Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

captainpish

captainpish

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proactive said:
The mad cyclist again.

Earlier this morning he passed me whilst I was stationary at the lights heading towards town by the Toyota garage. As he went past he very kindly told me to feck off and then proceeded to go through the lights on red. This caused a the driver of a car who was proceeding quite legally through the lights from the Asda direction to do an emergency stop. For his trouble, mad cyclist gobbed on his bonnet and carries on. Car driver took exception to this and accelerated hard and pulled up in front of mad cyclist. As mad cyclist is giving probably his best performance to date, car driver gets out of his car (he is bloody huge), walks up to mad cyclist and wallops him, once, knocking him to the ground, gets back in his car and drives off.

Leaving mad cyclist to pick himself up whilst cars are driving past sounding their horns and hurling abuse at him for being in the way.

Even though I had a really good view of what happened, I can't for the life of me remember what the car was or what the driver looked like. Maybe it was wiped from my mind by the huge grin I still can't get off my face...
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This guy needs sectioning for his own safety. I think just about everybody in stafford has had a run in with him. He has no regard for rules of the road and is either gonna get himself killed by a car or by a driver whos gonna kick his teeth down the back of his throat. Every single time ive seen him, without exeption hes swerving around the road and giving out abuse. Someone needs to nick his bike for his own good!
 
Feed The Goat

Feed The Goat

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Mad Cyclist ploughed through red lights at Litchfield Road / Riverway lights yesterday at 8.55am. Two pedestrians crossing the road had to run or would have been hit. Seems he has a problem with pedestrians as well as motorists. Could someone please take an angle grinder to his bike asap, for his safety and ours.
 
photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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Feed The Goat said:
Mad Cyclist ploughed through red lights at Litchfield Road / Riverway lights yesterday at 8.55am. Two pedestrians crossing the road had to run or would have been hit. Seems he has a problem with pedestrians as well as motorists. Could someone please take an angle grinder to his bike asap, for his safety and ours.
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Something seriously does need to be done about him, he's either going to get himself taken out or cause a serious accident as people try to avoid him, it's only a matter of time...
 
My Name is URL

My Name is URL

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Thanks very much to the arse wipe who took my wing mirror off last night on the railway bridge by Tesco (me going towards Tesco, them coming towards the castle). I know its tight over there but if everyone else can stay in lane, you should be able to too. Oh and thanks for driving off without stopping too. I hope your shit driving costs you a wedge to put right because its costing me!

Incidentally, anyone with a driving camera - would it be able to give me the number plate of a car coming towards me at night, or would the headlights of the oncoming car "dazzle" the camera?
 
GraphicsMan

GraphicsMan

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Yes, I've had a view near misses on that bridge. BMW last week, coming from Tesco side needed a lane an a half going over the brow. Luckily for me, going straight on in the oposite direction, there was nothing in the inside lane so I could swerve out of the way.

As you can see form my footage above, it's quite dificult to catch number plates at night. That said, mine is an inexpensive camera and probably lower resolution than more expensive models.

My Name is URL said:
Thanks very much to the arse wipe who took my wing mirror off last night on the railway bridge by Tesco (me going towards Tesco, them coming towards the castle). I know its tight over there but if everyone else can stay in lane, you should be able to too. Oh and thanks for driving off without stopping too. I hope your shit driving costs you a wedge to put right because its costing me!

Incidentally, anyone with a driving camera - would it be able to give me the number plate of a car coming towards me at night, or would the headlights of the oncoming car "dazzle" the camera?
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C

cj1

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it depends on the camera low end cameras sometimes suffer from dazzle however the biggest problem with all dash cameras is the reflection from your own headlights overexposes the number plate
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
photography_bloke said:
Something seriously does need to be done about him, he's either going to get himself taken out or cause a serious accident as people try to avoid him, it's only a matter of time...
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Much as it is maddening when you cross his path, or fairly satisfying when he gets his just deserts, I can't help but feel that it will end very badly for him.

