Gramaisc
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I hope she can remember their number!
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Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!
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Dabbler
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If you have an older female relative who drives a red Toyota Corrolla that is approx 10 yrs old, it may be time for them to review whether they should be driving. Completely oblivious to the fact today that they drove straight through a red light - I took evasive action but I really don't believe that she had any idea that I was there, let alone that the light was on red,
Gramaisc
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If she does, then get her to write down - now - what she recalls and then ring the cops...
..if she feels that her initial infringement won't just encourage them to do her and forget about the subsequent events...
Miss Red
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stafford comes out high for antisocial behavour, drugs, public disorder and weapons and "other" crime. In my eyes its the worst town for people running red lights, but ive come to the assumption that its because the lights take so long to change from red to green - but are very quick to change from green to red.
Im glad im not there anymore
Im glad im not there anymore
staffordjas
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Gosh, that must have shook her up!
Not bad driving, but the behaviour of a driver or passenger in a car last night gave me a shock . I was walking along Wildwood Ringroad about 8pm and someone driving past whacked a bottle at me out of their car window .Fortunately hit my shoulder rather than my head but shook me up and put the dampers on a good day out.
The Stafford Beast
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Possibly a good time to install CCTV in all our cars! A few Bond gadgets wouldn't be a bad idea either. These days, I find driving much more tedious than it used to be. People driving 30 in a 60, and the BMWs driving up my backside wanting to do 100 in the aforementioned 60 because their shopping trip is apparently more important than my shopping trip.
My Name is URL
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Some idiot, looked about 18, driving his motorbike down the middle of Weston Road (due to traffic queuing all the way into town) then cuts across an oncoming car, up onto the pavement at the crossing by Weston Road chippy and then drives down the pavement, nearly wipes out a little girl sticking her head out of the chippy, and comes to a halt outside the Co-Op cash machine to meet his mates.
Unfortunately couldn't get his reg number to report him.
Unfortunately couldn't get his reg number to report him.
airbusA346
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Bloke in a Chrysler Voyager.
I gestured at him saying 'What are you doing' after he tried to go around me (undertake) after I stopped while traffic in front of me was turning right. This was just before the closed Alstom entrance before Lloyds TSB on Lichfield Road.
At the traffic lights next to Lloyds TSB (I was the first in the queue) he got out of his car and starting banging on my window asking 'What the f**k was I doing', claiming I had swore at him in the above incident and he wanted me to open my window. I refused and he punched the window at the same time as stubbing his fag out on it.
He then tailgated me all the way along Lichfield Road, Queensway, and to Sainsburys car park where I drove in the car park all the way around and back out trying to lose him (he followed me around the car park), which I managed to do on the roundabout outside Sainsburys car park entrance and the next roundabout across from the college (by getting people in between me and him)
Oh the fun of road rage.
I gestured at him saying 'What are you doing' after he tried to go around me (undertake) after I stopped while traffic in front of me was turning right. This was just before the closed Alstom entrance before Lloyds TSB on Lichfield Road.
At the traffic lights next to Lloyds TSB (I was the first in the queue) he got out of his car and starting banging on my window asking 'What the f**k was I doing', claiming I had swore at him in the above incident and he wanted me to open my window. I refused and he punched the window at the same time as stubbing his fag out on it.
He then tailgated me all the way along Lichfield Road, Queensway, and to Sainsburys car park where I drove in the car park all the way around and back out trying to lose him (he followed me around the car park), which I managed to do on the roundabout outside Sainsburys car park entrance and the next roundabout across from the college (by getting people in between me and him)
Oh the fun of road rage.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Unusual.
My Name is URL
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Did you get his registration number? Report him to the police - they won't do anything as its your word against his, but at least if they have a word with him it might show him he can't go around being an idiot doing that to people.
Gramaisc
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It might even do him a favour by stopping him from appearing here - http://www.staffordshire.police.uk/news/latest_appeals/121113_fp_burton_road_rage/ - in the future..
henryscat
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It's also that time of year when all the knobs on the road identify themselves by driving with fog lights on when it isn't foggy.
airbusA346
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People this morning driving in the fog with no lights on.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Maybe it was different in your part of town, but driving around this morning all there was was mist where I went, certainly not worthy of putting front or rear fog lights on. I agree that ordinary lights were de rigeur however.