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Post by Alex on Mar 28, 2017 18:39:25 GMT
Don't you just hate being stuck behind a dawdled who holds up a long line of traffic by doing 35 in 60 limit for several miles only for them to get to a roundabout and sneak onto it just before a long line of 20 cars come from the right  |
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Post by Boxer6 on Mar 28, 2017 19:28:07 GMT
Don't you just hate being stuck behind a dawdled who holds up a long line of traffic by doing 35 in 60 limit for several miles only for them to get to a roundabout and sneak onto it just before a long line of 20 cars come from the right Yes, I do. Don't do it again!!  |
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 28, 2017 19:46:57 GMT
Judiciously edited footage so you don't get to see how dashcam man pissed off Focus man... That is no justification for Focusman driving on the wrong side of the road, head-on into another car irrespective of his feelings at prior "treatment" on the roads by the other driver. We just have to accept, as someone once said, that on some days we are the statue and on other days, we are the pigeon |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 7:35:58 GMT
People who sit in the overtaking lane when there's nothing to their left, doubly so if dawdling. As someone did yesterday. I know undertaking is an offence, but it's sometimes an understandable one...
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Post by Tim on Mar 29, 2017 9:05:18 GMT
People who sit in the overtaking lane when there's nothing to their left, doubly so if dawdling. As someone did yesterday. I know undertaking is an offence, but it's sometimes an understandable one... Happens all the time on my commute - people turning right at the North end of the Tay Bridge get into the right lane as soon as they join the dual carriageway a mile before they even get on the bridge. The reverse regularly happens at night too.
Undertaking becomes the only option.
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Post by Martin on Mar 29, 2017 10:37:13 GMT
One of the few positives in the winter when commuting in the dark is that full LED wakes them up and makes a decent % of them move over. Not so effective in the daylight unfortunately.
Undertaking isn't the only option......
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Post by Boxer6 on Mar 29, 2017 10:51:21 GMT
People who sit in the overtaking lane when there's nothing to their left, doubly so if dawdling. As someone did yesterday. I know undertaking is an offence, but it's sometimes an understandable one... Can't find the link to hand right now, but under-taking isn't actually an offence! It does, of course, very much depend on circumstances of the event, but it is permitted in certain circumstances and if not committing any other offences. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 11:29:39 GMT
One of the few positives in the winter when commuting in the dark is that full LED wakes them up and makes a decent % of them move over. Not so effective in the daylight unfortunately. Undertaking isn't the only option...... It is on a dual carriageway, which is what I was referring to. I'd far rather that than try to tailgate or flash someone out of the way (which isn't what I am suggesting you are or would do!) |
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Post by Martin on Mar 29, 2017 12:12:02 GMT
I never get too close / tailgate, but I do flash after giving them what I thinks is more than a reasonable amount of time to move over.
The other options I was thinking of don't help with forward progress, but you could hang back and let him/her get on with it, or move over to the left hand lane and sit just behind their position, giving you loads of room in front. Doesn't help with forward progress, but I usually opt for moving over and trying to be patient. Doesn't always work exactly that way and I find myself slowly edging past.....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 13:06:11 GMT
I see what you mean, trying to gently point out the error of their ways. Some do take heed, others leave you with a choice between upcoming junction/narrowing of road and erm, a bootful...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 13:28:18 GMT
Re your signature pic - the A2 still looks like the future to me.
