Your bad driving encounters

Resident · 14 Jul 2023 at 11:33

Jay85 said:
This is my daily commute to work so im always on the look out lol. The problem with this area, once there's an accident it will cause a traffic jam always back up the parkway back up to the M1! Been stuck in this for over an hour before and had to detour round Meadowhall to re-enter the city.

It's also my daily commute and depending on the roster at work, one of my regular routes.

TBH a collision anywhere from the ring road inwards of the city causes a chain reaction. Same when United are playing at home or a road is closed for works.

cheesefest · 14 Jul 2023 at 19:04

On a stop/start around a main roundabout near to a huge supermarket. I was going straight ahead. Guy in a purple/pink Peugeot 106 on my left, probably left the supermarket wanted to go straight ahead. He snook passed me rubbing my front of the car. Got a bit of his car paint on my reg plate.

Rroff · 17 Jul 2023 at 12:48

The people who don't stay over their side of the road is frustrating - came around a corner yesterday, which is narrow enough if people drive within the lines, to find 2 vans intruding my side one much worse than the other, then saw a near collision when someone cut across a junction at the same time ironically as the person in front of me was lazily partly across the other side of the road... then a near accident when someone panicked on coming around a corner to find someone over our side of the road and wasn't sure if they should go left or right to avoid them nearly colliding with another car (EDIT: Also a good thing I was keeping a good distance rather than tailgating them like a **** as that would have likely resulted in an extra car involved in the accident if they'd collided).

EDIT: To be fair looking at the video the first van wasn't as bad as I thought, in reaction to the second one as well my memory was of the first one being much worse than it was.

MissChief · 17 Jul 2023 at 13:04

Rroff said:
The people who don't stay over their side of the road is frustrating - came around a corner yesterday, which is narrow enough if people drive within the lines, to find 2 vans intruding my side one much worse than the other, then saw a near collision when someone cut across a junction at the same time ironically as the person in front of me was lazily partly across the other side of the road... then a near accident when someone panicked on coming around a corner to find someone over our side of the road and wasn't sure if they should go left or right to avoid them nearly colliding with another car (EDIT: Also a good thing I was keeping a good distance rather than tailgating them like a **** as that would have likely resulted in an extra car involved in the accident if they'd collided).

EDIT: To be fair looking at the video the first van wasn't as bad as I thought, in reaction to the second one as well my memory was of the first one being much worse than it was.

Whole tyre and more over the line. Very poor.

Rroff · 17 Jul 2023 at 13:09

MissChief said:
Whole tyre and more over the line. Very poor.

Wasn't even offsiding to open up the road more or wide to avoid something in the road, etc. just being lazy from what I could see, maybe not comfortable with the width of the van and the narrow highsided road but they cut in really late leaving me little options to deal with it - picture doesn't really convey it but even taking the corner relatively cautiously you don't have much time to react to something there unless you absolutely crawl around the corner - HGVs which have no option but to go wide always have me a bit nervous there.

theone8181 · 17 Jul 2023 at 20:50

Seems to be happing more ans more, our estate roads are 2 cars wide, but with no white lines (although the road was laid in 2 "halves" so there's an overlap if tar in the middle). The amount of people that just trade it as single track is mind boggling.

XeNoN89 · 18 Jul 2023 at 09:26

Saw a couple of idiots on the A3 on Sunday, a modified 1 series and a focus who thought they were in the fast and the furious having a race through the 50 limit section weaving in and out of traffic all over the place!

cheesefest · 21 Jul 2023 at 14:39

As a pedestrian. Crossing road at a crossing with green man on. Bus driver cruised through the red light beeping at me. What a utter *******. There're a few bus drivers that drive dangerously here.

Rroff · 21 Jul 2023 at 23:20

Had someone come flying up behind me just as I got to a twisty bit of a country road and sit about 6 feet off my rear bumper... slowed up a bit and they just got closer

gave them a blip of the hazards and they did then back off to a normal distance until they got to over take a bit further up the road where they then blipped their hazards after passing LOL. Didn't gain them anything as there was an ambulance doing not much more than 40MPH 300 yards up the road (they then tailgated the ambulance which responded by slowing down to 40).

