Just wondering if there is something in the air today - same piece of road, same exact spot and same stupidity.
Been overtaken twice on the same blind bend while doing the 30 limit, once by an Impreza with a guy driving it and once by a Smart Forfour driven by a woman - I did wonder if they were a couple as both stuck fingers up as they went by as they cut me up.
The guy in the Impreza only moments earlier did get the squeeze put on him by a lorry which had right of way and didnt slow down when he took a chance - must have been inches to spare - maybe he was annoyed.
Maybe the election is making people tense lol
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its been a hot day st
i had a waggon pull out in front of me on an A road this morning i managed to stop then he gesticulated for me to back up,i did but we had a major road block as i took my time big time,funny how arrogent juggernought drivers trucks are never signwritten and always painted white isnt it
not a good start at 8.48 am
after that it was just the usual doylans that shut their eyes and go for gaps that arent actually there.
Just another day in paradise i always say
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>> after that it was just the usual doylans that shut their eyes>>
Woss a doylan, then?
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Do you know how to incense people?
Make the following statement: a high proportion of lorry drivers are morons. Discuss.
You will hear such gems as: they're professionals, they are under pressure to deliver (diddums) blah blah etc. None of it cuts any ice with me, as I don't consider delivering turnips or whatever to be a legitimate reason to put people in danger, but some people do it would appear...
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Just wondering if there is something in the air today ..
no, it is just darwin's evolution theories being played out in real in front of you.
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Just wondering if there is something in the air today ..
>>Just another day in paradise i always say
Phil Collins is not dead then.....
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I mentioned this 'same stupidity' phenomenon in an old thread.
Almost every day on my daily commute I see the usual variety of driving stunts. The bad overtake to be 23rd in the convoy instead of 24th. Right turns from LH lane at roundabouts etc.
Normally I just shrug my shoulders and forget it.
Occasionally though, I get a day when every numpty seems to do the same thing.
This morning I witnessed three cases where vehicles overtook parked cars causing oncoming traffic to brake heavily.
Last time it was drivers turning out of side roads without stopping.
Does anyone else notice the same thing or do I need psychiatric help?
Kevin...
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You're right Kevin, I was bimbling along to work this morning, sort of car 8 in a line of slow movers behind a School Bus when car 4, a ludicrously underpowered slug coloured Pug 106 overtook everything in front of it, how he made it past escapes me, how nothing came around the bend towards it i'll never know, that's pretty normal.
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>I was bimbling along to work this morning,
Is that an abbreviation of "bumbling in a bimmer"?
>instead of accelerating quickly..
There is a roundabout here in Basingstoke, Brighton Hill for those that know it, where this has been a problem for years. The council recently spent well over 6 figures on 'improvements' consisting of new kerb profiles and repainting the road markings.
Kevin...
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Maybe the election is making people tense lol
That would be the French Presidential one would it? Or is it that council thing in the provinces, greens, BNP, that sort of thing?
There isn't an election in the real world as far as I know.
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The latest trend around here is to pull out from a side road (having spent what I suppose is a statutory minimum time there) in front of me (making sharpish progress in what is a fast looking car) and then instead of accelerating quickly to the NSL the driver then mimics a myopic stunned slug why oh why ?
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That happens everywhere. Lots of people do it. Makes you wish you had twin .50 calibre machine guns mounted on yr bonnet.
Don't take it personally PU. They're hardly people.
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>Maybe the election is making people tense lol
I saw the FT headlines this morning "Browne quits.." and prayed that they'd made a typo.
Kevin...
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Its a full moon tonight, that always exacerbates things
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Some people are always mad. It's just that the warmer weather and longer days bring more of them out onto the roads. Nothing unusual.
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See tinyurl.com/7rnsk for tips on defensive driving.
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Years ago, while I was still quite a "Press On" driver (BMW 3.0) my 3 children used to tell me overtake - I'd say no and they would argue. I would say "Tell me when to overtake" and when they did I would stay put and start counting slowly to 10 and tell them that if anything came the other way while I was counting then we were were all dead. They were too young to have much judgement but we all 'died' several times! One of them is a good driver now and the other 2 aren't for various reasons but if if even one of them learned something I think it was useful!
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I've seen some crazy things in the last week too. Sudden hard, wheelspinning acceleration into turns in shopping centres. Usually a 20 something yob with a testosterone problem behind the wheel. The reason is no police on the streets. Only speed cameras and 'parking enforcement officers'. Surveillance cameras don't seen to catch this sort of thing.
HJ
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This morning I followed a JCB who went most of the journey with the hazards going (failed to turn them off after pulling from the side of the road). He must have then free wheeled down the street as he went well in excess of 30 mph - I was behind him and he left me for dead as soon as the road started going downhill - it was actually scary watching him bounce around trying to control the thing.
Next set of lights signage galore that the left lane is for left turn only. I'm in the middle lane to go straight ahead - he decided to go straight ahead and almost side swiped me.
The fact he appeared to be listening to an Ipod can't have helped the situation.
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Ah, it was a special day yesterday, was it? Perhaps that explains the parallel-universe behaviour of the cyclist on his mobile phone while rapidly overtaking traffic that had stopped, in a very narrow and crowded street, to allow tired commuters to use a zebra crossing. The cyclist, still on the phone, narrowly missed a pedestrian on the zebra crossing. These people give me the screaming ab-dabs . . . but I remained calm.
Yes, HJ, when oh when are we going to get authority on the streets stopping this lunatic behaviour in its tracks, with heavy fines and immediate confiscation of bike or other vehicle for subsequent destruction -- no messing about, just thorough instant recycling.
