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Post by johnc on Aug 30, 2023 9:11:48 GMT
A Qashqai this morning who was one of those 27/28mph dawdlers! Every set of GREEN traffic lights he came to, he would brake and slow down as if he had some great desire for the lights to change and for him to stop. Hugely frustrating and annoying, only satisfied by finally being able to come up alongside him at a set of red lights and leave him behind when they changed to green. However he seemed to drive more quickly after that but at least he was behind me.
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 30, 2023 19:07:29 GMT
Every fucker overtaking me while attempting to turn right - indicators on both tractor and trailer in full working order - because tractor.
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Post by rodge on Sept 20, 2023 16:54:49 GMT
Heavy traffic on the way home from work. No indication of what was causing it as I was joining the motorway when I saw the cars everywhere. About 300m further down the road, there was a car half way through the bushes down the central reservation, balanced on top of the Armco. No injuries but the driver was coming the other direction and must have swerved to avoid the car in front. There were some stopped vehicles on my side that had a fender bender too, possibly from the surprise of seeing a Kia come through the hedges!
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Post by Tim on Sept 21, 2023 7:02:46 GMT
Just saw a cracker this morning - an inter-city bus jumped the traffic lights outside the V&A (Dundee) and just about took out a couple of cars who came through on green. Not only that but bus boy went through the lights and round the 90 degree left after them at a speed that would've been VERY uncomfortable for his passengers. It was clearly a deliberate act.
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Post by rodge on Nov 17, 2023 8:33:03 GMT
Driving away from the city this morning so the traffic was lighter. Approached a junction that had green lights and led on to the slip road for the motorway (outbound) and went straight through, following a Honda Insight (grey, no lights on) that was going through the junction at 30mph. We went down the slip road and the driver continued at 30. I flashed him to speed up as the motorway traffic was going 60 at least in lane 1. He stayed at 30, I flashed again, he stayed at 30. We were merging now and I saw a gap so drove out behind him, accelerating while he went up to 35. Flashed him again and saw a gap and overtook, in a lane that was doing about 70. He moved into the lady and started waving his hands as I drove past, still doing under 40mph. A driver who joins a major road while doing half the speed of the traffic on that road, makes me very nervous, they have no concept of the pileup they could cause.
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Post by Tim on Dec 6, 2023 8:38:32 GMT
I was about car 8 in a queue behind a tractor this morning. The 1st 2 cars chose to overtake in the dark on the rise to a blind summit, this on a long straight bit of the A92 so a distinct possibility of something coming quite quickly the other way
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Post by Alex on Jan 7, 2024 11:50:30 GMT
Just almost had a head on collision with a berk in a 4 series who was attempting to overtake a pelaton worth of cyclists on the approach to a bend on a country road. It was close enough that the Octavias front assist system went into full shit your pants mode and the guy in the car behind only just managed to avoid rear ending me. The cyclists also had to brake sharply to let him back in. A couple of them had helmet cams and given their reaction (a lot of wrist shaking was directed at the beemer!) I'd not be surprised if they sent their footage to the Police. Makes me tempted to fit the Skoda with a dashcam.
This happens so often round here when the cyclists come out in force for a Sunday ride and I just don't see how some drivers think its acceptable to lower their standard of driving to the point they risk writing off their cars and hurting people just to save a few seconds on what is probably a leisurely drive.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jan 7, 2024 19:02:53 GMT
Jeez Alex, and you've only just got it too! Quite apart from the human carnage potential, obviously, to have your car damaged so needlessly after a two-year wait would have me frothing at the mouth!!
Glad all were unhurt though.
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Post by Roadrunner on Jan 7, 2024 20:16:47 GMT
A near miss - glad you are OK.
Reminds me. Have I missed it, or has there been a report and pictures of the new Octavia? Keen to see it.
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Post by Alex on Jan 7, 2024 20:48:08 GMT
Sorry I do need to take some photos and give an update. Every time I think of doing it the weather ends up being rubbish!
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Post by Boxer6 on Jan 8, 2024 18:56:15 GMT
Two today. First, Vauxhall, for making the electric Mokka's rear indicators nigh on invisible at night if the brakes are also on. Whoever thought that up presumably worked on the same design team as the Qashqai front indicators!!
