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Post by ChrisM on Oct 13, 2019 21:29:32 GMT
Waiting to cross the road at traffic lights outside my hotel in Berlin in the morning.....
Silver car driven by silver-haired driver with 2 poodles inside, one on his lap, and the other he was actually holding and cuddling/stroking as he turned right. Scarcely believable
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Post by johnc on Oct 16, 2019 7:51:46 GMT
I think we used to have a thread for good baddies but I couldn't find it. Last night on the way home from seeing a client, I was on a 30mph piece of dual carriageway in the inside lane. I entered a roundabout to go straight on, when two girls (in a Peugeot 206 with only one tail light) came flying up the outside. They got held up slightly as we went round the roundabout but as they got to the same exit as me, they cut straight across into the inside lane just about taking the front off my car. They got both horn and full beam as I hit the brakes. However to give the driver her dues, she put a hand up to apologise and flashed her hazards followed by another wave of apology. At least I got the feeling that she learned something and might not do it again although it didn't slow her down much as she disappeared at speed limit + about 10mph through the rest of the 30mph and then 40mph stretches.
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Post by johnc on Oct 17, 2019 6:36:13 GMT
Dashcam warrior last night (which I could see placed nicely below his rear view mirror to minimise forward visibility) who was so righteous that he believed the outside lane of a dual carriageway belonged to him for 5 miles (despite nothing in the inside lane) before he indicated left 100yds before his junction and basically did a left turn across two lanes. Was he trying to provoke an undertake? What an annoying moron. I so wanted James Bond machine guns on the front of the car.
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Post by Tim on Oct 17, 2019 8:22:21 GMT
Was he trying to provoke an undertake? 100% this.
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Post by johnc on Oct 17, 2019 8:58:35 GMT
Was he trying to provoke an undertake? 100% this. Is that punishable as incitement? I was sorely tempted because the road was nearly empty and he was 5mph below the limit the whole way. I waited a mile before I flashed my headlights but that made no difference either other than raise my blood pressure.
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Post by scouse on Oct 17, 2019 9:32:26 GMT
Coming down the M6 the other night around 8pm. Did the last mile or so before my junction in the inside lane at no more than 70mph. Must have over(under?)taken at least 5 cars who were doing less than 70 in the middle lane. So was it me who was wrong or them? Technically I know it was me.
Also the old fart in a Jaguar X-type on Sunday morning who I got stuck behind for several miles who got left behind by both a van with a motorbike trailer and a bloody dobbin-box.
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Post by Tim on Oct 17, 2019 9:56:43 GMT
Is that punishable as incitement? I was sorely tempted because the road was nearly empty and he was 5mph below the limit the whole way. I waited a mile before I flashed my headlights but that made no difference either other than raise my blood pressure. I wouldnt've been so patient. I flash, wait a few seconds and if no reaction pull left, wait a couple more seconds as sometimes this makes them shift and then go past and continue along in the left lane.
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Post by johnc on Oct 17, 2019 17:16:08 GMT
I wouldnt've been so patient. I flash, wait a few seconds and if no reaction pull left, wait a couple more seconds as sometimes this makes them shift and then go past and continue along in the left lane. I was very aware of his camera and what I was sure were deliberate actions. I did arrive behind him quite quickly (and left a good gap) but then I like to accelerate hard out of roundabouts that lead onto dual carriageways whereas he was still stirring for 3rd gear by the time I was approaching him at 70.
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Post by Tim on Oct 18, 2019 8:10:05 GMT
I think if you go past someone in the left lane and stay there you should be ok.
As for his camera, if he chose to report you then he should also drop himself in it for traffic laws that are designed to prevent lane hoggers.
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Post by Tim on Oct 18, 2019 8:14:26 GMT
On the subject of motorways and lane discipline how the hell do those of you in the South manage the sheer frustration of sitting on a 4 lane motorway, seeing lanes 1 and 2 practically deserted, a 60mph queue in lane 3 and the outside lane doing 65-70?
I suffered that for 50 miles and wanted to scream, I couldn't do it everyday.
Perhaps it was made worse by having just driven across central Europe where lane discipline is far superior with seemingly everyone in a rush to get to the slow lane ASAP, even if they're doing well over 100 on the Autobahn.
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Post by Alex on Oct 18, 2019 9:10:44 GMT
On the subject of motorways and lane discipline how the hell do those of you in the South manage the sheer frustration of sitting on a 4 lane motorway, seeing lanes 1 and 2 practically deserted, a 60mph queue in lane 3 and the outside lane doing 65-70? I suffered that for 50 miles and wanted to scream, I couldn't do it everyday. Perhaps it was made worse by having just driven across central Europe where lane discipline is far superior with seemingly everyone in a rush to get to the slow lane ASAP, even if they're doing well over 100 on the Autobahn. Simple, just sit in lane 1 at 75 and enjoy making progress on an empty bit of motorway! It's a fair observation and makes an utter mockery of all the costs and disruption caused when they widened the road.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2019 11:29:51 GMT
I asked thie question from the official "Ask the police" site and got this wonderful reply.
