Some people look genuinely annoyed that you're preventing them from cutting the corner.
Your bad driving encounters
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Some people look genuinely annoyed that you're preventing them from cutting the corner.
Soldato
45mph.
It's just become the default speed for some reason. 45mph down the NSL roads near me (windy but nice and wide, not difficult roads even if you've never been there). 45mph joining motorways (reeaaaalllly gets my blood boiling). Then these same clowns are doing 45 going into the 30s.
Oh except that one 40mph camera near me where everyone slams down to 28mph for... reasons.
It's just become the default speed for some reason. 45mph down the NSL roads near me (windy but nice and wide, not difficult roads even if you've never been there). 45mph joining motorways (reeaaaalllly gets my blood boiling). Then these same clowns are doing 45 going into the 30s.
Oh except that one 40mph camera near me where everyone slams down to 28mph for... reasons.
45 on the country roads between the villages and near enough 45 through the villages. The amount of times I leave people for dead on NSL roads for them to be inches from my bumper in the village as I'm sticking to the speed limit.
Are others noticing an increase in people not holding back behind parked cars when it isn't their right of way? Or even reducing their speed in width restrictions? I dread to think how close our wing mirrors have passed pretty much every time I go down a road near me.
Yeah, had that yesterday when they would have only been delayed by ten seconds by waiting. Moments before that someone tried to pull away from a parking spot at the opposite side of the road without indicating. Good times.
Soldato
Or just SVR badges
Rather than start another thread - one of my brother's colleagues killed in an accident today - literally a few cars back from him on the way to work
www.somersetlive.co.uk
Just seems to be endless serious accidents on the roads around here lately, there was one just by where this accident happened only yesterday ( https://www.somersetcountygazette.c...-airlifted-southmead-hospital-a371-collision/ )
this is like the 8th young women killed within a few miles of where I live or work since the 1st of December!!! including one of my friend's partner.
Woman in her 20s killed in Somerset car crash
Officers have now launched an appeal for information
www.somersetlive.co.uk
Just seems to be endless serious accidents on the roads around here lately, there was one just by where this accident happened only yesterday ( https://www.somersetcountygazette.c...-airlifted-southmead-hospital-a371-collision/ )
this is like the 8th young women killed within a few miles of where I live or work since the 1st of December!!! including one of my friend's partner.
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Are the roads bad in terms of design or narrowness?Rather than start another thread - one of my brother's colleagues killed in an accident today - literally a few cars back from him on the way to work
Woman in her 20s killed in Somerset car crash
Officers have now launched an appeal for information
Just seems to be endless serious accidents on the roads around here lately, there was one just by where this accident happened only yesterday ( https://www.somersetcountygazette.c...-airlifted-southmead-hospital-a371-collision/ )
Most of them have happened at bad spots - the one today there is a junction on a bend with poor visibility with bends either side of that bend - there was someone killed there not hugely long ago as well https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-10-19/man-dies-after-lorry-crash-in-somerset
A couple of the others are at places where there are cross-roads onto high speed dual-carriageways which were designed like in the 70s and really not suited to today's speeds and traffic levels for instance where a friend of mine's partner was killed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-63845477
Largely though they come down to bad driving and/or people driving under the influence and/or while already banned for dangerous driving, etc.
Soldato
This is probably bad driving from me.
There's a junction near my house that people love to cut and I don't mean take a bit off the line, some are almost taking the apex of the kerb so fully on the wrong side of the road. I'm always turning left but when I see a car trying to cut the corner I position my car on towards the right of the road so they have to almost do a u turn then.
Soldato
This is our closest junction on to the A1 and i took that exact route a couple of hours ago. It is really difficult when it gets busy, like you say, and my biggest problem with it is that giant SUVs creep forward so much that I can't see anything from my position in the left lane. It's so inconsiderate.
When you do finally get out it has to be at such a speed that it's common for traffic going south to pull out, so I'm always ready to slow down.
We could take the junction from the north which is staggered with a refuge, but honestly that is more dangerous when it's busy
I dont know what the solution is though really. It would be easier if it didnt go to 2 lanes at the end i think. Buy the queue would get really long at busy times
Soldato
I've never had anyone cut across me like you've had though, that's really dangerous.
Soldato
Two this week:
An impatient white van man driving on the pavement to jump a queue. It was such a wtf moment I didn't think to get his reg in time and no dashcam. If anyone from Eurogold happens to read this: kindly remind your drivers that off-road should be limited to the building sites they're working on.
I paused behind a parked car to let oncoming traffic through and put my right indicator on to show all around my intention (and foot on the brake so the lights are on) then some twonk from behind me overtakes right into the path of that oncoming traffic. Local road where everyone knows you have to do the give and take shuffle and its not like I made a sudden decision, so clearly either not paying attention or too arrogant to wait.
An impatient white van man driving on the pavement to jump a queue. It was such a wtf moment I didn't think to get his reg in time and no dashcam. If anyone from Eurogold happens to read this: kindly remind your drivers that off-road should be limited to the building sites they're working on.
