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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 13:07:54 GMT
We have one here where they do not just straight line it, they actively accelerate at cars already on it. We are supposed to stop for them apparently. I can understand if I am not on the roundabout, give way to the right but not, when I am already there and they arrive late to the party.
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Post by Alex on Jul 18, 2019 17:43:05 GMT
Mini roundabouts! ...... The concept of going round it, following the arrows not against them, is clearly lost on them. Fine, when there's nobody about, but... No it's not... you are supposed to drive round it, like you would on any "normal" roundabout. That it may be just a painted disc on the road does not mean that you can drive straight over it. I have to confess the one on Billingshurst high street is one I always straightline but mainly because it’s painted so far over that to do anything else is utterly absurd and there is still room for cars coming the other way to pass without even flinching. I’m not even doing something out of the ordinary as it’s stranger to see someone try to go round than it is to see someone going straight across,
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 20:12:19 GMT
There's a double one near me that people straight line when they are technically going left, then right. Going straight involves being on the wrong side of the road for a few seconds whilst driving between the two roundabouts. Winds me up no end! My hastily drawn lines are a bit wobbly but you get the idea. You can't see one roundabout in the satellite image because there's a car driving over it!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 15:07:58 GMT
Some cunt in an RX-8 just blasted past the pooch and I doing about 70 in a 40. They sound fucking shit, dont they?
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 26, 2019 8:44:38 GMT
I'm getting increasingly fucked off with driving through 30s and 40s. It's genuinely stress-inducing, sat at 30 or an indicated 32 to give a little bit of leeway, and to have someone sat on your back bumper constantly. It's 30. I'm doing 30. Overtake if you want to. And then, when we get to the next 50 or NSL, they disappear in your mirror, until the next 30.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2019 10:10:32 GMT
By the general hospital is a simple minor roundabout but come peak travel time and it is a nightmare. People just seem to have no knowledge or interest in proper use of a roundabout, giving way to the right is not even considered as a joke here. Traffic on Sandford road turning left on to the Old Bath road just creeps around, leaving no space whatsoever which stresses those on the Old Bath road traveling from top right to bottom left in the picture. How long beforethe glass (Perspex) share scheme comes into effect is a little moot, with temps set to soar it will be blood shared/spilt.
There might be a better way but unless traffic lights are better coordinated and intelligent (?) I cannot see an improvement.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 26, 2019 18:35:00 GMT
Some cunt in an RX-8 just blasted past the pooch and I doing about 70 in a 40. They sound fucking shit, dont they? We get similar nonsense round our way quite often (not just with RX-8's!) I'm sometimes tempted to take a half-brick on our walks .. .. .. .. I'm getting increasingly fucked off with driving through 30s and 40s. It's genuinely stress-inducing, sat at 30 or an indicated 32 to give a little bit of leeway, and to have someone sat on your back bumper constantly. It's 30. I'm doing 30. Overtake if you want to. And then, when we get to the next 50 or NSL, they disappear in your mirror, until the next 30. That even happens in my 'umble 2-litre spud. Some folk are, simply, knobs. With knobs on.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2019 19:29:45 GMT
I'm getting increasingly fucked off with driving through 30s and 40s. It's genuinely stress-inducing, sat at 30 or an indicated 32 to give a little bit of leeway, and to have someone sat on your back bumper constantly. It's 30. I'm doing 30. Overtake if you want to. And then, when we get to the next 50 or NSL, they disappear in your mirror, until the next 30. I feel your pain, bruv!
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Post by Martin on Jul 26, 2019 19:48:01 GMT
I'm getting increasingly fucked off with driving through 30s and 40s. It's genuinely stress-inducing, sat at 30 or an indicated 32 to give a little bit of leeway, and to have someone sat on your back bumper constantly. It's 30. I'm doing 30. Overtake if you want to. And then, when we get to the next 50 or NSL, they disappear in your mirror, until the next 30. Happens a lot, just had it on the way home. A women in a newish Blue Vrs was glued to my bumper the whole way through a local village. There’s a couple of hundred meters between the last house and NSL limit, so the traffic in front had cleared off which made her go even closer. Sunroof was open, so I eased off slightly, then went full sport, manual gearbox and selected second.... It sounded brilliant and opened up a huge gap, just a shame I had to lift off so soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 11:32:45 GMT
Just seen some gimpoid steering his white van with his elbows because he needed both hands to operate his phone.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 11:40:44 GMT
In the last week, I've seen the two latest lunges against red lights from side junctions. In both cases had I been at the front of the queue, I suspect I'd have been rammed.
