Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Oh and turning right onto the Sandon Rd from Aston fields Rd has priority over motorists coming out of the old Lotus Estate
I once had a 'difference of opinion' with someone who thought that was true and nearly drove into the side of my car AND then swore at me!! I got out and walked towards his car, clutching my 7 cell Maglite (in case there was a sudden, unexpected, total solar eclipse, officer) and the colour drained right out of the little tosser's face (probably accompanied by a slight damp patch in his trousers) before he reversed the wrong way up the Sandon Road right up to Henry Street.
 

Nicedave

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I once had a 'difference of opinion' with someone who thought that was true and nearly drove into the side of my car AND then swore at me!! I got out and walked towards his car, clutching my 7 cell Maglite (in case there was a sudden, unexpected, total solar eclipse, officer) and the colour drained right out of the little tosser's face (probably accompanied by a slight damp patch in his trousers) before he reversed the wrong way up the Sandon Road right up to Henry Street.

The junction is a night mare especially rush hour when they all turn right without considering the cars in Sandalwood Drive
 

GraphicsMan

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We were going home Monday evening just after 9pm and were in the right hand lane going by Asda toward Laura Ashley. Having just gone through the lights on to the roundabout there's a red clio (I think it was) coming round the roundabout the wrong way. My cousin who was driving flashed his lights at the lady who was driving and, seeming as though she had realised her mistake, she started indicating as if to take the slip road on to the roudabout so we continued on our way. Looking back after we'd passed by she continued on her merry way around the roundabout!
 

flossietoo

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A young man in a hatchback, entering the mini roundabout at Gnosall, seemingly oblivious both to the requirement to give way to traffic on the right and to the existence of someone, who was, in fact on his right. To whit, Flossietoo.

So far, so predictable. But the really interesting part was that this was a driving school car. There being only one person inside this fast-moving vehicle, it seems reasonable to suppose that it was being driven by the instructor.

Excellent advertising on the vehicle livery, rather less so in the practical driving.

Perhaps, should he stumble on this thread, he may prove that he does have some manners after all and thank me for not naming and shaming his business!
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Driving down Corporation St. earlier this afternoon, goes to turn left down Crooked Bridge road and there's a queue of stationary traffic. The car in the front had turned left and came face to face with the red light for Prospect road, slammed her brakes on, and refused budge till they changed green! What are folk these days being taught?!
 

Gramaisc

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We were going home Monday evening just after 9pm and were in the right hand lane going by Asda toward Laura Ashley. Having just gone through the lights on to the roundabout there's a red clio (I think it was) coming round the roundabout the wrong way. My cousin who was driving flashed his lights at the lady who was driving and, seeming as though she had realised her mistake, she started indicating as if to take the slip road on to the roudabout so we continued on our way. Looking back after we'd passed by she continued on her merry way around the roundabout!

Probably not local, and confused into thinking the roundabout was the traffic island on the way in, rather than the actual roundabout , which is not easy to distinguish if you don't know it's there. It happened a lot when they were first built..


Driving down Corporation St. earlier this afternoon, goes to turn left down Crooked Bridge road and there's a queue of stationary traffic. The car in the front had turned left and came face to face with the red light for Prospect road, slammed her brakes on, and refused budge till they changed green! What are folk these days being taught?!

That happens all the time - I've even been shouted at for cycling round them and 'running' the red light..


And more worryingly, who is teaching them?

Probably the bloke who had his pupil in the lane to turn right out of Rowley Street, holding everybody who also wanted to turn right up for ages and the sent the pupil straight across up Eccleshall Road....
 

Gramaisc

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Top marks to the driver of the silver Focus just now that took the opportunity to overtake me as I pulled over to make way for the fully lit-up ambulance that was hurrying down the road towards us - I'm sure that the brief hiatus in the journey as the road became even more blocked than it had been before won't cause you any sleepless nights.
 

littleme

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Honestly everyone seems to of gone completely mad in Stafford, this whole week has seemed like one long Friday....think I'll just stay in tomorrow ;)
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Top marks to the driver of the silver Focus just now that took the opportunity to overtake me as I pulled over to make way for the fully lit-up ambulance that was hurrying down the road towards us - I'm sure that the brief hiatus in the journey as the road became even more blocked than it had been before won't cause you any sleepless nights.

I once did that, completely inadvertently. Driver in front of me pulled over for some reason so on I went before looking in the mirror to see flashing lights on an ambulance. It was still some way back so by the time I pulled up in a bus stop I hadn't interrupted its progress. However, I felt like such an idiot as was so embarrassed I remained stationary in the bus stop until the car that had been in front of me got back in front again, and a few more besides.
 

Gramaisc

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I once did that, completely inadvertently. Driver in front of me pulled over for some reason so on I went before looking in the mirror to see flashing lights on an ambulance. It was still some way back so by the time I pulled up in a bus stop I hadn't interrupted its progress. However, I felt like such an idiot as was so embarrassed I remained stationary in the bus stop until the car that had been in front of me got back in front again, and a few more besides.

It can happen like that - but, this one was approaching from the front and seemed rather obvious to me.
 

Goldilox

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That happens all the time - I've even been shouted at for cycling round them and 'running' the red light..

I'll plead guilty. I stopped here once or twice when I first moved to Stafford. With the lights being so far back, it really isn't that obvious when you turn left from Crooked Bridge road that the lights facing you belong to the junction and not to a stand alone crossing if you don't know the road layout.
 

Gramaisc

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Poetic justice - one of these boys just cut me up nicely going round Lammascote Island when he suddenly remembered that he was going to the hospital and was in the wrong lane....

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Kingy

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I nearly had an accident last night due to the careless driving of a lady in a 4x4 BMW. I was in the left hand lane on the Eccleshall Road at the Greyfriars roundabout turning right towards Stafford town centre. She was in the right hand lane turning right. As we are about to come off the roundabout she switches into the left hand land almost sending me into the railings by the Waggon and Horses. She had a passenger in the left hand side of the car who could have been injured had we collided. I followed her up the Sandon Road and got out of the car to speak to her when she pulled up at the lights. She was completely oblivious and unapologetic. Her response was "Well I didn't hit you did I?" at which point I told her I was doing her a favour by avoiding a future accident.
 

Gramaisc

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I nearly had an accident last night due to the careless driving of a lady in a 4x4 BMW. I was in the left hand lane on the Eccleshall Road at the Greyfriars roundabout turning right towards Stafford town centre. She was in the right hand lane turning right. As we are about to come off the the roundabout she switches into the left hand land always sending me into the railings by the Waggon and Horses. She had a passenger in the left hand side of the car who could have been injured had we collided. I followed her up the Sandon Road and got out of the car to speak to her when she pulled up at the lights. She was completely oblivious and unapologetic. Her response was "Well I didn't hit you did I?" at which point I told her I was doing her a favour by avoiding a future accident.

That's a common manoeuvre there - few people look at the actual lane markings. It's generally assumed that "the left lane is for Stone Road and so it's your fault".

I know somebody that was pulled up by a copper for using the left lane there to head into town - she offered to bet him his week's wages that her manoeuvre was legitimate and would be shown to be so, if they went back to look at the markings - at which point he found that had more important work to go to - parting with a "well, I wouldn't do it like that"..
 
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