Your bad driving encounters

[cheesefest]

About drinking and driving.

When wombling group picks, we find so many cans and bottles of alcohol in lay-bys, business parks and on road sides on A roads.

Most of the alcohol bottles/cans we find are Polish with Polish writing on them. Which I find puzzling as Poland has stricter laws with alcohol.

Remember watching one of those police tv shows where they found a Polish lorry driver with about 80 cans of beer in the cab - a mix of open and unopened.

 

[cheesefest]

Seen a driver doing hippy crack with huge canister between legs!

 

[dlockers]

lol I went down an absolute dump of a road the other day --- about 6 or 7 fly tipping incidents and then thousands of bits of litter. At the end of the road were 2 womblers just setting out. I was tempted to explain it was a lost cause

 

[Gilbert89]

Seen a driver doing hippy crack with huge canister between legs!

Seen driver and passenger doing “balloons” on Sheffield Parkway one evening after work followed by weaving traffic like tools.

 

[cheesefest]

lol I went down an absolute dump of a road the other day --- about 6 or 7 fly tipping incidents and then thousands of bits of litter. At the end of the road were 2 womblers just setting out. I was tempted to explain it was a lost cause

People are more likely to dump stuff when it’s already full of litter.

We have done some areas twice (2 years apart) and there’s less rubbish now than 6 months after the first clean.

 

[Greebo]

Friends camera which he set up after pretty much weekly occurrences of vehicles driving over the crossroads without stopping. Close to my house and I expect to be T boned every time I drive past it. Tend to put my foot down to get past it as quick as possible.

After many near misses, finally there was contact yesterday. Council have said they have done everything they legally can. There are two give way signs, one much further back from the junction, SLOW written in the road and the last 100m is red tarmac.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3442705802678321

I must say, if you are going to drive through a house, you want to do it in a Volvo. Driver escaped with a minor cut on his hand.

 

[Rroff]

Council have said they have done everything they legally can.

They actually moved the roads in one case like that:

How they fixed the junction Tom Scott made famous

I visit Ipley cross to have a look at a junction that was made famous by Tom Scott in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU&t=25s.Was it wor...

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Also similar changes made at one near me but only after like 3 people were killed.

EDIT: Hope the van driver got the book thrown at them though absolutely no excuse for that - there is one place near me where if you are driving at night and didn't know the road it isn't clear a major road cuts across it especially as the give way sign is often obscured by parked vehicles and/or the local lads thinking it funny to turn it around.

 

[Greebo]

They actually moved the roads in one case like that:

How they fixed the junction Tom Scott made famous

I visit Ipley cross to have a look at a junction that was made famous by Tom Scott in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU&t=25s.Was it wor...

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Also similar changes made at one near me but only after like 3 people were killed.

There has been many crashes at this crossroads over the years I have lived here but nobody killed yet. i suspect it will take a death for the council to stagger them.

The house has only just been rebuilt from the last car driving into it. poor owners.

 

[Trifid]

Council have said they have done everything they legally can.

But no speed bumps or rumble strips to wake up drivers, chicanes or lane narrowing making the lane approaching the junction have to give priority to traffic coming away from the junction.

 

[Rroff]

There has been many crashes at this crossroads over the years I have lived here but nobody killed yet. i suspect it will take a death for the council to stagger them.

The house has only just been rebuilt from the last car driving into it. poor owners.

They were lucky there was some sideways movement along the same direction at the point of impact in that video - a more direct collision would IMO have been highly likely a fatality.

 

[cheesefest]

There has been many crashes at this crossroads over the years I have lived here but nobody killed yet. i suspect it will take a death for the council to stagger them.

The house has only just been rebuilt from the last car driving into it. poor owners.

Problem is with other things, it needs someone to be killed or seriously injured (confined in wheelchair for rest of life) for something to be done.

This attitude that organisations have not taken to sort things until death occurs - is pathetic

 

[Iron Man]

Saw someone last night as well, stopped next to them in traffic and shouted to them about it, but they just shouted back "so what" I despair sometimes.

Driving to work yesterday morning following behind some who was either having a medical episode or was still drunk from the night before, on a straight road they bounced off the kerb 3 times and at the next junction pulled out and too more space to do so than an artic. Ended up phoning 999 to report it (hands free) as the driver was gonna end up killing someone or themselves

Good job for reporting it as they could end up killing someone if they don’t get stopped.

