Your bad driving encounters

Interesting one coming home just now - was about to overtake someone on provisional plates when a car coming the other way flashed their headlights warning style so I held off - in the middle of the next set of bends was some kind of incident/crash couldn't see too clearly in the dark what had happened but half the verge was in the road and a smashed up car in the middle of the road. Might have had to brake quite hard at normal speed but sticking behind the provisional driver we were going a fair bit slower than normal - would have been more ideal if the people waving their phones were doing so before the corner rather than in the middle of it :s

EDIT: Dashcam didn't really get much:

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Looks like they went onto the left hand verge on approach to the corner for about 50 yards and took out someone's rubbish bins on the way through before rejoining the road, not sure how many cars involved.
 
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Merging on the M56 this morning, was trailed by a Tesla Model 3. Less than 10 metres to go for the dashed lines to start, but the Tesla decides to cross over to the 2nd lane over the hatched markings. Proceeds to cut across again and go on the 4th lane and over-speeding. I believe most of these Teslas are leased hence their drivers don't give a damn and just drive badly since all expenses are covered by the leasing company.

2nd one was Toyota Auris estate Taxi on the M60 doing 60 on the 3rd lane with no one ahead. After waiting a while hoping the driver would put their foot down and overtake the smaller LCV but they don't. I give a single flash of light, no response. Give a second single flash after couple of seconds, no response. Give a double flash again but nope. Our guy finally moves over in the middle out of pity or simply being bored of the 3rd lane. I move over to the first lane and catch up doing 60(didn't undercut) as my exit was nearing and he slowed down even more. I have a quick look only to see he is not paying attention at all, just glued in the view ahead. It is very unusual for me to flash my lights for someone to get going, I only did that as traffic was building up behind me.

On a positive note since there is no "Your good driving encounters" thread, I anticipated that a big lorry in the 1st Lane on the M56 may need to move over since that lane converts to an exit lane near junction 6. I move to the 3rd lane and lo and behold the lorry driver indicates and moves to the 2nd lane just after few seconds. I love the fact in this little encounter that he put his window down and gave a thumbs up to me as I overtook. This little reading the (potential developing) situation and the other driver acknowledging the same is an experience that is very rare. I gave little flash of the lights to respond to the thumbs up too. Obviously driving on the same road every week to work helped in this anticipation. :)
 
Bit of a funny one from a couple of days ago. Heading into the train station car park at Aberdeen from Denburn. Now there's a bit with traffic lights, where if you're going to the train station you should be in the left lane, but it's quite normal for people to take the right lane and try and force in or beat people off the lights. I'm at the front in the left lane in my 3cyl 1.5l hybrid Toyota and a Golf R pulls up along side after pulling out of the left lane queue of about 4 cars. Now, my wee 1.5l 3cyl hybrid is surprisingly nippy off the line, especially as it's AWD dual motor. Lights go to green we both go off, me in the lovely swoosh of EV instant 65hp powa, him in the pop and crackle of his R thinking he can easy beat anything off the line and then tries to move into my lane before realising I'm still there alongside. But that's not really the funny part, the road goes round a couple of bends and as we come round the 2nd bend, a guy head down in his phone walks across the road (literally 10y from a ped crossing), not a care in the world, so we both stop. Bloke suddenly wakes up and believing he must be a Premier League footballer, goes for the dive and literally collapses in the middle of the road like a sat of tatties a couple of metres in front of this Golf R. Sheepishly then picking himself up and walks back to the pavement.
 
That one reminds me of about 20 years back. I was coming through an underpass with a hill up to some traffic lights which were green. So without really slowing down I came over the crest of the hill where a guy is ignoring the don’t cross light, walking nonchalantly across the road with his suit jacket slung over his shoulder.

He saw me and did a proper jump scare and threw his jacket in the air, followed by a sprint to get out of my way. His jacket landed on my windscreen with the inside label showing, I remember thinking “ooh Remus Uomo, that’s a fancy jacket”. It blew off the windscreen and landed a fair bit up the road, with the jacketless guy chasing after it.

I suppose it counts as bad driving on my part because I don’t even remember slowing down. :)
 
Getting really fed up with the people who never exceed 40 MPH, often doing 20-25 in anything other than NSL - seems to be a plague of them the last 10 days. I doubt many of them had a reason i.e. car going into limp mode for not driving to a reasonable speed for the limit and conditions...
 
Had a mind boggler on the way back from picking the little one up.

Coming down a slip road to join a 60mph 2 lane DC could see there were 2 cars in lane 1 no room for them to move over so eased off the throttle which would have had me nicely tucked in behind car 2.

Car 1 goes past, car 2 spots me and must have started to slow down no flash of lights or anything and they're still coming in a bit hot for me to dive on so I'm starting to brake now so they'll still make it past me in plenty of time... Nope they keep slowing down, I'm now approaching the end of the slip road and they've basically slowed enough to end up alongside me.