Picture one with an 13's powertrain... |
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 29, 2017 13:39:23 GMT
Don't you just hate being stuck behind a dawdled who holds up a long line of traffic by doing 35 in 60 limit for several miles only for them to get to a roundabout and sneak onto it just before a long line of 20 cars come from the right My pet hate at traffic lights, that. The dawdling imbecile, having left a large and growing gap between them and the cars that have swiftly moved away from the lights, sees the lights change to amber and suddenly remembers what the accelerator pedal is for. Leaving a fuming driver, very often me, stopped at a red light. It's downright inconsiderate. |
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Post by Martin on Mar 29, 2017 14:17:23 GMT
I see what you mean, trying to gently point out the error of their ways. Some do take heed, others leave you with a choice between upcoming junction/narrowing of road and erm, a bootful... Exactly! |
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 29, 2017 22:40:26 GMT
Having just turned right out of a T junction with a queue on the nearside and a box junction to keep the junction clear, I find this numpty jumping the queue so he can do the left turn into the road I have just come from:  This was the 4th complete nob within only 2 minutes of leaving work this evening. They came thick and fast. EDIT: I can pull images from the dashcam but couldn't be arsed, so apologies for the photo of a photo! |
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Post by Tim on Apr 6, 2017 13:35:48 GMT
One I saw last night: A Mk1 Mini in the left lane of the Tay Bridge never more than about 1/2 a cars length behind the car ahead of it. When we approached the roundabout at the end and were passing it I looked across and there at the wheel was an orange skinned blonde bimbo with gigantic eyebrows and a pout and she was looking down, presumably at her phone Idiot |
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Post by Alex on Apr 6, 2017 19:16:12 GMT
One I saw last night: A Mk1 Mini in the left lane of the Tay Bridge never more than about 1/2 a cars length behind the car ahead of it. When we approached the roundabout at the end and were passing it I looked across and there at the wheel was an orange skinned blonde bimbo with gigantic eyebrows and a pout and she was looking down, presumably at her phone Idiot I'm spending a few days north of the border next month and I'll be driving from Glasgow up to Aberdeen. I'm tempted to take a detour via Dundee and see if I can annoy you over the Tay Bridge! |
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Post by johnc on Apr 7, 2017 6:47:24 GMT
One I saw last night: A Mk1 Mini in the left lane of the Tay Bridge never more than about 1/2 a cars length behind the car ahead of it. When we approached the roundabout at the end and were passing it I looked across and there at the wheel was an orange skinned blonde bimbo with gigantic eyebrows and a pout and she was looking down, presumably at her phone Idiot I'm spending a few days north of the border next month and I'll be driving from Glasgow up to Aberdeen. I'm tempted to take a detour via Dundee and see if I can annoy you over the Tay Bridge! If you do, you'll just be one of many - every time I have been over the Tay Bridge I have experienced exactly what Tim describes. |
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Post by Tim on Apr 7, 2017 8:32:35 GMT
I'm spending a few days north of the border next month and I'll be driving from Glasgow up to Aberdeen. I'm tempted to take a detour via Dundee and see if I can annoy you over the Tay Bridge! If you do, you'll just be one of many - every time I have been over the Tay Bridge I have experienced exactly what Tim describes. 
Just sit at 50 in the right hand lane and stay there on the DC after the bridge, make sure you accelerate slowly up the hill on the first bit of the DC.
That'll do it
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 8:51:08 GMT
I saw the worst piece of driving I think I've ever seen last night - low sun meant I couldn't clock the number plate, because I'd have reported it otherwise.
We were walking into the village with 13th to play pool yesterday evening. Road used to be dual carriageway but never needed to be, so many years ago it was reduced to one lane, with a cycle lane and a series of parking bays along its 1/4 of a mile. The bays are never more than maybe ten cars or so long.
We were passed by a Mercedes CLC (which pulled in towards the end of one bay to take a phone call), and could hear two cars coming up behind us. The second was a cuntster in a white Mercedes A class, no idea what model, and he wasn't happy about the car in front's adherence to the 30 limit. So he lunged left across the cycle lane into the parking bay, accelerated and then barged in in front of the car he'd been following. He had about 3-4 feet spare between him and the parked CLC, and I think rather less between him and the car he had been following. He was so close to me that I felt the air moving as he went by.
I was, and still am, rather gobsmacked by it. I couldn't be sure that it was the same car, but a superficially identical A Class pulled out of the junction at the top of the hill about two minutes later - if it was, that makes it even worse - he didn't even have the non-excuse of needing to get anywhere in a hurry.
If you can get a ban for exceeding the limit by 30 on an otherwise deserted road, this deserves tarring and feathering.
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Post by Tim on Apr 10, 2017 9:51:43 GMT
MRs Tim managed a bit of villainy this morning by scraping the left front wheel against a kerb in a layby that she pulled into to drop me off near work. Her excuse was that she was watching the bus behind who didn't seem keen to stop |
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Post by johnc on Apr 10, 2017 17:42:39 GMT
Similar to Stu above, I turned left into a road tonight and found myself bonnet to bonnet with an Astra being driven down my side of the road towards me!
