Your bad driving encounters

Feel the need to post after todays encounter, I think the closest I've come to my first road accident.

Driving back home earlier today, literally 20 seconds from my house on our fairly quiet residential estate. Main road through the estate has the half-arsed speed bumps (just two little humps across the road) in an effort the limit the speed a bit, I normally do about 20-25 through on the road as kids/schools and cars parked all over the place. Old lady in her car waiting to turn right at a T junction on the estate, makes direct eye contact with me and then proceeds to pull out right in front of me :confused:, swerved out of her way and on the brakes but she was far across enough the road that had I not stopped in time I would gone into the side of her. I'm confident if I was doing closer to 30 I would have hit her.
Just absolutely blows my mind, just raised her hand as if to say sorry and then attempted to reverse back into the road she pulled out of. She seemed more bothered about traffic coming from the other direction (that is on a blind corner She was pulling right out of Poplar). Just incredibly frustrating, had wife and young son in the back, yes it would have been a slow speed collision etc but I just have no idea what was going through her mind.
 
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Feel the need to post after todays encounter, I think the closest I've come to my first road accident.

Driving back home earlier today, literally 20 seconds from my house on our fairly quiet residential estate. Main road through the estate has the half-arsed speed bumps (just two little humps across the road) in an effort the limit the speed a bit, I normally do about 20-25 through on the road as kids/schools and cars parked all over the place. Old lady in her car waiting to turn right at a T junction on the estate, makes direct eye contact with me and then proceeds to pull out right in front of me :confused:, swerved out of her way and on the brakes but she was far across enough the road that had I not stopped in time I would gone into the side of her. I'm confident if I was doing closer to 30 I would have hit her.
Just absolutely blows my mind, just raised her hand as if to say sorry and then attempted to reverse back into the road she pulled out of. She seemed more bothered about traffic coming from the other direction (that is on a blind corner She was pulling right out of Poplar). Just incredibly frustrating, had wife and young son in the back, yes it would have been a slow speed collision etc but I just have no idea what was going through her mind.
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Had simular years ago when I was on my bike. She literally looked at me. Side-swiped me and drove off. I caught up with her at a set of lights and she wouldn't stop so absolutely hammered on her window at which point she wound it down, asked what the problem was and claimed she didn't see me.
She certainly would have seen the dent and scratches however. The additional dents weren't a result of the accident.
 
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I’m convinced the rollover protection regulations resulting in much thicker A pillars, some that will easily hide a car on an initial glance, are the cause of many side turning accidents now.
 
MissChief said:
I’m convinced the rollover protection regulations resulting in much thicker A pillars, some that will easily hide a car on an initial glance, are the cause of many side turning accidents now.
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My car is absolutely ***** for that, especially at roundabouts. Massive blindspot on the A pillars, I really have to crane my neck around to see properly.
 
MissChief said:
I’m convinced the rollover protection regulations resulting in much thicker A pillars, some that will easily hide a car on an initial glance, are the cause of many side turning accidents now.
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IMO a lot of this is just people not paying attention to what is going on around them - occasionally they can be a pain when you've come to a stop and/or very rarely but it does happen something will be matching position with the A pillar blind spot but 99% of the time by paying attention they are not a problem. And I'm most often driving SUVs or a pickup which have chunky A pillars.
 
ICDP said:
Never found that a problem, but I do have a working neck :)
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Despite the amount Ashley Neal bangs on about it I don't find the need to do too much head movement, though there are times, if you are paying attention generally it much reduces the chances for things to be completely hidden by the blind spot and/or instances where you don't know something is hidden by the blind spot.

One of the biggest challenges I have lately is I'm driving the roads I do the most so regularly it is difficult not to semi-autopilot them and if I'm not careful I'm not reading the road as much as I nominally would.
 
