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Post by Tim on Jul 1, 2021 7:49:51 GMT
I'm feeling a bit paranoid. On Tuesday and then again last night I had cars simply pull across on me as I was coming alongside. The Tuesday one was a badly driven Astra that I'd followed and passed a few times and then re-passed all the way from Dundee to Aberdeen and the incident happened at 73mph (cruise control on the A90 due to average speed cameras!). If I hadn't braked hard they would've hit me. Last night's was in the local town and a blast of the horn sorted it.
Is it my fault for being in a BMW, even thought the 2nd time it was the shed?
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 1, 2021 11:54:53 GMT
I'm feeling a bit paranoid. On Tuesday and then again last night I had cars simply pull across on me as I was coming alongside. The Tuesday one was a badly driven Astra that I'd followed and passed a few times and then re-passed all the way from Dundee to Aberdeen and the incident happened at 73mph (cruise control on the A90 due to average speed cameras!). If I hadn't braked hard they would've hit me. Last night's was in the local town and a blast of the horn sorted it. Is it my fault for being in a BMW, even thought the 2nd time it was the shed? I couldn't possibly comment! To be fair, it's more your fault for driving to Aberdeen - who DOES that?!?! (Actually, I only escaped that hideous fate the other weekend because SWMBO decided the Borders was more affordable, plus neither of us had spent much time there before).
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Post by Tim on Jul 1, 2021 12:59:51 GMT
We have an office in Aberdeen now and I have a shiny new assistant so I feel I should occasionally go and visit. Plus I get taken out for lunch The 2nd one was in Cupar, maybe people in white 13 plate Fiestas think they're better than 2003 BMs?
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Post by johnc on Jul 1, 2021 15:04:56 GMT
I had an unexpected detour yesterday after nearly getting taken out by an artic - I was heading out the M8 (5 lane section) and was in the lane that goes to the M74 with a lorry (that I was overtaking) in the lane that goes to the old A8 which is the lane I was going to get in when I passed him. He obviously realised very late that he wanted the M8 to Edinburgh and just pulled out and crossed two lanes, pushing me on to the M8 as I did some heavy braking to avoid being the filling in a lorry sandwich. I had to go 4 or 5 miles up the M8 to get back off and double back for the A8. I came alongside the lorry to give him the WTF look but he just stared ahead.
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Post by Roadrunner on Jul 1, 2021 15:33:15 GMT
I had an unexpected detour yesterday after nearly getting taken out by an artic - I was heading out the M8 (5 lane section) and was in the lane that goes to the M74 with a lorry (that I was overtaking) in the lane that goes to the old A8 which is the lane I was going to get in when I passed him. He obviously realised very late that he wanted the M8 to Edinburgh and just pulled out and crossed two lanes, pushing me on to the M8 as I did some heavy braking to avoid being the filling in a lorry sandwich. I had to go 4 or 5 miles up the M8 to get back off and double back for the A8. I came alongside the lorry to give him the WTF look but he just stared ahead. I think it was 'national leave it until the last second before pulling across day' yesterday. I had a trip down to Kent and saw this sort of behaviour at several junctions. There was one woman who left it so late she eventually had to bail out to avoid a pile up.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 1, 2021 15:51:59 GMT
I had an unexpected detour yesterday after nearly getting taken out by an artic - I was heading out the M8 (5 lane section) and was in the lane that goes to the M74 with a lorry (that I was overtaking) in the lane that goes to the old A8 which is the lane I was going to get in when I passed him. He obviously realised very late that he wanted the M8 to Edinburgh and just pulled out and crossed two lanes, pushing me on to the M8 as I did some heavy braking to avoid being the filling in a lorry sandwich. I had to go 4 or 5 miles up the M8 to get back off and double back for the A8. I came alongside the lorry to give him the WTF look but he just stared ahead. I think it was 'national leave it until the last second before pulling across day' yesterday. I had a trip down to Kent and saw this sort of behaviour at several junctions. There was one woman who left it so late she eventually had to bail out to avoid a pile up. AKA, "I am a massive cvnt" day!
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Post by johnc on Jul 16, 2021 8:16:13 GMT
I was slowing for a red light this morning with a motorbike doing the same ahead of me. The lights changed to green before we stopped and we both started to accelerate. The biker suddenly looked right and swerved left a bit and as I looked to see what was happening a woman in her 50's came straight through the red light to our right, at speed and thankfully turned left. Given the fact that our light was at green when the bike was maybe 40 or 50ft away, either the woman is blind, stupid or both! Poor biker certainly got a fright.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 14:14:11 GMT
I might be partly at fault if you give pedestrians a few seconds to cross the road. At the local hot spot mini roundabout. I got there as a rush of traffic came so was waiting for a while. One of the locals coming towards me slowed and motioned me across. as I got to the half way point a van of some description (White) came through from my left and used it's off side mirror to wipe my nose. A bit of a nose bleed but I could have done without the expletive. I get the feeling that being allowed to cross from one driver does not mean we have the right from all. One day they will kill someone on that junction. One of those days where being under the weather a bit reduces the chance of stress, I barely noticed the pain until I got across the road and there was claret on my shirt and the floor.
