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I think the golf tucked in so that their rear end wasn't blocking an entranceI'd love to know who parked first as that tijuana has sensors. If they reversed in they must have been going ballistic.
Your bad driving encounters
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I was the bad driver yesterday, however in my defence there were some dodgy road signs. We went to a place near York to see Santa, we came from beverley. I'm going to try and stick a link in, but essentially we went along the 1079/hull road, then took the 3rd exit for the a64 near York. Normally at these types of roundabouts (big ones with lights on), you move over a lane per exit, some genius decided that our exit you need to move 2 lanes in one go so that was a bit interesting (not my finest driving as I've not sriven that stretch before. If you follow the Scarborough lane almost the way round it goes from the inside of the roundabout to the outside in 1 go (lane 1-3, depending on which way you count). I assume it wasn't all like that as the slip road we went on was 2 lanes wide but 1 lane entry (and the start of the lane hatched). I've stuck a link below, hopefully it works.
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53°57'24.8"N 1°00'25.6"W · 53.956890, -1.007109
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What is it with these full fibre altnet providers and poorly done roadworks? twice on the way home encountered them - vague or lacking signage and health and safety very hit and miss - the second one they just seem to have assumed there'd be no pedestrians at that time of night forcing someone out into the road on a corner who was in dark clothing and only the light on their phone to make them visible partly masked by what was going on behind them with the roadworks so I only saw them at the last minute.
Fully agree with this one. Had to contend with this on a route. 40mph road essentially down to one lane for around 350 yrds. No signage and no temp lights meaning that you'd be halfway down the works and some moron would come the other way, fail to give way & look at you as if you're the one in the wrong.
This went on for a week and complaints to the company and local authorities went unanswered.
I had a good one this morning, coming off a 3 lane roundabout left lane goes straight over middle and right lane can both go right. I'm in the middle lane, VW in the right.
We'd been stopped at the lights next to each other, we're alongside each other going round, I can see their blind spot indicator is telling them I'm there, we move off to the right, blind spot indicator still lit up, left indicator comes on and straight across my nose they come forcing me to swerve right into the lane they'd just been in to avoid climbing into their boot.
What's the point in all this technology if it just gets ignored anyway or even worse it means they didn't even flick their eyes to their passenger side mirror before moving over.
We'd been stopped at the lights next to each other, we're alongside each other going round, I can see their blind spot indicator is telling them I'm there, we move off to the right, blind spot indicator still lit up, left indicator comes on and straight across my nose they come forcing me to swerve right into the lane they'd just been in to avoid climbing into their boot.
What's the point in all this technology if it just gets ignored anyway or even worse it means they didn't even flick their eyes to their passenger side mirror before moving over.
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I was behind somebody for a good 2-3 minutes with their indicator still on. We were not moving in traffic so no other distractions, I flashed them (wahay), but no response. They did almost wipe me out by straight lining a roundabout too so maybe they have no peripheral vision. I just don't see how somebody doesn't notice the flashing green light if you're not actually moving and have no other distractions.
Waiting to pull into my drive, a car comes flying at 1100 mph the opposite way, now I can't pull in as he's blocking the drive and a car parked up is blocking him.
I waited....I'm basically at home, so some swearing later he backs up.
Also watched a woman mount a roundabout island , a large one ! Whilst trying to do around it, I swear people are getting worse at going around corners
I waited....I'm basically at home, so some swearing later he backs up.
Also watched a woman mount a roundabout island , a large one ! Whilst trying to do around it, I swear people are getting worse at going around corners
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Something else we're inheriting from america
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Last week on the way to work I came across a brand new electric car in the middle of a roundabout. Looks like it was someone's first time in an automatic....
I had that the other day. Their indicator had been on for so long it's worrying how little attention people are paying, especially as they had a mirror mounted indicator that could be seen from the driving seat as well so not only did they miss the noise, the flashing green light on the dash but the bright orange flashing light at the corner of their eye as well
I always assume they have really loud music on so can't hear the ticking, see it all the time though.
I followed someone on my way to work a couple of weeks back, every single roundabout they came to they indicated right, every single time they went straight over.
Has anyone ever made a request to the council for a red light camera to be installed on a junction?
There's a busy junction I cross every day, it's only a 30mph road, but it's 3 lanes, and crossing isn't on a filter, so you pretty much sit in the middle until the lights go red. Anyway yesterday morning the lights went red and cars in lane 1 and 2 stopped, so I started to move. Car in lane 3 decides he's going to jump the red and now beep at me because I'm now in the way.
I don't know whether people are half asleep that time of the morning, or just so brazenly ignorant that they choose to jump the red because they won't get caught. It's a serious accident waiting to happen.
Forgot to add the most important bit, every day without fail I will see a car jump the red. It's not like it's a rare occurrence.
There's a busy junction I cross every day, it's only a 30mph road, but it's 3 lanes, and crossing isn't on a filter, so you pretty much sit in the middle until the lights go red. Anyway yesterday morning the lights went red and cars in lane 1 and 2 stopped, so I started to move. Car in lane 3 decides he's going to jump the red and now beep at me because I'm now in the way.
I don't know whether people are half asleep that time of the morning, or just so brazenly ignorant that they choose to jump the red because they won't get caught. It's a serious accident waiting to happen.
Forgot to add the most important bit, every day without fail I will see a car jump the red. It's not like it's a rare occurrence.
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The wife and I were delivering Xmas cards the other night, pulled up outside her mates house, facing uphill, where you have cars parked both sides of a narrow street and nowhere immediately to pull in. She nips out, drops the card off and gets back in, in this time(less than a minute ) this guy comes down the road and then stops about 10 feet away even though he had no way of getting passed me. So I drove on up to meet him and indicated to him to reverse as I was on that section of the road first, going uphill and with no pull-in space. He didn't, then proceeded to rant at me saying I should have had my hazards on because he didn't know what I was doing, I pointed out he should have given way as I was there first and had nowhere to go into. Stalemate for few minutes with him swearing away, the wife didn't want to have a confrontation so I had to reverse down the road so he could get by. When we went further up the street, low and behold numerous empty parking spaces.
Why didn't you use one of those "numerous empty parking spaces" slightly further up instead of blocking the road? Unless you drive a taxi, the highway code still applies...
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The fact was there wasn't any other vehicle on that part of the road when I stopped so there was no harm in doing that. The parking spaces were further up the road and I wasn't stopped for that long. The other driver had plenty of time and opportunity to pull in but didn't, he just carried on regardless.
Well clearly there was a harm in doing so, as evidenced by the fact another vehicle appeared and was forced to reverse while you were causing an obstruction (another vehicle being on the road is something that you should really be able to anticipate whilst driving).
And you had plenty of time and opportunity to use one of the parking spaces, but didn't, just blocked the road regardless.
Both as bad as each other in this case (in my opinion ofc)