Your bad driving encounters

Massive queue on the A17 on my Nav today. I knew straight away from its location that it was a binned car. Cayenne/Touareg and BMW E90. Cayenne was dented in the back bumper on the drivers side on the grass verge and E90 BMW was in the ditch. Police on the scene looked about 12 years old. Not sure how the BMW ended up in the ditch however unless there was a third car involved that ran off.
 
Had an interesting one today, wasn't my best moment either but still - not another driver but a pedestrian.

Was going through a narrow twisty part of a road ( https://goo.gl/maps/3msAm7bdjX9eYkxK8 ) with high banks at the sides with a person jogging towards me on my side (at least they were facing towards oncoming traffic unlike a lot I've seen lately), traffic including a large van coming the other way so not possible for me to position anywhere but close to the left. When I first appeared they were passing or just past someone's drive so could have stopped in there for a moment but continued towards me leaving me no choice but to stop and wait for things to clear. Instead of stopping at a bit of distance from me so I could pull around them once the other way was clear they continued towards me while glaring at me like it is my fault... then as things clear they continue to try and squeeze past me despite being no room really, at which point I tried to move out a bit but they didn't get the hint and ended up banging against my wing mirror - for some reason I didn't think in time to fold them in as I'd normally do. I should have really just stayed still until they were past.

EDIT: They also had the option of getting off the road at the half-way point between where I first saw them and where I stopped but didn't use it https://goo.gl/maps/vLFRFF558SgETmoS6

Not an ideal situation all around but personally I'd have not run through there if I had any other option especially as it is a route frequented by HGVs and anyone local would know that.

(It is a lot narrower and twister than Google Maps makes it look).
 
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Rroff said:
Had an interesting one today, wasn't my best moment either but still - not another driver but a pedestrian.

Was going through a narrow twisty part of a road ( https://goo.gl/maps/3msAm7bdjX9eYkxK8 ) with high banks at the sides with a person jogging towards me on my side (at least they were facing towards oncoming traffic unlike a lot I've seen lately), traffic including a large van coming the other way so not possible for me to position anywhere but close to the left. When I first appeared they were passing or just past someone's drive so could have stopped in there for a moment but continued towards me leaving me no choice but to stop and wait for things to clear. Instead of stopping at a bit of distance from me so I could pull around them once the other way was clear they continued towards me while glaring at me like it is my fault... then as things clear they continue to try and squeeze past me despite being no room really, at which point I tried to move out a bit but they didn't get the hint and ended up banging against my wing mirror - for some reason I didn't think in time to fold them in as I'd normally do. I should have really just stayed still until they were past.

EDIT: They also had the option of getting off the road at the half-way point between where I first saw them and where I stopped but didn't use it https://goo.gl/maps/vLFRFF558SgETmoS6

Not an ideal situation all around but personally I'd have not run through there if I had any other option especially as it is a route frequented by HGVs and anyone local would know that.

(It is a lot narrower and twister than Google Maps makes it look).
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Lack of awareness from the runner and certainly not somewhere i'd run if there were options. Tough time of year to run on narrow roads as there's so much hedge and verge growth, at least he was traffic facing.
 
BlastRadius said:
Lack of awareness from the runner and certainly not somewhere i'd run if there were options. Tough time of year to run on narrow roads as there's so much hedge and verge growth, at least he was traffic facing.
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Yeah just got my car back so reviewed the video and was lack of awareness on their part from beginning to end - not gonna upload the video as I don't think it would be fair to identify them but at this point they could have got off the road and let me pass, there was no traffic behind me even so not like they'd have to keep doing it, instead continued up towards me then tried to squeeze past, also lack of awareness as they got close to me that the traffic had cleared the other way and I could have moved out to pass them instead of them making it difficult by trying to squeeze past me...

