Your bad driving encounters

jpaul said:
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.
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I can start, update, change or even cancel pretty much any function on my device without touching it. So those events being logged wouldn't necessarily show my true usage.


HoneyBadger said:
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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The Mrs moans at me too when I open the taps, especially when I'm in hers and slap it into Sport. People still don't expect 7 seaters to have over 200bhp ;)

BTW I have a modified 06 Mondeo ST and the new Puma STs struggle against it because I have about 210Nm of torque more and similar bhp.
 
More parking lot nonsense today. Went for dinner after work and left my car at work. Went to pick it up around 10pm and someone had sat in the car park entrance with their full beams on... Just sat stationary, blocking anyone getting in and out. The road it's on is a two-lane, one way system that gets queues regularly due to a nearby light.

I took a good long time to get in the car, move round to let my partner in, turn lights on etc. They didn't move at all so leant on the horn for about 4 seconds. The driver crawled out of the entrance, into the two lanes of the road... And very slowly rolled themself onto the pavement and blocked the busier lane. Sat staring down at his phone.

I don't understand why he didn't just sit in my work car park which was entirely empty, where I could have ignored him?!
 
Had a BMW 340d pull beside me on the right at a set of red lights. This right lane was right turn only but I could tell he was thinking about gunning it to get ahead of the queue. The road is 30mph only of course. The problem for my friend in the BMW was the traffic coming from the opposite direction left him no room.

I drive an I-Pace and know it would be close, but basically the lights went green and I set off at full throttle and this moron in the 340d had no room to get ahead. Not only that, he was now stuck in the wrong lane and the other cars behind me were not letting him back in.

I had the exact same scenario a few years back against a Golf R-Type.
 
ICDP said:
Had a BMW 340d pull beside me on the right at a set of red lights. This right lane was right turn only but I could tell he was thinking about gunning it to get ahead of the queue. The road is 30mph only of course. The problem for my friend in the BMW was the traffic coming from the opposite direction left him no room.

I drive an I-Pace and know it would be close, but basically the lights went green and I set off at full throttle and this moron in the 340d had no room to get ahead. Not only that, he was now stuck in the wrong lane and the other cars behind me were not letting him back in.

I had the exact same scenario a few years back against a Golf R-Type.
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It's at times like this where the rational part of you is saying be the bigger man and just leave them to it but the realist is saying "get ****ed moron" :o
 
tom_e said:
It's at times like this where the rational part of you is saying be the bigger man and just leave them to it but the realist is saying "get ****ed moron" :o
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Exactly my thought process at the time. They would literally realise with a split second “better not” and have to stop.
 
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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No, most phones are always connected to and using data sessions so all that can really be inferred is that a phone was connected to the network in a certain area during a certain time period. Proving use at a specific time would require a call, SMS or data extracted from the phone itself showing timestapped activity.
 
ICDP said:
Had a BMW 340d pull beside me on the right at a set of red lights. This right lane was right turn only but I could tell he was thinking about gunning it to get ahead of the queue. The road is 30mph only of course. The problem for my friend in the BMW was the traffic coming from the opposite direction left him no room.

I drive an I-Pace and know it would be close, but basically the lights went green and I set off at full throttle and this moron in the 340d had no room to get ahead. Not only that, he was now stuck in the wrong lane and the other cars behind me were not letting him back in.

I had the exact same scenario a few years back against a Golf R-Type.
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Couple of months back saw someone try to do that to get ahead of a lorry and ended up writing their car off when they ran out of room.
 
tom_e said:
It's at times like this where the rational part of you is saying be the bigger man and just leave them to it but the realist is saying "get ****ed moron" :o
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I have to confess to doing the same on occasions. They'll gradually get used to it as EVs become ever more prevalent, but most people still don't expect a mundane looking family hatchback to do 0-60 in < 8s
 
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Resident said:
Similar happens when I'm bus driving. They'll come flying down the outside and then realise there's a traffic island.....
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Was an older lady in a little white car as well but driving like a boy racer, think they committed thinking they could go on the opposite side around the traffic island if necessary and then traffic appeared the other way just as they ran out of room before the traffic island. Lorry driver said they were waving at him to move over like they thought he could just magic the lorry off the road. Ended up with the bonnet embedded under the side at the rear with the tail lift sliced into the front of the car, very lucky it wasn't worse - if there wasn't the LPD before the rear axels she'd have had a much worse day.
 