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Post by Alex on Jul 17, 2021 16:53:57 GMT
Sorry to hear that Mike. As much as you would be frustrated waiting to cross, I would not have let you cross for the very reason that there's no telling what someone else may do. It could end up with the situation you experienced or a driver behind going into the back of me. I'm afraid that 9x out of 10 its safer for all concerned to let pedestrians make their own judgement as to when it's safe to cross.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2021 12:45:55 GMT
I would normally do this, I think being too hot and tired I took the opportunity. The van was well back from the junction and I was half way across when he made his move. I reckon he would say "I didn't see you". Not the worst day by a long shot but what it does sow is the number of people who are so caught up with getting to their destination quickly that they forget there are other road users out there. By the letter of the law I had right of way but as we know, on roundabouts the rule now seems to be that if they think they can get to, or through, the point of contact ahead of the person on their right, they will go for it. Oh well, not dead which is a bonus.
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 1, 2021 20:24:54 GMT
Some of the worst driving I've witnessed. Proper cunt in a Merc - C Class, I think on the A1M going north at Leeds/York this afternoon.
3 lanes and I'm in Lane 3 with a line of cars going marginally faster than those in lane 2. Mr. Angry is so close behind me I can only see him in the door mirrors and is flashing his lights with his right indicator on. There is nowhere for me to go. He undertakes and makes a gap between me and the car in lane 2 I'm overtaking by forcing me to slam on otherwise I would be in the barrier.
He then continues to undertake and force himself into gaps that don't exist for as long as I can see in front. I hope he has a really nasty accident without hurting anybody else.
I'm going to try and dig out the dashcam footage tomorrow. Bugger. Need a bigger memory card, I was about an hour off from the footage. Shame as NY police invite dashcam footage for dangerous driving via their website. I'm not usually the sort to advocate reporting all manner of indiscretions in this manner, but this bloke is going to hurt someone.
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 30, 2021 9:52:05 GMT
Yesterday I was pulling out of a junction turning left and an Audi in the opposite direction started an overtake as I was halfway out, nearly removing the front of my car. 30mph limit as well.
We currently have a road closure while a cattle grid is being replaced. I don't know why it takes 3 weeks, but people were going through the gate, leaving it open and letting all the fell sheep out.
The gate has now been locked. Yesterday someone tried to ram it - they've smashed it but it's still standing and some cyclists have tried to take the fence down. WTF is wrong with people.
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 30, 2021 9:59:14 GMT
Yesterday I was pulling out of a junction turning left and an Audi in the opposite direction started an overtake as I was halfway out, nearly removing the front of my car. 30mph limit as well. We currently have a road closure while a cattle grid is being replaced. I don't know why it takes 3 weeks, but people were going through the gate, leaving it open and letting all the fell sheep out. The gate has now been locked. Yesterday someone tried to ram it - they've smashed it but it's still standing and some cyclists have tried to take the fence down. WTF is wrong with people. It's taking entitlement to the Nth degree really. As for the cyclists, leave them in a locked field with a herd of new-mum cows .. .. ..
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Post by johnc on Sept 17, 2021 8:03:09 GMT
I saw some severe stupidity on the M77 yesterday. It is a 2 lane motorway so lorries can cause an issue. I was catching a group of cars who were in turn catching a lorry in the inside lane. The cars and a small Renault van started to pull out to overtake the lorry but one small red box (Hyundai or similar) driven by a retired gentleman with his wife as passenger was a bit slower to pull out, by which time the Renault van had his foot down and was going for the overtake which would have left the red box with heavy braking to avoid hitting the back of the lorry. The red box pulled out in front of the van and caused some less severe braking by the van who then tailgated the pensioner at what looked like no more than a foot or two - bloody stupid at 65mph or thereabouts. However it got worse. When the red box pulled back in, the van pulled alongside him and then started to squeeze him off the road. The red box slowed a bit and as the back of the van was just ahead of the red car the van pulled right in front of him with inches to spare. The van stayed there for about 30 seconds moving about in front of the red car before putting his foot down and disappearing down the road a good bit faster than I was prepared to travel.
The poor pensioners must have been traumatised and the idiot in the van needs to be banned but unfortunately I stayed well back in case of carnage and never got his number. I am not a fan of dash cams but this kind of behaviour makes you realise some of the advantages.