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Had an interesting one last week on a 3 lane road between towns (not a dual carriageway) they regularly drive like lunatics despite a 50 limit they regularly do much more friday/saturday nights are the worst they seem to think they're immortal either that or they're demob from work happy. Anyway last week was minding my own business when I heard this squealing noise and thought whats that? Looked behind me nothing looked to the right and this sports car was squealing its tyres fish tailing left and right right next to me goodness knows what speed it was going it just appeared out of nowhere. Anyway it was obvious it was likely to swing into the side of me so hit the brakes and it shot past like a rocket still swinging from side to side and stopped about 100 yards further on, in the live lane. I honestly thought it was going to go sideways and off into a ditch but he somehow brought it to a stop and put the warning lights on. Got to say I didn't feel a great deal of sympathy considering the speed he must have been going and driving back the other way an hour later he was still there only with a breakdown recovery van with the flashing ambers so must have been something major like a blown tyre or something.

But it goes to show you're only ever a drive away from an accident of some kind (and like the last one I was involved in it wouldn't even have been my fault)
 
Blackjack Davy said:
But it goes to show you're only ever a drive away from an accident of some kind (and like the last one I was involved in it wouldn't even have been my fault)
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Sadly true :( one of my cousins recently had someone shunt them from behind into the car in front, fortunately not at speed, as they just assumed the cars in front would go when a gap came up but the first car stalled.
 
Was on the M1 the other week and witnessed this brutality. Loads of gimps trying to undertake a wide load; and then *something* happened and the wide load veered massively over to lane 3. The idiot in the Jazz almost got pwnt. Unfortunately you can just see a dust cloud but he ate a lot of dirt going 70+. And coincidentally, it was a Dacia Duster that "hid" the real carnage lol.

 
Multiple morons in that vid. Jazz driving like a tool, wide load seemingly swerving for no reason, people jamming brakes on last minute even though there's a clear obstruction and then that open reach van.
 
I've never seen a Honda Jazz driven "normally"... if they aren't doing 10-20MPH under the speed limit for no good reason, they are driving at me the wrong way... or as Ashley just uploaded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7JI3h7WQbA

Video reminds me of the chaos at the start of the dual-carriageway the leads into the town I work in - I inevitably just sit back, wonder WTF is wrong with people and then pass like 90% of them while doing the speed limit once they've sorted themselves out.
 
Dis86 said:
Multiple morons in that vid. Jazz driving like a tool, wide load seemingly swerving for no reason, people jamming brakes on last minute even though there's a clear obstruction and then that open reach van.
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I suppose it's possible that some tiny-membered moron took offence to the wide load and brake-checked it, causing the swerve.
 
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I suppose it's possible that some tiny-membered moron took offence to the wide load and brake-checked it, causing the swerve.
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Can't see anyone who was in a position to do that - the car which got past on the left near the start of the video was well ahead by the time there was a view of them again, no other vehicle in or moving out of a position where they'd have had to have been to brake check the load when you get a view ahead of the lorry.

Possibly one of the smaller black vehicles undertook someone just after the lorry but bit odd for the lorry to move right in response to that rather than left, I wondered if someone dived out of lane 3 to take the services but can't see it matching up with the lorry manoeuvring quite.
 
Rroff said:
Yeah just got my car back so reviewed the video and was lack of awareness on their part from beginning to end - not gonna upload the video as I don't think it would be fair to identify them but at this point they could have got off the road and let me pass, there was no traffic behind me even so not like they'd have to keep doing it, instead continued up towards me then tried to squeeze past, also lack of awareness as they got close to me that the traffic had cleared the other way and I could have moved out to pass them instead of them making it difficult by trying to squeeze past me...
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getting off the road as a runner or walker , you don't want a car driving past close by at some excessive speed - I'm often in this situation with oncoming tractors -
I stop, tractor driver stops, maybe 20m apart, and we wait until he can pass me safely - yes, no squeezing , but there usually wouldn't be room.
 