Haggisman said:
I have to confess to doing the same on occasions. They'll gradually get used to it as EVs become ever more prevalent, but most people still don't expect a mundane looking family hatchback to do 0-60 in < 8s
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For most ICE this is so true. Though a 340d will have no issues with the vast majority of EVs as it has a 0-30 of about 1.6 seconds. Or about twice as quick to 30mph.

In this instance I was at 20ish mph in about 1 second before the 340d driver realised we were still neck and neck and had an “oh crap” moment. He had to brake or crash into a car waiting at the red light in the oncoming lane, though there was still plenty of room for him to stop, just nowhere enough to even attempt an overtake. I think the 340d driver was used to almost every other car on the road being a lot slower and having to yield.

340d
0-10 mph 0.6 s
0-20 mph 1.1 s
0-30 mph 1.6 s

I-Pace
0-10 mph 0.6 s
0-20 mph 1.1 s
0-30 mph 1.5 s

Most other EV with ~7 seconds 0-60
(I had a 2014 420d that would give these a run for their money).
0-10 mph 1.1 s
0-20 mph 2.0 s
0-30 mph 3.0 s

Even a mid spec 1.6 TD manual Ford Focus is close to those 0-30 times. In summary any time a family EV beats an ICE, it’s because the ICE ain’t racing, or it was some 1.2 litre give up on life mobile ;)
 
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All fun and games until the day you do it to someone with half a braincell and they just crash into you without looking so you both get to play the fun game of dealing with insurance repairs for the next three months :p
 
Kenai said:
All fun and games until the day you do it to someone with half a braincell and they just crash into you without looking so you both get to play the fun game of dealing with insurance repairs for the next three months :p
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Meh ;)

It would be their fault 100% because I was just minding my own business driving within the limit and this clown was in a turn right only lane and crashed into me. I jest of course because I could 100% see them seeing me and he even gave me a stare, so knew I was there.
 
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ICDP said:
Meh ;)

It would be there fault 100% because I was just minding my own business driving within the limit and this clown was in a turn right only lane and crashed into me. I jest of course because I could 100% see them seeing me and he even gave me a stare, so knew I was there.
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I had similar once - leaving a 4 lane junction in lane 3, indicating right. Lane 4 is right turn only and 3 is optional. The exit has 2 lanes so there's no merging or lane change needed. An Uber driver in lane 4 failed to turn anywhere near tightly enough and drove into me as I followed the er, marked lanes.
 
LuckyBenski said:
I had similar once - leaving a 4 lane junction in lane 3, indicating right. Lane 4 is right turn only and 3 is optional. The exit has 2 lanes so there's no merging or lane change needed. An Uber driver in lane 4 failed to turn anywhere near tightly enough and drove into me as I followed the er, marked lanes.
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Had someone on a left only lane off a two lane roundabout. My lane was straight or right turn, they were in left only. Of course they tried to cut across to go right around the roundabout, but a long warning honk and it scared the crap out of them. We both had to emergency stop to avoid a collision. Of course they started gesturing me and wound down their window to shout “I was indicating right”. I pointed out the arrows showing left only in their lane and the clown actually still felt that indicating overrides the actual law. Like one of those clowns who thinks hazard lights while on double yellows makes it OK to block traffic.
 
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ICDP said:
Had a BMW 340d pull beside me on the right at a set of red lights. This right lane was right turn only but I could tell he was thinking about gunning it to get ahead of the queue. The road is 30mph only of course. The problem for my friend in the BMW was the traffic coming from the opposite direction left him no room.

I drive an I-Pace and know it would be close, but basically the lights went green and I set off at full throttle and this moron in the 340d had no room to get ahead. Not only that, he was now stuck in the wrong lane and the other cars behind me were not letting him back in.

I had the exact same scenario a few years back against a Golf R-Type.
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That happened once, busy traffic on junction didn't allow for a safe chance to get in the correct lane but as I was at the front of the lights and sized up the cars on the left, the needful was done :o
 
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