Which driving behaviour really gets on your wick..?

[davidcross]

All vans, trucks and HGV's should b banned from outside lane. Anyone found sitting in outside lane and holding up traffic should recieve 3 points immediately for obstructing the flow of traffic and autobahn style roads for cars that want to speed as they do in Germany. Seems to work just fine over there!!!

 

[juliany27]

Can I add a comment about the state of the roads in general?

Perhaps this leads to such selfish driving and cycling I have seen recently.

We pay billions in road tax, fuel duty, VAT and car taxes - and end up with road surfaces [paid for by the State to large companies which must make millions in profits in exchange for for poor workmanship and service] which would be a disgrace in Third World countries. Pot holes, perpetual road works with no one doing any work, badly sited traffic signs, a plethora of cameras, poor road markings - the list is almost endless.

If other countries can do so much better, why don't we copy them? Is there too much money for poor workmanship given to corporate friends of this Government?

Rant over. Will concentrate on those who cannot use the inside lane of an empty motorway, cannot indicate properly, ignore trafiic signs, oevertake on blind bends, cycle against traffic/pedestrians/the flow in one way streets/on the pavement etc.

 

[MarkK]

I have been nicked for the crime of 38mph in a 30 zone (long wide straight road,no schools ,shops or old folks homes)anyway since being "caught" i have tried to turn over a new leaf by driving exactly at the speed limit,anyone else tried doing this?People overtaking madly,people driving up my chuff two inches from my exhaust,mad and grazy rude gestures.I am trying to comply with the law but it is very hard,don't know what to do for the best,especially if i have the kids in the car i don't want people driving up my rear...
On alot of 30 roads(big wide straight ones)peoples natural rythm is about 38-40mph,but it would seem that the number of laser equiped vans means they want us to stick EXACTLY to 30mph.[][&o]

 

[uknick]

All of the above annoy. Plus, getting overtaken whilst doing 30 in a 30 zone which includes houses and turnings.

On motorways and proper dual carriage ways I am the first to say speed limits are too low but, there is usually a good reason for a 30 zone and it tends to relate to true safety, not trying to generate income.

 

[Suffolk944]

All of the above and they always seem to occur in clumps together. Get one numpty doing something stupid and seems that a whole gaggle of them hove into view in quick succesion...Or maybe once I am wound up by the first I am just more tuned into others and they do in fact go on all the time. [&:]

 

[MarkK]

This particular stretch of 30mph(A47 Leicester),is wide,straight,long like i said no schools,shops,oldpeoples homes and the houses are set well back,THEN the road curves as you go around the curve it turns to 40mph! and there is then a cross roads and a pedestrian crossing that children use going to school.I think in this case it IS revenue raising that is going on,i think on some roads 30 limit is too fast, 20 mph going past schools during term time also, the limit could be reduced to 10mph,what i am getting at is i reckon speed limits are not thought out properly and then enforced where there is a good chance at catching people out,then not alot is done to stop tailgate driving,and aggressive bad driving,but i suppose that that is too hard to police and too much hard work to get a satisfactory prosecution,easier to just send out NIPs..More needs to be done to police bad driving in my opinion not just nick people going over the crest of a hill at 4mph over the limit in a car when i see HGVs and coaches are doing 50mph in other 30 areas.Grrr makes me mad[] But hey thats just my opinion that means nothing and i do realise that.

 

[944 LIL]

caravans....

 

[Alexw]

I became a member of the IAM within a year of passing my test and pretty much stick the speed limit all the time. Only times I have is on motorways, usually overtaking someone. or sometimes overtaking someone who idles along at 40 in a NSL then speeds up when you try to go past...
My main grip is bad lane discipline on motorways, SO much time could be saved if everyone just moved over.

 

[944 man]

ORIGINAL: xenon

My post was deleted by someone who completely failed to spot the ironic humour. Oh well....

Fail. How often do you find the noun temerity in a post extolling the virtues of 'kicking the f*** out of' somone?

Eh?

 

[xenon]

ORIGINAL: 944 man

ORIGINAL: xenon

My post was deleted by someone who completely failed to spot the ironic humour. Oh well....

Fail.  How often do you find the noun temerity in a post extolling the virtues of 'kicking the f*** out of' somone?

Eh?

Not that often I wouldn't have thought. []

 

[mr brightside]

Nobody seems to have mentioned the ones who feel empowered to police other people's driving yet. Every other time i overtake someone i either get a flash of the lights or the w**nker sign regardless of what car i'm in, one day somebody's going to do this at a bad time and it could result in me getting arrested.

All these adverts you see on tv containing images of smashed up children are designed to lead people to believe that this is the unanimous result of any speeding and it seems to be working, the Labour voting good eggs that drive around everywhere at 30 with their heads up their a*ses now seem to have a god given right to police other peoples behaviour which i find particularly irritating. I drive how i like conditions accounted for and permitting and trust my own hazard awareness and ability completely.

