Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

[cj1]

When I'm going to reverse off a main road I signal left then a few feet before I stop put the hazard lights on people then stop further back so you can complete the mannuver.

 

[Gramaisc]

When I'm going to reverse off a main road I signal left then a few feet before I stop put the hazard lights on people then stop further back so you can complete the mannuver.

As last night's chap had been following me at only a few feet and we had just passed a parked car, after which I signalled left, slowed down and then lit the brake lights, only to find him following me into the curb in a section of road that is plenty wide enough for three vehicles to pass (and there was nothing coming the other way), I suspect that even "hazard lights" might have been a bit too nuanced for him.

All he had to do was not follow me and he could have just sailed past.


I thought hazard lights were only for parking on double yellow lines?

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Got to the junction of Rickerscote Road and Rising Brook and discovered the railings had been driven into (see pic). Thought that it would of been some pillock late at night, turned into Rising Brook to go to the motorway and saw a Passat Estate with their passenger side wing ripped off....

 

[Sir BoD]

Got to the junction of Rickerscote Road and Rising Brook and discovered the railings had been driven into (see pic). Thought that it would of been some pillock late at night, turned into Rising Brook to go to the motorway and saw a Passat Estate with their passenger side wing ripped off....

Not just driven into but knocked sideways, too!

 

[photography_bloke]

Heading down Beaconside yesterday and a car flew past me at what must have been 100mph plus

 

[Really?]

Saw a cyclist yesterday biking the wrong way up the High Street - in full lycra with the nutter cam on his helmet, swearing at pedestrians to get out of his way. Little old man, completely oblivious, swung his shopping basket round and copped his front wheel. Cyclist fell off, old man walked away without even looking back - I don't think he even realised what he had done. I did laugh. They need a copper booking all the cyclists riding the wrong way down one way streets.

This morning saw a motorist perfectly legally coming down the side of Macdonalds to turn right almost collided with another lycra cladded aresehole who gave the poor young girl a mouthful. Luckiliy she must have been going at less than one mile an hour. I had to reassure her that she was in the right and he was just a nob.

 

[shoes]

Did you see the video that was circulating yesterday of a lycra lunatic plowing straight into the back of a car? Must have watched it a hundred times and it was no less amusing

 

[Glam]

Did you see the video that was circulating yesterday of a lycra lunatic plowing straight into the back of a car? Must have watched it a hundred times and it was no less amusing

Wasn't he reading sumat at the time?

 

[shoes]

Yeah I think so. Hopefully the car driver took the bike as security in lieu of the damage to the car being paid for.

 

[Really?]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...somersaults-air-ploughing-stationary-car.html

This one?
I notice the cyclist did a runner leaving a damaged car. I hope they picked him up and prosecuted him.

 

[ATJ]

Saw a cyclist yesterday biking the wrong way up the High Street - in full lycra with the nutter cam on his helmet, swearing at pedestrians to get out of his way. Little old man, completely oblivious, swung his shopping basket round and copped his front wheel. Cyclist fell off, old man walked away without even looking back - I don't think he even realised what he had done. I did laugh. They need a copper booking all the cyclists riding the wrong way down one way streets.

This morning saw a motorist perfectly legally coming down the side of Macdonalds to turn right almost collided with another lycra cladded aresehole who gave the poor young girl a mouthful. Luckiliy she must have been going at less than one mile an hour. I had to reassure her that she was in the right and he was just a nob.

I thought cycling was banned in the town centre regardless of direction?

 

[Gramaisc]

I thought cycling was banned in the town centre regardless of direction?

Indeed, unless one is delivering/collecting - or has an appropriate blue badge.

 

[proactive]

Indeed, unless one is delivering/collecting - or has an appropriate blue badge.

Or just fancies riding and sod everyone else as is the norm.

 

[kyoto49]

I thought cycling was banned in the town centre regardless of direction?

The stupidity of banning cycles at all times yet allowing cars and juggernaughts at certain times.

 

[PeterD]

I guess it comes down to what is more visible, its very easy to miss a bike weaving through a crowd but not a car doing 15 miles an hour in a relatively straight forward journey.

 

[kyoto49]

I guess it comes down to what is more visible, its very easy to miss a bike weaving through a crowd but not a car doing 15 miles an hour in a relatively straight forward journey.

But if there is a crowd the driver should be paying complete attention anyway. It's even easier to miss a toddler, or a pram or pensioner, than a bike!!

 

[ATJ]

The stupidity of banning cycles at all times yet allowing cars and juggernaughts at certain times.

Not really. Deliveries can't exactly be magicked into the stores.

 

[Rikki]

I would guess the actual reason for the total ban of bikes but not vehicles is so shops can have deliveries etc. Bikes have no legitimate need to be used at any time.

 

[Rikki]

Atj beat me to it.

 

[kyoto49]

Not really. Deliveries can't exactly be magicked into the stores.

No I agree, but is my understanding correct that cars can drive up there after certain hours for any reason?