Come to a dead stop at the end of the slip, car in lane 1 crawls to a stop just off my rear quarter cars having to dive across to avoid the new road block so I just wait for them to engage their brain as there's nothing behind me. Eventually they start rolling again and as they pass my window driver and passenger are flapping at me like I'd caused them to park in lane 1 :confused:
 
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Absolutely bizarre of them, why do some drivers think feined politeness is more important than driving to a set of rules that everyone should understand.
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They have no idea of the rules, they just flap between whatever feels right at the time. Seen this happen at roundabouts where cars are giving way to drivers on their left, causing total confusion.
 
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They were incredibly lucky they didn't end up as a bonnet ornament for the transit van that came up behind them, luckily lane 2 had cleared by then so they managed to move over in time.

It's one of those moments where I wish I could have asked them what they thought they were doing.
 
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Travelled to Watford over the Bank holiday weekend. Had been a while I did the M6 South and M1. Already read a lot here about M1 and how bad it is and it didn't disappoint. It was still very odd to see people downright refusing to use Lane 1 in both Variable speed and 50 Mph limit zones. On the return journey while joining the M1 I had a big Van try to overtake me when the two lanes merged into one on the slip road just before merging on M1. I could just sense that happening so blocked the guy before I was pushed over. There were just too many bad examples for me to remember and keep a count of. The general lack of awareness about developing hazards and identifying a situation is staggering.

I will finish with one example. There was a big lorry on lane 1 on the M1 and I saw another big lorry about to merge. I was about to overtake the Lorry in lane 1 but saw the merging lorry. My first instinct was to move to lane 3 but that wasn't possible since the cars on that lane were pretty close to each other. No chance to overtake. The Lorry in lane 1 couldn't slow down enough to make space, instead indicates and decides to pull into 2nd lane where I was already near the Lorry's tail. Had to slam the brakes to slow down. There was no apologetic flash of indicators from the Lorry to pull that stunt on me but yeah all's well that ends well. There was no one behind my car and I was aware of that. I would say I got out safe because everyone else was lane hogging in the 3rd and 4th lane.
 
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The general lack of awareness about developing hazards and identifying a situation is staggering.
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I will finish with one example. There was a big lorry on lane 1 on the M1 and I saw another big lorry about to merge. I was about to overtake the Lorry in lane 1 but saw the merging lorry. My first instinct was to move to lane 3 but that wasn't possible since the cars on that lane were pretty close to each other. No chance to overtake. The Lorry in lane 1 couldn't slow down enough to make space, instead indicates and decides to pull into 2nd lane where I was already near the Lorry's tail. Had to slam the brakes to slow down.
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If you seen this developing hazard and were only "about to overtake the lorry in lane 1" then you could have aborted the overtake and backed off from the lorry in lane 1 until the situation cleared itself... No? :confused:
 
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Richie said:
If you seen this developing hazard and were only "about to overtake the lorry in lane 1" then you could have aborted the overtake and backed off from the lorry in lane 1 until the situation cleared itself... No? :confused:
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It happened in quick succession and hence backed off. My first intention as I said was to move over. At 70 you travel fast, and I expected the Lorry in lane 1 to slow down and not move over at the last minute. There is a lot of stuff happening around.
The Lorry merging was sort of on a curve and iirc the slip road was little lower than where the main carriageway was. And I noticed it as I was about to get going.

I happened to avoid it because I was aware. :) Its hard to pen down in words sometimes.
 
Following a woman on the way to work who I assume was on her phone, in heavy traffic stopping and starting somewhat randomly and out sync with the traffic ahead, at one point just stopped dead as we were on a yellow boxed junction then moved half a car length then started moving again when the rest of the traffic was several car lengths ahead. Did 30 through the 40 leaving town then sat there not getting going passing lorries on the dual-carriageway, finally moves over to lane 1 and then proceeds to match me all the way to a good 70 then kept speeding up until she was about half a car length ahead of me when she slammed her brakes on and sat behind me at 70 for 2 minutes then randomly sped up and overtook me and sat in lane 2 with her speed dropping off until I'd nearly caught up when she sped up again, then was late reacting when the outside lane was closed due to an accident and if I hadn't read the situation she'd have had nowhere to go...
 
Driving through a village just now - driver came flying up behind me probably doing 70+ and swerved around me on a bend... didn't get a good look and the dashcam footage isn't clear but possibly a Mercedes AMG so wonder if stolen the way they were driving it.

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Had a close one this morning. Me and my 11 year old son were driving on a 40mph road on a mostly blind right hand bend. A total idiot coming in the opposite direction had clearly not seen a cyclist and had to swerve well into my lane to avoid hitting the cyclist. But in doing so he left himself only about 2 seconds to get back to his own side without is having a head on.

It happened so suddenly that I didn’t even get time to break properly and had nowhere to swerve to avoid him had we been only 2 seconds closer.
 
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