Except the Highway Code is very explicit in the fact that no-one has 'Right of way' in any given situation.
100% agreed.
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100% agreed.
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Car colour nickname wise, nothing beats 'jewish racing gold' aka beige...
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Bit racisty TBH
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Na it's a universally known term in the motortrade/car scene going WAY back when people weren't offended by everything even when it didn't directly affect them.
There is nothing racist about the words Jewish, Racing, nor Gold?
Otherwise saying black would be offensive to 'black people', depends how sad you wanna be about this, the fact that queer was taken back by gay people means we have no neutral ground anymore/way of determining what 'might' offend someone
- and that was one of THE most offensive things to say to a person!And and FWIW I'm multiple mixed race...
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Parked my car at my daughters school yesterday for an event, came back to an almighty scrape along both doors. No CCTV unfortunately, no note, no evidence on any other cars (I walked round every car in the car park but they must have **** themselves). Managed to polish most of it out but there's a huge scratch down both doors. Livid doesn't even come close.
The space they must have tried to get into wasn't even a space, it was a big gap left by the moron who parked next to me.
The space they must have tried to get into wasn't even a space, it was a big gap left by the moron who parked next to me.
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Had an old dear nearly run me over yesterday in a Tesco car park. I was walking back to the car pushing a trolley when an old dear in a Honda Jazz turned into the other end of the row, and proceeds to start down towards me. I can see straight away she’s busy yakking to a younger woman in her passenger seat. She’s literally got her head turned 90° to her direction of travel, and she’s coming directly towards me, while drifting ever closer to the backs of the parked cars. I’m just starting to think she’s going to go straight into me, and that I should abandon the trolley, grab my daughter out of the trolley seat and jump between the parked cars to get out of the line of fire, when her passenger notices me and obviously says something. Her head snaps round, see she’s me and absolutely stomps on the brakes, coming to a complete stop, and with an annoyed scowl on her haggard face, petulantly beeps the horn at me as though it’s my fault! She also didn’t declutch either, so she stalled her car. I was dumbstruck, about all I could muster was to shake my head in disbelief at her as I walked past her back towards my car.
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There's times when talking like that is safe, car parks m7st be one of the most dangerous places though, there's just so much going on and so many morons. I especially like the ones that reverse out and assume people will stop (like the van on the road did).
Jazz drivers typically are at the point where they should have given up their licences though
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Honda Jazzes, Nissan Notes & Micras and Vauxhall Corsas seem to be the mount of choice for the blue rinse brigade round here.
Other warning signs are a tartan blanket and box of tissues on the parcel shelf, National Trust, RNLI or a bumper sticker of some type of small dog’s head.
Other warning signs are a tartan blanket and box of tissues on the parcel shelf, National Trust, RNLI or a bumper sticker of some type of small dog’s head.
Wish I had a rear dash cam - woman came flying up behind me a good 10+MPH over the speed limit, then I see a sandwich in one hand, tries to overtake me but can't, then phone appears in the other... fortunately I turned off before long and she didn't follow me - don't want that behind me.
I just came to ask people what they think the worst time of day to drive is. Was going to say around school drop off or pick up time or between 10am and 2pm. Your post and Panthro's seem to confirm it.
Don't forget Hyundai i10s from your list.
Have you got an i10 @Blackjack Davy? 
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Have you got an i10 @Blackjack Davy?
You want to know what my list of obnoxious drivers is? White van man or infact any van driver, SUV's, Jags and other rich tw@ts who think its their right and privilege to drive like complete arses and who think everyone should move out of their way. They're a bloody menace.
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Lived in a flat on a new build Barratt estate a few years ago, and the absolute worst were the school run trophy MILFs in leased X5’s, GLE’s and XC90’s. You know the ones, do the school run in gym leggings and a sports bra but with a full face of makeup when you spot them buying Processo from the Co-Op at 8.45 after dropping the crotch goblins off. It was like they had no fear and no mercy. The estate had a 20mph limit with speed bumps and traffic calming islands with one direction having priority over the other. I had a Mk.7 Golf GTI at the time, and they’d just come absolutely thundering through at 40 irregardless, and probably would have gone right over me on a few occasions if I hadn’t run up the curb to get out of the way. They’d blow you a kiss sometimes at least though, as if that made up for having to have yet another diamond cut alloy refinished.
