Your bad driving encounters

Rroff said:
I get this quite a lot, very annoying, I dunno what is so hard about just letting people do their thing and following on after, especially if the layout of the roundabout means you have to come in from nearer the inside to take the next exit and they just assume you are going on around.



Saw similar recently - 2 cars near the front of the line of traffic cottoned on to an emergency vehicle approaching from behind in very good time and pulled to the side putting their hazards on (which might have been a bit misleading compared to indicating left but still) the car immediately behind them decided to try and go around them despite an ambulance coming up quickly behind them with lights and siren... some people should not be on the road.

It is crazy how some people will notice when the emergency vehicle is still like half a mile back, others take like 20+ seconds for awareness to sink in when the emergency vehicle is 6 foot from their bumper... I half wonder if they shouldn't be drink/drugs tested.
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Had similar recently.

3 lane road leading up to a roundabout with traffic lights (here for anyone who is interested), with an ambulance coming down in lane 3. Everyone else has seen it, and are in lanes 1 & 2 to allow them to come past, until a **** in a highway maintenance van (you know the ones with the pickup back) decides we've all cleared the lane for him, pulls out in front of the ambulance, and then proceeds to block lane 3 for several minutes until the lights change (they aren't the quickest of lights).
 
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ivrytwr3 said:
I'm the bad driver!

Entered motorway from a slip road and got caught by a camera - 69 in 60. I must have missed the signs saying it was a 60, not a 70 :(

Speed Camera Details: Following the completion of a upgraded 3-lane dual carriageway, new VECTOR average speed cameras have been installed on the Eastbound section, replacing the temporary SPECS cameras sited during the roadwork's. Following the completion of the roadwork's, the speed limit on this section of road has been reduced from 70mph to 60mph. The first pair of VECTOR cameras are sited on the exit slip road onto the A1139 (Fletton Parkway) from the A1 junction 17.​
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Paperwork sent off - clean licence for many years, guess it's gonna come back 3 points and £100 :(​
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Do a speed awareness course (like me) Similar cost but still a clean licence
 
Today in torrential rain when my wipers on auto were doing the clappers, about a third of cars didn't have any lights on. You can't rely on your auto headlights as mine are set but only goes on automatically about an hour before sunset if it rains.

Had this clown in a Ford Kuga who went straight ahead on a left turn lane and cut me up as after the lights, its a single lane. Sounded my horn. Only for him to give me the middle finger. Driving behind this idiot for about a mile and a half. Then comes to a roundabout. He turned right in the left lane almost colliding into a car approaching the roundabout.
 
cheesefest said:
Today in torrential rain when my wipers on auto were doing the clappers, about a third of cars didn't have any lights on. You can't rely on your auto headlights as mine are set but only goes on automatically about an hour before sunset if it rains.
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I was working in Nuneaton and the drive back to Norwich was a disaster with LOADS of people with no lights on. TBH I can't understand why more cars don't automatically put the lights on when the wipers are on? My last 2 company wagons (both VAG) had this option which simply makes sense.

Other issues were a woman sailing straight through a red light at a junction in a 50 limit. My cat like reflexes and a brand new set of tyres in torrential rain were the saving graces but it was CLOSE. She did the hazard flash to acknowledge her mistake and lent out the window at the next roundabout saying she was "so sorry".

Then on the A11 a truck straight lined a roundabout even though I was alongside, had to come to a halt on the roundabout to avoid getting swiped by it.

To top it off a guy in a Fiesta half a mile from home decided to swap lanes on the roundabout because he could get another 3 car lengths ahead before hitting traffic at a standstill. Again I was right alongside.

Seriously considering a job that gets me off the roads and sleeping in my own bed 7 nights a week. Funny thing is that I used to enjoy the driving element of what I do. Now it is just something to tolerate and try to get through.
 
cheesefest said:
Today in torrential rain when my wipers on auto were doing the clappers, about a third of cars didn't have any lights on. You can't rely on your auto headlights as mine are set but only goes on automatically about an hour before sunset if it rains.

Had this clown in a Ford Kuga who went straight ahead on a left turn lane and cut me up as after the lights, its a single lane. Sounded my horn. Only for him to give me the middle finger. Driving behind this idiot for about a mile and a half. Then comes to a roundabout. He turned right in the left lane almost colliding into a car approaching the roundabout.
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I agree, there's times when it's raining and dim, but just not quite dim enough for the lights to trigger so I do it manually. Imo they should come on with wipers to improve visibility (of the car).
 
cheesefest said:
Today in torrential rain when my wipers on auto were doing the clappers, about a third of cars didn't have any lights on. You can't rely on your auto headlights as mine are set but only goes on automatically about an hour before sunset if it rains.