When they caught up with me I'd slowed down a little as I'd caught the headlights from someone coming around the corner the other way at a funny angle and/or they were late dipping their headlights and it had compromised my night vision a little.

Just no need for it at all.

Can't be sure it was the same person but the sign writing on the back looked like one of the local taxis drivers who'd been sounding off in the local press not long ago about boy racers blasting through their village. Which would be kind of ironic.

Dis86 · 22 Jul 2023 at 08:15

Rroff said:
Had someone come flying up behind me just as I got to a twisty bit of a country road and sit about 6 feet off my rear bumper... slowed up a bit and they just got closer gave them a blip of the hazards and they did then back off to a normal distance until they got to over take a bit further up the road where they then blipped their hazards after passing LOL. Didn't gain them anything as there was an ambulance doing not much more than 40MPH 300 yards up the road (they then tailgated the ambulance which responded by slowing down to 40).

When they caught up with me I'd slowed down a little as I'd caught the headlights from someone coming around the corner the other way at a funny angle and/or they were late dipping their headlights and it had compromised my night vision a little.

Just no need for it at all.

Can't be sure it was the same person but the sign writing on the back looked like one of the local taxis drivers who'd been sounding off in the local press not long ago about boy racers blasting through their village. Which would be kind of ironic.

There's a village not far from me that ran a speed awareness thing with the council and police last year because of speeders.
The results: over 80% of those caught lived in the village.

Stu999 · 22 Jul 2023 at 14:47

People who drive at 50mph on the motorway should be launched into the sun.

ICDP · 22 Jul 2023 at 15:07

Stu999 said:
People who drive at 50mph on the motorway should be launched into the sun.

That would take them about 1,860,000 years at that speed… that’ll learn them. :cry:

Baldbloke · 22 Jul 2023 at 15:10

ICDP said:
That would take them about 1,860,000 years at that speed… that’ll learn them.

Saw a car yesterday on the M1 southbound around Tibshelf doing around 45MPH in lane one. No hazards, seemingly no transmission issues. Just tootling down the motorway oblivious.

d_brennen · 22 Jul 2023 at 15:13

Baldbloke said:
Saw a car yesterday on the M1 southbound around Tibshelf doing around 45MPH in lane one. No hazards, seemingly no transmission issues. Just tootling down the motorway oblivious.

I see this all the time, usually lane 2 though. Mr Magoo behind the wheel

theone8181 · 22 Jul 2023 at 20:57

I know there's meant to be a minium speed on motorways and you can be done for it, although that does require actually traffic police.

Resident · 23 Jul 2023 at 11:54

Stu999 said:
People who drive at 50mph on the motorway should be launched into the sun.

Sorry but when I'm in my work vehicle, they're limited to 50mph and I have to use the motorway (usually 1 junction hops)

Resident · 23 Jul 2023 at 11:56

theone8181 said:
I know there's meant to be a minium speed on motorways and you can be done for it, although that does require actually traffic police.

40mph is where most cops would pull you unless signposted less on gantries or traffic

Stu999 · 23 Jul 2023 at 12:26

Resident said:
Sorry but when I'm in my work vehicle, they're limited to 50mph and I have to use the motorway (usually 1 junction hops)

That’s fine, commercial vehicles / work stuff can’t go faster. I’m talking mainly about normal cars.

LuckyBenski · 23 Jul 2023 at 12:50

Motorways are big enough to share, don't see what the problem is with someone doing 50mph so long as they're in the left lane and I've got room to pass them.

Yesterday's twit doing 50mph in lane 3 of 4, forcing several of us to pass him on both sides, who then flashed his lights at me for about 20 seconds when I moved in front of him? He got about 15 seconds of my middle finger and a ****ed off glare.

Blackvault · 23 Jul 2023 at 12:57

Baldbloke said:
Saw a car yesterday on the M1 southbound around Tibshelf doing around 45MPH in lane one. No hazards, seemingly no transmission issues. Just tootling down the motorway oblivious.

Newly qualified Northern Irish drivers are limited to 45mph for a year after passing, including when on the motorways. Bloody dangerous.