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Post by Tim on Jun 5, 2017 11:17:28 GMT
And another one on the lanes today. We were in our horse box on a single track road with passing places. We are about 50 yards from the next passing place and two cyclists - lyrca clad and all - just keep coming past it and towards us. What did they expect me to do - magically dematerialise? I had to pull sharply into the grass verge, horse noises coming from the back as the sudden stop unbalanced him. And they just sailed past. Utter, utter fuckwits. Why is that too many cyclists just can't stop like normal road users? If I'd hit them, they had been hell to pay I'm sure. I'd have slowed but barely moved over. +1
I had something similar with a cyclist and got a dirty look. I suppose its too much trouble to stop and unclip your foot from the pedal
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 16:17:27 GMT
All today's arseholes in the driving (NPI) rain with no lights on. Way to go...
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 7, 2017 8:40:37 GMT
Bloody impatient arseholes x 2 in quick succession this morning. There's a developing "thing" whereby if someone is waiting to pull out of a junction and the first approaching car signals to turn into that junction, then that someone doesn't wait for any other approaching traffic, they just pull out. I'm seeing this lack of patience more and more and it is usually accompanied by a "fuck you" or a hand gesture.
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Post by Alex on Jun 7, 2017 11:17:32 GMT
Bloody impatient arseholes x 2 in quick succession this morning. There's a developing "thing" whereby if someone is waiting to pull out of a junction and the first approaching car signals to turn into that junction, then that someone doesn't wait for any other approaching traffic, they just pull out. I'm seeing this lack of patience more and more and it is usually accompanied by a "fuck you" or a hand gesture. I'm noticing that less and less drivers these days who are turning right into a side road you are trying to turn right out of will let you out, even when it's clearly very busy and you've probably been waiting a while. Instead they'll turn in across you without even looking at you. Perhaps this is leading to drivers forcing their way out in frustration.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 8, 2017 8:26:59 GMT
I don't let people out unless I can see it is absolutely safe for them to do so. This just stems from being taught at work and avoiding the creation of an "incident". If it appears clear and safe then I often do but I also see no point in me stopping to let someone out when it is clear behind me.
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Post by Alex on Jun 8, 2017 8:57:22 GMT
I don't let people out unless I can see it is absolutely safe for them to do so. This just stems from being taught at work and avoiding the creation of an "incident". If it appears clear and safe then I often do but I also see no point in me stopping to let someone out when it is clear behind me. I understand your thinking but my point is about when you are approaching a side road you intend to turn into and there is someone waiting to come out of. There's no harm letting them out in such instances. It's more dangerous if your turning left, however, as the driver behind may choose to overtake!
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Post by Boxer6 on Jun 8, 2017 19:18:01 GMT
Moron in a Focus this afternoon who stopped on a main road to let someone turn right, across the lane in front of him. Unfortunately for him (a) the car in question (a Mk 2 Clio) didn't go ~ turned out he was planning a u-turn ~ and (b) I was behind him. Cue a long horn blast and much swearing; it's been pouring with rain all day and I was soaking wet having been dealing with Herself's horse, so not in the best of moods!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 8, 2017 20:53:09 GMT
Moron in a Focus this afternoon who stopped on a main road to let someone turn right, across the lane in front of him. Unfortunately for him (a) the car in question (a Mk 2 Clio) didn't go ~ turned out he was planning a u-turn ~ and (b) I was behind him. Cue a long horn blast and much swearing; it's been pouring with rain all day and I was soaking wet having been dealing with Herself's horse, so not in the best of moods! And this is the danger. You think they are turning right but then they do something that neither you nor anyone else expects. Hence, let them wait, as per the "rules" and do what you should be doing. Only if it is abundantly clear what they are doing do I let people out, cross my path to turn right, etc. because it has implications for other drivers if they pull a flanker.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 6:32:20 GMT
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 9, 2017 6:56:34 GMT
Bugger. I wonder in those situations if (with the benefit of hindsight) that letting them hit your car wouldn't be the better option. At least you'd stand a chance of getting some payment for any damage.
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Post by johnc on Jun 9, 2017 7:20:28 GMT
Toss pot in a Fiesta this morning. Driving along my normal fairly busy 40mph dual carriageway this morning in the outside lane when I noticed an ambulance approaching, about 5 or 6 cars back, so I pulled over into the left hand lane behind a Fiesta to let the ambulance past. Mr bloody Fiesta decides this is a national disaster and starts to slow and I mean 10mph slow. By this time I have about 100 cars piled up behind me, a rapidly advancing ambulance in the outside lane and I can see people diving out of the inside lane behind the ambulance as the concertina effect of Fiesta man's slow down came in to full effect.
