Your bad driving encounters/irritations

Had a close call today on the bike near my workplace. IMO Lorry drivers are the most attentive on the road but you have bad apples everywhere and I happened to encounter one today. Was doing about 20-25 in a 30 due to mild traffic. Clocked the lorry and gut feeling said to watch out for it.

Lorry was to my left ahead on a Turn Left only lane. I am on going straight ahead. As we approached the traffic lights, the Lorry driver went straight leaving me with no choice but to brake emergency else it was me crashing into the island where the lights were. Didn't want to react but blipped the throttle with clutch in to make him aware. Overtook him where the lane splits but the guy was way towards the right which was unusual. Just did a disappointed hand gesture and moved on. (No middle finger or anything)
 
Spent most of my way to work questioning if people even learnt to drive, one guy tailgating a bus resulted in it doing 20MPH for a good mile until the penny dropped... also amusing once he turned off the bus driver put his foot down a bit, which I knew he would as I regularly get behind that bus.
 
they teach bad driving when they learn to drive - had a near pass on cycle from a driving school car today on NSL,
as normal, other side of road was clear for them to use; I need to get better at memorising reg plates and car details.
 
jpaul said:
they teach bad driving when they learn to drive - had a near pass on cycle from a driving school car today on NSL,
as normal, other side of road was clear for them to use; I need to get better at memorising reg plates and car details.
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Conversely, I was just moving out of a supermarket parking bay when a grown man on a mountain bike shot diagonally across all the spaces and practically brushed my front bumper.

Who taught him about safe distances? :P
 
Yesterday, travelling back from Cleethorpes after a spontaneous day at the coast with the kids. Travelling down the M180. Cruising about 75 (71/72 in reality), overtaking cars and trucks in L1 when a white Volvo on a 24 plate indicates with one flash, pulls into L2 with no effort to speed up whilst I'm about 3-4 car lengths from his rear.

Hard brake to stop the 2ton of Ford 7-seater from going into the back of him.

Admittedly I did start flashing the mains at him and leant on the horn but I don't think it was unwarranted.

He moved back into L1 and as I drove past him, he started giving me the double u anchor sign as though I was completely the one at fault.



LuckyBenski said:
Conversely, I was just moving out of a supermarket parking bay when a grown man on a mountain bike shot diagonally across all the spaces and practically brushed my front bumper.

Who taught him about safe distances? :P
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Remember it's only 1.5 metres when it suits them, as pretty much everything else in the highway code/Road traffic act....
 
Anyone else that drives, rides and flys notice that since that law change for peds and cyclists that the hatred has increased for cyclists and motorists much more than before.

I watched a video yesterday and now I hate all skateboarders ;)
 
Resident said:
Remember it's only 1.5 metres when it suits them, as pretty much everything else in the highway code/Road traffic act....
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Probably because there's a significant difference between filtering through slow or stationary traffic, and being passed at speed in circumstances completely beyond your control.

Resident said:
Admittedly I did start flashing the mains at him and leant on the horn but I don't think it was unwarranted.
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You accuse others of hypocrisy and admit to acting in complete contravention of the highway code and law.
 
Brun said:
Probably because there's a significant difference between filtering through slow or stationary traffic, and being passed at speed in circumstances completely beyond your control.


You accuse others of hypocrisy and admit to acting in complete contravention of the highway code and law.
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And when they ride straight through red lights/contravene one-way systems and then clamour that it's "safe for them to do it"?

Difference being that openly admitted doing it and chastised myself within the language for doing so rather than making up absolute nonsense (see line above)
 
Just seen a Golf GTI absolutely tear down a bus lane, must have been 70mph in a 40mph limit. Not far from my bonnet as I was emerging from a petrol station.

Only excuse I can think of is it was an unmarked police car but there were no blue lights that I saw. I think in reality the driver just wanted to get ahead of someone doing the speed limit.

Absolutely criminal really.
 
My bike time is more than car time and I haven't seen any driver change with the new law, but, recent 20mph zones just create more danger as people hang behind you more,
don't ever remember doing cycling safety lessons, but could be as useful as swimming lessons,
however driver pass rate apparently only circa 50%, from last weeks discussion about scams for jumping the queue, which sounds like people overestimate their skills and passes might be by luck.