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Post by Tim on Jul 29, 2019 12:19:40 GMT
I was at a festival at the weekend. To extricate the Toyota required a drive across a grassy field to get to a single track paved road running at right angles. The grass was fine, albeit very wet, but the last 30 feet or so to the road was pure mud.
So, this being a car based event I foolishly thought the people there might have some sense and if you were walking up the road and saw a campervan taking a run at the muddy bit you might pause until it'd made it to the road, or got comprehensively stuck? apparently not with the result that I nearly ran the pedestrians over when I made it to the road.
Judging by the foul look I got there's clearly no way they were wanting to get their expensive wellies dirty by stepping onto the mud either. God knows how they were going to fare in the venue!
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Post by johnc on Jul 29, 2019 14:04:16 GMT
A guy driving a Nissan Almera today on a 30 and 40mph dual/tripple carriageway - he was wandering about in the middle lane with sudden but small movements and I felt very nervous crawling past him just in case one of his movements took him over the white line. As I got alongside I looked over and he was steering with one hand (his left hand) placed at 3 o'clock on the steering wheel. How that was even comfortable I have no idea but safe it was not!
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 29, 2019 15:11:46 GMT
I was at a festival at the weekend. To extricate the Toyota required a drive across a grassy field to get to a single track paved road running at right angles. The grass was fine, albeit very wet, but the last 30 feet or so to the road was pure mud. So, this being a car based event I foolishly thought the people there might have some sense and if you were walking up the road and saw a campervan taking a run at the muddy bit you might pause until it'd made it to the road, or got comprehensively stuck? apparently not with the result that I nearly ran the pedestrians over when I made it to the road. Judging by the foul look I got there's clearly no way they were wanting to get their expensive wellies dirty by stepping onto the mud either. God knows how they were going to fare in the venue! People like that deserve to be run over! A guy driving a Nissan Almera today on a 30 and 40mph dual/tripple carriageway - he was wandering about in the middle lane with sudden but small movements and I felt very nervous crawling past him just in case one of his movements took him over the white line. As I got alongside I looked over and he was steering with one hand (his left hand) placed at 3 o'clock on the steering wheel. How that was even comfortable I have no idea but safe it was not! Dare we ask what his other hand was doing?
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Post by johnc on Jul 29, 2019 16:03:00 GMT
A guy driving a Nissan Almera today on a 30 and 40mph dual/tripple carriageway - he was wandering about in the middle lane with sudden but small movements and I felt very nervous crawling past him just in case one of his movements took him over the white line. As I got alongside I looked over and he was steering with one hand (his left hand) placed at 3 o'clock on the steering wheel. How that was even comfortable I have no idea but safe it was not! Dare we ask what his other hand was doing? I am pleased to say, I don't have a clue!
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 30, 2019 9:03:42 GMT
Dare we ask what his other hand was doing? I am pleased to say, I don't have a clue! Probably texting.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 31, 2019 22:05:07 GMT
A guy driving a Nissan Almera today on a 30 and 40mph dual/tripple carriageway - he was wandering about in the middle lane with sudden but small movements and I felt very nervous crawling past him just in case one of his movements took him over the white line. As I got alongside I looked over and he was steering with one hand (his left hand) placed at 3 o'clock on the steering wheel. How that was even comfortable I have no idea but safe it was not! Having sat behind a white Transit for a couple of miles, the other day, itself sat behind a Juke, both doing 40 or less in a NSL, I noticed the Transit start to wander and then correct its course several times. It was right up the back of the Juke but after giving it a couple of chances to overtake, it became clear it wasn't going to. I chose my spot, signalled and went for the overtake, only for van to lurch to right, over the white line. Blast of horn, flash of headlights from me and it lurched left again but by now I'd missed the chance and had to bin the attempt. I passed it a bit further on and it was clear the driver was dicking about with his phone.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 13:04:11 GMT
Me, and the driver of a git-plated white Merc Cabrio of one kind or another, in 250 engine spec. I was stuck behind him for a couple of miles, with him refusing either to speed up or pull into the nearside lane. I confess I undertook, noticing that all of a sudden he had chosen to hit the accelerator. And of course, like all hoggers of the overtaking lane, he was turning left at the next roundabout...