I waved at him to get a move on and he stopped! He started to gesticulate that there was an ambulance coming from behind. He couldn't hear me but I still shouted I know there's a fucking ambulance that why I pulled in. You don't need to stop!
Just for clarity, there are no left turns off that dual carriageway for at least half a mile, so the ambulance was going nowhere other than straight on. The ambulance passed unhindered and Fiesta man took off after it. I caught the Fiesta at the next traffic lights and the driver was an overweight middle aged man - he should have known better.
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Post by Tim on Jun 9, 2017 8:44:06 GMT
People always seem to go into dummy mode when faced with the emergency services. I was caught by an ambulance last summer, the cars on my side of the road slowed to let it past as did the cars coming the other way when the sensible option for them was to keep going . Instead they effectively made a chicane for the ambulance to navigate through.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jun 9, 2017 9:34:10 GMT
People always seem to go into dummy mode when faced with the emergency services. I was caught by an ambulance last summer, the cars on my side of the road slowed to let it past as did the cars coming the other way when the sensible option for them was to keep going . Instead they effectively made a chicane for the ambulance to navigate through. Sensible. There's your problem, right there!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 9, 2017 11:44:01 GMT
On the flip side of that, as a blue light driver*, there are plenty who simply refuse to slow down, just moving left. That makes it much harder to clear traffic, as it takes longer. Combine that with oncoming cars that don't feel they should slow down or move over and it can get quite frustrating.
*well, I was, but my grade expired and since I last did the driving assessment the job has massively cut back on driver training. I'm now in a role that doesn't need to attend grade 1 emergencies. Although they still send us anyway...!
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Post by johnc on Jun 9, 2017 12:32:58 GMT
Combine that with oncoming cars that don't feel they should slow down or move over and it can get quite frustrating. I fully understand that but it was a dual carriageway so hopefully, no oncoming traffic and a whole lane to himself. I think Fiesta man needs to realise that he has to adapt his actions to his surroundings and the specific circumstances - he could easily have caused a pile up behind me.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 10, 2017 22:53:09 GMT
Combine that with oncoming cars that don't feel they should slow down or move over and it can get quite frustrating. I fully understand that but it was a dual carriageway so hopefully, no oncoming traffic and a whole lane to himself. I think Fiesta man needs to realise that he has to adapt his actions to his surroundings and the specific circumstances - he could easily have caused a pile up behind me. True. People do stupid things when blue lights approach from behind. At least cars behind you didn't overtake when you slowed down. See that a fair bit.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2017 16:02:59 GMT
If I am in slow traffic and people are trying to turn in.out etc I try to let them. Traffic on the other side of the road being held up when it only costs a few seconds does not make sense but, people will still lean on their horn.
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Post by Tim on Jun 16, 2017 8:50:04 GMT
As usual I was in walking-pace traffic coming across the final part of the Tay Bridge this morning (courtesy of them closing off 1 lane on the 'mainland' while they do the plaza in front of the new V&A museum) but the old guy in the miniature Hyundai hatchback wasn't happy and at times it felt as if he was in the boot. It's really magnified when you're sitting so far back in the 370 while being tailgated by a shopping hatch with a very short bonnet. If' I'd braked at all sharply he would've hit me as he clearly wasn't possessed of fast reactions. Weirdly as soon as we got onto the exit slip of the bridge, which is also now restricted to 1 lane in anticipation of the V&A lane closure, he sat slightly further back and didn't sharply close the gap as I dawdled down to a red light at the bottom of the sliproad. I assume he had been keeping the gap tight earlier to stop any right lane optimists from diving in at the last minute
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 9:09:51 GMT
People who won't fuck off out of the overtaking lane, no matter what. I thought about undertaking a B- Class yesterday but thought better of it. Wish I had done, as no gap was too big for him to pull into, as he oscillated between 50 and 80 seemingly at random.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 14:30:09 GMT
Pedestrian crossing in town, 30 limit. I press button and spot two lorries bearing down on my location at way over the limit. First lorry just goes through the red light at about 50mph without braking, the second has to stand on the anchors so hard that the truck almost does an endo. Cunts, the pair of them.
