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Post by LandieMark on Jan 20, 2021 20:24:29 GMT
Leaving the scene of an accident too, by the looks of it.
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Post by Alex on Jan 21, 2021 11:20:08 GMT
Also a good lesson to the driver of the red mpv that you should actually stop and look when you approach a T junction not just look right and keep moving.
Not that it in any way excuses the white van who I hope if he avoided crashing had a spare pair of pants to put on after. It's also a demonstration of the importance of driver training for companies who are sending staff out on the road and not just assuming that a driving licence is proof of competency.
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Post by johnc on Jan 22, 2021 7:30:12 GMT
Arsehole this morning who joined the dual carriageway from the roundabout exit before mine and went straight into the outside lane and stayed there doing 10mph less than the limit. It was 5.45am you moron, hardly another car to be seen and you still want to play the mobile roadblock. 3 miles later he was still there.
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Post by Martin on Jan 25, 2021 15:57:44 GMT
We went for a walk earlier and a guy was clearing snow (quite aggressively as it was frozen) fro the roof of a Clio....with a plastic ice scraper. Made me cringe.....
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Post by Roadsterstu on Feb 2, 2021 9:36:35 GMT
There's a traffic light controlled crossroads on my route to work where there seems to be an increasing propensity for HGV drivers coming off the industrial estate to disregard the amber-turning-to-red lights and who think that so long as the front bumper is over the line then it counts. Forgetting the 40 feet of vehicle behind them. This then chews up the traffic that then gets stuck as said HGV then makes the 90 degree left or right turn across traffic that is now stuck across a junction. There is a big well-known transport company on the same estate and I have yet to see one of their drivers do this (they always seem professional and courteous) but fuck me, some of the others just take the piss.
I might start sending dashcam footage to their offices.
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Post by Alex on Feb 2, 2021 14:06:33 GMT
Send it with a kind notice that you are a serving officer and may see about getting a patrol car out in future!
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 15, 2021 23:43:40 GMT
This evening, coming off the bottom end of the M11 onto the North Circular. Pass heavily modded red Astra VXR snoozing/lurking in the slow lane. Wide-boy wakes up and decides to re-pass me (undertake me) in quite literally a wall of ripping staccato exhaust note and literally flames shooting from the exhaust. My wife was NOT impressed.
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Post by johnc on Feb 16, 2021 8:59:56 GMT
I had my first run in with a Taycan on the way home last night. His headlights came flying up behind me and given their shape and the individual lights within each headlight, I reckoned it must be a Taycan. However he was a pushy tailgater, right up my backside but I had a cold engine and revving it when cold is a huge no for me. When I had passed the cars in front, I pulled back over and he went past like a rocket, disappearing considerably faster than he should have been going. The rear of the car was unbadged so I have no idea what version it was but it was white or just off white and very clean - perhaps a salesman or manager from the local Porsche emporium, taking the car home at night.
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Post by Alex on Feb 16, 2021 18:19:07 GMT
On the smart motorway section of the M25 in Kent this afternoon the speed limit was dropped to 50mph for some fictional debris scattered across the carriageway and some nobber in a white van with obligatory mobile generator bobbing along behind blasted past us all. At least he was able to demonstrate to us that those yellow speed guns mounted to the side of the gantrys do indeed work!
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 16, 2021 19:18:22 GMT
Older, lycra clad twat riding like he was in a time trial. taking all the road, making it impossible to get past (riding on the white line), cutting corners in the face of oncoming traffic and when a car slowed to go over the single file bridge, he actually attempted to go around it then thought better of it.
I hope he hits a patch of ice or a pothole.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 20:25:24 GMT
Lamp post perhaps?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2021 4:36:33 GMT
The police van looks great, with bright colors and speed it is very good to see Northumbia safer roads collaboration is best.
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Post by Martin on Feb 21, 2021 12:26:19 GMT
This picture would fit into one of the electric car threads, but it’s here for the selfish parking....I’m amazed someone hasn’t unplugged it! (Not my picture)
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Post by Boxer6 on Feb 21, 2021 13:57:01 GMT
This picture would fit into one of the electric car threads, but it’s here for the selfish parking....I’m amazed someone hasn’t unplugged it! (Not my picture) Is the gap to the right of the car a driveway or an alleyway? If the former, yeah park there ya muupet. If not, then it does highlight one of the major issues with adopting EV for the masses. (Not that I'm saying for a second that excuses anything!)
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Post by johnc on Feb 22, 2021 11:58:46 GMT
This picture would fit into one of the electric car threads, but it’s here for the selfish parking....I’m amazed someone hasn’t unplugged it! (Not my picture) You can't unplug them unless you have the key to open the car - they get locked in.
