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Post by Tim on Jun 19, 2017 15:48:55 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?
Really? Of all the people to question that.....
You know what I mean. Although the road is a 60 limit the corner is such that you could easily go round it at 70, if you were that way inclined as many people are.
Ian it was a previous shape 6 on a 10 plate I think. The current one is enormous, I have a friend who has an estate version.
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Post by Alex on Jun 20, 2017 6:45:39 GMT
I had a close encounter with a Clio last night who had also come across a cyclist on a country road and thought it perfectly acceptable to overtake them around a blind left hander. Good job my brakes are strong. Also lucky for the cyclist that he noticed she was about to swerve back into him and braked hard too. How do some people pass their test?
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Post by Tim on Jun 20, 2017 8:51:58 GMT
I've noticed a lot more people who are happy to overtake approaching blind bends or crests recently. I presume its partly because there are now so many more cyclists on the road.
I should've mentioned in my earlier post that the Mazda woman had slowed right down behind the cyclist before deciding to carry out her stupid manoeuvre. Sometimes I wonder if people like that have been playing computer games too much and aren't conscious that real life doesn't have a 'start from last save point' option. It can't apply to all of them though.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 21, 2017 7:47:49 GMT
This warm weather certainly seems to bring out the twat in some people. Mind you, any kind of weather does that.
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Post by johnc on Jun 21, 2017 10:18:37 GMT
A guy in an XF this morning just being a pillock. I came on to my normal 40mph dual carriageway this morning behind the XF and he was only doing 30mph. There are two corners at the beginning of the road and he sat in the outside lane doing 30mph until we were round both corners. He then accelerated to high 30's and stayed in the outside lane despite the inside being totally clear. I moved to the left and he suddenly accelerated thinking I was going to go up his inside (which I wasn't). He then slowed down a bit and continued his occupation. A Mazda 6 came up behind me pretty quickly, overtook me and then pulled back to the left, presumably to undertake the XF who then took off like a scalded cat to stop the Mazda getting past. I left the two of them to it but they were doing well north of 50mph in a 40 limit which then changed to a 30 limit and they were still at it.
I'd love to know what the thought process was in Mr XF's head. He wasn't going right because he sailed past the main two right turns and the next one is about a mile down the road. He is no doubt the kind who causes a fight when there is no need for it.
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Post by Alex on Jun 21, 2017 11:50:20 GMT
He clearly took umbrage to the size of his manhood being put into question!
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Post by Boxer6 on Jun 22, 2017 6:05:21 GMT
A guy in an XF this morning just being a pillock. I came on to my normal 40mph dual carriageway this morning behind the XF and he was only doing 30mph. There are two corners at the beginning of the road and he sat in the outside lane doing 30mph until we were round both corners. He then accelerated to high 30's and stayed in the outside lane despite the inside being totally clear. I moved to the left and he suddenly accelerated thinking I was going to go up his inside (which I wasn't). He then slowed down a bit and continued his occupation. A Mazda 6 came up behind me pretty quickly, overtook me and then pulled back to the left, presumably to undertake the XF who then took off like a scalded cat to stop the Mazda getting past. I left the two of them to it but they were doing well north of 50mph in a 40 limit which then changed to a 30 limit and they were still at it.
I'd love to know what the thought process was in Mr XF's head. He wasn't going right because he sailed past the main two right turns and the next one is about a mile down the road. He is no doubt the kind who causes a fight when there is no need for it. I keep meaning to ask, as you have so many "moments" on this road - is it the Switchback? I can't think of any other road you'd use off-hand, unless you're talking about GWR itself.
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Post by johnc on Jun 22, 2017 7:52:22 GMT
I keep meaning to ask, as you have so many "moments" on this road - is it the Switchback? I can't think of any other road you'd use off-hand, unless you're talking about GWR itself. You're right Ian. I seem to spend my life on the Switchback, GWR and the Boulevard
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 14:33:50 GMT
Twat in a white Scirocco this morning. M1 slip road full and slow because of a low speed crash, so everyone queues. But this cunt decodes it's OK for him to go all the way around the outside of this single lane road to get in where he wants. That some people consider themselves so above others should warrant, if not instant death, then some sort of complicated, protracted and deeply embarrassing punishment. Like being made to wear a gimp suit for a year, complete with pool ball for the mouth like in Pulp Fiction...
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Post by johnc on Jul 1, 2017 9:06:52 GMT
Probably me this morning. Travelling along a 30mph 3 lane road in the middle lane because about 200 yds ahead the inside lane becomes a bus lane which is still active till 9.30am even on a Saturday (and it was 9.15). A private hire taxi was approaching me quite quickly from behind and I just thought he would sail past but no, he attached himself to my rear bumper and was less than a car's length off the back of my car. I was on cruise so just kept going. The bus lane goes all the way up a hill to a set of lights. There is then about 70 yds to another set of lights which are left turn only and no bus lane between the lights.