 

[ikillcopiers]

I agree whole heartedly.

This whole "Speed KILLS" thing is starting to wind me up,
any IAM or similar driver will agree, speed doesn't kill,
it's bad driving.

Speed is simply a catalyst for bad driving.

Look at the autobahn - for the amount of traffic it handles
it has a lower accident rate than most other motorways in Europe,
especially impressive considering the wide variance in speed on parts of it.
And statistics show that the highest accident risk vehicles are vans,
not sports cars.

They should make more adds like "watch out for bikers" etc,
observation and common sense is the most thing that's missing on the roads!

 

[ashley]

ORIGINAL: babyjack

I had the Ginsters pasty man right up my rear the other day whilst using his mobile phone.

this just made me laugh out loud []

 

[Pastry]

The one time ive really been upset at someones driving is seeing a transit coming round a blind bend towards me on the wrong side of the road. Fair shat my pants, braked hard and he just made it back to his side of the road.

The rest? well thats driving in the UK isnt it, ive driven in countries where people drive just as bad if not worse (Spain, USA). expect the absolute worst and anything else is a bonus.

 

[poprock]

The nastiest scare I've ever had was from another Porsche.

I was heading north on the A1 and a Cayenne driver heading south decided that he/she wanted to overtake a really long queue of traffic on their side all in the one go. Didn't back off upon seeing me coming the other way, but instead accelerated to try and clear the lot. There was no way on Earth they were going to make it, but instead of slowing, or pulling in to the middle of the queue, they just kept coming! I had to swerve my 944 off on to the grass verge to the left while they ploughed right on in my lane. I was too shocked to think about getting their numberplate or anything.

 

[Hilux]

Went to Poole Quay for a long weekend...................

Three caravanners, all older than 60............one flash of the indicators and they pull out................saw one artic and two cars forced into other lanes....absolutely appalling......................written to Caravan Club daring them to publish my (polite) comments and opinions.

Mercedes man who plods along at a steady 75ish mph as I (admit) overtook him slowly and then suddenly speeds up as soon as he`s been overtaken by my little Mk 1 Golf (never happened in the 951) and then (on a clear dual carriageway) proceeds to a very very very high speed indeed so as to get past me with wife shouting at him and then doesnt see a roundabout and flat spots his tyres as he coasts around it wheels locked!!! and I then sail around him and leave him with, I assume, brown stains. Why did it matter to him that much???

Man drifts VX Mariva thingy with wife and kids and baby seats etc onto shoulder of roundabout and nearly lost it after crossing two lanes endeavouring to get past inside me after a series or roundabouts I`d been `enjoying` well within my cars capability (Again in the Golf) I let him go and when I pulled up in slow traffic and came alongside said to his clearly frightened young daughter "dont let your Dad drive like that again - he`ll kill you all" and with that at the first opportunity he squealed off like a scalded cat...............madness!

It happens regularly in the Golf, its a really bad downside to owning it and takes a littel away from enjoying it and I now do feel for some of the young drivers as they must see some appalling `older` drivers.......................

They must think I`m an 18 year old chav.............................or summat........innit?

 

[Lancerlot]

Good thread this! []

On a 3 lane carriageway, I like the guy/gal who pulls out to overtake a mile before they need to, occupies the centre lane for its full length then decides they're not going to overtake after all! []

Great fun driving, isn't it? [8|]

Regards,

Clive

 

[garthcatkinson]

ORIGINAL: ikillcopiers

They should make more adds like "watch out for bikers" etc,
observation and common sense is the most thing that's missing on the roads!

Fully agree with the adverts I want to see the first advert where the pedestrian totally entranced with their IPOD/MP3/Phone gets wiped out. Other than that poor motorway lane discipline.

 

[tref]

I daren't add to this... must watch my blood-pressure! Agree with pretty much all.

Mr. Brightside - I tend to refer to the folk you speak of as "self-appointed gaurdians of the road" I've met far too many...

Hilux, I have long been of the opinion that Mk I Golfs make the driver look like a god... can be scary from the passenger seat, and even worse in the back! It would appear they also now bring out the worst in other drivers... when I was driving them, most people knew what they were, and treated them with respect.

Anyone got out of a 944 or Mk I Golf and into something else and made a total t*t of themselves on the first bend??? No? Just me then...[&o]

 

[Jonny B]

Speed doesnt kill, over populated roads do

Tail gaiting, ive been in canada for a few months now (cops with hand held radars), im finding the reason people do it is because the cop cant radar the car(s) behind you, so when you speed up cos of the mofo behind is too close, you get the ticket, the guys behind have a jolly good laugh.

The ONLY reason id be pro toll roads like France is because less fools can afford to drive on them