Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

EasMid

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If that is the case then an awareness of those also on the road with you is a helpful driving skill when unfamiliar with local lane discipline!
Lane markings, either arrows or road numbers seem to be beyond the grasp of most drivers around town. Again today I've been in the left lane on Eastgate street turning into North Walls (clearly marked A518) & 2 vehicles in the right lane (clearly marked A449/ A34 south) just nonchalantly pulled across the front of me into the centre lane on North Walls (clearly marked A518).
Don't even mention the lanes at the Asda roundabout, the signs & road markings obviously aren't big enough for the wankers that either sit in the middle lane of Lamascote rd to go up Queensway or the wankers that sit in the left lane & then cut across the clearly marked lane to go up the Wolverhampton road.
 

airbusA346

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The two idiots this afternoon (one in a BMW and the other a VW Transporter) using the left hand lane of the J14 southbound exit slip road to go up Eccleshall road (and going over the hatched markings).
 

Thehooperman

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It's not just Stafford crap drivers who are clueless about using a yellow box junction.

After this pair blocked anyone turning right into or out of the junction for four light sequences some dick in a Lexus, reg WJ14VCB, then followed them running a red light and nearly hitting the car in front of me as well as trying to ram me as we both proceeded through a green light and with our exit clear.

I have now educated the good folk of Teignmouth of a few choice Staffordshire sayings :)

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Alee

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Elderly lady in White Fiat 500 driving down crossing lane in derrington this morning, I was on foot. She drove into me, waited for me to move off her bonnet and smiled, waved and drove off like nothing had happened.
 

Gramaisc

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Elderly lady in White Fiat 500 driving down crossing lane in derrington this morning, I was on foot. She drove into me, waited for me to move off her bonnet and smiled, waved and drove off like nothing had happened.
How careless of you. I hope she was OK.

;)

The modern Fiat "500s" do often seem to be driven with what would have been called 'gay abandon' back when they really were 500s.
 

littleme

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Elderly lady in White Fiat 500 driving down crossing lane in derrington this morning, I was on foot. She drove into me, waited for me to move off her bonnet and smiled, waved and drove off like nothing had happened.
Report her to the police, she is clearly a danger to herself & everyone around her. Imagine if you had had your kids with you!
 

Gramaisc

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Report her to the police, she is clearly a danger to herself & everyone around her. Imagine if you had had your kids with you!
The cops have reported themselves over the wrong-way-up-the-motorway Subaru and caravan a few days ago - three deaths from that - after the driver's competence had been reported to them some time before....
 

Alee

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Hopefully I won’t meet her again in the same place on way back !

Saying that at , at least I could get her reg and detain her . If she doesn’t plough me down first
 

Cue

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Elderly lady in White Fiat 500 driving down crossing lane in derrington this morning, I was on foot. She drove into me, waited for me to move off her bonnet and smiled, waved and drove off like nothing had happened.

There are far, far too many people on the road who should have stopped driving years ago. The concept of mandatory tests over a certain age can't come soon enough - but it won't because who's our government's main base?
 

EasMid

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Why have an age limit? I'm a firm believer that EVERY driver should have some type of practical assessment every 10 years or so. While there's quite a few older drivers that shouldn't be on the road there's also lots of drivers that only drive a few hundred miles a year & have no experience of all sorts of driving conditions. I know someone who passed their test at 17 but didn't drive for over 20 years. Bought a car & is hopeless, they have to drive around car parks to find a space they can drive into & straight out without reversing. Regular compulsory test/assessment would make the roads a lot safer
 

Gramaisc

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Why have an age limit? I'm a firm believer that EVERY driver should have some type of practical assessment every 10 years or so. While there's quite a few older drivers that shouldn't be on the road there's also lots of drivers that only drive a few hundred miles a year & have no experience of all sorts of driving conditions. I know someone who passed their test at 17 but didn't drive for over 20 years. Bought a car & is hopeless, they have to drive around car parks to find a space they can drive into & straight out without reversing. Regular compulsory test/assessment would make the roads a lot safer
It would seem simple enough, and could be made self-financing, to have it triggered by any upward change in the points total on a licence.
 

Cue

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Why have an age limit? I'm a firm believer that EVERY driver should have some type of practical assessment every 10 years or so. While there's quite a few older drivers that shouldn't be on the road there's also lots of drivers that only drive a few hundred miles a year & have no experience of all sorts of driving conditions. I know someone who passed their test at 17 but didn't drive for over 20 years. Bought a car & is hopeless, they have to drive around car parks to find a space they can drive into & straight out without reversing. Regular compulsory test/assessment would make the roads a lot safer

It's so easy to fail for stupid stuff when doing a test, it would suck if you ended up not being able to drive because some examiner decided that turning off the 40mph stretch of Stone Road (before the roundabout) onto Crab Lane should be done at 40mph so as not to cause other drivers to slow down warrants a fail.

Yes I speak from experience. My instructor was gobsmacked (she was in the car at the time)

There's already a multi-month wait so I dread to think how long the queue would be if everyone had to be tested every 10 years.
 

proactive

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It's so easy to fail for stupid stuff when doing a test, it would suck if you ended up not being able to drive because some examiner decided that turning off the 40mph stretch of Stone Road (before the roundabout) onto Crab Lane should be done at 40mph so as not to cause other drivers to slow down warrants a fail.

Yes I speak from experience. My instructor was gobsmacked (she was in the car at the time)

There's already a multi-month wait so I dread to think how long the queue would be if everyone had to be tested every 10 years.
It would make the roads quieter then for the rest of us.
 

Gramaisc

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I've just had a food delivery moped thing, with a big box on the back, pull out onto Beaconside in front of me, from Portal Road.

The pulling out was not an issue - plenty of space and time - but the noise from it, at a good 250 yards, completely swamped my radio.
 
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