Classification: OFFICIAL
Mike,
In our response we stated what the current legal position is with regard to overtaking on the left. If you overtake a slower moving vehicle on a motorway on the left in circumstances other than those given in rule 268 of the Highway Code, you could be prosecuted for careless driving.
We hope this information is of use.
Regards,
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However, rule 268 makes this a little clearer than the original link to the section did. Links, wonderful when the page has not been superceded etc.
Rule 268
Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake.
(CS)
Workable.
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Post by ChrisM on Oct 18, 2019 12:34:24 GMT
On the subject of motorways and lane discipline how the hell do those of you in the South manage the sheer frustration of sitting on a 4 lane motorway, seeing lanes 1 and 2 practically deserted, a 60mph queue in lane 3 and the outside lane doing 65-70? Easy - just set the CC to about 65 and stay in the left-most lane for most of the time. Lane discipline in this country has plunged to new depths. The "middle lane hoggers" seem to occupy lane 3 of 4 on many occasions, and that can really cause huge mobile bottlenecks out of peak hours.
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Post by Boxer6 on Oct 18, 2019 12:49:48 GMT
On the subject of motorways and lane discipline how the hell do those of you in the South manage the sheer frustration of sitting on a 4 lane motorway, seeing lanes 1 and 2 practically deserted, a 60mph queue in lane 3 and the outside lane doing 65-70? Easy - just set the CC to about 65 and stay in the left-most lane for most of the time. Lane discipline in this country has plunged to new depths. The "middle lane hoggers" seem to occupy lane 3 of 4 on many occasions, and that can really cause huge mobile bottlenecks out of peak hours. Yes, that "middle lane hogger" law is working well, isn't it?
Proper villain this morning was the (unidentified) wankstain in an Evoque who decided NOT to pull into the gap on his/her side of the road, but instead drove straight at me. Quite how we missed hitting I don't know - I did have time to give them "the finger" though, so I felt a teeny bit better for that.
Cunt.
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Post by Tim on Oct 18, 2019 13:00:51 GMT
Do you think they looked up from their phone for long enough to notice your gesture?
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 19, 2019 12:02:38 GMT
Muppetry in the M6 50 average speed limits yesterday, on the way to Blackpool and back. Cruise set at an indicated 52mph and it seems some people just cannot maintain a set speed. Worst was a tit in a 307 who I came across in the NSL section, middle lane, at under 70. I was doing an indicated 72 on cruise control and caught up with it. Moved to lane 3 to pass, got just slightly ahead and its driver then speeds up slightly, preventing me from finishing the overtake. Eventually enough gap cleared and I moved across the front of it and over into lane 1, only for the numpty to then accelerate past. Then slow again further ahead. This went on for miles and at one point it sat off my offside rear corner for ages, just sat there. Then there was another tosser in the single lane 50 section with their full beam stuck on and no amount of flashing my rear fog light made them dip the lights. We went for ages with the glare in my mirrors and no left lane to move into to let them pass.
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Post by johnc on Oct 24, 2019 16:20:58 GMT
I had to sit in about a mile of stop start traffic to get on to the M8 this afternoon and about 3 cars ahead was a yellow Jeep: all the traffic would come to a stop, stop/start would kick in and then Mr Jeep would saunter forward another 50 ft before stopping properly causing all the cars behind to start up again and crawl forward. I pulled out as far as I could to see why this was happening but it was unfathomable - Mr Jeep would let all the traffic move away in front of him until there was about 10 cars gap at which point he would speed up behind the cars in front and stop (even though they were still moving slowly) and he would sit there again until another big gap appeared. Meanwhile everyone behind was stop/starting to delirium!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Nov 4, 2019 0:32:31 GMT
I had to sit in about a mile of stop start traffic to get on to the M8 this afternoon and about 3 cars ahead was a yellow Jeep: all the traffic would come to a stop, stop/start would kick in and then Mr Jeep would saunter forward another 50 ft before stopping properly causing all the cars behind to start up again and crawl forward. I pulled out as far as I could to see why this was happening but it was unfathomable - Mr Jeep would let all the traffic move away in front of him until there was about 10 cars gap at which point he would speed up behind the cars in front and stop (even though they were still moving slowly) and he would sit there again until another big gap appeared. Meanwhile everyone behind was stop/starting to delirium! Had I been immediately behind him I would have overtaken him. What a weirdo.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2019 17:12:11 GMT
Nobody told me it was National Pull Out in Front of Someone Day today. Fuck me!
