Your bad driving encounters

dacads said:
Reminds me of an awkward roundabout here, two lanes but there’s only a straight and right exit. The markings have faded , left lane can be used to turn straight and right which is unusual. If you didn’t see the markings it would be baffling and infuriating seeing people turning right using the left lane.
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Roundabout near where I work, it is technically correct because the lane for turning left departs early, at the roundabout itself the first lane is straight over or right, the second lane for turning right, but straight over is a 2 lane exit so people use the second lane to go straight and come into conflict with those using the first lane to turn right.

Worse the road joining on the right of the one I'm talking about above directs traffic turning to their right, which is the straight over above, into the second lane which means they cut across anyone using the first lane as per above to turn right...
 
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6...&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB This roundabout causes me headaches pretty much every time I use it.

To go straight over you need to be in the right hand lane, the left is for the first 2 exits, straight over being the 3rd.

The amount of people including the local police who use the left lane and then get bent out of shape as you cut them up because there's no other way to get off at the 3rd exit without stopping in the middle of the roundabout is mental.
 
tom_e said:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6...&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB This roundabout causes me headaches pretty much every time I use it.

To go straight over you need to be in the right hand lane, the left is for the first 2 exits, straight over being the 3rd.

The amount of people including the local police who use the left lane and then get bent out of shape as you cut them up because there's no other way to get off at the 3rd exit without stopping in the middle of the roundabout is mental.
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I assume the road markings are still poor? Even so, it does look fairly obvious that left lane is first 2 exists as it should be.

Some of the big roundabouts in MK are awful for people that don't know them, because the road markings are completely worn.
 
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dacads said:
Reminds me of an awkward roundabout here, two lanes but there’s only a straight and right exit. The markings have faded , left lane can be used to turn straight and right which is unusual. If you didn’t see the markings it would be baffling and infuriating seeing people turning right using the left lane.
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There's a roundabout here with 5 exits and only four of the roads to the roundabout are traffic light controlled. Why?
 
Colleague drove behind a car this morning who just removed snow from windscreen.

Leave your home 5 mins earlier to clear the snow.

Plus it’s illegal.
 
The amount with no lights on too. Had an A7 pull out infront of me and totally stall the traffic flow around a large motorway doing 3mph with the rear screen totally covered with thick snow.
 
cheesefest said:
Colleague drove behind a car this morning who just removed snow from windscreen.

Leave your home 5 mins earlier to clear the snow.

Plus it’s illegal.
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Had one sat so close behind me on Wednesday that I couldn't see him in my wing mirrors. He eventually turned off but had to stop at a red light. All snow from his roof straight down over his windscreen.

Few British Gas vans driving around with only a porthole cleared from windscreen as well on Wednesday.
 
SilverTongue said:
Had one sat so close behind me on Wednesday that I couldn't see him in my wing mirrors. He eventually turned off but had to stop at a red light. All snow from his roof straight down over his windscreen.

Few British Gas vans driving around with only a porthole cleared from windscreen as well on Wednesday.
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Seen the snow fall from the roof cracking the windscreen. We had 8 inches of snow that night.

Have a long handled brush and scraper which bought in Lidl for about £3.30.

If people can’t leave their homes 5 mins earlier to clear ice and snow off their vehicles- they shouldn’t be driving.

You were probably driving at the time you saw the BG vans with portholes. Would have been great to show a photo of at least one of the vans on social media
 
Had someone on my way to work today, driving a touch erratically, mostly dawdling, not moving over to let faster traffic pass, etc. on the dual-carriageway for no reason, etc. Didn't like it when I got passed them and they suddenly decided they wanted to be going faster and I unintentionally (by driving to the highway code) gave them a dose of their own medicine.

My guess is they were on a phone call up until just as I was passing them - personally don't see the need to be on the phone at all when driving unless taking directions or an emergency.
 
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One thing I really need help understanding though is these people who take the outside lane at traffic lights, when there is one or more cars already in the left lane, who never get going, don't even do the speed limit then cause drama, and obviously anxious/panicked, when they are trying to merge back in.
 
