Your bad driving encounters

Calpol said:
Travelling back from Epsom last night. M25 clockwise, the four lane bit near West Byfleet. About 630pm so dark but thankfully dry. I'm cruising in lane 2 at about 65mph slowly passing a truck on the inside lane when all of a sudden I become aware of something big over my right shoulder. Truck in lane three is edging me but I've literally got nowhere to go. Surely he'll see me and back off? Nope kept coming, Crunch, pushes me - not 100% sure what happened next but got pushed left, had to over correct to avoid truck in lane 1, managed to hold onto the car as it swerved into lane three and somehow managed to straighten it up again. Pretty hairy moment.

Pull over in hard shoulder, Truck driver pulls in behind me gets out his cab. I had a passenger to witness to all of it. Anyway, I asked him what he was doing, he accused me of undertaking him but then fesses up that I was in his blindspot and he didn't see me but still seems to insist that it was my fault!. get all his details and manage to calm down enough to drive off and get the 55 miles home. Rear quarter panel has nasty damage, rear door is pretty crushed.

Bloody lucky really.
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here is the damage.
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Yaayuh! said:
It's raining, people. Make sure you put your fog lights on.
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... and never turn them off. Especially in slow moving traffic - just in case the driver 2m behind you can't see you. ******* idiots.

Rroff said:
That is why I never cruise when passing HGVs - I spend as little time in their potential blind spot as possible. What on earth a truck was doing in lane 3 passing you when you were doing that speed though is another matter again, someone needs to be investigating that.
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Yeah, definitely. Hang back until you can clear completely - it's just not worth sitting in that danger zone for any longer than absolutely necessary.
 
Rroff said:
Long story short had a very annoying driver on the dual-carriageway to work today who just sat in lane 2 whether they needed to be there or not without a care for anyone else... I dunno why people can't just drive normally.

Coming home around a long bend saw a single roadworks sign on the other side almost looked abandoned, slowed down a little expecting to find more warning signs at the exit of the bend only to find in the middle of the bend was a van stopped with a few cones out blocking my side of the road, had to go around them without being able to see if there was traffic coming the other way... I'm guessing it was an emergency repair of some sort but utterly brain dead - bad enough for people driving normally but there are loads of people who drive way too fast around that corner... looked like a contractor for either Jurassic Fibre or Gigaclear - both of which have been criticised and fined, not enough, for the poor organisation and conduct of their repair work.

On the way to work Saturday there was a crash closing the main road, for some reason an old lady in a flowery dress directing traffic instead of the emergency services though there was emergency services appliances in attendance - not great as due to the incident being just after a rise in the road goes into a corner she wasn't visible from very far back - would have offered her one of my hi-vis vests but wasn't a good place for me to stop.
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Had this coming off of Podimore onto the A372 to Langport the other week. Mobile Tyre fitter was fixing a tyre and had parked in such a position just after the junction exit that a) you couldn't see him until right at the last moment and, b) couldn't see round him due to his **** poor road positioning (nose in, arse out). It's ok though, he had a couple of cones out...
 
Volvo owners, particularly XC-## models seem to be joining the same ranks as BMW/AUDI drivers.

3 different ones yesterday decided a single indicator flash was enough before cutting into my braking space (13ton bus). Two of them as we approached a red light.
 
Are there a lot of drunk people on the road at the moment? People driving at speeds that are not any speed limit (38 in a 60 anyone?), braking for no reason, apparently expecting me to ram through a line of traffic. WTAF?

Edit - forgot I saw an HGV this morning undertaking a taxi that was doing ~40mph in the middle lane of a three lane, 50mph road. That one tickled me I must admit.
 
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Pot-holes in the dark on less familiar roads are the tricky bit - but maybe suv's with high up led light have better survival odds to see 100+ metres out, navigate around puddles etc.

my last incident was hgv bullying on A14 going up hill, hgv in front, another nearly adjacent coming up to my right who then realised his exit was approaching ,
so started indicating as though I should brake to let him slot in - he missed his turn.
 
Does the SUV with LED lights have the means of dipping them. I tend not to drive in dusk to dark anymore due to LED lights permanently on high beam.
As regards to seeing a indicator light in middle of LED cluster then forget it. :rolleyes:
 
DXP55 said:
Does the SUV with LED lights have the means of dipping them. I tend not to drive in dusk to dark anymore due to LED lights permanently on high beam.
As regards to seeing a indicator light in middle of LED cluster then forget it. :rolleyes:
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Who's idea was it to put an indicator in the middle of a light? It should be at the outer edge of the light or below it.
 
Driving home tonight - car trying to emerge from a road on the left with poor visibility and a driver coming the other way stops and flashes them to turn out as I'm approaching... cue having to get on the brakes - fortunately the driver trying to turn out noticed me at the last moment and aborted - though I still had enough margin to emergency stop if they had continued. Definitely not a good idea to blindly go when someone else flashes you.
 
cheesefest said:
Who's idea was it to put an indicator in the middle of a light? It should be at the outer edge of the light or below it.
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It's definitely worse with the mega bright leds either side. I like cars that also pit it on the wongmirrors as it spaces it out and makes it easier. Saying that, I've seen a few that don't bother indicating right going round the roundabout which should make them 100% responsible in a crash imo.
 
Rroff said:
Driving home tonight - car trying to emerge from a road on the left with poor visibility and a driver coming the other way stops and flashes them to turn out as I'm approaching... cue having to get on the brakes - fortunately the driver trying to turn out noticed me at the last moment and aborted - though I still had enough margin to emergency stop if they had continued. Definitely not a good idea to blindly go when someone else flashes you.
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This is why I don't flash people to proceed. Ever. I can't see other driver's faces half the time as a driver or pedestrian but still, if you can't read someone's position, speed, etc and anticipate your own safe path... Don't just trust them flashing.
 
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Stu999 said:
Are there a lot of drunk people on the road at the moment? People driving at speeds that are not any speed limit (38 in a 60 anyone?), braking for no reason, apparently expecting me to ram through a line of traffic. WTAF?

Edit - forgot I saw an HGV this morning undertaking a taxi that was doing ~40mph in the middle lane of a three lane, 50mph road. That one tickled me I must admit.
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This is pretty much a daily occurrence to me. The amount of people I see in the left lane doing 50-55mph, forcing lorries/other slow large vehicles to overtake them, which then causes a tail back of slow traffic(Only 2 lanes here). I'm sorry, but you shouldn't be doing 50 mph on the motorway in a car if the conditions are fine. Not confident enough to drive those speeds? Get some lessons. :p

Then there are the people who struggle to stay in their lanes, don't indicate or indicate at the last minute, or indicate too soon while going past several streets. Or those who have decided the right lane is their lane and will continue to do between 65-70 in that lane, while having plenty of opportunity to move left. Or people who don't know the speed limits around town/cities, so do 25mph everywhere! I could go on and on :p
 
Stu999 said:
Are there a lot of drunk people on the road at the moment? People driving at speeds that are not any speed limit (38 in a 60 anyone?), braking for no reason, apparently expecting me to ram through a line of traffic. WTAF?

Edit - forgot I saw an HGV this morning undertaking a taxi that was doing ~40mph in the middle lane of a three lane, 50mph road. That one tickled me I must admit.
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Always happens as you get closer to Christmas, I don't think it's so much drunk people, more people who are terrible drivers but normally only drive to the shops and back who are currently visiting relatives / going to parties and have to use roads they don't normally use.
 
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