Your bad driving encounters

Went to Starbucks today. Some d bag in a McLaren was in a disabled space, engine running with the driver door wide open, standing around his car on the phone for at least 10 minutes.

My sister was disabled and really boils my blood to see these posing ***** with no respect for other people!
 
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Rather odd one late last night. I was on my way home from Thetford along the A11/A14. I'm on cruise control at 70MPH in the left lane. Up ahead, a pink/mauve first gen Audi TT with a private, 4D-style plate is in the outside lane for no reason (of course), and I'm gaining on them. Usually I'd just carry on in the left, but I figure that as it's quiet, and we're on an unlit section, it's not like they would be unaware I was behind them and intending to pass. So I indicate and move out, and then as I get closer, I put my right-indicator on again to make it even more obvious I'd like to overtake.

They see me, indicate left and move over. Great! Doesn't happen much these days. As I pass, I flash my hazards as a "thankyou"...but then as I'm doing that, they immediately indicate right, and return to the outside lane after I'd passed. There were no cars up ahead for them to be planning to overtake - the only car in front of them was me who'd just passed them, and I'd moved back to the left, and was pulling away as they were still cruising at probably 60-65MPH at the most. There were also cars further back, who they'd eventually have to move over again if they gained on them.

I just don't get it...surely if you'd had a reminder that should be keeping left to allow faster moving traffic to pass you, then you would just stay left? Especially if the car that passed you moved left after doing so. I do not understand this desire to hang out in the right-most lanes. Still, I guess I should count my blessings that they at least moved over; by the time I got back to the M11 below Stansted, it was the usual parade of idiots sitting in the middle lane, completely oblivious to me having to make 4 lanes changes just to pass them safely.
 
darael said:
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Watched that earlier, she's got a new video up as well, some of the driving is so bad, it's got to be a rage-bait account. There's one clip where she undertakes a car on solid hatched markings just before a lane splits off to the left, and then gets irate when the drive she's just undertaken starts to move into the new lane!

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Rather odd one late last night. I was on my way home from Thetford along the A11/A14. I'm on cruise control at 70MPH in the left lane. Up ahead, a pink/mauve first gen Audi TT with a private, 4D-style plate is in the outside lane for no reason (of course), and I'm gaining on them. Usually I'd just carry on in the left, but I figure that as it's quiet, and we're on an unlit section, it's not like they would be unaware I was behind them and intending to pass. So I indicate and move out, and then as I get closer, I put my right-indicator on again to make it even more obvious I'd like to overtake.

They see me, indicate left and move over. Great! Doesn't happen much these days. As I pass, I flash my hazards as a "thankyou"...but then as I'm doing that, they immediately indicate right, and return to the outside lane after I'd passed. There were no cars up ahead for them to be planning to overtake - the only car in front of them was me who'd just passed them, and I'd moved back to the left, and was pulling away as they were still cruising at probably 60-65MPH at the most. There were also cars further back, who they'd eventually have to move over again if they gained on them.

I just don't get it...surely if you'd had a reminder that should be keeping left to allow faster moving traffic to pass you, then you would just stay left? Especially if the car that passed you moved left after doing so. I do not understand this desire to hang out in the right-most lanes. Still, I guess I should count my blessings that they at least moved over; by the time I got back to the M11 below Stansted, it was the usual parade of idiots sitting in the middle lane, completely oblivious to me having to make 4 lanes changes just to pass them safely.
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I've heard the argument that "it's safer, because if you have a problem/lose control/etc. you have more space on each side". This makes perfect sense. After all, wouldn't you rather swerve into an empty lane, than hit the barrier/verge? What they of course fail to grasp is that the "space" on each side has a significant chance of being occupied by another vehicle, being as it's a live lane and all... :cry:

Had this gem yesterday - that good old taxi classic, the: "2-indicator-flash-gives-me-right-of-way" manoeuvre, could have been nasty if there was oncoming traffic. The driver was staring rigidly ahead the whole time, absolutely intent on not making eye contact. Do I report this to the police, Dudley taxi licencing, or both?


(sorry about the weird loop, something to do with how my dashcam saves "protected" videos)
 
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Haggisman said:
Watched that earlier, she's got a new video up as well, some of the driving is so bad, it's got to be a rage-bait account. There's one clip where she undertakes a car on solid hatched markings just before a lane splits off to the left, and then gets irate when the drive she's just undertaken starts to move into the new lane!



I've heard the argument that "it's safer, because if you have a problem/lose control/etc. you have more space on each side". This makes perfect sense. After all, wouldn't you rather swerve into an empty lane, than hit the barrier/verge? What they of course fail to grasp is that the "space" on each side has a significant chance of being occupied by another vehicle, being as it's a live lane and all... :cry:

Had this gem yesterday - that good old taxi classic, the: "2-indicator-flash-gives-me-right-of-way" manoeuvre, could have been nasty if there was oncoming traffic. The driver was staring rigidly ahead the whole time, absolutely intent on not making eye contact. Do I report this to the police, Dudley taxi licencing, or both?