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 3, 2019 16:57:47 GMT
In similar vein to Simon's tale I got stuck behind an ML of some sort, the driver of which steadfastly refused to progress in excess of 25mph in a 40-zone, despite several other vehicles behind him giving some .. .. .. encouragement. This continued even as he turned towards the M80; I was heading home, so I'm glad I wasn't staying behind him!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 18:02:45 GMT
I'm sure loads of drivers are using the km/h scale on their speedos. If not it's amazing how many people are happy doing 25 in a 40 with a huge queue behind them...
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Post by Alex on Aug 3, 2019 19:17:29 GMT
Nearly rear ended a Corsa the other day and was nearly rear ended myself in the process. We were going through a set of lights and round a corner when the Corsa driver suddenly stopped to let a pedestrian cross the road despite there being no pavement let alone a crossing point. Fucking imbecile!
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Post by michael on Aug 5, 2019 10:03:49 GMT
I was parked in doctors surgery car park waiting for Louisa when I Peugeot 308 pulled into the bay beside me, rubbing its nose along the side of my car as it did. I got out to find the aluminium running boards had a smear of silver paint and black plastic about two ft in length. I pointed out to the old giffer that he had just hit my car to which he said "no I didn't". I pointed out that his car has a freshly grazed bumped at the exact height of the running board at which point he apologised with the caveat he was "81 years old and couldn't see properly". I'd say that's a good enough reason not to be behind the wheel of any car.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 10:17:46 GMT
Indeed. How was it left?
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Post by michael on Aug 5, 2019 10:32:43 GMT
Well my car was fine, the boards are aluminium so its not even scratched. He apologised and that was that as far as I was concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 14:58:27 GMT
I wonder if you would be doing him a favour reporting him. Next bump might seriously hurt someone.
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Post by Alex on Aug 5, 2019 21:32:13 GMT
It's a tricky one as you don't want to be the one shopping him and taking away his freedom but equally perhaps it's best to do so before he hurts someone.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2019 16:08:44 GMT
I wonder what hurting or killing someone would do to the man. Not something that ever goes away.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 7, 2019 23:35:05 GMT
I seized a car a couple of days ago from a bloke whose licence was revoked due to his epilepsy. Yet he had continued to drive for several months and that day had a seizure resulting in a collision with some traffic lights. He was absolutely fuming that we had the audacity to take his car...
Granted, for him, it creates numerous difficulties but it really could be much more serious next time.
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 8, 2019 10:29:24 GMT
Losing your license due to illness must be hard, but what is it with people not dealing with their responsibilities. There is a reason his license was revoked FFS. He could have killed someone.
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Post by johnc on Aug 8, 2019 11:23:33 GMT
My wife has epilepsy and she lost her licence for about 18 months until they got the medication sorted. She hasn't had a fit of any kind for about 10 years now and drives all the time. The only issue is that her licence is only renewed for 3 years and she needs a medical certificate signed each time to continue to drive and get the licence extended.
We were lucky in that she had just reversed into the driveway when she started to have a seizure. It traumatised my daughter who was only about 3 or 4 at the time and she kept shouting Daddy please stop hurting Mummy - I was actually trying to remove her feet from under the brake pedal which was taking a chunk out of the top of her foot. My bastard business partners at the time wouldn't cut me any slack for having to be in a bit later or away a bit earlier to do nursery pickups or drop offs even though I worked weekends and that was the beginning of the end for me. These were the same fossils who removed all share of profit to a female partner whilst she was off on maternity. It's not like me but I am actually very pleased that the biggest bastard of them all died of cancer about 2 years after I had extricated myself from his poisonous den. Wherever he is now, I hope he has had an opportunity to consider his vindictive, selfish actions.
Back to the original post, I think something needs to be said to the authorities about older people who continue driving when they are really not fit and the responsibility is really incumbent on those around that person to help to persuade them in the nicest possible way that they need to find an alternative way to get about (and they need to help that person find a way). My Mum has early stage dementia and she has been told not to drive. We have found a local woman who now takes Mum shopping one day a week, takes her to the hairdresser and comes to visit a third day a week when they either go for a run somewhere or they just sit and chat or do other essential chores. Mum still resents losing her licence but is beginning to enjoy the company and the structure the week now has. To tell the authorities isn't cruel, even though they may see it as such, it is essential to prevent someone innocent being hurt or killed.
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