 

[Resident]

Seen driver and passenger doing “balloons” on Sheffield Parkway one evening after work followed by weaving traffic like tools.

You'd be shocked at what I see on a daily basis driving in and around Sheffield.

There has been many crashes at this crossroads over the years I have lived here but nobody killed yet. i suspect it will take a death for the council to stagger them.

The house has only just been rebuilt from the last car driving into it. poor owners.

Unfortunately a single road death is usually the minimum requirement for altering a dangerous road in any significant way.

It took the death of a 12 year old for Sheffield council to install a crossing where a main road separated a housing estate from a park, a crossing that the locals had been begging for years on the grounds of safety for the kids

 

[cheesefest]

Used to say to drivers "do you know your (left/right) brake light isn't working. They replied with thanks for letting me know or knew about it.

Until one day, a man told me to FO. I don't bother now. Anyway, all lights need to work to pass MOT.

 

[cheesefest]

You'd be shocked at what I see on a daily basis driving in and around Sheffield.



Unfortunately a single road death is usually the minimum requirement for altering a dangerous road in any significant way.

It took the death of a 12 year old for Sheffield council to install a crossing where a main road separated a housing estate from a park, a crossing that the locals had been begging for years on the grounds of safety for the kids

My high school was on two blocks with about 7 min walk between the two with crossing the village's busiest road. Was part of the final year's intake when school was on both sites. Then the . The traffic lights were installed in the late 80s after the school complained that students missed part of their lessons as selfish drivers refused to stop, near misses of students being run over and parents complained about safety.

 

[alexp999]

Ended up phoning 999 to report it (hands free) as the driver was gonna end up killing someone or themselves

You can also phone 999 without handsfree while driving, it's one of the only exceptions.
I'd always use handsfree if the car I was driving had it, but worth knowing you can make a call to 999 using the phone in your hand if your car doesn't have hands free or it isn't paired, etc.

 

[Rroff]

Grrr why can't people just drive normally... encountered far too many people today just driving random speeds, poor lane discipline, not driving at speeds appropriate for the conditions ahead, obviously not paying much attention to the road, etc. etc. then the finale coming home was a car which would constantly slow right down, then speed up, then slow down - at first thought they didn't know the area and looking for a turning but doesn't seem to be the case - then when I had a chance to overtake they continued driving with their main beam on behind me - fortunately could just put my foot down a bit and leave them a fair distance behind to mitigate it.

 

[NasherUK]

Grrr why can't people just drive normally... encountered far too many people today just driving random speeds, poor lane discipline, not driving at speeds appropriate for the conditions ahead, obviously not paying much attention to the road, etc. etc. then the finale coming home was a car which would constantly slow right down, then speed up, then slow down - at first thought they didn't know the area and looking for a turning but doesn't seem to be the case - then when I had a chance to overtake they continued driving with their main beam on behind me - fortunately could just put my foot down a bit and leave them a fair distance behind to mitigate it.

I see a lot more of this than I used to. Slow but dangerous and just poor driving.

 

[the wopster]

Quick question guys, if a police officer saw you go through a red light, would he automatically pull you over and give you a ticket or would he download his dashcam and do it that way? The reason I’m asking is, I was going through town today and I got a little bit lost, I was approaching a green light and I’m 95% certain that it was on green when I went through, but because I was driving so slow(working out where I was) when I looked back at the light in the middle of the junction It had changed to red, there was a police van behind me that had stoped at the line. I’m presuming that if I had gone through the light in red we would have put his lights on and gave me a ticket/nip? I now second guessing myself.

 

[tom_e]

Quick question guys, if a police officer saw you go through a red light, would he automatically pull you over and give you a ticket or would he download his dashcam and do it that way? The reason I’m asking is, I was going through town today and I got a little bit lost, I was approaching a green light and I’m 95% certain that it was on green when I went through, but because I was driving so slow(working out where I was) when I looked back at the light in the middle of the junction It had changed to red, there was a police van behind me that had stoped at the line. I’m presuming that if I had gone through the light in red we would have put his lights on and gave me a ticket/nip? I now second guessing myself.

Yes you'll be fine and if you've already passed the stop line it doesn't matter what the second set of lights is showing.