So, got a bit of police feedback from a clip I submitted to them a while back of an older woman driving like a top tier tard and then going through a red. Basically she pulled out in front of me at a junction, dawdled along a 40mph road at 25mph and then went straight through a red light. Police hit her for careless driving and the red light. She contested both (despite the video evidence) and went to court and promptly lost!

Officer I spoke to described her as being incredibly arrogant, self-righteous and deluded! Her defence on the red was that the car waiting at the other side of it wasn't indicating! She couldn't have seen the indicators on the passenger side of the car from her position.
 
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Todays bad driving example - me.

Leaving work at 1:30am for a 10 mile commute in Lincolnshire, and decided (for some reason) that I would turn off the main road into a side road and drive on the right instead.

I have absolutely no idea why, but the car just arriving the junction to turn on the main road got a nasty surprise as I went straight into the front of them.

Totally my fault, they did nothing wrong and I have no idea what actually happened. Possibly they were caught perfectly behind my A pillar the whole way as they approached the junction, I was tired and on autopilot, done the journey a million times etc - no excuses, I just messed up.

Their Audi drove off ok, my E Class has had the front right caved in and definitely pushed the wing rearwards. All manner of airbags went off in places I didn’t know they existed, car rang Mercedes SOS and asked info was ok before I had even clocked what had happened, and put the gearbox into park and best of all - it turned all my blue ambient lighting red…

I have dashcam footage but until the insurance is settled I’ll not be sharing it - it only shows me driving head on into another car anyway…

40 years old, driving for 23 years - just ****ed up.
 
Oof - that worries me doing night shifts especially if varied shift patterns it can be very hard sometimes not to mentally switch off when driving home in the early hours.
 
Have to admit, I've been driving 10 years and prefer night time drives. Generally find driving makes me alert from the nerves/responsibility. But the last few weeks I've been doing late drives up the M1 to get home and felt my eyes are heavy. It's concerning and it's never really happened to me til now.
 
The ambient lighting switch might be automatic in the event of a collision.

Difficult to see veins under blue lights which is why public toilets used to have blue lights over the cubicles
 
Penfold101 said:
Todays bad driving example - me.

Leaving work at 1:30am for a 10 mile commute in Lincolnshire, and decided (for some reason) that I would turn off the main road into a side road and drive on the right instead.

I have absolutely no idea why, but the car just arriving the junction to turn on the main road got a nasty surprise as I went straight into the front of them.

Totally my fault, they did nothing wrong and I have no idea what actually happened. Possibly they were caught perfectly behind my A pillar the whole way as they approached the junction, I was tired and on autopilot, done the journey a million times etc - no excuses, I just messed up.

Their Audi drove off ok, my E Class has had the front right caved in and definitely pushed the wing rearwards. All manner of airbags went off in places I didn’t know they existed, car rang Mercedes SOS and asked info was ok before I had even clocked what had happened, and put the gearbox into park and best of all - it turned all my blue ambient lighting red…

I have dashcam footage but until the insurance is settled I’ll not be sharing it - it only shows me driving head on into another car anyway…

40 years old, driving for 23 years - just ****ed up.
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hope everyone was ok
 
Well almost died again today driving to work.

On the A66 dual carriageway driving at 74mph in the fast lane as coming up to a right hand turn when I notice that the opposite carriageway is totally blocked due to an accident.

Just before the accident there is a right hand turn from the other carriageway and obviously people who dont want to wait for the road to clear can turn off or do a u turn (I assume the are allowed to do a U turn? Will have to check as I would imagine a U turn from a dual carriageway into another dual carriageway would be dangerous?).

Anyway there is a wagon carrying gas bottles pulling a trailer full of bottles waiting in the central reservation. No idea whether he just didnt see me or just didnt care but as I am coming up on him he pulls out and keeps going so he has the entire carriageway and hard shoulder blocked off due to his length and poor turning circle.

Thank god the brakes on my xsport X5 are enormous. One emergency stop later and brown trouser moment, I managed to not hit this truck.

Going to download the on board camera footage later and send to the business and the police.
 
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