Quite obviously care in the community has not been a success for this chap and he either isn't taking his medication or his medication needs to be altered. It would be nice if someone who knows where he lives could perhaps nudge social services or an appropriate medical person in his direction. Curbing his aggressive behaviour would certainly benefit road users but would probably improve his quality of life as well.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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This is justice in action - https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/525287941409894400 .

An Garda Síochána said:
18yr old unaccompanied learner attempted to park in Thurles on 19th. Alcohol levels saw him reverse into patrol car...
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Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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I went to a house in Creswell this morning. It has easy, off-road parking for six cars, up to eight at a push, and there are no resident vehicles there any more. I arrived to find one vehicle there - a British Gas van, on their "monthly visit to restart the boiler". They had very carefully parked between the gate-posts - so I blocked them in whilst I did what I was there for.
 
photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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I know we've always had a problem with red light runners around Stafford, but it seriously is getting out of hand!

Been out and about quite a bit today, moving equipment around between sites and running a few other errands - every single time I went out on the roads, I saw at least 3 or 4 people run through red lights. And I nearly had someone run up by backside when I committed the heinous crime of stopping as the lights changed...
 
Noah

Noah

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photography_bloke said:
I know we've always had a problem with red light runners around Stafford, but it seriously is getting out of hand! Been out and about quite a bit today, moving equipment around between sites and running a few other errands - every single time I went out on the roads, I saw at least 3 or 4 people run through red lights. And I nearly had someone run up by backside when I committed the heinous crime of stopping as the lights changed...
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Happened to me in Telford three or four years ago. The lights were changing to red as I approached, I slowed and stopped at the lights which were red by the time I got there. The car behind me accelerated to cross the lights, hit me, pushed in the back of my car and pushed me forward almost into the crossing traffic. Unfortunately (for him) the car he nearly pushed me into was a police car ...
 
PeterD

PeterD

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photography_bloke said:
I know we've always had a problem with red light runners around Stafford, but it seriously is getting out of hand!

Been out and about quite a bit today, moving equipment around between sites and running a few other errands - every single time I went out on the roads, I saw at least 3 or 4 people run through red lights. And I nearly had someone run up by backside when I committed the heinous crime of stopping as the lights changed...
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There was a police online Q and A recently and I raised red light jumpers, I was given a stock answer, I think he said that Stafford has a really safe record etc, I said rubbish, and suggested that he put an officer outside New Look at 5pm on a week night.
 
photography_bloke

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We all need to start carrying dash cams and collecting the footage together, be a bit hard to ignore it then

Further back in the thread I posted about a police car running through a red just ahead of me - doesn't surprise me that they're a bit dismissive of it if they do it themselves!
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Range Rover (what else?) two feet behind me at 30mph in a 30mph limit - then decides to boot it and overtake me by crossing a ghost island, into the face of oncoming traffic, whilst I'm indicating to turn right.

Although I was indicating, I also may have used a supplementary hand signal.
 
cardigan29

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Retsrof said:
Steve Bhattia rings a bell! unless its the lad that appears to have tourettes, used to see him cycling, swearing, shouting at everyone, between town and radford bank, but not seen him for maybe a year
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I went to school with Steve. I heard he suffered brain damage as a result of a cycling accident while at university. I have seen him on the road a few times and he does look like a man possessed.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Watching the two Land Rover drivers mouthing off at each other after one drove straight across a tee-junction where he had priority and without signalling, too - only for the other one to pull out on him.

It made up for nearly having the front taken off the car by the driver of the green Transit that didn't see that his traffic light was red, whilst mine was green - it was due to him being on the phone at the time, so I suppose that's OK.
 
gilbert grape

gilbert grape

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I'm still waiting for a serious coming together on the lanes that come from Queensway into Chell Road. The number that put their foot down in the right hand lane without thinking of how narrow the lanes are there is shocking.
 
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