Your bad driving encounters

Resident said:
At work I'm guilty of this one but I have reason.

Our work vehicles are actively speed monitored and even a deviation of 2mph over the limit for more than 6 secs gets flagged. Because they're multi-ton vehicles they don't slow quickly by themselves.
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That makes sense, it's cars I'm specifically talking about.
 
Rroff said:
Think I freaked someone out a little today, though mostly an overreaction on their part IMO, I was closing a little hot on a tailback of traffic when some kind of drama went on near the start of the queue causing people to slow randomly - which I think the car in front of me didn't think I could see and started snaking while randomly putting their indicators on right and left to get my attention. Maybe a touch inconsiderate on my part, though I think mostly overreaction on their part, but I was perfectly aware of what was going on and how much room I had to work with and matched speed with the traffic with loads of space to spare.
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Interestingly just reviewing the dashcam it wasn't what I thought at all - they started to drift out of their lane towards oncoming traffic, I assume not paying attention at all, and I'm guessing at that point the car safety systems kicked in (new Mercedes AMG) which because of that they became aware late that the traffic ahead was slowing to a stop and panic reacted despite having space ahead of them to stop in.

As my attention at the initial point was on what was going on ahead of them I missed some of the details.
 
Seen three separate drivers in today's rush hour, brazenly using their mobile phones without even trying to hide it. One guy was in the slow moving traffic on the approach to the Dartford crossing. Four lanes of slow moving traffic with people often stopping, swapping lanes etc, basically where you really need to concentrate. But he was almost constantly looking down at the phone in his right hand, scrolling away, glancing up and jerking forward when he realised he was getting left behind, then braking hard, going back to his phone, looking up again and surging forward, rinse and repeat.

Boils my ****.
 
Conscript said:
Seen three separate drivers in today's rush hour, brazenly using their mobile phones without even trying to hide it. One guy was in the slow moving traffic on the approach to the Dartford crossing. Four lanes of slow moving traffic with people often stopping, swapping lanes etc, basically where you really need to concentrate. But he was almost constantly looking down at the phone in his right hand, scrolling away, glancing up and jerking forward when he realised he was getting left behind, then braking hard, going back to his phone, looking up again and surging forward, rinse and repeat.

Boils my ****.
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Yeah seems to be ever increasing the last couple of years - doesn't take two braincells to realise it is a bad idea.

A variant of it I'm seeing quite a bit is someone driving over the speed limit (or wanting to) while merrily paying attention to their phone and an unsecured dog (or dogs) bouncing about in the car... and everyone else's fault when they nearly have an incident.
 
Conscript said:
Seen three separate drivers in today's rush hour, brazenly using their mobile phones without even trying to hide it. One guy was in the slow moving traffic on the approach to the Dartford crossing. Four lanes of slow moving traffic with people often stopping, swapping lanes etc, basically where you really need to concentrate. But he was almost constantly looking down at the phone in his right hand, scrolling away, glancing up and jerking forward when he realised he was getting left behind, then braking hard, going back to his phone, looking up again and surging forward, rinse and repeat.

Boils my ****.
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It's just a shame you can't get out of the car when the traffic stops open their door and hoof their phone into the yonder.
 
tom_e said:
I think for a lot of people (my wife included but thankfully not while driving) it's become a reflex just to pick it their phone regardless of where they are or what they're doing.
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Worries me a bit I might do it at some point i.e. when stopped in traffic without thinking as in certain situations it is reflex to check my phone, fortunately not done it so far.
 
Rroff said:
Worries me a bit I might do it at some point i.e. when stopped in traffic without thinking as in certain situations it is reflex to check my phone, fortunately not done it so far.
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It's why I leave mine in my pocket, no way I'm going to accidently fish it out of there on reflex :o
 
tom_e said:
It's just a shame you can't get out of the car when the traffic stops open their door and hoof their phone into the yonder.
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I was in the lane alongside him and I came very close to winding down my window, getting his attention and telling him to get off his ****ing phone, it annoyed me that much. But I realised it wouldn't do any good, and given that we were in traffic, he might be just as likely to get out and batter me. I just left it, and made sure to put a few cars between us so I wouldn't be involved if he did run into someone.
 
Had a moment I almost rear ended an idiot BMW driver in front of me. I was sat behind him at a set of lights that lead on to a motorway. The light went green and off we go, but this guy hits 20 mph and stops accelerating. I was obviously not expecting this and when I had a chance I overtook. He was sitting texting on his phone not paying any attention at all to the road.

Another one today was a clown decided to park and abandon their car on the double yellow lines on a narrow rural town Main Street. This meant a massive amount of tailbacks where none ever occur, a bus could barely get past them. Car were having to mount the very narrow kerb on the other side of the street to get around this car. What possesses people to be so selfish to park a car like that.
 
tom_e said:
It's why I leave mine in my pocket, no way I'm going to accidently fish it out of there on reflex :o
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Can't the authorities time stamp 4g/5g activity on your phone if you have an accident, you were alone using tiktok ..... police prosecution and recovery of accident costs, to follow.

Kol said:
The dabbing brakes thing I only do to knock my ACC off
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usually do it to wake up a driver tail-gating me, if I'm about to engine break ... pleasures of a manual transmission
 
jpaul said:
Can't the authorities time stamp 4g/5g activity on your phone if you have an accident, you were alone using tiktok ..... police prosecution and recovery of accident costs, to follow.
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Harder to prove now with stems like Android Auto and CarPlay.

I get in my car, phone connects to AA and serves as a modem for the GPS etc so it's active all the time.

So if the police's only evidence that I was using my phone is an active data link then out the window that charge goes.

(not that I use my phone behind the wheel)
 
I was travelling into Elgin this morning in misty rain but visibility was ok and I saw this car speeding up to my rear. I was doing 60 in a 60 and just about to enter a long straight with no oncoming traffic. The idiot overtook me and cut me up so bad (for no reason) that my Leaf's anti collision system slammed the brakes on. It was a straight with no oncoming traffic so I can't understand why he/she cut me up so badly. What a ******!! At least I know the anti collision system works.
 
Resident said:
I get in my car, phone connects to AA and serves as a modem for the GPS etc so it's active all the time.

So if the police's only evidence that I was using my phone is an active data link then out the window that charge goes.
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yes GPS/sat nav ongoing comms probably not incriminating, but if you were updating route coincident with accident - suspect those events are logged.
easy conviction for those tiktokers watching videos though - for example, or being served data, scrolling on twitter.
 
On Tuesday, my wife and I were in the car, large A road, national speed limit. This 24 plate Ford Puma ST in front, 35-45mph, going through towns ear marked 30 and still doing 35-45, so out of the villages and I’d catch him up. Wife knows I want to over take but says she doesn’t want me to, yep ok.

Eventually get to a 2 lane DC heading towards Bridlington and I go into lane 2 to over take, suddenly he decides he wants to go fast?!

Not fast enough mate, I got 370BHP. Didn’t stand a chance, see ya. Wife shouting at me and I’m just giggling. I’m such a child.
 
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