I dunno whether it was the Prosecco, that the cars were all leased and they were probably insured as second drivers anyway, or the fact that they’d all had that much work done on their journey to looking like they’re having a constant allergic reaction that if they did crash, they physically wouldn’t feel it. Plus any facial injuries could be rectified by just pushing it back out again, like a dent in a yoghurt pot. As a result they were absolutely relentless and without mercy on the road.
Think of Honey Badgers, but wearing Gymshark stuff and driving massive Chelsea tractors as they carved a swathe of destruction and carnage in their wake.
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Driving school car ahead of my coming home - I hope that was a family member driving... first stretch of 40 they were making good distance on me and didn't appear to be paying much attention, NSL I nearly caught them up, then into the 30 into town they were doing ~40, on the exit from town in the 40 they were doing 30... then 40 in the NSL for the next 1-2 miles - got a chance to overtake them and indicated and pulled out and they started speeding up... and then weren't far behind me the rest of the way until we parted ways. I'm generally not a confrontational person but if we were to meet in person I'd have given them a piece of my mind and then some for that driving.
I'd wonder how many were actually insured, taxed or MOT'd even - I know the type and so often they aren't and it is anyone else's fault but their own if/when it catches up with them.
I could go on and on and on and on about the number of people I saw today doing this... while driving at speed, hands waving about paying more attention to the person next to them than what is going on around.
I'd wonder how many were actually insured, taxed or MOT'd even - I know the type and so often they aren't and it is anyone else's fault but their own if/when it catches up with them.
I could go on and on and on and on about the number of people I saw today doing this... while driving at speed, hands waving about paying more attention to the person next to them than what is going on around.
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Managed to reverse into a raised wooden flower bed thingy about 1 foot high at around 5mph. Bumper has a small scratch but all good other than that.
Do i need to tell my insurance? I saw something along the lines of any incident needs to be reported.
Do i need to tell my insurance? I saw something along the lines of any incident needs to be reported.
A lot of people don't bother but technically any incident involving a 3rd party requires reporting even if it doesn't involve repairs. If you do minor damage yourself like a scratch or small dent then it is a bit more complex depending on terms of the insurance but pretty much no one will report it - things like a stone being flicked up and leaving a small mark they don't really care about so in theory a slight mark from reversing into something on your own property shouldn't but terms and conditions might vary.
Mine actually went down £50 after reporting an incident where another driver reversed into my parked vehicle - fortunately aside from some paint transfer nothing really happened to my vehicle as they hit the softest part of their car with the heavy duty bumper on my truck - made a nice mess of their vehicle.
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They need to define filtering in a legal sense.
As far as I'm.comceremd, filtering is when a biker moves between 2 lanes of traffic which are going in the same direction.
If a biker is passing a single lane of traffic and/or passes traffic by encroaching onto the opposite carriageway, that's overtaking, not filtering
Furthermore, when bikers are filtering through lanes of traffic which are stopped at a light controlled pedestrian crossing, they are not meant to pass the vehicle(s) at the front and are supposed to stay behind the lead vehicle(s).
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There's times when talking like that is safe, car parks m7st be one of the most dangerous places though, there's just so much going on and so many morons. I especially like the ones that reverse out and assume people will stop (like the van on the road did).
Jazz drivers typically are at the point where they should have given up their licences though
Car parks, especially supermarket ones, are a nightmare at times.
What you say above is true but pedestrians are also just as bad... I've had it a few times where I am reversing already and people will walk behind me, into my blind spot, without a care in the world...
If I see a pedestrian coming towards me, I won't reverse until they have passed but, if I'm already reversing, they really shouldn't walk behind the car.
People seem to treat car parks like pedestrianised zones