Second, the absolute bell-end who insisted on driving at 60mph on the outside lane of two on the M80 tonight, holding up all of us wanting home for tea!
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Post by alf on Jan 15, 2024 9:39:40 GMT
A couple of tailgating bell-ends... The A343 between Newbury and Andover (where my brother lives) is one of those not-quite roads - a twisty country lane with plenty of gradient changes and long NSL stretches (with some equally long 30 or 40 zones) but its poorly sighted, with plenty of blind bends and crests. Its also one of those roads where cars are regularly thrown into the fields on either side in winter, making me twitchy. Bell-end 1 was presumably offended by me pulling away in the QF as we left a 30 for a NSL on a long straight, on the twisty bit after he was glued to by boot, and 70 was plenty for me with the vis - when we got to a straight I slowed for the 30, and he overtook in his Barried-up A3, overtook another car ahead, then put his hazards on and pulled straight off the road at >40mph onto a bumpy dirt track, practically taking off on the bumps. Why he "had" to overtake me 500m before turning off, I don't know, I'm not about to buy a 20 year old A3 now because of their magnificence.
Bell-end 2 was going the other way on the same road, just after dawn on saturday, it was 1 degree on the thermometer and I was giving the Boxster its weekly drive this time, concerned about possible ice and basically being very sensible indeed. Less concerned was an E60 5 series (not an infrequent choice for these people) who caught me up at a rate of knots then seemed hugely peeved at my 35 in a long 30. He followed my fairly tentative 60 in the NSL bit until a very rare overtaking spot (another reason this is a not-quite road, its almost impossible to overtake on) when he went past at warp speed with tonnes of black smoke - I'm guessing debadged 530d. That was sort of OK assuming he didn't mind the ice risk but when we both caught up a van, his overtake was insanely dangerous.
Its funny but I don't see this level of truly "I don't care if I live/die/damage my car/kill someone" level of driving often, more low level imcompetence. Both of these were true death before dishonour types, and in my old age I won't even begin to play with them on this sort of road. I really hope as and when both these people kill someone, it is themselves and no one else...
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Post by Tim on Jan 15, 2024 14:07:26 GMT
Old A3s appear to be very popular among these types of driver.
The "I don't care if I live/die/damage my car/kill someone" attitude appears to be much more common post-lockdown. I wonder if the empty roads encouraged these morons to overtake in stupid places because they knwe nothing would be coming the other way and they've just not re-adjusted to normal traffic levels.
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Post by Alex on Jan 15, 2024 20:01:19 GMT
I think it's the lack of repercussions that's the problem. With no traffic cops about they think that as long as they act like nice little old lady past the speed cameras they can do what they like elsewhere. A lot of YouTube channels are showing that I fact bad driving is being recorded by a lot of their fellow motorists and the Police will at least act upon footage if it is clear cut enough. Would be better if they just policed the roads occasionally mind!
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Post by Tim on Jan 16, 2024 9:02:59 GMT
I was out to visit a mate last night and according to the car it was -3 for most of the journey.
I followed 2 cars for a lot of the journey and the car ahead of me was aggressively tailgating the car in front of it even though they were doing 50. There were plenty of opportunities to overtake - the route had at least 3 straights that were a mile long and there was little traffic but of course the tailgater didn't overtake. Twat!
I wasn't in a hurry and sat well back in case the lead car got fed up and brake tested them.
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Post by johnc on Jan 16, 2024 9:48:50 GMT
I pulled over to the inside lane yesterday morning on a 40mph dual carriageway to let a tailgaiting woman in a Mini past. She then sat right in my blindspot and didn't go past! It's an epidemic.
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Post by bryan on Jan 17, 2024 21:07:02 GMT
People seem to have a complete lack of awareness of their surroundings and their impact on others....or they just don't care!
