Your bad driving encounters

CaptainRAVE said:
40mph road, car waiting at a junction to pull out, and waits, until I’m near enough of course for it to cause an issue when she then pulls out. I beep because I’ve got to slow considerably for this moron, to which instead of apologising she flips me off and then as expected, brake checks me at the next roundabout.

No idea why so many people react by brake checking because a) your on my dashcam and b) I’ve got far far stronger brakes than you, so it makes little different ultimately.
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Thinly connected but when I'm waiting to pull out of a junction onto a faster road whilst driving a bus with a lone car approaching from my right & they wait till they're 5 yrds away from the junction to indicate they're turning left when an earlier indication could have seen me exit 10 seconds earlier. I just see it as a lack of awareness and courtesy
 
Resident said:
Thinly connected but when I'm waiting to pull out of a junction onto a faster road whilst driving a bus with a lone car approaching from my right & they wait till they're 5 yrds away from the junction to indicate they're turning left when an earlier indication could have seen me exit 10 seconds earlier. I just see it as a lack of awareness and courtesy
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Same when you approach a multi-lane, light controlled, junction with one lane for turning left or straight on and the other for straight on and the 1-2 cars waiting ahead of you only bother to indicate that they are taking the left turn after the lights have changed to green and they are in the process of turning (if they bother to indicate at all) - if I'd known they were turning off I'd have taken the right hand lane instead...
 
Drivers that scrape a porthole size area of windscreen when icy.

Drivers that don’t shift the snow from car roof. Seen it many times where braking causes the snow to fall onto the windscreen and too much for the wipers to cope. That at a major road is really dangerous.

Just leave home 5-7 minutes earlier to do a proper ice and snow removal
 
cheesefest said:
Drivers that scrape a porthole size area of windscreen when icy.

Drivers that don’t shift the snow from car roof. Seen it many times where braking causes the snow to fall onto the windscreen and too much for the wipers to cope. That at a major road is really dangerous.

Just leave home 5-7 minutes earlier to do a proper ice and snow removal
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Ahh the tank drivers :D .
 
Had one that really boggled my mind the other day.

Joined the M54 behind an oversized load which took up both lanes, escort vehicle blocking the slight gap on the right just in case someone thought they might make it.

I was the first car in the left lane behind it, happily trundling along at 45ish with probably a 3-4 car gap between me and the lorry. Pass a couple of exits no problem, then a VW transporter appears behind me. Come up towards the next exit slip and the donkey nails it and undertakes me on the slip to pull into the gap in front of me to then continue plodding along stuck there for another few miles.

Completely fried my brain, there was obviously no progress to be made and they were already second in line anyway.
 
Just had a run in with an old codger in a fiesta, i'm sat at some lights wanting to turn left. It's a single lane road with a 1m or so wide bike lane up the left.

Silly ****** tried to squeeze his fiesta up the inside in the bike lane & then got irate at me for turning left.
 
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cheesefest said:
Someone on FB posted that idiots were beeping at a gritting lorry. They are only limited to 40mph. If they drove faster, the grit wouldn’t be spread as well.

Let these idiots skid on icy roads
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They are probably sitting too close behind gritter, so were sandblasting the paint off their car.
 
More often than not, a lot of these encounters don't get picked up, but I will always remember 2 instances where the impatient driver got instant karma

First one, I was driving at the limit in a 30mph limit in a built up area on a road approaching a school and came over a blind rise when the car behind me decided to overtake me causing oncoming traffic to brake, and the next thing he saw was a police officer signaling for him to pull in - guessing they were monitoring traffic as the road went past a school at that point and I wonder if there had been complaints about the speeds along there

Second one was a roundabout near where I live with 2 lanes on the approach, one lane to turn left and the other for straight on or turning right - this particular roundabout is clearly signposted with the lane designations, but I have often seen people trying to jump traffic by going in the left lane to continue straight on. On this day in question, I had been sat in the usual queue of traffic behind a BMW waiting to go straight ahead when another car raced up to the head of the left lane next to the BMW with no indicators to signal his intention to turn left. At a break in the traffic the BMW pulled out and I followed, at which point the driver in the left lane tried to force his way past myself and the BMW so I dropped back slightly to leave him room to pull in, but this wasn't enough for the driver and he started beeping his horn and flashing his lights at the BMW - so the BMW started flashing his blue lights and popped up a 'Follow Me' board and pulled him over :cry:
 
cheesefest said:
Talking about karma. When we had thick snow, a BMW driver got impatient and decided to drive onto the snowy verge. He got stuck as either hit an icy patch or hit something like a large stone.

I'm sure BMW stands for B***end M***n W***er as many drivers of these cars are at least one of these.
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Lol never seen cheesefest swear no matter the moan. U ok babe? DM me x
 
cheesefest said:
Driver behind me tooted at me as traffic light went green for turning left only. I was going to turn right. So he drove around me and turned left almost causing an accident!
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Doesn't that mean you were in the wrong lane?
Pretty sure you wouldn't have a green light for left-turn only, if there wasn't a dedicated lane for it.
 
The roads themselves. Absolute disgrace around the Rutland area, pot holes, craters, roads basically sinking. Council done jack all bar patch them which it breaks up 2 weeks later. Useless.
 
TheCSSDoctor said:
so the BMW started flashing his blue lights and popped up a 'Follow Me' board and pulled him over :cry:
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Not a bad driver as such - but saw similar where an as it turned out unmarked police car pulled out on a dual carriageway to force someone doing well over 100 to slow down, but didn't pull them, but then they sped up again the cop car sped up to follow them at which point they brake checked the cop car with the inevitable outcome.
 
Conscript said:
Doesn't that mean you were in the wrong lane?
Pretty sure you wouldn't have a green light for left-turn only, if there wasn't a dedicated lane for it.
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In his defence there are a couple of junctions in South Yorkshire that have left filter green lights but only a single lane so if you're turning right then you're not gonna move.

LINK as an example

@Kenai
 
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