Visited family a few years ago in northeast Scotland, and the first thing they said when I arrived after hello was 'watch out for the roundabouts, no one knows how to use em round here!'
Road Tales - Area for discussing issues on the roads.
Here you can discuss stories of idiots you have come across on the roads...issues you have noticed...and rant & vent to your hearts content. Refrain from mentioning racing or illegal stuff, unless it is of what another party has done.
To start things off here is one of my stories...
Was sat on the inside lane at a set of red lights a few weeks ago, only car waiting, and a kid pulls up in his 1.2 Corsa in the outside lane. I was 4 up and just pulled away casually. All I can hear is some screaching of tyres and an engine being abused, so I look in my mirrors... He must have been flooring his throttle because he was just sat on the line wheelspinning!
A few yards...miles...down the road he caught up and flew past me. The limit on this road is 40mph and I was sat dead on it on my speedo. I am not going to risk losing my licence by "racing" some idiot so I just let him be to speed off into the distance.
No doubt he told all his friends later that night or at college the next day "I beat an ST last night, they're well slow"
:facepalm:
So, what acts of stupidity have you witnessed of late? Should make some interesting reading
To start things off here is one of my stories...
Was sat on the inside lane at a set of red lights a few weeks ago, only car waiting, and a kid pulls up in his 1.2 Corsa in the outside lane. I was 4 up and just pulled away casually. All I can hear is some screaching of tyres and an engine being abused, so I look in my mirrors... He must have been flooring his throttle because he was just sat on the line wheelspinning!
A few yards...miles...down the road he caught up and flew past me. The limit on this road is 40mph and I was sat dead on it on my speedo. I am not going to risk losing my licence by "racing" some idiot so I just let him be to speed off into the distance.
No doubt he told all his friends later that night or at college the next day "I beat an ST last night, they're well slow"
:facepalm:
So, what acts of stupidity have you witnessed of late? Should make some interesting reading
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I find there's two types of danger out there on the roads... the criminally reckless and the unwittingly clueless.Driving standards are beyond appalling these days, the amount of people that are unaware of what's going on around them, they either don't know how to indicate or just choose not to, they run lights, they drift into others' lanes, the list is honestly endless! It also appears the smaller the car the less respect you get on the road.
People seem to think you'll give in and move out of their way just because you're in a smaller vehicle, these people are incorrect. The funny thing is, is that it always seems to be people in larger, expensive, executive-style vehicles. They do not seem to realise that due to my small vehicle, my car is technically inexpensive, especially in comparison to theirs, therefore I'm more than willing to 'stand my ground'.
So many offenders are on the road at the moment it was an honest struggle to recall just one thing. However, perhaps the latest in what is now a comedy of errors on our roads; when I was on my way out the other day, a small motorbike (I'm guessing 125cc) almost drive into my offside door.
I was pulling out of my small private road, where I pretty much have to make a hairpin turn to my right to head down the hill. At the end of my road there are a set of crossroads with traffic lights. Right at the point where I exit there is a large "KEEP CLEAR" box on the road just before the lights. Now, people often stop on it (because that's how unaware people really are), and whether I'm on my way in or out of the road some dung-puncher will invariably be sat across it (or at least partially across it), then have the audacity to give ME the sh***y look when I exit or enter, but I digress.
I pull to the end in front of the "KEEP CLEAR" signing and the woman approaching the (red) light from my right, eventually stops just beforehand so that I can exit. I have a good look up and down the hill to check that my exit is clear, it is. I carry on checking as I pull forward when suddenly this 125 comes hurtling up the offside of her car and almost smashes directly into my drivers door. Needless to say, though shocked I was unsurprised by the event, I suspect clean underwear was required all around.
I think we both counted ourselves lucky that day, though I suspect both the woman in the car and the motorcycle rider probably blamed me anyway, just for exiting my road.
Sadly I've come to terms with the fact that whenever I leave the comfort of my own home and get into my car these days, I will (without doubt), be taking my life in my hands. Much like just going out in public anywhere right now, it seems everyone is just beyond the realms of ignorance and simply do not care about their fellow man/woman/saucepan. It beggars belief.......
One knows full well what they're doing is wrong and doesn't care, the other wafts through life believing they're fine blissfully unaware of the carnage they cause.
They're everywhere but nowhere was it more apparent than when working at an international airport in a previous life. These twin menaces came together in a cacophony of chaos.
The 'airport regulars' who knew the roads like the back of their hands (taxi's, service vans, staff etc.) would do their daily thing tear****ing about. Meanwhile the Mr & Mrs Miggins of this world, visiting the airport for the first time, would fail to read signage, drive at stupidly slow speeds, cut across lanes at the last second, turn against one way traffic or reverse in one way traffic to get to the turn off they missed.
