Your bad driving encounters

I don't know if people are letting their kids drive since the summer holidays started around here or the sun is getting people overexcited or it's people on holiday from work that I normally avoid on the roads but this week seems to be WTF after WTF moment on my commutes.

Best one was some guys in a Ssangyong transit van style thing chasing down a BMW doing 100+ down a 60 the other day then the Beemer getting caught at some lights and two blokes jumping out the van to remodel it. I'm intrigued what they were both up to to kick that one off.
 
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Resident said:
In your scenario however you're aware, due to the vehicle type, that it's not going to get up to the required speed and you're able to adjust and forward plan.
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Granted, it might be easier to tell from the off if it's a 20-tonne tipper lorry - but a motorway slip road is fairly long, and still gives you more than enough time to work out whether the car in front is not going to be at motorway speed by the end of it, and react accordingly. You can't just sit behind them all the way then act surprised when you have to join at jogging speed.

And let's be honest, it's pretty easy to tell the type - Honda Jazz / Daewoo Matiz / any vehicle that is taller than it is wide / anyone wearing a hat / anyone sitting lower than the top of their steering wheel - yeah, none of these people are going to be doing more than breathing on their gas pedal so sit back and let them get on with it :p
 
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Well I’ve read about it happening but never seen it until today.

I was behind a car on a round about when said car turned off down an entry onto the round about. Not even the on coming traffic gave him a clue.

He was a very lucky because it’s normally a very busy dual lane road that he went the wrong way down.
 
labbby said:
Well I’ve read about it happening but never seen it until today.

I was behind a car on a round about when said car turned off down an entry onto the round about. Not even the on coming traffic gave him a clue.

He was a very lucky because it’s normally a very busy dual lane road that he went the wrong way down.
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Honda Jazz?

I saw one the other night wandering about at 5-10 MPH on a roundabout obviously very confused and randomly changing lanes, indicated to go off at entries a couple of times before finally finding an exit.
 
Rroff said:
Honda Jazz?

I saw one the other night wandering about at 5-10 MPH on a roundabout obviously very confused and randomly changing lanes, indicated to go off at entries a couple of times before finally finding an exit.
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Silver Mini, I would say the bloke was in his 50’s. I’d take a guess he went a bit early on listening to a Sat Nav. Surely the angle of the turn should have also got him thinking.
 
McGray said:
Weren't they two up on the bike?

Seems strange to be racing a Porsche with a pillion.
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No information but if not racing wouldn't surprise me if overtaking plus someone involved speeding up was involved either ego, deliberately being a knob or clueless.

Got behind (a few cars back) someone a few days back wandering around on a main road then speeding up to deny overtakes when the opportunity came up, then going back to dawdling along - pretty sure they were finding it amusing...
 
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lordrobs said:
Sometimes hidden under a Panama hat.
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Don't forget the cushions too :D .

I had one this morning and I'd be interested to hear opinions. Road has been recently covered in chippings so fair enough going slow, however the road has now been painted. The guy in front of me still stuck to 20, despite it being solid enough to paint and there being no sounds of chippings on the wheel arches (also despite it only being done on Monday, it's already worn through in parts, wish they just close the road and do it properly rather than the cowboy attempt).
 
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Touching on a recent topic - road near me is closed - probably somewhere between 30 and 50% of normal traffic is coming on past the advisory signs and then having to turn around but quite a few of those are going past the actual road closed signs and then having to turn around... crazy.
 
Resident said:
Unfortunately this seems all too true.

In Leeds for instance, police were out in large numbers wandering about yet another pride march (remind me what June was about) in the city, yet were running like cowards a few days earlier when some proper policing was needed.
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There's a slight difference in the training and equipment required for policing both of those events/incidents.
 
03 plate Range Rover. Cuts across the hatched markings while merging on to A556. Was coming from Altrincham perhaps. So I would say 'Typical'. Sad part is, the merging would have been legal in just about 15-20 meters.
 
I thought this mildly amusing - not bad driving, the BMW came flying up behind me the other side of town and was sitting obviously impatiently behind me though didn't tailgate me for a wonder. If anything the other driver wasn't great as they sat out in lane 2 a fair bit without getting going which is a pet hate of mine albeit weren't too bad for it - later they pulled out on a Range Rover to then very slowly pass a truck going barely faster than the truck when they could have easily let the RR go first.

