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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 21, 2017 19:33:01 GMT
Best bit of villainy this week was a RR Sport driver. I was sat at the front of the line in a right turn lane yesterday when he appeared in the clear straight ahead lane. Lights go green and he's put on his right indicator and cut around the front of me in a hail of wheelspin. It was a busy right turn and so I wasn't he only one who gave him a blast of my horn. He then stopped in the middle of the road holding us all up to let his two little angels out to run to their posh prep school. I suspect this is quite common behaviour in Esther and I doubt he felt he'd done anything wrong. The idea of making my own Stinger for such ignorami gets more & more appealing with every passing day!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 7:29:46 GMT
On the BBC news this morning, a bright spark caught on the motorway without insurance, driving around with a go faster stripe on the windscreen. Priceless example of not drawing attention to yourself while driving illegally.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 13:34:47 GMT
Slap-encrusted youth of the female persuasion who wasn't happy unless she was two feet from my bumper. Clearly this made her ongoing phone usage more comfortable.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 27, 2017 22:06:20 GMT
NSL means 60. Not some speed in the mid forties. Jesus fucking wept, it's fucktardery of epic proprtions and makes driving on A roads a right ballache unless there is no otber traffic. I was even pulling off multi-car overtakes in the Captur tonight!
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 27, 2017 22:26:05 GMT
NSL means 60. Not some speed in the mid forties. Jesus fucking wept, it's fucktardery of epic proprtions and makes driving on A roads a right ballache unless there is no otber traffic. I was even pulling off multi-car overtakes in the Captur tonight! I quite often get stuck behind some fuckwit in the M80 doing 60 in the outside lane on my way home - sometimes even 55! No need at all 99% of the time, just pure cuntery and lack of any sense of traffic flow or basic consideration for others. A bit like life in general really, thinking about it!
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Post by Alex on Sept 28, 2017 7:15:35 GMT
NSL means 60. Not some speed in the mid forties. Jesus fucking wept, it's fucktardery of epic proprtions and makes driving on A roads a right ballache unless there is no otber traffic. I was even pulling off multi-car overtakes in the Captur tonight! There was a lot of the same last night, but annoyingly there are no safe places to overtake and in any case it's a bit difficult when your 7 cars back in a queue behind someone doing 30 in a 60 during rush hour!
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Post by ChrisM on Sept 28, 2017 7:16:45 GMT
NSL means 60. Not some speed in the mid forties. Jesus fucking wept, it's fucktardery of epic proprtions ... I've just got to work, and round part of Basingstoke several of us had the misfortune to be stuck in the outside lane of an NSL dual carriageway behind an almost new black MB E-class estate also doing just over 40-something and elephant racing the car on its inside. Fortunately after it finally crawled past the slower car, the MB peeled off down a sliproad of single car width; the RS3 behind it also did same, I bet its driver was not happy ! Why spend all that money on a luxury, powerful car then drive as if you are scared of going faster than walking pace, even in the outside lane of a busy main road? As Stu said,.....
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Post by PG on Sept 28, 2017 20:24:00 GMT
We went to see my Dad in Epsom today for lunch and run some errands in south London. Leaving aside that due to accidents and roadworks it took us just over 6 hours to do the 200 miles home, the amount of sheer twattery, fuck-tardery, aggressiveness and hopelessness on the roads today was mind boggling. I lost count of the number of cutters-in; tailgaters; mind-dead-unable-to-anticipaters; red light jumpers; yellow box blockers; and people who really should not be on the roads.
But pride of place must go in equal measure to two particular wankers -
Firstly, the driver of the Asda home delivery van on the A4 who literally continually weaved across all lanes in the slow moving queues of traffic to gain a few spaces whilst riding one inch off the back of every car in his way. We were so incenced we took a photo of the van and will write an "angry of ..." email to Asda.