Saw an awesome one tonight, doing 40 in a 60, then almost caused a crash going straight on in a right only lane on a roundabout with a massive sign on the road saying right only and it's always been like that for 20+ years. How are some people just so oblivious to the rest of the world?
 
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Majority of drivers have lost their use of their neck. Pull straight out of junctions etc
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I don't want to go off topic too much but I have had cars with the blind spot assist and always felt it was a solution to a problem that didn't exist. Same answer as previously, I have a working neck and can instantly glance over my shoulder and use my peripheral vision, so there are no "blind spots". When people tell me they think it is an essential safety feature I ask, why do you have to pay for it then? I mean the airbags and seat belts are standard so why not these if they are genuinely essential for safety. :)

As for bad encounters. Yesterday on the school run, I was merging on to a dual carriageway sliproad and matched the speed of the car behind on the lane I was entering. He was at least 2 seconds behind but at the last minute he floored it to stop me merging in front of him. The problem was I was already half merged and at the speed limit when he decided to do this. I ended up half on the hard shoulder and half on the road as he went past me at least 20mph over the speed limit and leaning on the horn as if I had cut him up.

The most idiotic thing is I had two kids in the back of my car and so did he. He decided it was worth putting his kids and other people's lives at risk to stop one car merging in front of him.
 
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ICDP said:
As for bad encounters. Yesterday on the school run, I was merging on to a dual carriageway sliproad and matched the speed of the car behind on the lane I was entering. He was at least 2 seconds behind but at the last minute he floored it to stop me merging in front of him. The problem was I was already half merged and at the speed limit when he decided to do this. I ended up half on the hard shoulder and half on the road as he went past me at least 20mph over the speed limit and leaning on the horn as if I had cut him up.

The most idiotic thing is I had two kids in the back of my car and so did he. He decided it was worth putting his kids and other people's lives at risk to stop one car merging in front of him.
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This kind of stuff seems to be getting worse and worse, linked to a post above especially with lorries. While I kind of understand it due to the amount they have to put up with stupid driving from cars (and some doing it for fuel efficiency reasons :s) I see an increasing number of lorry drivers turtle up around junctions, etc. even though it is often inconsiderate and sometimes dangerous for people who drive reasonably while not stopping the lunatics.
 
Saw an awesome one this morning, just before I start here's the checklist,
White poverty spec bmw 220d
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Unable to keep a similar distance, kept getting closer and further away.

So there's a roundabout on my commute (near papas in willerby), it used to be the traditional way as its 2-on, 2off so you could go straight on in both lanes. It got changed several years ago so you can now only go straight on in the right lane which is stupid as it causes massive tailbacks. So the guy above decides he's going to go straight on in the left lanes, while the right lane is full of moving traffic. Some idiot decided to let him in then he's traveling down the next stretch (which has dropped to single carridgeway) halfway over the central line trying to overtake a coach. Fortunately each lane is wide enough that cars weren't that affected on the other side, but what a bell end. Earlier on a dual carriageway he was playing wacky races between both lanes to leapfrog traffic. People like that are mega dangerous but always seem to get away with it.
 
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Driving on a dual carriageway. Suddenly the Tesla driver in front decided to drive straddling on both lanes. WTF? Despite me flashing headlights (not me) or sounding horn, he was ignoring me and annoying the other drivers behind.

Had to endure this numbnut for just over a mile before he turned left.
 
Driving in a retail park car park, some idiot thought it would be a good idea to drive around the car park at 50mph almost smashing a few cars in the process...
 
3 old codgers in a row pulling out in front of me at junctions. Shame I wasn't in the other car otherwise I'd send the dashcam footage to the police. Sick of stupid old farts who shouldn't be on the road.
 
I think I might have won the thread. I live on a private road with around 10 cars passing per day, nobody really drives over about 20MPH, even in 4x4 vehicles. I was woken up by a loud bang this morning, this guy hit my gate hard enough to detonate both airbags and render the gate totally useless. Still have absolutely no idea how he managed it.

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