As we approached the first set of lights (on red) there were 2 or 3 cars stopped in the outside lane and nothing in lane 1 or 2, so just before the lights the taxi dived in to the inside lane (which becomes left turn only after the lights). We sat for 30 or 40 seconds until the lights changed and it became obvious that the taxi was going to undertake me and pull back into my lane before the next set of lights - it's just that his Passat was never going to be quicker than me and I left him stuck in the turn left lane with plenty of traffic behind me by that time to stop him getting out - he wasn't happy. Next time Mr Taxi don't sit so close for so long and try to intimidate me.
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Post by Alex on Jul 1, 2017 13:03:10 GMT
Good work, he probably sees you as the twat in this story but then some people just never learn.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2017 11:44:25 GMT
Minor annoyance, rather than all out villainy, but the woman over the road runs a child-minding service and there's a woman who brings her tiny child there to be minded while she presumably goes off to work. Every morning and evening she stands on the doorstep with her Citroen parked in the street two feet away and has a ten minute conversation with my neighbour. She always leaves the diesel engine running while this goes on, thus subjecting everyone in the area, including her less-than-two-years-old child, to her minging diesel fumes and the deeply unattractive London Cab soundtrack that comes with them.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 2, 2017 17:09:35 GMT
Minor annoyance, rather than all out villainy, but the woman over the road runs a child-minding service and there's a woman who brings her tiny child there to be minded while she presumably goes off to work. Every morning and evening she stands on the doorstep with her Citroen parked in the street two feet away and has a ten minute conversation with my neighbour. She always leaves the diesel engine running while this goes on, thus subjecting everyone in the area, including her less-than-two-years-old child, to her minging diesel fumes and the deeply unattractive London Cab soundtrack that comes with them. Once you've popped over and turned the engine off a couple of times she'll get the message!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 3, 2017 10:45:20 GMT
Report her to Ofsted*
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 8:05:52 GMT
Dangerous young fool in a Focus and hi-viz, lacking the patience to follow a lorry another 500 yards to a major roundabout. So when approaching a mini roundabout in a quiet and not brilliantly-sighted 30 he chose to go the wrong way around it and spend 100 yards on the wrong side of the road. Past the turn-off for a local kids' nursery. Cunt.
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Post by alf on Jul 11, 2017 11:09:01 GMT
Just (since I'm formatting the SD card in the dashcam) one recent example of the curse of the modern roads - people who just can't be arsed to give way, then wave their arms about and brake-test you in a total strop when you dare to take offence! (PS - I'll add the usual disclaimer that as the dashcam is ultra wide-angle things look a lot further away, and less dramatic, than they are!).
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Post by Tim on Jul 11, 2017 12:37:06 GMT
Possibly the worst piece of driving I've ever seen on Saturday. Just as I caught up with 2 cars the 2nd one decided to overtake. No problem there except he did it on a fast sweeping bend that also contains a crossroads (the house there has been hit often by cars) and that is followed about 200 yards later by a fast blind right hander. On the following straight I overtook the same car and sat behind the idiot who was making decent progress (in his Corsa 1.2). Over the next 5 miles or so there are 3 small villages and, as you'd expect, he wasn't going to obey the limit but was held up a little by other traffic. In this phase we were doing around 60 and he showed no inclination to overtake. After the 5 miles we joined a dual carriageway and Corsa boy decided 50 was now the correct speed Given his stupidity earlier I can only assume he'd either had a flash of reality and was in shock or, more likely, his phone had rung causing him to drive a little slower.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 12, 2017 15:59:47 GMT
Don't you just love being in the middle of a three-car overtake when, just ahead of you, the 2nd car decides to pull out and amble past the lead car? Check your mirrors, nob head.
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Post by Tim on Jul 13, 2017 13:16:07 GMT
That's one of those fears that goes through my head every time I go for a multi-car overtake.
If it happened past the point of no return I hope I'd have the presence of mind to pile into the back of the offending dawdler rather than swerve, probably into a field.
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Post by Martin on Jul 13, 2017 14:50:18 GMT
Two police cars this morning, a new XC90 being followed by an older XC70. I was slowing for the roundabout at the M1 junction and they came steaming up behind me and sat way too close to my rear bumper (no lights or sirens). We all followed a lorry down the sliproad pretty slowly (they didn't bother indicating on the roundabout) and I just couldn't resist dropping them as I joined the motorway.....just getting out of their way..... Backed off at 70 of course and they shortly came past and off they went bullying people out of the way.
I'm usually the first to spot a blue light and will always get quickly out of the way, but this wasn't the same.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 13, 2017 22:57:01 GMT
Two police cars this morning, a new XC90 being followed by an older XC70. I was slowing for the roundabout at the M1 junction and they came steaming up behind me and sat way too close to my rear bumper (no lights or sirens). We all followed a lorry down the sliproad pretty slowly (they didn't bother indicating on the roundabout) and I just couldn't resist dropping them as I joined the motorway.....just getting out of their way..... Backed off at 70 of course and they shortly came past and off they went bullying people out of the way. I'm usually the first to spot a blue light and will always get quickly out of the way, but this wasn't the same. No blue lights? Or with blue lights? Definitely police vehicles? The XC90 surprises me, to be honest, thought Volvo had given up on the police market and left it to BMW. EDIT: Re-read your post where it says no lights or sirens. What made them obviously police cars? I just ask as there's now several private companies with police-like activities but none of the accountability. And that XC90 seems rather odd, to be honest.