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Post by alf on Jan 18, 2024 12:12:47 GMT
Old A3s appear to be very popular among these types of driver. The "I don't care if I live/die/damage my car/kill someone" attitude appears to be much more common post-lockdown. I wonder if the empty roads encouraged these morons to overtake in stupid places because they knwe nothing would be coming the other way and they've just not re-adjusted to normal traffic levels. I think the old 1.8T VAG motor was especially easy to tune, and the newer 2.0 S3's seem popular with chippers as well. There was a hilarious video on the XFR group where an XFR was (barely - it must have been well chipped) overtaking one on a dual carriageway as they both accelerated out of a 30, and the Audi's engine completely exploded, in a stuff-through-bonnet sort of way.............. Quite a few young folk annouce their intentions to buy a QF on the group I'm in now along the lines of "what coilover kit and chipping company should I use", before they've even driven one. Errr, the suspension is an active setup by the people that previoiusly did the 458 Specialie - one of the best sports cars ever in UK conditions - and the engine has 510bhp stock, arguably enough with RWD for some bedwetter coming from a FWD hatch - maybe you want to try driving one before you pointlessly mod it???
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Post by Tim on Jan 18, 2024 14:00:46 GMT
The A3s I see being driven optimistically are invariably scruffy diesels.
I followed a bellend in a BMW 335d this morning who was tailgating the Disco ahead of him in a 50mph line of traffic. Not only that but at a roundabout he went to the right lane, across the roundabout into the right lane of the dual carriageway and then immediately dived to the left lane to go into the petrol station that's 100 yards off the roundabout.
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Post by Roadrunner on Jan 18, 2024 14:20:52 GMT
The A3s I see being driven optimistically are invariably scruffy diesels. I followed a bellend in a BMW 335d this morning who was tailgating the Disco ahead of him in a 50mph line of traffic. Not only that but at a roundabout he went to the right lane, across the roundabout into the right lane of the dual carriageway and then immediately dived to the left lane to go into the petrol station that's 100 yards off the roundabout. Is there a public lavatory at the petrol station?
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Post by Tim on Jan 18, 2024 15:43:38 GMT
No idea. There is one of those Costa machines though and that seems to be an essential requirement for some people nowadays.
Perhaps his transfer box went pop!
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Post by Tim on Jan 19, 2024 14:29:23 GMT
Some utlitites people digging up the road just outside St Andrews who have their roadworks sign 3 car lengths before the traffic light sign which as exactly level with the traffic lights. Oh and its just round a corner too!
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Post by rodge on Jan 24, 2024 19:47:35 GMT
Not sure what was going on here this evening but the traffic was chronically bad. I left work at 3:40 and it took me 10 minutes to get home- about 6 miles of mixed roads and several sets of traffic lights.
My daughter had training not far from my job at 6 and I left the house at 5:30, with Waze telling me it was about 19 minutes drive. It took 48 minutes to get there and another 25 to get home. 2 crashes, one on the way which I avoided but drove the long way around to do that and one on the return that happened about 2 minutes before I got there. Blocking 2/3 of the road so traffic was creeping past. Every driver who pulled onto the road in front insisted on driving at 30mph or less. The emptier the road, the slower the driver.
I just don’t understand why people don’t keep up with the traffic when it’s heavy. I drove in heavier traffic in the states but when the roads are designed to take more cars, it seems to be more bearable.
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Post by Tim on Jan 26, 2024 12:35:58 GMT
I think we've done this before but people in cars with headlights that are too bright.
The majority appear to be SUVs and I'm guessing they're ones with the fancy matrix LED things.
I have no complaints about being able to see where you go but surely a range of 1,000 yards or whatever they have is excessive - how fast would that allow you to drive with decent vision!!
When you're sitting low in a 4 series the glare can often be painful.
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Post by johnc on Jan 26, 2024 16:24:20 GMT
I don't think the throw of a dipped headlight is any longer now than it used to be. The issue is the brightness which can be totally blinding when a car is coming over a crest or accelerating up hill.