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running theory on the police a1 pile-up seems to be 3 cars boxed in/stopped the perp(yanks have some good words) , but forgot to tell a fourth police car who crashed into them, also taking out a fourth unmarked,
car, the occupants of the fourth had roof cut off during rescue : specsavers/LIDAR ...and all that
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Stopped at the lights this morning with about 4 cars ahead of me. This part of the street is the lane going straight ahead splits into two with the left being turn left only. I was right at the spot where the lane splits. Cue in Van driver behind who wanted to go left. Waits for a few seconds and then beeps at me.

I mean where am I supposed to move exactly? I can't touch the rear of the car ahead to let this van go.

At least I have opened the score for this year's impatient driver in that particular section. :p
 
LowEndTorque said:
Stopped at the lights this morning with about 4 cars ahead of me. This part of the street is the lane going straight ahead splits into two with the left being turn left only. I was right at the spot where the lane splits. Cue in Van driver behind who wanted to go left. Waits for a few seconds and then beeps at me.

I mean where am I supposed to move exactly? I can't touch the rear of the car ahead to let this van go.

At least I have opened the score for this year's impatient driver in that particular section. :p
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So what did  you do wrong?
 
ShiWarrior said:
So what did  you do wrong?
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Nothing. I was waiting like normal. There was no space for vehicles behind to go on the left lane unless you go on the pavement.

As I said I had no space to move ahead to allow the driver behind to go. The left lane had Green light whereas the one for me was Red.

Blue box is roughly where I was and Yellow is the Van. Hope this helps..

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LowEndTorque said:
Nothing. I was waiting like normal. There was no space for vehicles behind to go on the left lane unless you go on the pavement.

As I said I had no space to move ahead to allow the driver behind to go. The left lane had Green light whereas the one for me was Red.

Blue box is roughly where I was and Yellow is the Van. Hope this helps..

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Loads of room for you to move up to that white car, you should have gone forward.

:P
 
Following a police car most of the way home tonight - mysteriously everyone was driving considerately.

One of my pet annoyances on the way to work though with several people on the dual-carriageway dawdling along until someone or myself was alongside them then suddenly waking up :( at least not as unsafe as when being overtaken on single carriageway roads.
 
On the way to South Wales today, saw an Ioniq 5 trying to get ahead of a Mazda 3. This was a merge in lane and it was pretty busy on A556 due to Bank holiday weekend coming up. The Mazda tried to block them from merging and the Hyundai bullied their way in. I thought thats that and end of it. But nope, these guys continued to road rage later on the next dual carriageway. I had pulled onto lane 2 to overake and these two pulled out too rashly ahead of me. I backed off and let them fight on their merry way by going ahead.

I was then tailgated by an Arteon at single carriageway 60 mph road. I was doing 60 all the way with no one ahead but still this moron didn't back off. Even in lower speed zones. They had ample of chances to overtake and get ahead but weirdly they kept tailgating.

OT: The B4358 and A483 are some of the best roads I have driven in UK. B4358 is certainly the best for me. And I hate those 20 mph snooze fest speed limits in Wales.
 
LowEndTorque said:
I was then tailgated by an Arteon at single carriageway 60 mph road. I was doing 60 all the way with no one ahead but still this moron didn't back off. Even in lower speed zones. They had ample of chances to overtake and get ahead but weirdly they kept tailgating.
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I'm never sure with these people if they are completely clueless or find it amusing and too stupid to comprehend the risk.

Some seem to do it with adaptive cruise somehow closer than the normal range would allow as I've seen it where the car is reacting to speed changes far faster than a human would and things like the women who stuck on my tail for a couple of miles while doing makeup and eating with the car speeding up and slowing down exactly as I was and she was caught out and obviously surprised when I dropped quickly down into a new speed limit and her car slowed quickly in reaction.
 
Rroff said:
I'm never sure with these people if they are completely clueless or find it amusing and too stupid to comprehend the risk.

Some seem to do it with adaptive cruise somehow closer than the normal range would allow as I've seen it where the car is reacting to speed changes far faster than a human would and things like the women who stuck on my tail for a couple of miles while doing makeup and eating with the car speeding up and slowing down exactly as I was and she was caught out and obviously surprised when I dropped quickly down into a new speed limit and her car slowed quickly in reaction.
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Yup, could be adaptive cruise control. This was late too at 10pm, so the led lights weren't helping me in the ORVMs.
 
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