(sorry about the weird loop, something to do with how my dashcam saves "protected" videos)
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Operation snap should do it, I imagine they'll make the licensing officer aware as well if they deam it bad enough
 
Conscript said:
they immediately indicate right, and return to the outside lane after I'd passed.
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I thought this was going to go like I saw yesterday - some guy in a new Jag seemingly their ego couldn't let them be overtaken by anyone in a cheaper car, couple of people passed them in nicer cars and they let it go but anyone else they'd speed up to pass them again, then slow down again to a leisurely pace, repeat.
 
Haggisman said:
I've heard the argument that "it's safer, because if you have a problem/lose control/etc. you have more space on each side". This makes perfect sense. After all, wouldn't you rather swerve into an empty lane, than hit the barrier/verge? What they of course fail to grasp is that the "space" on each side has a significant chance of being occupied by another vehicle, being as it's a live lane and all... :cry:
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This was on a two-lane dual carriageway though. So the choice isn't "empty space or barrier/verge", the choice is "barrier or verge". In that case, I'd much rather be on the relative safety on the verge, rather than stuck in the outside lane. Even if there are three lanes, I still don't think it's a good argument; three lanes probably means you have a hard shoulder which is the safest escape route (no traffic to worry about, as you say) on your left anyway, and again, better to be able to get there, than possibly be stuck in the outside lane with traffic approaching.

These people had 4D plates Haggis. Stop defending them! :p
 
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Lol, got an email back from the licencing body already:

"I have spoken to the driver concerned. He said it was a genuine mistake as he didn’t see your vehicle coming round the bend until he had already pulled out. I have spoken to him about his driving and informed him that the complaint will be recorded against his file. I intend to take no further action on this occasion."

Specsavers.jpg :rolleyes:

The video clearly shows I was already half way on the other side of the road and you can hear me start to accelerate past him before he starts moving...

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This was on a two-lane dual carriageway though. So the choice isn't "empty space or barrier/verge", the choice is "barrier or verge". In that case, I'd much rather be on the relative safety on the verge, rather than stuck in the outside lane. Even if there are three lanes, I still don't think it's a good argument; three lanes probably means you have a hard shoulder which is the safest escape route (no traffic to worry about, as you say) on your left anyway, and again, better to be able to get there, than possibly be stuck in the outside lane with traffic approaching.

These people had 4D plates Haggis. Stop defending them! :p
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I wasn't defending them, just pointing out the "logic" I've heard before :p My "This makes perfect sense" was entirely sarcastic :D
 
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Haggisman said:
Lol, got an email back from the licencing body already:

"I have spoken to the driver concerned. He said it was a genuine mistake as he didn’t see your vehicle coming round the bend until he had already pulled out. I have spoken to him about his driving and informed him that the complaint will be recorded against his file. I intend to take no further action on this occasion."

Specsavers.jpg :rolleyes:

The video clearly shows I was already half way on the other side of the road and you can hear me start to accelerate past him before he starts moving...
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Let me take a shot in the dark and say, Labour controlled council?

Truth be told they'll have not even spoken to the driver and sent you this generic platitude.

Our council used to be the same, until the massive mass child rape and abuse scandal was exposed, now they daren't not do something.
 
Haggisman said:
I've heard the argument that "it's safer, because if you have a problem/lose control/etc. you have more space on each side". This makes perfect sense. After all, wouldn't you rather swerve into an empty lane, than hit the barrier/verge? What they of course fail to grasp is that the "space" on each side has a significant chance of being occupied by another vehicle, being as it's a live lane and all...
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A47 duel carriageway W of swaffham the nearside carriageway is broken up in a number of places E&W direction ... so I understand people who may drive on the offside lane
when there is nobody there ... with a soft suspension(or company car) maybe you wouldn't care.
and some of the fen local nsl roads - you travel down the middle because the roads are so undulating/broken at the edges ... and move over onto your side and slow down when someone is oncoming.
 
There's some worryingly aggressive and stupid people on the road. I enter a roundabout today, I'm in the middle of three lanes that goes straight over and merges into said road, the left can obviously go left and straight on, the right hand lane is only for going into a shopping centre car park.

The lights have just turned green to go onto the round about, no one is in the middle lane so I'm relatively faster than the left hand traffic just pulling away.

I'm ahead of a white Nissan Quashqai and there's a nice distance between that car, and the car ahead of me. But said Quashqai decides randomly he wants to accelerate and then blares his horn because he has to brake in order to not crash into my near side rear quarter. Genuinely, my manoeuvre was spot on and it wasn't like I sent it and had to slam my brakes on to fit into an ever closing gap.

Not sure how he thought I was in the wrong. The merge is really wide and long, and the road were merging into is past 12 o'clock so those in the middle lane I'm in don't have to move across per say. In fact on Google maps the merge turn arrows come in from the left.

 
This is why I hate roundabouts - https://maps.app.goo.gl/gXWqiYUvUGPUW19x5 shows the A40 continuing as straight on despite being past 12 on the clock, someone not familiar with the area probably won't anticipate lane 1 merging into lane 2 in that manner at the exit. This is why everyone should stay staggered and at a consistent pace on roundabouts :( but sadly few do.

EDIT: Also would be very easy to get confused with the bus only exit if you weren't familiar with the area, the whole design, layout and implementation was done by people don't didn't care and just wanted the job done and off their plate.
 
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