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Post by Martin on Jan 26, 2024 16:36:29 GMT
I think we've done this before but people in cars with headlights that are too bright. The majority appear to be SUVs and I'm guessing they're ones with the fancy matrix LED things. I have no complaints about being able to see where you go but surely a range of 1,000 yards or whatever they have is excessive - how fast would that allow you to drive with decent vision!! When you're sitting low in a 4 series the glare can often be painful. If it's only one of the lights, then it's a Tesla....I've not seen one without badly adjusted headlights! If it's fancy Matrix lights and the driver has them activated, then it won't be them as they are less likely to blind you than a dipped beam. Maybe there are ones that don't work so well, but as most are SUVs, it's probably just brightness and height. I have a villain from yesterday. I followed a Zafira along the A14 very patiently for at least 15 miles and the driver didn't move out of the right hand lane. OK, there was a lot of traffic due to lorries overtaking each other on the way to Felixstowe, but there were plenty of opportunities to move in, especially as it accelerated so much slower than the cars in front. When there was a particularly large gap in the left hand lane and in front, I gave it a very polite quick flash and I was immediately brake tested...quite severely, it was lucky I was keeping a decent distance. The only positive was I was pretty impressed at how quickly my car gets from 55mph to bong speed, as I decided I wasn't playing any games so blasted past on the left to get away from the situation.
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Post by Tim on Jan 26, 2024 16:49:24 GMT
Not Teslas, I'm familiar with their apparent issue.
It's definitely something on a lot of SUVs and although I can't clearly identify them because of the glare I'd say they're always Merc MLs, X5s, FFRRs,etc.
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Post by alf on Jan 29, 2024 10:49:34 GMT
I so VERY nearly got T-boned at huge speed at the A319/M4 (Swindon) junction Saturday, by(I think) a fairly new 340i Touring in that flat grey colour. I was coming around from the south to rejoin the M4 eastbound, most of the way home from walking with my brother in the Brecon Beacons, and very sedately for me as I was knackered. From the Swindon direction there is a separate feeder lane from the A319 to M4 eastbound which doesn't give way, then from nowhere at warp speed, just as I was about to exit for the M4, it hammered across my bows. I was so shocked and he was going so fast (thus had distance on me quickly) I didn't even brake or react, and I could hear his engine so part of my brain went "its a petrol" (that and the twin pipes mean I think it was a 340i, I couldn't read any badges in the dark).
What he (and let's face it, it'll be a "he") was doing was overtaking a bunch of cars by not using the feeder lane - he took the middle lane - which gives way at the roundabout. He was not expecting a car to come around it, even at sensible speed, there was no way he could stop and he accelerated out of it instead, hence me hearing his engine note. Which was probably a better decision than braking or steering, but he missed me by a few metres only (which I would have great footage of, if I had not been so lazy about swapping out my broken work-supplied dash cam).
When I got to the motorway he had warp speeded away with a big head start, but I reeled him in (by then slowed by someone) rapidly, and from then on he was very polite, tried to let me pass, didn't brake test me when I main beamed my dissaproval (just the once...), and let people out and so on. I think it was probably just someone like us who got it wrong, everything about his driving for the two junctions I followed him before I left the M4 screamed "contrite". Which is better than the usual reaction, but I do think if he'd T-boned me at that speed it would have been an epic crash and possibly killed by brother who was on that side. Not cool.
I had had some weird preominition of a crash before I got the car to AHM for its service, but it's there now in one piece, and I have a mighty Fiat Tipo in its place.
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Post by Tim on Feb 8, 2024 8:45:14 GMT
It was -6 for some of this morning's commute. Perfect conditions for some Golf mounted twat to sit so close I could barely see his lights.
Of course when an opportunity came up to overtake on a long, flat, empty straight they didn't take it
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Post by Boxer6 on Feb 9, 2024 21:50:00 GMT
JohnC is familiar with some of the cycle lanes near my work, built at considerable expense a few years ago and widely ignored by cyclists. Yesterday and today, two examples of this; first, yer man on an electric MTB/Deliveroo type thing, quite happily making his way (slowly!) up the main carriageway, holding up a lorry, bus and at least 20 cars. Then this morning, heading the other direction, an old guy riding a 'normal' bike, on the pavement rather than the cycle lane, narrowly missing at least 3 schoolkids minding their own business on the pavement!! I'd quite happily take a baseball bat to both of them, selfish, thoughtless fuckers!!!
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