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Post by Tim on Sept 20, 2021 9:20:56 GMT
I was driving down to visit my mum yesterday, near her house there's a sweeping corner onto a long straight and as I wasn't pressing on a bit I took the corner at about 60 (it's a much faster corner). There was a car coming the other way which was fine but then behind it I spotted one of those blue vans, perhaps a gas company one, where the driver just looked up having had their head down and, already being into the corner they responded with a sudden lurch. At that point they already had the driver side wheels on my side of the road. Clearly no accident ensued and I didn't have to take any sort of action but I shudder to think what would've happened if they hadn't chosen to look up from their fucking phone at the point they did.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 9, 2021 9:39:50 GMT
A few out this morning. Generally those that will pull out and do 45 in a 50, usually when there's no cars behind you, so they could have just waited. But the worst two both sailed past me as I waited for oncoming traffic to clear parked cars. The first time I was waiting for an ambulance on blues. Morons.
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Post by scouse on Oct 15, 2021 12:42:43 GMT
I may have mentioned before that I live on a blind bend. Doing some admin today I noticed that teh HGV's where slowing rihht down and inching round the corner, do I pop upstairs and look out the window to see why. Low and behold a pair of cretins changing a tyre. Off-side tyre. On a blind bend. Where driving a further 50 yards would have made it 100x safer.
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Post by Tim on Oct 20, 2021 7:54:15 GMT
Courtesy of the Tay Bridge being closed yesterday at evening rush hour I had the joy of a commute home via Perth - so due to increased distance and traffic levels a 15 minute journey took an hour and 15 minutes. It would've been quicker except when I left the motorway after Perth I joined a queue of traffic following someone who did up to 40mph, although slowed for oncoming traffic, on the main road, drove through Aberargie at 25 (a 40 limit) and Abernethy at 18 (a 30 limit). Overtaking is clearly a lost art but when I eventually got my chance the dawdler speeded up a little - after I'd passed - presumably because they could now follow a set of tail lights. IT didn't last long and they soon disappeared but given it was a modern SUV, possibly a Hyundai or KIA, with bright lights I think they should stop driving if their eyesight is that bad!
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Post by johnc on Nov 10, 2021 9:28:53 GMT
A large guy this morning on a small scooter with L plates who decided that he was going to ride in the outside lane of both 30mph and 40mph dual carriageways. That in itself wouldn't be a problem if he didn't consider 25mph to be a reasonable speed with 30mph just about reached on the 40mph stretch. The queues built up behind him and then the undertaking started. The problem was that the cars stuck behind him in the outside lane were trying to get in to the left lane to pass him but the left lane was just flying past. The guy in the scooter ended up with cars only a matter of a couple of feet behind him who then darted for the inside lane missing him by inches. His outside lane hogging was deliberate because when he came to a roundabout he consciously moved to the right and took the right lane. He is going to end up very hurt!
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Post by Boxer6 on Nov 10, 2021 10:02:18 GMT
A large guy this morning on a small scooter with L plates who decided that he was going to ride in the outside lane of both 30mph and 40mph dual carriageways. That in itself wouldn't be a problem if he didn't consider 25mph to be a reasonable speed with 30mph just about reached on the 40mph stretch. The queues built up behind him and then the undertaking started. The problem was that the cars stuck behind him in the outside lane were trying to get in to the left lane to pass him but the left lane was just flying past. The guy in the scooter ended up with cars only a matter of a couple of feet behind him who then darted for the inside lane missing him by inches. His outside lane hogging was deliberate because when he came to a roundabout he consciously moved to the right and took the right lane. He is going to end up very hurt! 'Pine box hurt' if he keeps on like that! My villain this morning was a local wannabe gangster type in a git-plated older model A6, who deliberately went through a red light, on a corner, with dozens of high school kids pushing and shoving to cross the road. I say deliberately, but I'm not at all sure he actually saw the lights were red! Worse still, I caught up with him shortly after, and he was just trundling along at about 20mph, holding me and a few others up, pumping out clouds of noxious fumes from his horrible, smelly old barge! If I tell you his plate could be read as "Ya prick", it did seem very appropriate!
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Post by Alex on Dec 5, 2021 16:23:06 GMT
One downside of my daughter finding God is that I have to take her to Crawley on a Sunday morning and deal with the appalling driving that pervades the town.
Today's knob was a Mercedes that was following me on one of the dual carriageways where the left lane is for left turn only as it approaches a roundabout. I was in the right lane and passed a van who then put his indicator on to join behind. Merc driver was having none of this and accelerated to close the gap as did the car behind. These two berks spent the next couple of hundred yards matching the vans speed to keep him blocked into the left lane. Fed up I spoilt their fun by braking sharply and letting the van in front of me to much honking of horns from these angry idiots.