Secondly, the Audi A6 estate that taligated a van on the M40 and accelerated hard as it pulled out of his way. Only the Audi misjudged it and how the heck he didn't swipe the van I will never know. He must have brushed the rear bumper on his way through. What a dick-head.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 28, 2017 23:41:12 GMT
We went to see my Dad in Epsom today for lunch and run some errands in south London. Leaving aside that due to accidents and roadworks it took us just over 6 hours to do the 200 miles home, the amount of sheer twattery, fuck-tardery, aggressiveness and hopelessness on the roads today was mind boggling. I lost count of the number of cutters-in; tailgaters; mind-dead-unable-to-anticipaters; red light jumpers; yellow box blockers; and people who really should not be on the roads. But pride of place must go in equal measure to two particular wankers - Firstly, the driver of the Asda home delivery van on the A4 who literally continually weaved across all lanes in the slow moving queues of traffic to gain a few spaces whilst riding one inch off the back of every car in his way. We were so incenced we took a photo of the van and will write an "angry of ..." email to Asda. Secondly, the Audi A6 estate that taligated a van on the M40 and accelerated hard as it pulled out of his way. Only the Audi misjudged it and how the heck he didn't swipe the van I will never know. He must have brushed the rear bumper on his way through. What a dick-head. 6 hours? God. You have my sympathies.
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Post by LandieMark on Sept 29, 2017 14:13:07 GMT
Special award to the driver of a BMW 3 Series who performed a full emergency stop right in front of me because a lorry was coming the other way, completely on the correct side of the road. I had full lock up in the Defender.
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Post by Tim on Sept 29, 2017 14:57:08 GMT
Me, apparently. I was in Perth at the weekend, went through a set of lights just as they started to turn amber (I would've had to do an emergency stop to stand a chance of not ending up in the middle of the road). Turns out these are one of those sets that goes amber for the other lot as you receive an amber yourself. Anyway the driver of the 4th car in the queue - a Prius - that had been waiting gave me a thumbs up and as he drove past was clearly giving me a very angry mouthful of abuse!
As someone who gets really annoyed by red light jumpers I think I'm safe to say that I was astounded by this reaction and felt it was totally unwarranted.
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 29, 2017 19:39:01 GMT
Turns out these are one of those sets that goes amber for the other lot as you receive an amber yourself. Recipe for disaster right there, surely?
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Post by Alex on Sept 30, 2017 12:25:47 GMT
Turns out these are one of those sets that goes amber for the other lot as you receive an amber yourself. Recipe for disaster right there, surely? That doesn't sound like they're set right, they shouldn't be amber at the same time for the very reason that anyone speeding up to get through the amber could come a cropper against someone planting their foot on the a of the amber from the other direction.
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Post by Tim on Oct 2, 2017 13:05:11 GMT
The lights at the bottom of the slip road after the Tay Bridge are exactly the same so you get 2 lanes of traffic ready to go having left the bridge while the lanes coming from the East End of Dundee are still going through on amber. Both lots of traffic are travelling parallel to each other at the point where the lights are.
Combine that with the next set of lights (less than 100 yards later) that cover all 4 lanes of now-merged traffic beside the new V&A building and when that place opens next year the queues caused by pedestrians using that set are going to be horrendous.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 2, 2017 18:23:00 GMT
Well, in theory, you approach a set of lights on green and should anticipate that they might change to amber and then red. In reality, pretty much everybody hoofs it to get there before they change and the last two or three think, "I'll just nip through, it's only quick."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2017 14:47:32 GMT
I rounded a corner the other day to find a grey 3 door Leon heading right at me, mid way through overtaking two other cars. That was very nearly Karma in the purest form ever!
