Your bad driving encounters

Last night, I thought I was driving behind a no lighter just before 5pm. Turned out that the car's rear lights and number plate was caked in so mud, road grit etc that could see some light emitting from the sides.

Why don't people clean off the muck off their lights and number plate is beyond me.
 
Pure lazy nothing else, the same people that scrape a minimal amount off Ice from the front screen and nowhere else. What they can't see is not their problem.
 
To be fair not the best layout - you have to do what you did really and come across quite early, if you don't know the roundabout you quickly find yourself in a lane for continuing on around (from what looks like a straight over lane initially) when you want to take that exit :(

I don't know why we can't have better roundabouts.
 
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Drangueos said:
One of the worst things if you ride a bike or scooter in Central London, is people crossing the road, between cars and looking at their mobiles.
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When I lived in London, and before mobile phone proliferation was like today, there were several incidents/accidents related to that kind of thing. Several people I knew of, though didn't know well, killed including being collateral where for example a lorry had to take avoiding accident due to someone just walking into the road not paying attention and ran someone else down, etc. :(
 
Rroff said:
When I lived in London, and before mobile phone proliferation was like today, there were several incidents/accidents related to that kind of thing. Several people I knew of, though didn't know well, killed including being collateral where for example a lorry had to take avoiding accident due to someone just walking into the road not paying attention and ran someone else down, etc. :(
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In the city centre where I mainly work it's full of pedestrian crossings. Council quite literally put them in at the minimum regs distance in high pedestrian traffic areas. At almost everyone there will be people who just walk across and ignore the red pedestrian signal. There are several incidents every year because of it.

I'd love the introduction of some form of jay-walking law and on the day it starts, have loads of police dealing with them.
 
Man in a Ranger last night nearly went down the side of me as he decided one lane on a roundabout wasn't enough space and wanted to use the lane I was in next to him. First time I've been close to having a crash in years.

It's like people have forgot lane discipline since covid.
 
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This morning I saw a guy reverse along a one way section of road instead of just driving round the block, would have added about 1 minute to his drive.
 
I witnessed a slightly different aspect of bad behaviour this evening whilst waiting for the postie. The post-box is right outside a pre-school/nursery and people were picking up their children whilst I was waiting.

I watched a young woman put two small children, three and four maybe, into the car and then went round to the driver's door, got in and drove off. I had thought when she first went to the driver's door that she'd been remarkably quick installing them in the car and it wasn't until she drove by me, six feet away, that I realised the children were not in car seats. One in the front and one in the back. The seat belt for the front (not that it would have been any use with a three year old) was hanging loose. I couldn't see the seatbelt in the rear but there was certainly no car seat. I was gobsmacked.

Then a gent pulls up in a small van, Courier type, and proceeds to load two boys into the single front passenger seat and drive off. Gobsmacked again.

What on Earth is wrong with people?
 
Reminds me - had a guy out 2-3 months back to change a van tyre and he had 2 young kids and a dog loose in the front of the van, no car seats, not belted.
 
Twice in a single journey saw two drivers losing patience with learner drivers. Both learners stalled and at traffic lights.

Have they forgotten when they were learning to drive when they were 17/18/whenever?

Wish drivers are considerate with learner drivers. I always patience with them. As when I was learning, it would panic me when someone showed no respect for me.

Dad said to me “treat learner drivers as if it’s their first full lesson”
 
cheesefest said:
Dad said to me “treat learner drivers as if it’s their first full lesson”
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That's good advice. Now that you've mentioned it there was a Range Rover tailgating a learner today whilst in front of us.

Really trying to intimidate the Learner, hopefully thinking the Instructor will tell the Learner to pull over and let the Range Rover past.

The learner was just under the speed limit, about an indicated 37/38 in a 40. I'll repeat.....what on Earth is wrong with people?
 
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Drangueos said:
One of the worst things if you ride a bike or scooter in Central London, is people crossing the road, between cars and looking at their mobiles.
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This happens everywhere. Had a couple of incidents where people step out onto the road whilst eyes glued onto phone and had to slam my brakes on. “Shouted keep your eyes on the road and not your phone”.

I must be one of the few people who doesn’t walk around with eyes glued onto phone. If I get a text etc when out- I stand to the side and reply to text etc.
 
About parents not belting up their kids in the back.

Earlier this month - saw a mum getting FIVE children into the back seat of a Fiesta. Aged 4-9 at a guess with a teen in passenger seat having the youngest (18 months - 2 years old) on the lap!

Some interesting stats - over a quarter of car accident deaths the people weren’t belted up. Also £500 fine for not putting child under 1.35cm or 12 years old (whichever comes first) belted up and in a car seat. I was 8 years old when I was that height and my head was touching the car ceiling which isn’t good.
 
Rroff said:
To be fair not the best layout - you have to do what you did really and come across quite early, if you don't know the roundabout you quickly find yourself in a lane for continuing on around (from what looks like a straight over lane initially) when you want to take that exit :(

I don't know why we can't have better roundabouts.
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The irony is that orianly you took the left lane to go that way so the right lane was just for the 4th exit. Really confused a lot of people as not of the other exits mentioned the change so a lot were thinking someone must be going right so it's safe to pull out.
 
cheesefest said:
I wonder how many driving tests were failed due to impatient drivers causing the learner driver to panic and caused errors?
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To be fair, if they panic due to impatient/aggressive drivers, then it's probably right that they fail. It shouldn't be the case, but sadly it's reality that you need to be able to calmly deal with the 90% of other drivers who are *******/incompetent/both.

cheesefest said:
Twice in a single journey saw two drivers losing patience with learner drivers. Both learners stalled and at traffic lights.

Have they forgotten when they were learning to drive when they were 17/18/whenever?

Wish drivers are considerate with learner drivers. I always patience with them. As when I was learning, it would panic me when someone showed no respect for me.

Dad said to me “treat learner drivers as if it’s their first full lesson”
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Highly amusing driving in my other half's car with L plates on, when I ended up with one of these behind, I made sure to drive very "carefully", double-checking every junction, etc., only to boot it and leave them in the dust when getting to an NSL section of road :p

Childish I know :cry:
 
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Haggisman said:
To be fair, if they panic due to impatient/aggressive drivers, then it's probably right that they fail. It shouldn't be the case, but sadly it's reality that you need to be able to calmly deal with the 90% of other drivers who are *******/incompetent/both.
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Friend’s son was very calm about dealing with impatient drivers.

On his test he panicked about driver behind him sounding horn when he struggled to put car into gear. His driving instructor was devastated when my friend’s son failed.

Sometimes being in a test/exam conditions makes people more vulnerable to panic and make errors. Even in written exams, my mind went blank over a few things and got out of the exam room and the things I forgot came back to me.
 
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