I'm not sure what they thought they were trying to achieve. The van turned off at the next set of lights so they weren't exactly losing out if they'd let him in. Pair of wallies!
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Post by Martin on Dec 5, 2021 16:32:11 GMT
Not a big villain compared to the examples in this thread, but I was waking past my local Costa earlier and a lovely looking V8 F Type came around the corner with a nice burble. As he entered the drive through lane he put the spoiler up, no idea why as it ruins the look of the car but maybe it was because of the 90 degree right after the window?! He put it in neutral when he was in the queue and revved it, it did sound good, but what a knob.
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Post by alf on Dec 12, 2021 11:23:49 GMT
I'm going to nominate as "villain" everyone driving in Reading last night at about 9:30pm. **** me it was like the wild west out there, and the road signs, faded paint, taxis/buses/pedestrians everywhere were not much help when trying to work out what legal route I could use to reach the station to pick Tina up, I would expect some fines for driving in bus lanes except that everyone was doing it and in places near the station I just could not work out how else to progress!
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Post by Tim on Dec 20, 2021 13:11:50 GMT
What is it with young (in their 20s) women in semi-premium small hatches (Audi A1, Citroen DS3, etc)? Are they ALL in a hurry to get to their nail/spray tan appointments? Over the weekend 100% of said females that followed me along bits of main road tailgated aggressively.
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Post by johnc on Jan 14, 2022 10:33:19 GMT
On the way home last night and another new set of roadworks with temporary 4 way lights led to me being at the end of a long queue. 15 minutes later and 3 sets of light changes I was 3 cars from the front and somewhat frustrated at the idiotic phasing of the lights which gave the carpark entrance to a small supermarket with about 20 spaces, the same time (if not more) than the traffic on the main road. We were lucky if any more than 15/20 cars were getting through per change.
When the lights changed, the car in front of me didn't move so I blew the horn (the one in front of him was long gone). He still didn't move so I went to pass him and he suddenly woke up and pulled out across the road to block me, stopped and started throwing his hands around and swearing at me. I just lit him up with full beam at which point he covered his eyes and put his foot down. The standard of driving in this country is really getting poor.
That just reminded me that on Wednesday evening when I was going through the fairly complicated Anniesland Cross the private hire taxi in front of me turned right into two lanes which are for traffic coming in the other direction. He had to do a 3 point turn in front of a wall of traffic coming the other way, who had just got the green light as he turned!
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Post by johnc on Jan 15, 2022 11:48:50 GMT
The dark nights must be having a negative impact on we Scots. Going home last night a Ford Kuga pulled out of a side street about 4 or 5 cars ahead of me with no lights on. I followed for the next 2 miles by which time there was only one car between me and the Kuga. I then noticed, through the serious grime on the back, that it was a Police wagon. He pulled off down towards Dominos (presumably for his dinner) but I did wonder why no-one had flashed him. Would he have to give himself a ticket?
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Post by Boxer6 on Jan 15, 2022 13:12:44 GMT
The dark nights must be having a negative impact on we Scots. Going home last night a Ford Kuga pulled out of a side street about 4 or 5 cars ahead of me with no lights on. I followed for the next 2 miles by which time there was only one car between me and the Kuga. I then noticed, through the serious grime on the back, that it was a Police wagon. He pulled off down towards Dominos (presumably for his dinner) but I did wonder why no-one had flashed him. Would he have to give himself a ticket? I was through in Edinburgh last night, and there was at least two vehicles om the M9 unlit at the rear. Nice bright DRL's on though .. .. ..
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Post by LandieMark on Jan 15, 2022 14:29:08 GMT
Woman at the petrol station in Corbridge yesterday afternoon who thought it was absolutely fine to pay for fuel, go back to her car and have a 5 minute conversation with someone at the next pump while the queue was spilling onto the road.
I lost patience after a little while and indicated that perhaps she may want to move.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jan 22, 2022 10:23:49 GMT
The 45ers are out in droves now. There's several bits of NSL road on my commute but, fuck me, the amount of cars that settle at 45 is ridiculous.
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Post by Alex on Jan 22, 2022 12:49:24 GMT
The 45ers are out in droves now. There's several bits of NSL road on my commute but, fuck me, the amount of cars that settle at 45 is ridiculous. It's an annoying speed when they settle between 45-50 because its slow enough to be really irritate but just fast enough to minimise (safe) overtaking opportunities, especially on some of the busy cross country routes. It often also leads to long lines of traffic so even if you can overtake, that's no good if your 8 places back from the car that's slowing everyone up!
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