Worse still there's unbelievably a small overlap in this Venn diagram at an airport. I give you the criminally reckless overseas driver jumping into a RHD hire car for the first time. Supreme (misplaced) confidence in his/her ability to drive but no experience of driving on the correct side of the road.
How there were not daily multiple fatalities from these polar opposite menaces coming face to face was beyond me.
Its hard to acrually place which one was worse, insane over confidence or pitifully lacking in confidence.
But stuck in the middle of the them both are the law-abiding, situationally aware 'normal drivers' tearing their hair out 😱
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Some people's ego's are so damn fragile when it comes to merge in turn.
Just now, van driver tried to close the gap to prevent me doing just this, even though I was already ahead and hadn't tried to get past the car just ahead on my left as the car in front of me was merging in front of them...as they should.
Anyway, van driver didn't like that I merged in front of him, so proceeded to ride my bumper so close I couldn't see a thing other than his FORD logo taking up my entire rear window space.
All the while we're in a line of traffic and I have no way of speeding up for his personal gain.
A few miles pass and a short section of dual lanes is approaching for a junction before merging back in again.
You guessed it, ego still broken into a thousand pieces.
He decides to speed past everyone on the inside lane...complete disregard for the lorry carrying a tank with a wide load escort vehicle already halfway through said junction, travelling very slow. He then swerves in front of someone about to pass it, causing them to slam on...to be greeted by more slow moving traffic passing it.
But wait there's more.
Seeing that he is about to have to admit defeat and fall back in behind the lorry, he decides no...I must continue on my **** quest and goes across the solid white line to pass the lorry, escort vehicle and 2 other vehicles.
🫡👍
Just now, van driver tried to close the gap to prevent me doing just this, even though I was already ahead and hadn't tried to get past the car just ahead on my left as the car in front of me was merging in front of them...as they should.
Anyway, van driver didn't like that I merged in front of him, so proceeded to ride my bumper so close I couldn't see a thing other than his FORD logo taking up my entire rear window space.
All the while we're in a line of traffic and I have no way of speeding up for his personal gain.
A few miles pass and a short section of dual lanes is approaching for a junction before merging back in again.
You guessed it, ego still broken into a thousand pieces.
He decides to speed past everyone on the inside lane...complete disregard for the lorry carrying a tank with a wide load escort vehicle already halfway through said junction, travelling very slow. He then swerves in front of someone about to pass it, causing them to slam on...to be greeted by more slow moving traffic passing it.
But wait there's more.
Seeing that he is about to have to admit defeat and fall back in behind the lorry, he decides no...I must continue on my **** quest and goes across the solid white line to pass the lorry, escort vehicle and 2 other vehicles.
🫡👍
A 'Darwin Awards' nominee in the making 👋🏻
The '40 man' is the one who irritates me the most. You get national speed limit twisites, which aren't tight lanes, and are the type of roads you exist for, and in front of you is the '40 man'- someone who don't drive more than 40mph and brakes at every wide corner, or at anything else which frightens him.
Yesterday someone about 60 pulled out on me in an old land rover on a side road withing nice twisties. Nothing too dramatic, but enough for a fail if he was on his driving test. Then instead of putting his foot down, and acknowledging what he did, he proceeds to do 35 (seriously) on a dry day along the safe twisites. Totally disinterested that anyone else existed other than himself.
Yesterday someone about 60 pulled out on me in an old land rover on a side road withing nice twisties. Nothing too dramatic, but enough for a fail if he was on his driving test. Then instead of putting his foot down, and acknowledging what he did, he proceeds to do 35 (seriously) on a dry day along the safe twisites. Totally disinterested that anyone else existed other than himself.
Sounds horrific. A total disregard for others' safety. It's a huge impatience issue, not just his fragile ego. I always wonder in these situations just how exciting is that person's life that he/she can't arrive at their destination, what, 2 minutes later? Or have they really got fulfilled, action packed, exciting lives like James Bond.I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Some people's ego's are so damn fragile when it comes to merge in turn.
Just now, van driver tried to close the gap to prevent me doing just this, even though I was already ahead and hadn't tried to get past the car just ahead on my left as the car in front of me was merging in front of them...as they should.
Anyway, van driver didn't like that I merged in front of him, so proceeded to ride my bumper so close I couldn't see a thing other than his FORD logo taking up my entire rear window space.
All the while we're in a line of traffic and I have no way of speeding up for his personal gain.
A few miles pass and a short section of dual lanes is approaching for a junction before merging back in again.
You guessed it, ego still broken into a thousand pieces.
He decides to speed past everyone on the inside lane...complete disregard for the lorry carrying a tank with a wide load escort vehicle already halfway through said junction, travelling very slow. He then swerves in front of someone about to pass it, causing them to slam on...to be greeted by more slow moving traffic passing it.
But wait there's more.