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Post by Martin on Jul 14, 2017 5:08:39 GMT
They were fully liveried, inc Police stickers. I was surprised at the XC90 too, not seen a Police one before.
Just googled it and there's an XC90 in the Volvo UK Emergency Services brochure.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 14, 2017 6:33:25 GMT
We get quite a few cars which appear to be fully-liveried police vehicles near my office on occasion, but which are, in fact, props for a TV comedy show! Even up close, they look pretty real, so it might be someone naughty has taken such things off-set . . .
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 14, 2017 8:06:49 GMT
I thought that not so long ago, Volvo UK set up a division to supply the emergency services with their vehicles? Ditto undertakers / funeral directors with special vehicles
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 14, 2017 10:10:23 GMT
They were fully liveried, inc Police stickers. I was surprised at the XC90 too, not seen a Police one before. Just googled it and there's an XC90 in the Volvo UK Emergency Services brochure. Maybe they were police (as in police operated) cars but it doesn't sound like it from the way they were being driven. I guess it cannot be ruled out but it could be they were being delivered/collected, were promotional vehicles or were film props. I Googled as well and see Volvo do have a police vehicle division. They are nowhere near as prominent as they once were when 850s and V70s were abundant. Maybe the newer cars will reverse that trend.
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Post by Tim on Jul 14, 2017 10:43:19 GMT
When the garage I worked at took on Mitsubishi we got the local plod Shoguns and Outlanders in. It was made VERY clear in the contract from plod that the cars had to be driven, er, respectfully if they had to be road tested, any other behaviour could result in the contract being cancelled immediately. The techs were reminded of this regularly and were actually not all that keen to service the vehicles in case they transgressed!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 17, 2017 13:36:22 GMT
Seems to be in increasing number of people leaving manual cars in neutral and then blaming "handbrake failure" at the moment. Quite frequent calls in to work about cars that rolled gently down a road and come to rest against another car, a wall, etc. Even my colleagues are at it - which is why I now have a scratched and misaligned front bumper and a damaged headlight, after a job car (itself a rental, oops) rolled 12 feet across our car park and found my car first. Bit of a pain but I know it will get sorted out. And said colleague is now having the piss taken mercilessly.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 18, 2017 11:59:45 GMT
UPS deliver driver, merrily driving through our estate on his mobile. I doubt the company doesn't fit Bluetooth but I suspect Merc Sprinters have it anyway.
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Post by LandieMark on Jul 18, 2017 12:35:52 GMT
Seems to be in increasing number of people leaving manual cars in neutral and then blaming "handbrake failure" at the moment. Quite frequent calls in to work about cars that rolled gently down a road and come to rest against another car, a wall, etc. Even my colleagues are at it - which is why I now have a scratched and misaligned front bumper and a damaged headlight, after a job car (itself a rental, oops) rolled 12 feet across our car park and found my car first. Bit of a pain but I know it will get sorted out. And said colleague is now having the piss taken mercilessly. That's a pain. Hope you get it sorted without too much hassle.
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Post by Tim on Jul 24, 2017 12:44:56 GMT
I'll hold my hand up straight away and state that I made this one worse but....
A week past Sunday we were heading up the A9 for a week away. You'll know that the A9 is now average speed camera controlled but if you spend a few miles behind a Tesco truck doing 50 you can have a bit of a run, including overtaking some of the queue to get up the road a bit.
So, there I was, car 3 in the line behind said truck when we got towards the end of a long straight and there was a clear bit. Car 1 was sitting back leaving a decent gap and I got into it without having to brake and definitely without him having to brake. Sadly the overtaking manoeuvre was a clear red rag to this 60 year old gent in his VW Eos (the folding metal roof version of the Mk4 (?) Golf) and he immediately closed right up to the back of my car.
I put up with this for a short while and then gently brake tested him (he was too close to be sharp about it). His immediate reaction was to pull out and overtake both me and the truck, despite us starting round a corner - one of those A9 corners where, in the old days, if you had momentum you could go for it knowing that if something came the other way you'd still have time to get passed. This guy didn't have momentum and passed me & the truck!
I really couldn't believe what I was seeing and clearly he had no concern for his wife and whoever may have been in the car.
Anyway I was stuck behind the truck for a while but a couple of miles up the road there was Eos boy standing next to his car gesturing for me to pull over! What an arse. I hope he finally has the courage to come out of the closet and all his pals desert him.
Further up I also saw an older gent in a Q5 do a ridiculous overtake on a caravan when you could clearly see a car approaching the other way - said car and caravan both had to brake because the dick in the Q5 (who had tailgated me through a roadworks section limited to 40mph) had obviously not pressed the throttle hard enough to trigger the kickdown. He was parked up 5 miles later standing having a slash at the side of the road while his wife was clearly heading for the driver seat.
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