 
Had one that left me properly angry last week. Coming off the A2 near Rochester, I was in lane 1, as it's a filter lane off to another bypass. I glanced over at a van as I came towards the turn off, an old Berlingo or something..it caught my attention because it was the head of a line of idiots probably doing about 65MPH at most in lane three, so I wanted to see if they looked as stupid as they drove. As I looked at the driver, he was just staring at his phone, texting. I don't mean he was glancing down at it occasionally - he literally had it held right up in front of his face at arms length, as though he was taking a picture.

Anyway, I carried on in my lane. By this time, my filter lane is starting to turn and there's traffic ahead slowing where it broadens into two lanes, so I slow down gently, which means the van starts to pass me on the main carriageway. Suddenly, he realises he needs to come off the same junction, so veers from what is now lane 2 of the 3-lane carriageway, across the hatching (here - https://maps.app.goo.gl/s8AxkZU6TRpxgzds5) to get off at the same junction as me...but he left it so late, he actually bounced through he ditch you can see in that link, right at the end of the hatching, where the puddle is. He must have hit that still going at at least 60MPH or so, the whole van bounced a good several feet into the air, and came down again. God knows how he didn't completely lose control, or rip the rear wheels off.

But the worst part? He ended up a few cars ahead of me as we joined the bypass, so I ended up passing him again, this time on the right. I looked over again, and he still had his phone held up in exactly the same position, right in front of his face, texting away. I can't quite believe that someone could be so ******* ignorant as to be texting away like that while driving, but to carry on after basically ending up off road just boggles my mind.
 
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Conscript said:
I can't quite believe that someone could be so ******* ignorant as to be texting away like that while driving, but to carry on after basically ending up off road just boggles my mind.
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Some people literally will never change until something bad actually happens (worse than bouncing over a ditch) then they tend to flip to the other extreme :s absolutely boggles my mind.
 
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Annoying drive home tonight, genuinely thought I was going to get rear-ended. Woman behind me in a Cashcow distracted and impatient. Came off a roundabout in an NSL approaching a town and I floored it out of there to get some distance. No surprise as we got to the 30mph zone she quickly closed the decent sized gap (I was doing the speed limit in the 30mph).

Nearly went into the back of me at some temporary traffic lights. Once through the lights there was a huge queue of cars going very slowly. She's huffing and puffing, weaving in her lane, charging up to the back of my car at certain points. It's a miracle I wasn't hit. What a ****!

I hate driving these days, I encounter an absolute clown almost every time I go out.
 
Unless a basic spec QQ even worse in that it should have forward collision warning (if not active assist)... (which will start giving you warnings inside the distance people tailgate at).
 
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Stu999 said:
She's huffing and puffing, weaving in her lane, charging up to the back of my car at certain points. It's a miracle I wasn't hit. What a ****!

I hate driving these days, I encounter an absolute clown almost every time I go out.
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I had a Golf GTI weaving in and out of all 3 lanes while going to Wales last week. That car never went beyond 2 cars ahead of me due to all lanes slowing down and speeding up at different times. It was so pointless. People are stupid.
 
Another Golf driver today. I was doing roughly 20 mph (in a 30) as there were parked cars on my side of the road and I had little room to avoid oncoming traffic. Just being cautious.

One Qashqai driver just appears at a higher speed from the opposite side. It was a bend so I saw them just in time to slow down. Didn't panic brake or anything emergency just slowing down gradually. Golf guy behind honks at me and I just did "What?" from inside my car and continued doing 30 as the road opened. He sticks his hand out of the window, which I thought was to apologize but citing the next bit I think it was a middle finger. At next roundabout I was heading straight and he indicated right. Overtakes me at higher speed while we were both on the roundabout and the passenger guy staring at me. I honestly would not have noticed but had to check my right to avoid any surprises. This was not a marked lane roundabout. It was wide enough to get two cars in at the same time. I probably will straight line next time to avoid this scenario.

The incident is bizarre. Some people are just out there to waste time with getting into altercations until they find someone else who's twice as stupid to get back. I find most Golf drivers to be very annoying and self entitled. The faster the Golf variant, the worse they are.
 
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