Seeing that he is about to have to admit defeat and fall back in behind the lorry, he decides no...I must continue on my **** quest and goes across the solid white line to pass the lorry, escort vehicle and 2 other vehicles.
🫡👍
By me I have speed bumps, which loving my car I crawl over. The amount of tail gaiters in their beat up vans or PCP cars bottom ending over said bumps as they catch me up and tail gate is unreal. And what gets me is the road is a cut through (which irriates us, but a road is a road and people pay VED etc), so there's no way I'm doing anything other than respecting and looking after my own car than to get bullied by someone who can't be bothered going the other way.
Those drivers know me as overtake man 🙃The '40 man' is the one who irritates me the most. Totally disinterested that anyone else existed other than himself.
EpicThose drivers know me as overtake man 🙃
I don't get annoyed at anything as much as I do, the traffic light creeper.
The ones who don't even come fully off their brakes either, so lights are still illuminated, yet they're crawling forward, sometimes edging over the solid stop line.I don't get annoyed at anything as much as I do, the traffic light creeper.
In fact, on my way to the gym earlier today, I was sat at opposing lights when I saw a flash, thought it was lightening, then I clicked that it was the camera flashing a van driver who had done just that and gone over the line at a red light.
Love it.The ones who don't even come fully off their brakes either, so lights are still illuminated, yet they're crawling forward, sometimes edging over the solid stop line.
In fact, on my way to the gym earlier today, I was sat at opposing lights when I saw a flash, thought it was lightening, then I clicked that it was the camera flashing a can driver who had done just that and gone over the line at a red light.
Stop adding pointless comments/emojis with the sole intent being to wind up other members. Final chance.
I note you haven't said the same thing directly to other posters regarding the EXACT same behaviour in another thread.Stop adding pointless comments/emojis with the sole intent being to wind up other members. Final chance.
I presume the forum and moderation isn't about one rule for poster A and another for posters B and C?
I've already DM'd you about such matters, what's to say the same hasn't been done for others. Fact is, they then abide by the rules and keep such discussions off the main forum, you continue to act in the main domain. You'll also note one of the forums rules is to not question such antics other than via DM.
If you wish to discuss further, DM me or one of the others on the mod team.
If you wish to discuss further, DM me or one of the others on the mod team.
I've already DM'd you about such matters, what's to say the same hasn't been done for others. Fact is, they then abide by the rules and keep such discussions off the main forum, you continue to act in the main domain. You'll also note one of the forums rules is to not question such antics other than via DM.
If you wish to discuss further, DM me or one of the others on the mod team.
My hack on the commute, I did a bit of rare driving in rush hour this week and had the classic two lane road up to a roundabout that merges from two to one soon after the roundabout. Everyone is waiting in lane 1 to go straight on into the main town despite both lanes being available and no traffic past the roundabout. A good few hundred yards of queueing caused by this obsession with queueing in the left lane (wrongly). That isn't for me unless I've got half an hour to kill, so into lane 2 and onto the roundabout, looking for a zip-in point. Then up comes highway maintenance van who I've just passed but who's anticipated my plan - so of course he has to stop my plan to proceed efficiently. So off he goes and speeds up around the outside of the roundabout up to the backside of the car in front to stop me merging... then giving me a massive gap to pull in behind him, since the car directly behind him didn't floor it. So away we go on our way, doesn't make for a dramatic tale, but it does work quite nicely - and it happens quite often tbf, the car you're about to pass or have just passed floors it and passes on the left; making a nice big gap behind them reserved for me 👌 4D chess
Driving back to new house the other week after picking dog up from a friends house. Was travelling down a stretch of NSL road when up ahead the traffic was slowing and bunching up due to the upcoming roundabout.
Guy behind in his big Mercedes SUV had been all over the place with his following distance for a few miles, clearly distracted by something...cough, phone, cough.
Anyway, I start slowing down quite gradually ahead of the backed up queue...look in my mirror and he is still steaming along.
"ARE YOU GOING TO BRAKE?"
He does...at the last second, ABS going full bore, tyres screeching and swerves off to the left.
Safe to say I was quietly raging inside, as if anyone was to hit my car I'd be fuming. But if he had plowed into the back when my dog was in the boot, I think I might be the one to end up behind bars.
Guy behind in his big Mercedes SUV had been all over the place with his following distance for a few miles, clearly distracted by something...cough, phone, cough.
Anyway, I start slowing down quite gradually ahead of the backed up queue...look in my mirror and he is still steaming along.
"ARE YOU GOING TO BRAKE?"
He does...at the last second, ABS going full bore, tyres screeching and swerves off to the left.
Safe to say I was quietly raging inside, as if anyone was to hit my car I'd be fuming. But if he had plowed into the back when my dog was in the boot, I think I might be the one to end up behind bars.
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