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One pothole claims 12 cars in a single evening | Autocar

Incident comes as concerns mount over state of British roads following cold snap

www.autocar.co.uk

Its not just the cold snap doing it, been terrible since the summer here. Its the tractors and combine harvesters that did the damage in the summer but the roads haven't been fixed. Literally the roads have sunk in places, and not just a bit.
One road was shut last week to repair it, just been on it this evening and they have repaired some of it, two sections but not the third which is 50 yards away and the worst of the lot. You just can't drive over it otherwise it damages the car so if you don't know its there then good look on the outcome. Busy road too.

 

[cheesefest]

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I was where the dark grey car is. Traffic light is on green for those turning left and red for turning right. Burk was behind me and decided to drive in front of me and almost collided with a car in the same position as the Passat.

Wish I have a dash cam. Thinking aa I do 3k a year, is it worth it.

 

[cheesefest]

Its not just the cold snap doing it, been terrible since the summer here. Its the tractors and combine harvesters that did the damage in the summer but the roads haven't been fixed. Literally the roads have sunk in places, and not just a bit.
One road was shut last week to repair it, just been on it this evening and they have repaired some of it, two sections but not the third which is 50 yards away and the worst of the lot. You just can't drive over it otherwise it damages the car so if you don't know its there then good look on the outcome. Busy road too.

About a quarter of a mile from me, there was a pipe with a little leak in it. This was about 5 days before Christmas. Temp traffic lights left all through Christmas as contractors buggered off. In that time, the pipe burst and a massive hole appeared in the road about 3m x 1.5m - from what I saw when walked past it NYD. Road was closed as fixed. This has cost more money to fix.

 

[Resident]

One pothole claims 12 cars in a single evening | Autocar

Incident comes as concerns mount over state of British roads following cold snap

www.autocar.co.uk

Resurfacing the roads ain't a gaurantee of a decent road surface.

Local clowncil have spent the last 3 years on a resurfacing project and all they've done is take off the top layer and lay new tarmac without fixing the underlying issues so the roads still have all the divets and craters but with unbroken tarmac.

 

[cheesefest]

Resurfacing the roads ain't a gaurantee of a decent road surface.

Local clowncil have spent the last 3 years on a resurfacing project and all they've done is take off the top layer and lay new tarmac without fixing the underlying issues so the roads still have all the divets and craters but with unbroken tarmac.

Or patch up the hole which makes the edges weak. A few weeks later the pothole is back.

 

[Dis86]

Another no lighter tonight.

 

[Conscript]

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I was where the dark grey car is. Traffic light is on green for those turning left and red for turning right. Burk was behind me and decided to drive in front of me and almost collided with a car in the same position as the Passat.

Wish I have a dash cam. Thinking aa I do 3k a year, is it worth it.

Wow. I stand corrected, they must have thought both lanes were left turn only and that you were just daydreaming or something.

 

[cheesefest]

Wow. I stand corrected, they must have thought both lanes were left turn only and that you were just daydreaming or something.

If a green light has an arrow, it’s for that direction only. A solid green light is for all directions.

 

[cheesefest]

They are probably sitting too close behind gritter, so were sandblasting the paint off their car.

Another karma

 

[cheesefest]

Not having any lights on when foggy.

 

[Finglonga]

Not having any lights on when foggy.

Just about to post the same thing, so many with no lights at all on today and it is pretty bad in some places. Sadly this is people being Ignorant to how Auto lights only work on light levels and they have to use common sense when it is foggy.

 

[Rroff]

Just about to post the same thing, so many with no lights at all on today and it is pretty bad in some places. Sadly this is people being Ignorant to how Auto lights only work on light levels and they have to use common sense when it is foggy.

Made worse I think by the implementation of automatic lights - depending a bit on brand sometimes kind of awkward implementation for changing to other lighting on the fly, seemingly designed for being set to a mode when getting in the car. Some of the feature implementation is woeful - on my Qashqai for instance the auto-dipping which is only about 80% of the way to being useful can't be separated from the rest of the automatic light features which are useful so you end up having to manually switch a lot to ensure main beams come on and stay on as required.

 

[Stu999]

Enjoyed some people driving under 70mph on the motorway today who speed up when I go to overtake them.

Also had the pleasure of someone who absolutely refused to move to the inside lane on a dual carriageway despite nobody being on the inside lane and them also not doing 70mph.

 

[theone8181]

Enjoyed some people driving under 70mph on the motorway today who speed up when I go to overtake them.

Also had the pleasure of someone who absolutely refused to move to the inside lane on a dual carriageway despite nobody being on the inside lane and them also not doing 70mph.

Just pass on the left (at 70), they're in the wrong (although there is always the chance they'll move over without looking).

 

[cheesefest]

Just about to post the same thing, so many with no lights at all on today and it is pretty bad in some places. Sadly this is people being Ignorant to how Auto lights only work on light levels and they have to use common sense when it is foggy.

They only work with darkness - so switch on if its dark fog, not the mist we had this morning. Silver cars look invisible in fog. It does not make your vision better, but help others to see you.

Made worse I think by the implementation of automatic lights - depending a bit on brand sometimes kind of awkward implementation for changing to other lighting on the fly, seemingly designed for being set to a mode when getting in the car. Some of the feature implementation is woeful - on my Qashqai for instance the auto-dipping which is only about 80% of the way to being useful can't be separated from the rest of the automatic light features which are useful so you end up having to manually switch a lot to ensure main beams come on and stay on as required.

My lights will switch on fully from auto lights by turning the rotating cuff for lights in the same way cars with no auto light switch their lights on. No brainer.

 

[cheesefest]

Drivers, esp elderly ones that don't drive to the speed of the road and road conditions. They tootle down roads at 30mph on a 50mph when everyone wants to overtake. Usually in a 20 year old car with those wooden seat covers. Sat on one once and they are uncomfy as hell.

 

[Rroff]

My lights will switch on fully from auto lights by turning the rotating cuff for lights in the same way cars with no auto light switch their lights on. No brainer.

Some vehicles have a switch or dial for off, manual, auto near your knee as well as the controls on the wheel - not ideal if you need to change the setting and need both hands near the wheel.

 

[Rroff]

Not the worst I've been tailgated but icy conditions coming home - turn off the main road onto the road which leads to where I live, which has several steep hills and other treacherous patches in this kind of weather only for someone to come up behind me fast and stick about half a car length behind me if that until I got to my house... absolute ******* idiot.

 

[cheesefest]

Going home, I turn right from a link road. Drivers turning right onto the link road, many cut the corner and almost collide with me. What do they try to achieve from doing this? Just drive another third-half their car length then turn right.

One day there will be a major accident on that junction causing the place to be gridlocked.

 

[Rroff]

Was pedestrians today - within 2-3 miles encountered 3 lots of them - on the other side of the road to me so didn't cause me problems but they were all walking in the road, out of town NSL main road at that, with completely abandon to any responsibility seemingly expecting drivers to look out for them... in all 3 cases near misses with oncoming cars - in one case they were walking 2 abreast on the inside of a corner - I couldn't even flash the driver coming the other way due to the corner - no idea how they managed to react in time and avoid hitting them at probably 50-55MPH.

All I could do was shake my head, dunno what is going on but ever since the pandemic seems to be an increasing number of people acting like absolute lunatics.

EDIT: Unfortunately I don't have a rear facing dashcam - it would have been some rather chilling footage - I really didn't think the driver was going to be able to avoid hitting them.