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Post by johnc on Oct 5, 2017 6:27:27 GMT
A prick of a private hire taxi on the M8 last night. I joined the motorway on a 70 mph section but I was only going about 4 miles before exiting again. As I joined the motorway, there was a Skoda Superb taxi passing in the middle lane. I let him go past before pulling out behind him ready to overtake when the outside lane cleared (I should state that the inside lane was basically empty). Mr taxi gradually accelerated to 70++ as I was waiting for an opportunity to pass, so being a good boy, I pulled back in to the inside lane at 70mph since I wasn't in any particular hurry. 10 seconds later Mr Taxi starts slowing down causing me to do the same (or undertake) and he ends up doing no more than 50mph in the middle lane, so I slowed even more and then pulled out behind him at which point he started to accelerate again and we had the same scenario and manoeuvres all over again. He did it a third time so I pulled out again, finished the job properly and dispatched the middle lane hogging chicane just before my exit. That arsehole turned a 4 minute motorway saunter into 4 minutes of stressful driving with more lane changes for me than he obviously does in a day!
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Post by ChrisM on Oct 5, 2017 7:03:04 GMT
^ Since the middle-lane-hog penalties came into force not that long ago, I have seen more middle lane hogs than ever. It causes many dangerous rolling bottle-neck bunching on the stretch of the M3 I use regularly
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Post by Boxer6 on Oct 5, 2017 8:45:04 GMT
A prick of a private hire taxi on the M8 last night. I joined the motorway on a 70 mph section but I was only going about 4 miles before exiting again. As I joined the motorway, there was a Skoda Superb taxi passing in the middle lane. I let him go past before pulling out behind him ready to overtake when the outside lane cleared (I should state that the inside lane was basically empty). Mr taxi gradually accelerated to 70++ as I was waiting for an opportunity to pass, so being a good boy, I pulled back in to the inside lane at 70mph since I wasn't in any particular hurry. 10 seconds later Mr Taxi starts slowing down causing me to do the same (or undertake) and he ends up doing no more than 50mph in the middle lane, so I slowed even more and then pulled out behind him at which point he started to accelerate again and we had the same scenario and manoeuvres all over again. He did it a third time so I pulled out again, finished the job properly and dispatched the middle lane hogging chicane just before my exit. That arsehole turned a 4 minute motorway saunter into 4 minutes of stressful driving with more lane changes for me than he obviously does in a day! An excellent case for use of a dashcam, if only to guarantee you have the correct registration and taxi numbers when you report the fucker!
We have to use private hack's a lot for work (ever tried to wrestle a 20-stone psycho into the back of a Skoda Rapid? Not easy, but no-one took that into consideration when they took the contract fro the TOA - however, I digress) and the standard of driving from most of these clowns is, frankly, abysmal. I suspect many of them passed their tests in the likes of Islamabad or New Delhi too, which doesn't help.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 5, 2017 12:06:28 GMT
I rounded a corner the other day to find a grey 3 door Leon heading right at me, mid way through overtaking two other cars. That was very nearly Karma in the purest form ever! Not THAT corner I hope!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 5, 2017 12:11:47 GMT
A prick of a private hire taxi on the M8 last night. I joined the motorway on a 70 mph section but I was only going about 4 miles before exiting again. As I joined the motorway, there was a Skoda Superb taxi passing in the middle lane. I let him go past before pulling out behind him ready to overtake when the outside lane cleared (I should state that the inside lane was basically empty). Mr taxi gradually accelerated to 70++ as I was waiting for an opportunity to pass, so being a good boy, I pulled back in to the inside lane at 70mph since I wasn't in any particular hurry. 10 seconds later Mr Taxi starts slowing down causing me to do the same (or undertake) and he ends up doing no more than 50mph in the middle lane, so I slowed even more and then pulled out behind him at which point he started to accelerate again and we had the same scenario and manoeuvres all over again. He did it a third time so I pulled out again, finished the job properly and dispatched the middle lane hogging chicane just before my exit. That arsehole turned a 4 minute motorway saunter into 4 minutes of stressful driving with more lane changes for me than he obviously does in a day! I had one like that on the M69 very late one night last week. By the third time of him sitting just off my rear offside 3/4 and then failing to gain any further, I'd had enough. I was doing 70 on cruise and he kept passing then slowing so I had to pass him up to that point. It narked me so much that I floored it and he very rapidly became but a spec in the distance.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 5, 2017 12:26:10 GMT