What was his problem? He didn't want to sit in the queue on his side of the road where most of them were going left and he wanted to go right. I hit the brakes and gave him a "what the f" look, to which I received a perfectly lip readable "f*ck off you wanker" back. He then nearly took the front of my car off as he squeezed between me and the traffic on his side of the road with lots of revs and noise. Castration would at least stop him making any more mini me's. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 17:53:17 GMT
There seems to be an annoying amount of drivers about who accelerate at the same rate as a glacier. There's a junction on my way to work where people are happy to pull out in front of cars doing 60 mph and then spend the next 4 miles getting up to about 45 mph while everyone else wanting to do 60 forms a fucking massive queue behind them. Get the bus, you blind, no-strength-in your-right-leg twats!
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Post by Martin on Apr 10, 2017 18:49:08 GMT
An ABT badged RS7 was having a bit of a race with a power ranger on the M1. The way the Audi accelerated from 80-light speed was pretty incredible (but highly illegal) which looked like it caught the biker out a bit, who then decided to undertake at the point when the Audi was closing very quickly on the van in the middle lane. He made it, but I couldn't look.
Another villain, this time at a much lower speed, was a precious shape smart, who thought it was OK to move sharply over into the right hand lane (causing me to brake) when he wasn't turning right for over 2 miles because he used his indicator. I didn't have anyone behind me, so there was no need to cut me up. I managed to stay calm and sit behind him. The sticker in the rear window said 'smart arse'......complete arse would have been more appropriate.
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Post by Tim on Apr 11, 2017 9:03:23 GMT
There seems to be an annoying amount of drivers about who accelerate at the same rate as a glacier. There's a junction on my way to work where people are happy to pull out in front of cars doing 60 mph and then spend the next 4 miles getting up to about 45 mph while everyone else wanting to do 60 forms a fucking massive queue behind them. Get the bus, you blind, no-strength-in your-right-leg twats! 2 Jag XFs did that to me at the weekend. Even my Dad was cursing them. I was half expecting a flash of the lights from them when I overtook.
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Post by franki68 on Apr 11, 2017 15:04:55 GMT
Just driving back on the m6 from manchester ,bloke pulls alongside in jag xk convertible...and I was doing around 75ish ..he's shaving with an electric razor.
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Post by Tim on Apr 11, 2017 15:19:20 GMT
I feel recently that I've witnessed an increasing number of people crossing the roads in really stupid places, especially near roundabouts. The latest was on Sunday in St Andrews. As you come into the town there's a mini-roundabout (where you turn right to go to the bus station). None of the roads to/from it have a traffic island yet there on the westbound part - where the road is a generous 4 lanes wide - was a couple with a pushchair waiting in the middle to cross. They were probably only 5 yards off the roundabout and about 100 yards from a pedestrian crossing. The car that stopped to let them across still had its rear end on the roundabout  Dummies like that should have their kids taken off them. |
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 12, 2017 7:35:04 GMT
This morning, every driver I saw bar 2 seem to have forgotten what the blinky orange things on the corners are for! The exceptions being a bus driver wanting out of the stop and the driver of a VW California who, after 3 unsignalled lane changes on the M80, let me know he was going right round the roundabout . . from the LEFT lane!! |
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Post by ChrisM on Apr 12, 2017 20:41:36 GMT
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Just think, it's some poor sod's job to fit the indicators to BMWs at the factory.......
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 16:07:04 GMT
My local Shell is on a dual carriageway, no slip road. So you don't fuck about. But every now and again, as just happened, fuckwits queue stupidly, leaving big gaps, and aim for the pump they prefer rather than taking what's there - causing the queue to back up onto the road. Stupid, stupid cunts. Ended up having to shuffle back and forth a bit to get past white van man, to find that half the forecourt was actually empty.
I don't suffer fools gladly, but when they are dangerous fools...
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Post by Roadsterstu on Apr 13, 2017 20:22:49 GMT
Not normally travelling at 60mph on motorways, I can't say it's ever really dawned on me how utterly incapable a large portion of the UK population seem to be at assessing closing speed (if there is indeed one), making a judgement and then sticking to it - on numerous occasions I had vehicles with more than enough space to pull in front of me dilly...then dally...then dilly again by which time I've needlessly slowed down to 50, flashed my headlights (it really is okay to pull out... just do it FFS) only to find them then either slow further or lurch in front of me at 45mph, put their foot down and disappear whilst I've then got to get back up to speed. Normally I'd pull into the middle lane at the hint of cars coming from a slip road, not so friendly with 1.2t of shed on the back. Perhaps I should just carry on and let people come to a halt on slip roads if necessary! This was where I demonstrated the combination of tuned D5 and smallish caravan could accelerate to some quite indecent speeds for very brief periods! |
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