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Post by Tim on Jun 16, 2017 15:15:49 GMT
It was a Meriva, just accept it?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 16:32:44 GMT
Pat must've realised he'd forgotten to feed Jess.
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Post by johnc on Jun 16, 2017 16:34:01 GMT
It was a Meriva, just accept it? Having had a Meriva hire car one year on holiday, I am seriously impressed that it managed to do 85mph!
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Post by Alex on Jun 16, 2017 19:50:33 GMT
People who won't fuck off out of the overtaking lane, no matter what. I thought about undertaking a B- Class yesterday but thought better of it. Wish I had done, as no gap was too big for him to pull into, as he oscillated between 50 and 80 seemingly at random. There was a GLA class on the A24 this afternoon doing the same. Dawdling along at 40mph whilst the left lane was completely empty save for the odd frustrated car from the kind of traffic behind that gave up flashing their lights and undertook.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 8:56:18 GMT
Thought I recognised you...
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Post by johnc on Jun 19, 2017 9:42:54 GMT
From the weekend: following a i10 in a queue of slow traffic along A roads, through a couple of towns and eventually to a NSL Dual Carriageway.
At every set of lights, only after the cars in front of him had moved away, did he engage brain, engage gear, release handbrake and make some effort to bridge the 50yd gap before the next roundabout or set of lights. I seriously contemplated blasting past him on more than one occasion. I noticed he had front and rear facing cameras and a small sticker in the back window (which no doubt said prat driving to deliberately wind you up)
When we eventually got to the queue at the lights on to the dual carriageway I felt a sense of relief that I could finally get passed this irritation but he just made even more of an effort to piss everyone off - when the traffic moved off he had a 2 or 3 second delay before he even engaged brain and then he played with the throttle with a feather. We got exactly what I expected from such a prick - he sailed through the lights on amber and I had to stop. The guy behind in his A6 nearly hit me because he was all for going through the now red light. I will now be on camera somewhere with a few hand gesticulations.
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Post by Tim on Jun 19, 2017 11:40:24 GMT
I followed a previous shape Mazda 6 for about 3 miles yesterday. We never went above 50, there was constant dabbing of the brakes and when we finally got into town a complete reluctance to go past a line of parked cars when something was coming the other way.
However, this very cautious driver was extremely lucky to make it to the town as she had decided to overtake a bicycle a VERY short distance before a blind, slightly cresting but fast (70mph) right hander. Being a cautious driver they gave the cyclist the full width of the lane to pass. They were extremely lucky that the inevitable car coming the other way was being driven quite slowly and by the time it appeared they were starting to go back to their own side of the road. If they had waited a couple of seconds they could've passed on the corner where there is a lane for oncoming traffic to turn into a junction.
When they turned off in town I saw the driver was a 40(ish) year old woman, not some pensioner as I had suspected. She may have had children in the car.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jun 19, 2017 12:54:04 GMT
I followed a previous shape Mazda 6 for about 3 miles yesterday. We never went above 50, there was constant dabbing of the brakes and when we finally got into town a complete reluctance to go past a line of parked cars when something was coming the other way. However, this very cautious driver was extremely lucky to make it to the town as she had decided to overtake a bicycle a VERY short distance before a blind, slightly cresting but fast (70mph) right hander. Being a cautious driver they gave the cyclist the full width of the lane to pass. They were extremely lucky that the inevitable car coming the other way was being driven quite slowly and by the time it appeared they were starting to go back to their own side of the road. If they had waited a couple of seconds they could've passed on the corner where there is a lane for oncoming traffic to turn into a junction. When they turned off in town I saw the driver was a 40(ish) year old woman, not some pensioner as I had suspected. She may have had children in the car. My sister visited on election day in her new Mazda6 (*) - it's a lot bigger than I had thought, so perhaps poor spatial awareness played a part with your lady?
* The last timeI saw my sister was at hers just before Christmas - I didn't even know she and her hubby had swapped their previous Mondeo for this!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 13:39:08 GMT
How could there have been a car coming the other way on a 70mph road? Surely that speed limit is reserved for motorways and dual carriageways?
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Post by Boxer6 on Jun 19, 2017 15:42:00 GMT
How could there have been a car coming the other way on a 70mph road? Surely that speed limit is reserved for motorways and dual carriageways? Damn, missed that!
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