driving home just now - got up behind a lorry near the end of the dual-carriageway and he positioned half into lane 2 as I caught up - there was a moped moving across to lane 2 in front of the lorry so as to take a right turn which I'd have come into conflict with trying to pass the lorry though I'd already seen it fortunately, then later another overtaking chance came up but I faintly saw lights coming the other way so didn't go for it and the lorry driver again moved into the middle of the road blocking me - so there was me thinking he was a good driver trying to prevent accidents happening... and then we catch up with a cyclist and the lorry driver goes fully onto the other side of the road to go around the cyclist on a blind bend...
 
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Was out for a walk yesterday and there is a street completely closed due to road works. It even has a road closed sign that you cannot miss. Despite this at least 6 morons drove around the sign up this closed road, before finally seeing the group of workers digging a massive hole. So they all had to do multi point turn to get back out again. One moron in a van ended up having to reverse out.

It was even worse from the other end of the street, the road closed sign was right in the middle of the road blocking both lanes. Yet a few idiots just drove up the kerb to ignore it, before the inevitable about face.

I mean how stupid do you need to be to assume the road closed sign isn’t really serious and should be ignored.
 
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ICDP said:
Was out for a walk yesterday and there is a street completely closed due to road works. It even has a road closed sign that you cannot miss. Despite this at least 6 morons drove around the sign up this closed road, before finally seeing the group of workers digging a massive hole. So they all had to do multi point turn to get back out again. One moron in a van ended up having to reverse out.

It was even worse from the other end of the street, the road closed sign was right in the middle of the road blocking both lanes. Yet a few idiots just drove up the kerb to ignore it, before the inevitable about face.

I mean how stupid do you need to be to assume the road closed sign isn’t really serious and should be ignored.
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To be honest there's so much signage left when it's no longer needed a lot of the time these days that it's no surprise people start to ignore them.
 
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To be honest there's so much signage left when it's no longer needed a lot of the time these days that it's no surprise people start to ignore them.
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I doubt that’s a valid reason for the vast majority of cases and extremely rare.
 
On my home from work at 4am last week and there was a ‘Road Ahead Closed’ sign, I continued on as I couldn’t determine which road was closed and at which point, I hoped it was after one of the many turnings I could use to choose another route

Turns out there was no closure at all , at least not on the road the sign was on :confused:

So I can fully appreciate why people ignore signs sometimes
 
i live in a rural area so there are blind corners everywhere

randomly find large vehicles around some of these bends, last week it was a scaffolding Lorry stopped right on a tight blind bend.

not broken down, they were checking the poles and drove off after a while.

luckily i spotted its silhouette through some trees and had time to slow down.
 
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Was out for a walk yesterday and there is a street completely closed due to road works. It even has a road closed sign that you cannot miss. Despite this at least 6 morons drove around the sign up this closed road, before finally seeing the group of workers digging a massive hole. So they all had to do multi point turn to get back out again. One moron in a van ended up having to reverse out.

It was even worse from the other end of the street, the road closed sign was right in the middle of the road blocking both lanes. Yet a few idiots just drove up the kerb to ignore it, before the inevitable about face.

I mean how stupid do you need to be to assume the road closed sign isn’t really serious and should be ignored.
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Probably 50% of the time the signage is wrong... Not condoning driving in but a few times near me in recent memory, including the street I live on, road closed means there is a hole in half of the road with nobody working in it
 
All I am reading is a lot of stupid people making excuses for why they drive up closed roads :D

They say the truth hurts :p

Joking aside, how many times have you done it and found yourself feeling like a right tool doing a multipoint turn with a red face, as people looked on in disbelief at “that muppet”.
 
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This isn't bad driving..... but something I need to get off my chest.

I was in Provence for a gig last week for a few days. Lovely trip. Except for the absolutely detestable POS rental car. A Citroën C3. Continued the Citroën tradition of being a car that by all accounts seems to be designed by someone that has never driven a car.

The accelerator is awful, there's no feel to it, and seems to progress in steps, rather than a linear fashion.

The brakes have no feel, and are pretty much on or off.

The clutch is similarly lightweight with no feel.

The rear view mirror is so low down that it blocks half your view out of the front of the car, if you're tall you need to keep stooping at every right hand turn. Downright dangerous.

Had to use the windscreen washers to clean the dusty windscreen..... Great, then all the filthy water dripped in the driver's side window and down the inside of the door.

The boot struts are crap, meaning it takes a lot of effort to get the boot lid moving, then it slams shut with a resounding CLANG.

The hateful satnav console....whoever wrote that software need to be fired into the sun. Favourite feature is the proximity warning modal.... You're approaching a junction and glance down to check the layout, but another car has got within 10ft so the ENTIRE display is blanked out with a tiny bit of text in the middle saying proximity warning.

Obviously the display takes an age to boot up when you start the car, so you have to sit and wait before the reversing camera works.

All round visibility is awful, but not exclusive to this Citroën rubbish, all these wannabe SUV style heaps are the same.

I honestly don't know how anyone can own one of these piles of trash without losing the will to live. There is literally nothing to redeem them.
 
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The accelerator is awful, there's no feel to it, and seems to progress in steps, rather than a linear fashion.

The brakes have no feel, and are pretty much on or off.

The clutch is similarly lightweight with no feel.
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To be honest I find that with most rental/courtesy cars almost no matter the brand - accelerator, brakes and clutch are trashed. Why I avoid them if I can. I dunno what people do to them but certainly not look after them. Even the best car for brakes often has no braking feel after a few months of rental use :(

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All round visibility is awful, but not exclusive to this Citroën rubbish, all these wannabe SUV style heaps are the same.
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I don't find it too bad generally with the Qashqai but the rear view mirror view is definitely less than ideal - any more than a slight incline/decline and you can barely see much more than the car behind you - albeit the wing mirrors are still useable in those circumstances which I need to adjust to better really - I'm too used to either driving vehicles with good visibility in the rear view or no rear view mirror at all and not something in between LOL.
 