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Post by johnc on Nov 6, 2019 17:31:40 GMT
Nobody told me it was National Pull Out in Front of Someone Day today. Fuck me! We had that day in Glasgow yesterday led by a Clio driving learner.
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Post by Roadrunner on Nov 6, 2019 18:20:25 GMT
Nobody told me it was National Pull Out in Front of Someone Day today. Fuck me! It was National Swerve Across the Road Towards Oncomming Traffic Day in Devon today. At least one of them was on the phone.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Nov 7, 2019 12:38:27 GMT
Nobody told me it was National Pull Out in Front of Someone Day today. Fuck me! Different areas hold it on different days. Ours was one day last week.
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Post by Tim on Nov 8, 2019 9:20:56 GMT
Someone in a white Evoque who was absolutely not prepared to overtake a tractor (and a particularly slow one at that) despite there being a couple of decent length straights they could've gone on. As usual though, as soon as the tractor finally turned off they disappeared into the distance at high speed.
Just after I set off home last night, when I was in lane 3 to join the Tay Bridge, a Zafira driving tool indicated right from lane 2 and just filtered in, despite me being in the way. A blast of the horn elicited a rude gesture as clearly I simply wasn't meant to be on their bit of the road. They then hogged the right lane of the Tay Bridge (1 mile) and the same for the next section of dual carriageway (another mile), at less than the speed limit, because they were turning right at the end of it. Wanker.
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Post by Boxer6 on Nov 8, 2019 9:41:35 GMT
Nobody told me it was National Pull Out in Front of Someone Day today. Fuck me! We had that day in Glasgow yesterday led by a Clio driving learner. Nobody told me it was National Pull Out in Front of Someone Day today. Fuck me! It was National Swerve Across the Road Towards Oncomming Traffic Day in Devon today. At least one of them was on the phone. Last night was "Walk Out In the Middle of the Road in BLACK CLOTHES, IN THE DARK" on every road and street before I could get to the motorway.
Honestly, either people have a death wish, don't know they're almost impossible to see or, as happened a couple of time, seem to believe that putting a hand up in a sort of 'warding off' gesture really will stop a ton & a bit of car from squishing them into a soft, gooey pulp.
Morons, all of them.
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Post by Boxer6 on Nov 8, 2019 15:21:39 GMT
Q3 who decided to turn left from a right-only lane, right across the front of an accelerating - then sharply braking - 'My Bus'. Not the biggest bus out there, but certainly large enough to smash-in a mid-sized Audi!! Possil Cross, which isn't the most salubrious of areas in our fair city!
Followed later by a bint on one of the hireable city bikes polluting Glasgow now; no idea of road sense or direction, seemed to think weaving all over the single-laned road (exiting from Cowcaddens Subway, for those who know it) was quite acceptable, or tending to the right-hand side of the road when she could keep it in a straight line! Less than 2 feet from the parked cars. No crash helmet either, of course.
I want to go home .. .. ..
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Post by Tim on Nov 8, 2019 15:30:17 GMT
XXXXXX who decided to turn left from a right-only lane,
That's a common activity now. Recently I followed an oldish Astra coupe all the way along the Thornton bypass in the evening, the road was very quiet, he was in the right lane, me in the left. When we got to the end he swooped straight across to the sliproad to exit into Kirkcaldy. Why drive for those 3 miles and not move across? He wasn't holding anyone up but apart from me there was barely any other traffic.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Nov 8, 2019 16:33:28 GMT
Today's no nobber was the Golf driver, who, in negotiating a small flood mostly on their side of the road, decided not to wait for me to pass. Nor to slow down. The resulting tidal wave was so high I had to stop until I got something of a view back. Bloody muddy water all over the car, too. Inconsiderate prick.
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Post by Alex on Nov 8, 2019 18:33:19 GMT
I know it happens every year but now the clocks have gone back and I'm driving in the dark more it never ceases to amaze me how many drivers do not realise they only have one working headlight. I followed a Zafira earlier that as it came round the roundabout I noticed had one headlamp and as I followed behind saw it only had one tail light too. It's ok though because the driver had forgotten to turn their rear foglight off!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2019 20:09:19 GMT
Seeing far too many cars with fog lights on since it got dark. Some only have one working, which just demonstrates that they are habitual users in order to kill a bulb.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Nov 8, 2019 20:14:23 GMT
One bulb out is kind of excusable - it could have blown as the lights were put on or maybe the driver just hadn't had time to replace it that day or so. But I see loads with an entire side not working and I can only view that as negligent. The chances of dipped and sidelight bulbs going in the same light at the same time?
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