This is local to me. The standard of driving around here is mind blowing. I honestly would love to have more red light cameras and cameras on yellow box junctions aswell. Not to mention the idiotic youths in Golf R's and Audi S3's racing around down by the FortMore fun on Saturday
I'm in the blue position below, waiting to turn right.
A couple of girls decide to drive into the red position, with their right indicator on... I have absolutely no idea what they were planning on doing - drive across the grass to get to the pub in the bottom right corner maybe? Or possibly turn right into Heath Way - although quite how they'd manage that with me (and the 4-5 cars behind me) in the way, I'm not entirely sure
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It's abysmal isn't it? I swear half of Birmingham found their driving licence in a cereal box!
Can often hear the boy racers up and down the A47 & A452 on clear evenings when I'm taking the dog out later on
With those stupid exhausts with the pops and bangs. God I'm old
I saw one the other day trying their honest best not to startle a horse that was being ridden on the road but even at 10MPH they were obviously struggling. I honestly don't know what posses someone to ride a horse on a main road around rush hour though.
With those stupid exhausts with the pops and bangs. God I'm old
Even amongst enthusiasts, around my way they get called pop & nonce because only prepubescent boys think they're cool...
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If you live in Leicester or travel within Leicester, you will know the Pork Pie Roundabout. Guy in front of me decided to jump a red light and almost got hit from two vans coming from our left. If there is an accident there, it chaos as its only 2 miles from M1/M69.
Reason its called Pork Pie Roundabout as the library by it looks like a pork pie.
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Standards of driving just seem to be getting worse and worse it always steps up a gear when the weather warms up everyone seems to think its time to take to the roads and drive like a t**t but this year its just getting ridiculous sunday trying to turn right at a roundabout and van coming from the left has decided that nothing is going to get in his way or stop for anything so just ploughs ahead and just misses my bumper and generally drives like a p***k down the rest of the road but tonight was the worst I've seen driving out of town theres always cars tailgating but this time theres an idiot behind flashing his lights as well as hanging off my bumper theres a car in front of me its a two way traffic road with twists and bends and almost zero opportunities for overtaking anyway guy in front turns off and this guy behind is still flashing away and finally decides to overtake without warning on a bend with a no overtaking white line and almost ends up head first into a couple of cars coming the other way tears off like a lunatic only to get stuck behind a bus and another car a few hundred yards on caught up with at the roundabout where he tears off again really had to resist the temptation to give him another blast on the horn because I'm really struggling to control my temper by this point. And its only the start of the **** awful driving season I'm sure there'll be plenty more to come.
Yeah - few times over the last few days I've muttered "are you a ******* idiot" at people while driving - twice at the same place people pulling straight out of a junction which has stop signs for a reason (limited visibility) without bothering to stop or creep and straight into the path of traffic - one nearly got taken out by a lorry. I always cover the brakes on approaching there at night if I see headlights coming up the street but only so much you can do.
EDIT: While it shouldn't be necessary - looking on Google maps the stop sign on that road is hidden by the bushes growing out the last couple of years but still says STOP on the road and an unbroken line across it.
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It's funny, for the last twenty years I've driven as part of my job, now more so than ever. Whereas I used to enjoy it, about 5 years ago, maybe more, it just became something I did. The last couple of years though it has become something I merely tolerate, it's very rare that I enjoy a nice drive.
Just for context a 'nice drive' for me can just be a motorway hack as long as the sun is shining and I can just chill out and rattle off the miles.
Now it's just constant annoyance, tailgating, yo-yoing speed, random lane selection, kamikaze truck drivers, stereotypes in their Merc A classes and 1 series Beemers, the insta cut in people who have to school you on how quick they think you should move over after overtaking another car (and setting off your cars auto braking in the process)...
I thought my adaptive cruise was playing up today. I always have it on the shortest setting but the gap to the car in front was massive compared to everyone around me. So I deployed the good old unscientific "Only a fool breaks the two second rule" phrase. I'd estimate my gap was about 1.7 seconds as my reference point was about level with my front wheel by the end. That would put 90% of other drivers at the time at well under a seconds worth of gap to the car in front.
I know how to make it more tolerable and that is to set my cruising speed a touch higher than the bulk of people on the road. That way you tend to just be merrily making progress on people more often than not but I'm trying to slow down a touch. Today I had the cruise set bang on 70 and I just found myself in the mix of the speed yo-yos and 'one flash then insta move' truckers.
The lockdowns were absolute bliss (being a key worker), just cruising down the dual-carriageways around here, rolling countryside, tunes on, sun out and almost no cars around.
That was such a crazy time. Can barely believe it happened
Unfortunately I didn't keep any dashcam footage from the peak of the lockdowns - it was completely surreal sometimes, I've got some a bit later when it is still very quiet though.
I'm wondering if the has been a highway code change to only dictate 2 speed limits, regardless of roads conditions. 60Mph on dual carriageways/motorways and 40mph on all other roads including pedestrian packed urban streets and open country A roads?
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There's a car round here that I refer to as 'The Hot Wheels Car' - driven by a guy who drops his kid off at school and accelerates to 30mph like his life depends on it at every opportunity. I'm going to refer to it as the Nonce Car from now on. It's blue and shiney.
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Only if you drive a Nissan
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What drives me up the wall in this context - there is a dual-carriageway I use to get to work which has had a limit reduction to 60MPH - now you can't just get up to 70 and quickly get clear of the idiots legally.
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