Rroff said:
One thing I really need help understanding though is these people who take the outside lane at traffic lights, when there is one or more cars already in the left lane, who never get going, don't even do the speed limit then cause drama, and obviously anxious/panicked, when they are trying to merge back in.
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Or when lorries decide to dive into the right hand lane then move off slower than a very slow thing :o
 
iamtheoneneo said:
On my motorbike had a lady last night just decide she was not going to yield priority when she had parked cars on her side of the road, I carried on going as there was a gap there that she could have also pulled into...but no just kept on going forcing me to get squeezed. Needless to say I was ******.
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Ha that reminds of an incident a couple weeks ago theres a row of parked cars on my left reducing the road to a single lane theres another string of cars coming towards me I stop opposite a t-junction which allowed room for the leading car to make a small detour to my right to get around me, but no this woman just stops in front of me and refuses to budge. She shouts and gesticulates to move back she expects me to reverse about 50 yards down a narrow street in the pitch dark with parked cars on one side just so she doesn't have to make a tiny detour to her left to go around me. The standoff lasted well it felt like 10 minutes eventually when it was obvious I wasn't going to budge decided to make a move and stops directly next to me saying loudly wind down your window I want to have a word with you. To which I replied nope not a chance she can hear me perfectly fine as I can her I'm not having her poke her umbrella or whatever at me thank you very much. Anyway she finally got the point and drove off and the long queue of cars behind her could finally make progress.

Was she in the back of a Rolls Royce with a tiara on her head? Nope just a middle aged woman in small red bmw mini. She's probably the head of a school or something and used to bossing people around. Well I'm not your subordinate lady not today.
 
Rroff said:
Had someone on my way to work today, driving a touch erratically, mostly dawdling, not moving over to let faster traffic pass, etc. on the dual-carriageway for no reason, etc. Didn't like it when I got passed them and they suddenly decided they wanted to be going faster and I unintentionally (by driving to the highway code) gave them a dose of their own medicine.

My guess is they were on a phone call up until just as I was passing them - personally don't see the need to be on the phone at all when driving unless taking directions or an emergency.
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Driving an older performance variant of a common car I get this a lot, usually from VAG owners or 'failed at life' (Vauxhall Mokka) owners. Trunddling away at 40-45 on a 50mph dual. Overtake them then return back to L1 only for them to put foot down, overtake then resume as they were before or put foot down as you're along side them in an attempt to prevent you from overtaking.


Blackjack Davy said:
Nope just a middle aged woman in small red bmw mini. She's probably the head of a school or something and used to bossing people around. Well I'm not your subordinate lady not today.
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In my experience as a professional driver, after taxis/delivery drivers, women, specifically middle-aged & in small cars are abysmal when it comes to driving. They must hit middle age and become completely unaware of anything not within 3ft of them.
 
So many drivers driving cars that are filthy - can't see through windows and reg plate. Normally their driving is not up to standard either.
 
Resident said:
Driving an older performance variant of a common car I get this a lot, usually from VAG owners or 'failed at life' (Vauxhall Mokka) owners. Trunddling away at 40-45 on a 50mph dual. Overtake them then return back to L1 only for them to put foot down, overtake then resume as they were before or put foot down as you're along side them in an attempt to prevent you from overtaking.
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Wasn't a case of them being triggered by me overtaking (I've encountered that before but fortunately rarely). I'm 99% sure they were on a phone call up until about when I passed them probably both oblivious and not caring to how they were holding up other traffic which was just trying to drive normally, then their driving changed when the call ended, probably resuming to how they normally drive without much consideration for the traffic around them in the process. Combined with the car ahead of me slowing down a lot after passing them, them suddenly deciding to get a move on and the end of the dual carriageway coming up left me little choice but to cut in on them quite sharpish - which they didn't like much. For the next couple of miles they were obviously getting frustrated by me "holding them up" because I was driving to the speed limit and highway code.
 
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Resident said:
Overtake them then return back to L1 only for them to put foot down, overtake then resume as they were before or put foot down as you're along side them in an attempt to prevent you from overtaking.
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Had it on the way to work yesterday :( saw them do it to the car in front of me (who aborted their overtake) so wasn't entirely surprised and to be fair I slowed down a bit as I was passing them but still - dawdling until someone tried to overtake them, then put their foot down, then dawdle again - sped up to match my speed and block me coming back to lane 1 after I'd committed to passing them and as it was a somewhat dangerous bit of road and I wasn't going to play silly games I braked and went in behind them again rather than mess about - one of my friends partner was killed on that bit of road by someone driving stupidly back in December.

EDIT: In retrospect I think it was another case of people paying more attention to their phone or a conversation than done maliciously and suddenly realising they'd slowed down compared to the traffic around them and getting back up to speed again without consideration of the affect on other traffic.
 
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