I paused behind a parked car to let oncoming traffic through and put my right indicator on to show all around my intention (and foot on the brake so the lights are on) then some twonk from behind me overtakes right into the path of that oncoming traffic. Local road where everyone knows you have to do the give and take shuffle and its not like I made a sudden decision, so clearly either not paying attention or too arrogant to wait.
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Soldato
I haven't driven for years. But a memorable bad driving encounter was crossing one of those staggered traffic light junctions were if you're turning right you have to forward in to the junction and wait for the opposite line of traffic to clear before you turn.
So I'm coming the other way and there were 2 women in a car chatting and waiting at the other side of the lights. Both lights turn green at the same time and people turning right are supposed to go in to the middle of the junction and wait until there is a clear opportunity from the side I was on. But I just knew the driver wasn't concentrating, so when the light went green I set off forward, as they did. But I had my foot hovering over the brake, and sure enough the woman cut right across me instead of waiting. I slammed on the brake as I would have drove in to her if I carried on doing the same speed. I didn't bother beeping as the shock of what nearly happened jumped her to reality and she realised she'd made a mistake.
I'm not sure if she even saw my car. But this is why I always drive defensively. Don't rely on other people to do the right thing.
So I'm coming the other way and there were 2 women in a car chatting and waiting at the other side of the lights. Both lights turn green at the same time and people turning right are supposed to go in to the middle of the junction and wait until there is a clear opportunity from the side I was on. But I just knew the driver wasn't concentrating, so when the light went green I set off forward, as they did. But I had my foot hovering over the brake, and sure enough the woman cut right across me instead of waiting. I slammed on the brake as I would have drove in to her if I carried on doing the same speed. I didn't bother beeping as the shock of what nearly happened jumped her to reality and she realised she'd made a mistake.
I'm not sure if she even saw my car. But this is why I always drive defensively. Don't rely on other people to do the right thing.
Seem to be encountering more and more people driving erratically and with little consideration for anyone else - 3 times in a few days I've got out onto a main road I use a lot only for there to be a vehicle 1-3 cars in front of me doing randomly ~28-70 in an NSL, poor lane discipline, late reactions (probably talking on the phone but I've not been able to see that) - occasionally speeding up - sometimes over the speed limit, especially if an overtaking opportunity comes up , then dropping down again - the last two continued into a 30 through a village doing over 40MPH, then were barely doing 40MPH when I caught them up again on the main road the other side........
, then dropping down again - the last two continued into a 30 through a village doing over 40MPH, then were barely doing 40MPH when I caught them up again on the main road the other side........
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A very common thing these days seems to be people running red lights - On the A167 there is a set of traffic lights that controls the traffic coming out of an urban area, and recently I was sat at those lights on my way to work heading north on the A167. You can see the lights for the other exit of the junction and they had changed to red, our lights had changed to green and myself and the traffic from the opposite direction started to pull away when an idiot came flying up to the junction and turned right in front of both of us, causing us both to brake. After they had gone we both looked at each other and shook our heads
At another stretch of the same road, there is a traffic light controlled roundabout that has 4 lanes as you approach - lane 1 is for turning left only, lanes 2 and 3 are for straight on, then lane 4 is for turning right only. I was sat behind a car in lane 2, so as the lights changed it pulled away, then decided to indicate right and cut across to lane 4 to turn right, so I followed my lane to go straight ahead but this car then just cut back across the lanes without indicating and almost took the front of my car off.....luckily there was nothing behind me as I suspect I would have been hit due to my emergency stop I had to do
At another stretch of the same road, there is a traffic light controlled roundabout that has 4 lanes as you approach - lane 1 is for turning left only, lanes 2 and 3 are for straight on, then lane 4 is for turning right only. I was sat behind a car in lane 2, so as the lights changed it pulled away, then decided to indicate right and cut across to lane 4 to turn right, so I followed my lane to go straight ahead but this car then just cut back across the lanes without indicating and almost took the front of my car off.....luckily there was nothing behind me as I suspect I would have been hit due to my emergency stop I had to do
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Im getting sick of people trying to join rush hour motorways at 40mph. There is a set of lights on a roundabout that lets people onto the slip road and most of the time someone up front is doing 40, so everone has to follow at that speed. Then you see them looking in their side mirror, trying to see a gap where they can join! everyone behind is either just pulling out across the hatching or leaving a gap so they can speed up and join at 60.
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Almost every day on the way back from work I get stuck behind someone at the end of the slip road joining a dual carriageway. I don't understand why people try to join at 50 when the traffic is 70. They just get all hesitant and make their life more difficult.
It happened yesterday, but made worse by holding up two of us and there was a car on the inside lane didn't want to move over even though there was nobody in the outside line for what looked like half a mile.
Joining from a slip road shouldn't be this hard!
It happened yesterday, but made worse by holding up two of us and there was a car on the inside lane didn't want to move over even though there was nobody in the outside line for what looked like half a mile.
Joining from a slip road shouldn't be this hard!