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Was out for a walk yesterday and there is a street completely closed due to road works. It even has a road closed sign that you cannot miss. Despite this at least 6 morons drove around the sign up this closed road, before finally seeing the group of workers digging a massive hole. So they all had to do multi point turn to get back out again. One moron in a van ended up having to reverse out.

It was even worse from the other end of the street, the road closed sign was right in the middle of the road blocking both lanes. Yet a few idiots just drove up the kerb to ignore it, before the inevitable about face.

I mean how stupid do you need to be to assume the road closed sign isn’t really serious and should be ignored.
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We had it a couple of years ago. Road was closed at the top of the road I live on for gas works. Signs put up at the bottom and the side road halfway up. Additionally there was a sign that stated "No through road, Resident access only"

In the space of an hour (I was sorting the front garden) around 20ish car drove all the way up to the barriers and then had to turn around and go back.
 
One of the local councillors has a few times turned around road closed signs which have been left in place between two lots of work which the workmen were supposed to do when they left. (Probably a degree of politics involved in them doing it though).
 
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This isn't bad driving..... but something I need to get off my chest.

I was in Provence for a gig last week for a few days. Lovely trip. Except for the absolutely detestable POS rental car. A Citroën C3. Continued the Citroën tradition of being a car that by all accounts seems to be designed by someone that has never driven a car.

The accelerator is awful, there's no feel to it, and seems to progress in steps, rather than a linear fashion.

The brakes have no feel, and are pretty much on or off.

The clutch is similarly lightweight with no feel.

The rear view mirror is so low down that it blocks half your view out of the front of the car, if you're tall you need to keep stooping at every right hand turn. Downright dangerous.

Had to use the windscreen washers to clean the dusty windscreen..... Great, then all the filthy water dripped in the driver's side window and down the inside of the door.

The boot struts are crap, meaning it takes a lot of effort to get the boot lid moving, then it slams shut with a resounding CLANG.

The hateful satnav console....whoever wrote that software need to be fired into the sun. Favourite feature is the proximity warning modal.... You're approaching a junction and glance down to check the layout, but another car has got within 10ft so the ENTIRE display is blanked out with a tiny bit of text in the middle saying proximity warning.

Obviously the display takes an age to boot up when you start the car, so you have to sit and wait before the reversing camera works.

All round visibility is awful, but not exclusive to this Citroën rubbish, all these wannabe SUV style heaps are the same.

I honestly don't know how anyone can own one of these piles of trash without losing the will to live. There is literally nothing to redeem them.
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Wife has a 2008 a lot of this resonates with me, but she just thinks I moan about things like the rear view mirror and infotainment screen because it's not my car.
 
No idea what was going on but in the dark coming around a corner and I'd thought I'd seen a light across the corner so was alert - 2 cyclists stopped at side of the road one with the bike perpendicular in the road and standing 1/3rd of the way across the lane at the back of the bike holding it by the seat blocking the rear light... (didn't see if there was a front light) so almost invisible in the dark until I was right on them and the other bike on the side with no lights on and the cyclist literally had their head in a bush and their arse in the air... and then about 20 yards further another cyclist weaving back and forth like a drunk.
 
Pretty foggy this morning so usual story, plenty of people driving without lights on.

The one that stood out though was a women I was stuck behind in the overtaking lane for 10miles, literally the only lights on in the car was the vanity mirror light on the back of her sun visor.
 
Doing about 40ish on a rural B road and came round a blind corner to find a total idiot had parked their car at a farm gate with the tail end sticking out over the main road. A few metres after this badly parked car a guy was walking his dog.

I only had a few seconds reaction time to swerve around the parked car slightly into to the oncoming lane while braking to avoid the dog walker. Of course just at the perfect time a van came around a bend in the other direction. My wife was actually doing one of those sharp intake of breath in horror moments.

This idiots idea of parking almost caused a serious crash and potential loss of life.

It really highlights how some so called NSL roads are just not 60mph roads. Yet how many people still get annoyed because you aren’t doing 60 on them. I even know some entitled people who think rural B roads are where you drive like a lunatic for fun because “the ones I drive are always quiet”.
 
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My NYC taxi was doing 90 in a 50 and I was too horrified to do anything about it.

I told the police at the airport, they said I can make a complaint to the city but I have to attend a hearing for them to act on the complaint.

Guy is going to get someone killed.
 
Had my first bus bump yesterday morning.

Downhill, very wet dual carriageway, approaching an RA with red traffic lights. Began a gentle brake which would stop me at the stop line very nicely. About 75-100yrds out, woman in a Bini comes tearing down my outside and swerves across inches in front and jams her brakes to stop for the red light. My choice was hit her or throw passengers off their seats. I chose the former.

Minor damage to the bus, bumper, bootlid and rear glass done on the Bini. No reported passenger injuries.

She gets out screaming at me shouting it's my fault yadda yadda yadda.

Police and incident team called, CCTV downloaded, statements taken etc.

Collision happened around 10am, I was cleared of any fault by 13:30 by both police and my employer. Employer actually gave me a well done for the lack of passenger injuries.

Bini driver now faces dangerous driving charges (although will likely be plea'd down to careless due to lack of injuries).

The worst part? Both lanes go in the direction she wanted, she could have stayed in the outside lane and still got where she was going. The only turn off the next bit of road is the bus station.
 
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