I rounded a corner the other day to find a grey 3 door Leon heading right at me, mid way through overtaking two other cars. That was very nearly Karma in the purest form ever! That happened to my dad on the A697 from Edinburgh to Newcastle. He rounded the corner to be met by an Astra on his side of the road, overtaking another car. He took evasive action and mounted the verge, the Astra did the same, my dad saw the gap open between the Astra and the car it was overtaking and went for that, the Astra saw him on the verge and went back onto the road. Cue head on and both cars written off.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 5, 2017 12:27:33 GMT
A prick of a private hire taxi on the M8 last night. I joined the motorway on a 70 mph section but I was only going about 4 miles before exiting again. As I joined the motorway, there was a Skoda Superb taxi passing in the middle lane. I let him go past before pulling out behind him ready to overtake when the outside lane cleared (I should state that the inside lane was basically empty). Mr taxi gradually accelerated to 70++ as I was waiting for an opportunity to pass, so being a good boy, I pulled back in to the inside lane at 70mph since I wasn't in any particular hurry. 10 seconds later Mr Taxi starts slowing down causing me to do the same (or undertake) and he ends up doing no more than 50mph in the middle lane, so I slowed even more and then pulled out behind him at which point he started to accelerate again and we had the same scenario and manoeuvres all over again. He did it a third time so I pulled out again, finished the job properly and dispatched the middle lane hogging chicane just before my exit. That arsehole turned a 4 minute motorway saunter into 4 minutes of stressful driving with more lane changes for me than he obviously does in a day! I try not to but in such cases I would just let myself undertake and proceed on my way.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 13:02:09 GMT
Years ago I was driving back from Newcastle and some chimp was sat in front of me in the fast lane of a motorway that was otherwise empty, with a queue building behind him. Clearly a speed limit Nazi, and this went on for mile after mile. Eventually I pulled into the slow lane, and after 30 seconds went on my way. The queue was still sat behind him when last I looked.
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Post by michael on Oct 5, 2017 13:05:54 GMT
Years ago I was driving back from Newcastle and some chimp was sat in front of me in the fast lane of a motorway that was otherwise empty, with a queue building behind him. Clearly a speed limit Nazi, and this went on for mile after mile. Eventually I pulled into the slow lane, and after 30 seconds went on my way. The queue was still sat behind him when last I looked. Maybe he thought the outside lane was the fast lane and the inside land the slow lane?
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Post by Alex on Oct 5, 2017 14:22:59 GMT
I rounded a corner the other day to find a grey 3 door Leon heading right at me, mid way through overtaking two other cars. That was very nearly Karma in the purest form ever! That happened to my dad on the A697 from Edinburgh to Newcastle. He rounded the corner to be met by an Astra on his side of the road, overtaking another car. He took evasive action and mounted the verge, the Astra did the same, my dad saw the gap open between the Astra and the car it was overtaking and went for that, the Astra saw him on the verge and went back onto the road. Cue head on and both cars written off. Sounds like he was lucky it was only the cars written off. Why would someone perform such a stupid overtake? I'm sure the Astra driver had a great excuse!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 5, 2017 22:18:47 GMT
Slow lane? Fast lane? Come one now, we are more professional than that!
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 6, 2017 7:06:55 GMT
Slow lane? Fast lane? Come one now, we are more professional than that! Yes, they are ; homicidal trucker lane, gimp lane and BMW lane.
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Post by Tim on Oct 6, 2017 8:40:37 GMT
Slow lane? Fast lane? Come one now, we are more professional than that! Yes, they are ; homicidal trucker lane, gimp lane and BMW lane.
No we're not.
Anyway, Bob, that appears to be 3 lanes, we don't have that luxury this far from Westminster.
I'd suggest; Pre-slip road lane, lane everyone uses because they're in more of a hurry than other road users.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 13:17:49 GMT
I was on a dual carriageway late last night and Out of about 5 or 6 cars travelling along it I was the only one in the left hand lane!
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