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Post by Martin on Feb 22, 2021 12:39:31 GMT
This picture would fit into one of the electric car threads, but it’s here for the selfish parking....I’m amazed someone hasn’t unplugged it! (Not my picture) You can't unplug them unless you have the key to open the car - they get locked in. Yes, I should have said ripped it from the car!
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Post by Alex on Feb 22, 2021 21:50:02 GMT
Garden sheers should do it!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 11:53:06 GMT
Careful though, shocking things could happen.
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Post by Alex on Mar 1, 2021 22:57:06 GMT
Driving back from Bicester on a reasonably quiet M40 a black new shape C class appeared behind and closed in quite quickly. It shot past at what was easily north of 100 leptons. 10mins later the same Merc was on the hard shoulder having been lit up by an unmarked 3 series. I don't think I was the only one laughing as I passed them!
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 4, 2021 20:33:31 GMT
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 4, 2021 21:29:25 GMT
That's dreadful. Poor innocents in the 911, as well as the 911 itself
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Post by Alex on Mar 4, 2021 23:50:16 GMT
What an utter prick. Far too lenient a sentence if you ask me (which you didn't). I'm not so upset by the suspended sentence as at least he's doing community service, its the 2 year driving ban that pisses me off. Surely someone who takes to the road with their car in such dangerous condition should be banned for at least 5 years. Might make them realise their licence is a privilege not a right.
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Post by Tim on Mar 5, 2021 8:43:33 GMT
I was surprised by the plod's comment "PC Ian Swales said: "It is almost beyond belief that Pasat decided to set off for work without being able to see in front of him when driving."
I hope its for effect because otherwise it implies he's unaware that a huge number of other motorists head off before their screen is clear.
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Post by johnc on Mar 5, 2021 10:36:40 GMT
At a house down the road from me there is, how do i put it, an unbelievably attractive woman, who drives a black Audi A5 coupe. On Monday or Tuesday morning when it was frosty, I passed her in her car which was sitting outside her house with the engine and lights on and the wipers going on a totally opaque windscreen. As I drove past I thought that she would be there for a while but no, as soon as I was past she started to pull away. When we got to the junction at the bottom of the road, she had a small head sized clearing to see through. She followed me for a few miles by which time her screen was clear and then she overtook me and disappeared when we got to the 40mph dual carriageway....and I was doing 40mph!
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Post by johnc on Mar 5, 2021 10:37:59 GMT
I was surprised by the plod's comment "PC Ian Swales said: "It is almost beyond belief that Pasat decided to set off for work without being able to see in front of him when driving."I hope its for effect because otherwise it implies he's unaware that a huge number of other motorists head off before their screen is clear. They do love to make it sound melodramatic. It wasn't beyond belief, it was just stupid.
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 5, 2021 10:44:40 GMT
I remember the problem I had in one of my old Series 2a Land Rovers was the screen continuing to freeze up, even on the inside, as I drove. The Smiths 'fug stirrer' heater was neither use nor ornament.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 8, 2021 13:16:44 GMT
Driving in to work this morning and it was clear the schools are starting back, just from the type of traffic and the standard of driving. Plus it added over 10 minutes to the journey just this morning, which will no doubt increase as more year groups return.
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Post by rodge on Apr 15, 2021 1:35:34 GMT
Driving into San Francisco this afternoon, traffic was moving at 70 in my lane, the second to the outside (carpool) lane, other lanes were moving slower. A very new looking Dodge Challenger came flying down the carpool lane and I heard and saw it, it then swerved in front of me missing my car by inches, and into the lane beside me, missing that car by inches, and causing it to brake hard almost causing a crash.
Then an M4 came flying up behind it, also swerving but got stuck in traffic. I heard the Challenger rev off into the distance, easily doing close to 100 mph, we went around a long left hand bend and about 1/4 of a mile from where the car had almost caused a crash involving me, there was glass everywhere and a stink of hot rubber, along with a cloud of smoke. There bits of whit car all over the place, wing mirrors and trim and I said to my passenger that the challenger had crashed.
Indeed he had. Ploughed into a box truck and bounced into another, demolishing the front of the car. Airbags all deployed. The driver was moving in the car. We called emergency services and kept going as others had stopped.
The driver had to be on something as he was taking stupid risks. Thankfully nobody else was injured.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 7:27:50 GMT
I had a similar experience in roadworks, I allowed a little space for a van in the next lane to merge, a nutter in a LR product dived into the non existent space, I had to swerve and brake to avoid him. Not moving that quick but the bastard gave a jaunty little wave. Bastard, I hope his testicles shrink.
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