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Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!
- Thread starter MarkyD
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Ahhh, going down Moss Pit towards Stafford I was behind a cyclist. It's not a wide road and once you approach the bridge it's blind bends for about 100 yards. On top of that there was cars coming the other way so I held back. Then a woman behind me starts tooting her horn at me and gesturing me to go forwards. So where am I supposed to go?
Merckx
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A silver Volvo pushing its nose out onto the sandon road, saw i was coming and carried on going forwards until the last moment then pulled out and went 20mph for about 5miles! Extremely annoying, could have been a terrible crash. Saying that my car is white and i have Xenon lights!
ATJ
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Nowhere. Ignore the hag. In fact, slow down even more!
henryscat
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I would have done the same. Recently I experienced similar on the windy bit of A513 between Shugborough and Milford when I was following a cyclist. Knob cheese in an unfeasibly shiny Range Rover driving up my backside trying to urge me to overtake - which at that point would involve crossing double white lines into oncoming traffic....
proactive
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Vegetarian cheese, I hope.
staffordjas
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Quite a few people driving like bloody maniacs when I took hubby into town just. No one seemed to be looking at junctions and just pulling out when it isn't clear. Had to slam my brakes on 4 times. Then a car started coming onto the Silkmore/retail park island before I had cleared their path and narrowly missed coming into the side of me.
Been a crash (looks between 2 cars)on Weeping Cross Island as well with the coppers in attendance and were still there when I came back up.
Been a crash (looks between 2 cars)on Weeping Cross Island as well with the coppers in attendance and were still there when I came back up.
staffordjas
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I've just got back in after driving up from town. A car in front of me drove all the way from town without any lights on, despite me trying to draw his attention to the fact, all the way to Radford Bank where he turned off. Thought he might have noticed as he turned into Radford Rise as it was pitch black up there, but no he just kept on driving into the complete darkness without any lights on!
staffordjas
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Also saw some very,very careful driving as I've just driven down to town by people coming off the pub car parks 
(Well, the car in front of me hit the kerb once, but...........)
(Well, the car in front of me hit the kerb once, but...........)
photography_bloke
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Noticed that yesterday too - one van drove all the way down the Weston Road heading out of town without any lights, even with me and the bloke in the van behind shouting and flashing lights at him to try and get his attention... hopefully he turned them on before he left the street lights behind...
John Marwood
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Anyone Welsh driving a Homeserve van
mad
mad
That'll be Taffy 'The Tough Nut' Thomas. I'll let him know you want a service.
Dabbler
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Has the weather gone to people's heads today? I've seen 3 trucks crossing the 7.5t weight restricted bridge on Baswich Lane - take a bow Travis Perkins and Richard Wright Accident Repair Centre. And in town earlier, the driver of the white Fiat 500 reg no DV10LGE was obviously so desperate to get to the Friary Retail Park that running a red light (you must have, since my light had turned to green when you went through on the traffic island) didn't bother you in the slightest.
Toble
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Not really a poor driving issue, but if anyone knows the irritating turd with the red/black Aprilia who insists on riding it with his throttle wide open all the time, could you please tell him that he's going to seriously going to mess his engine up. He went past me on West Way this morning at about 10mph making exactly the same noise as he did going past me at at about 40 last night. Tit.
darben
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Let him mess his engine up, it's the only way to get him off the road.
such idiots should have asbo's banning them from residential areas, however, the chance of that ever happening in Stafford is zilch
staffordjas
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Saw a right @sshole yesterday morning as we were walking down the Cannock Road . An ambulance was racing down with his sirens and lights flashing , all the cars were pulling over, except this bloody idiot who decided he/she was turning right into Oldcroft Road just as the ambulance was approaching behind to overtake him! Never even indicated either...just turned and made the ambulance slow down !
Nicedave
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Always know when you are in Stafford some seem to have a different high way code regarding Traffic lights
Green = Go
Amber = Go
Red = GO if you have seen any of the earlier colours
Oh and turning right onto the Sandon Rd from Aston fields Rd has priority over motorists coming out of the old Lotus Estate
And Cyclist can UNDERTAKE at all times even when cars are indicating to turn right at traffic lights
rant over