Had this clown in a Ford Kuga who went straight ahead on a left turn lane and cut me up as after the lights, its a single lane. Sounded my horn. Only for him to give me the middle finger. Driving behind this idiot for about a mile and a half. Then comes to a roundabout. He turned right in the left lane almost colliding into a car approaching the roundabout.
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Been up to York this weekend and on the drive up on the motorway/dual carriageway during the sporadic rain it created some heavy spray. MOST cars didn't have lights on.

lordrobs said:
TBH I can't understand why more cars don't automatically put the lights on when the wipers are on? My last 2 company wagons (both VAG) had this option which simply makes sense.
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Given that almost all vehicles are pretty much computer operated you'd think that it'd be a default rather than an option. All cars have front DRLs now so it'd just be a case of making the car turn on the rears when wipers were engaged.

lordrobs said:
Seriously considering a job that gets me off the roads and sleeping in my own bed 7 nights a week. Funny thing is that I used to enjoy the driving element of what I do. Now it is just something to tolerate and try to get through.
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It's a thought shared by myself and many of my colleagues too. The me-me-me attitudes and the lack of policing allows this to happen. I've personally witnessed police ignoring actionable poor driving too.
 
Really need to get the rear view dashcam hooked up - coming home just now had someone come quickly up behind me, so I had a feeling they wouldn't be happy to sit behind me at the speed limit, for awhile they sat back at a reasonable distance and didn't take up 2 good overtaking opportunities but after a couple of miles started trying to pressure me into going faster, getting up really close at points where it was appropriate to ease off a bit, coming over a hill into a downhill stretch to a 40 they closed right up on me - literally 2 feet from my bumper obviously trying to keep me from slowing down into the 40... I brought my speed down pretty rapidly and when they didn't back off dropped a little below 30 at which point the moron beeped me... need to hand their license in before they get someone hurt or killed.
 
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Bug One said:
The way some drivers react to ambulances really bugs me. What's the point in blocking the road. Ambulance drivers must get so wound up by it.
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The ones that pull out of a junction in front of an emergency vehicle, then panic brake making the situation worse, are the ones which bug me the most.
 
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Rroff said:
Really need to get the rear view dashcam hooked up - coming home just now had someone come quickly up behind me, so I had a feeling they wouldn't be happy to sit behind me at the speed limit, for awhile they sat back at a reasonable distance and didn't take up 2 good overtaking opportunities but after a couple of miles started trying to pressure me into going faster, getting up really close at points where it was appropriate to ease off a bit, coming over a hill into a downhill stretch to a 40 they closed right up on me - literally 2 feet from my bumper obviously trying to keep me from slowing down into the 40... I brought my speed down pretty rapidly and when they didn't back off dropped a little below 30 at which point the moron beeped me... need to hand their license in before they get someone hurt or killed.
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The longer I've driven the less I've cared about someone in a hurry, we've all been there.

But if a driver can't make an overtake, and instead thinks they're going to intimidate you into going faster, hell no.
 
Bug One said:
The longer I've driven the less I've cared about someone in a hurry, we've all been there.

But if a driver can't make an overtake, and instead thinks they're going to intimidate you into going faster, hell no.
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Personally I don't have much sense of self-preservation, at least in this regard, which does not make for a good combination with people who try to bully their way through, etc. LOL but it does affect my decision making - in the moment observation, especially when driving, is not something which comes naturally to me so I have to put a lot of effort in to break down what I'm seeing and the significance of it and keep that in the forefront of my mind when driving rather than become reactive - one of the reasons probably I'm very critical of people who don't give others reasonable space to do their thing, etc.

This particular road has so many serious and fatal accidents as well so anyone local driving like that really needs their head examined and from where we parted ways I'm guessing they live locally.
 
theone8181 said:
I agree, there's times when it's raining and dim, but just not quite dim enough for the lights to trigger so I do it manually. Imo they should come on with wipers to improve visibility (of the car).
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The lights in the Jag XF come on if the auto wipers have been going continuously for something like 30 seconds or so. The odd, intermittent, sweep doesn't trigger them.
 
I drive a mixture, though I need to double check/see if there is anything wrong with the Navara as I thought the auto-lights were looped in with the rain sensor but last couple of times it doesn't seem to have put the headlights on. So I do need to be careful not to forget to turn the headlights on in poor visibility daytime conditions :(
 
Drivers that pull out of junctions without looking.

Drivers that turn right too early so end up on the wrong side. See no benefit to this whatsoever.
 
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