Speaking of fines, did anyone see the traffic cops programme last night and wonder -- jaw-dropping wonder -- at the £40 fines and community-service sentences given to the offenders? Why bother? And, another real jaw dropper: the 95-year-old man so glad to have his Yaris returned unscathed -- 95! Crazy.
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Speaking of fines did anyone see the traffic cops programme last night and wonder -- jaw-dropping wonder -- at the £40 fines and community-service sentences given to the offenders? Why bother? And another real jaw dropper: the 95-year-old man so glad to have his Yaris returned unscathed -- 95! Crazy.
Yeah I saw most of it - makes you sick that these loathsome people are even on the streets - what exactly is the point of banning someone from driving a bit longer when they have no license anyway and flaunt the ban?
Those cops do a great job and are let down by the system. They must wonder what the point is somedays.
Nothing a fleet of prison ships in the Nort Sea wouldnt sort out - id be happy to pay my bit for them in lieu of community let off orders.
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And another real jaw dropper: the 95-year-old man so glad to have his Yarisreturned unscathed -- 95! Crazy.
I hope to be an active 95 one day, and so probably do you.
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I hope to be an active 95 one day ............
And me. And I hope to be still driving at 95. And why shouldn't I be? Careful what you say!
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I must say that retailer car parks seem to bring out the very worst kind of aggressive driving. Recently fought and won a protracted court case involving a numty who cut between lanes to save himself half a second of queueing and went into the back of my car.
I blame IKEA.
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I've seen some crazy things in the last week too. Sudden hard wheelspinning acceleration into turns in shopping centres. Usually a 20 something yob with a testosterone problem behind the wheel. The reason is no police on the streets. Only speed cameras and 'parking enforcement officers'. Surveillance cameras don't seen to catch this sort of thing. HJ
Yeeaah! Great fun innit !?
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All these events are a sad sign of "Modern Britain" I understand that the UK has the largest number of mental health issues in the developed world. It does seem to be getting worse every year - a defensive driving style is the only way these days but you really do have to be so careful. An IAM test pass should be mandatory for all drivers.
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An IAM test pass should be mandatory for all drivers.
What a good idea. Clear the roads down to fifties traffic densities at a stroke.
Not sure the powers that be (Exxon, BP, Ford, General Motors, VW, Toyota et al. and the governments they have by the goolies) would stand for it though...
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Take the registration of anyone who overtakes you in a dangerous manner and inform the police, it's dangerous driving. The Police can check records and catch the offender later. Number plate recognition systems work a treat these days for catching up with offenders who think they can hide from justice.
I've witnessed road rage incidents and seen people get out of their car and hurl abuse and make threatening behaviour, even seen them get out of their car and run after a moving vehicle. One such offended lady driver called the police immediately resulting in one less nutcase on the road.
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Not necessarily very effective. The son of a neighbour got involved in a road rage incident on a roundabout (which should have been recorded by the surveillance camera there). The rager chased the son home, then threated his father with a sledgehammer until the father pointed out that he was being recorded by his home security camera. The father took the rager's reg and phoned the police. Not only did the police fail to check the recording from the camera on the roundabout, they took 2 weeks to come round to the father's house to collect his recorded evidence, then did nothing.
HJ
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Re L'escargot's link to Uncle Bobs' Defensive driving, how much support to Backroomers give to rule 60.....
'Use the center lane for safety on freeways and limited access highways'
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Stu
yes. Next question.
JH
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Yep. M4 today. In lane 2, overtaking a people carrier doing maybe 10 miles an hour less than me. Just as I get alongside, people carrier sticks on rh indicator and starts to move out immediately. Blast on horn and a bit of sudden avoidance. People carrier driver gesticulates furiously, indicating that I should have moved out to let him in. Ah, I get it, indicating gives you the right to manoever. Silly me!
JS
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Apropos the thread title, some people are just not psychologically compatible with driving. In this day and age when the younger generation take violence as being normal, the driving test should include a psychological compatibility test.
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the younger generation take violence as being normal
When you're generally pretty quick to take umbrage at people who offend the elderly, it might be more sensible to not generalise quite so badly about the young!
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Sorry, Bazza Bear.
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it's called "signal and go". It came in about the same time as combined hair shampoo and conditioner.
JH
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I wonder if that "signal and go" is something they are drinking, might explain the white froth coming out of some driver mouths, oh not that's their white case mobile they're trying to extract from between their teeth !
Agree with OP, had lunch with a mate today, I was undertaken by some zig-zagging Vectra driver doing around 60mph in a 40mph zone short dual carriageway, then passed by a Porsche who was doing about 120mph on another dual carriageway, saw a driver leaving a Little Chef car park whilst talking on their mobile whilst they were trying to exit the car park and merge into the 70mph dual carriageway without indicating, and my mate had been tailgated by some Range Rover driver who seemed to think it ok to drive about 6" from his rear bumper mile after mile, little did the RR driver know who they were dealing with !
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Going to work the other morning. Route takes me up a good B road with a reasonable gradient (so drivers normally travel at NSL in opposite direction.) Appalled to see a suicide jockey emerging from behind the artic he was sitting behind towards what, to him, is a bad bend.
He's now committed to the overtake but travelling towards me at a rate of knots, completely on my side of the road. Now idiot-boy hasn't held back to see if there's anything in front of the artic he was about to overtake, so he now finds himself on my side of the road with three more cars to get around!! Definite brown trouser moment for him (and a little hairy for me, too!) Thankfully the three other drivers and me aren't quite ready to meet our makers and slow down, each giving him flashes, blasts of our horns and, I'm quite sure, no need to try too hard to lip read about his nocturnal activities on his own...
I think he got the message
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