Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

[cj1]

I'm still for arguing that anyone who doesn't feel safe to drive faster than 40 mph on the A518 between Stafford and Newport in broad daylight on a dry road should have their licence rescinded. It's a 60mph road because in the main it's safe to travel at that speed. Unless you're stuck behind one of these tw*ts doing 35 to 40 all the way Infuriating.

Are these the same people that then drive at 35-40 through Haughton and gnosall.

 

[Tilly]

I'm still for arguing that anyone who doesn't feel safe to drive faster than 40 mph on the A518 between Stafford and Newport in broad daylight on a dry road should have their licence rescinded. It's a 60mph road because in the main it's safe to travel at that speed. Unless you're stuck behind one of these tw*ts doing 35 to 40 all the way Infuriating.

It's a limit

Not a target

Twat

 

[kyoto49]

It's a limit

Not a target

Twat

And u would fail your driving test for doing 40 on a 60 for no good reason on a dry clear day . Its officially called failing to make progress...twat.

 

[kyoto49]

Are these the same people that then drive at 35-40 through Haughton and gnosall.

Yes. They seem to have no understanding ofspeed limits and road conditions and just drive the whole way at 35 to 40, probably in third gear. They think they are very safe when in reality they are oblivious to everything around them.

 

[Tilly]

And u would fail your driving test for doing 40 on a 60 for no good reason on a dry clear day . Its officially called failing to make progress...twat.

Your no good reason is why A and E is full of trauma injuries

Thick Tractor Ignorant Twat

 

[kyoto49]

Your no good reason is why A and E is full of trauma injuries

Thick Tractor Ignorant Twat

Is it bollocks. Sh*t driving is the reason for that. And people too scared to drive even close to the expected speed are a big part of that. If u can't drive above 40 on a main road that is dry and clear and almost empty you shouldnt be driving at all. Like I said, you would fail your driving test for it.

 

[Tilly]

Is it bollocks. Sh*t driving is the reason for that. And people too scared to drive even close to the expected speed are a big part of that. If u can't drive above 40 on a main road that is dry and clear and almost empty you shouldnt be driving at all. Like I said, you would fail your driving test for it.

I'm not terrible concerned about passing any tests, more being passsed by twats

 

[Gramaisc]

Do driving tests include sections on 60mph roads these days? I never went outside a 30 limit when I did mine, although it was in a previous century.

 

[PeterD]

On winding roads, lets take newport to gnosall as an example, I try to keep my speed down as I dont know whats round the corner . Cyclist, horse, tractor, I never know so 40 miles an hour for me .

Peter, 47, Stafford, Twat .

 

[littleme]

Do driving tests include sections on 60mph roads these days? I never went outside a 30 limit when I did mine, although it was in a previous century.

Yes.

 

[Glam]

On winding roads, lets take newport to gnosall as an example, I try to keep my speed down as I dont know whats round the corner . Cyclist, horse, tractor, I never know so 40 miles an hour for me .

Peter, 47, Stafford, Twat .

Not a twat, careful. I wouldn't like to go round a bend at 60mph and hit a horse and rider, cyclist or a tractor.

A few weeks ago,an old school friend of mine and his wife were hit while driving their horse and carriage along the Uttoxetor Road in Hilderstone. She died and he received leg injuries so severe there was talk he may lose both legs, if he didn't die too.
Speed limits are a suggestion not a must do.

 

[Gramaisc]

There are some odd limits round here.

The new section at Norton Bridge is wide and smooth, with sweeping bends and clear vision, no blind access points or substantial items that could stop you suddenly, crash barriers alongside most of it. It's a 50 limit.

When it ends towards Eccleshall, you are dumped back onto the old , twisty, narrow, rough, potholed road with its hedges, blind bends, very solid tree trunks every few yards and some access points with rather poor visibility. That's a 60 limit.

I was recently asked, by a 'professional driver', why the A34 dual carriageway had 60mph speed limit signs on it. "Because it would be a 70 without them, unless there were streetlights along it" seemed to mystify him. He was of the belief that 70mph was only permitted on motorways...

 

[Thehooperman]

On winding roads, lets take newport to gnosall as an example, I try to keep my speed down as I dont know whats round the corner . Cyclist, horse, tractor, I never know so 40 miles an hour for me .

Peter, 47, Stafford, Twat .

I was doing about 50mph on said road one day and as I went around a bend just before Peartree bank there was a tractor and trailer turning right into a field. I would have hit it if I'd been going any faster.

Also whilst driving on said road I slow down around the bends but speed up to 60mph to be a twat and stop the 60mph twats following me from overtaking.

I can't think how many twats' lives I must have saved by just being a twat.

 

[Gramaisc]

I'm fairly sure that the brakes were being applied in every collision that I have witnessed, apart from one, but there wasn't sufficient time and space available to dispose of the necessary amount of kinetic energy that had been accumulated before contact occurred and the subsequent deformations accounted for the remaining energy.

 

[PeterD]

My wife was doing 40 on a 60 near brewood, she saw the after effects of a horse being hit. Heres the thing, you want to drive the limit on roads, thats cool, you be you. If I want to drive what I feel is right I will do it.

 

[proactive]

I'm still for arguing that anyone who doesn't feel safe to drive faster than 40 mph on the A518 between Stafford and Newport in broad daylight on a dry road should have their licence rescinded. It's a 60mph road because in the main it's safe to travel at that speed. Unless you're stuck behind one of these tw*ts doing 35 to 40 all the way Infuriating.

Why don't you just overtake when it's safe to do so?

I drive that road most days, as does Mrs p and it's never been a 'thing'.

 

[cj1]

I believe the points raised above relates to hazard perception and risk management you should drive to what you can see and within the law. But if you can not drive to the limit in minimal risk conditions safely should you be in control of that vehicle.

 

[tek-monkey]

If I'd ridden at the speed limit in Wales last weekend I'd likely not be typing this, as I met a motorhome on a blind bend that was half in my lane! On a straight road or with good visibility though I'll ride at the limit, usually still getting overtaken regularly by people who pay it no heed.

 

[Gramaisc]

I frequently find myself sitting immediately behind a vehicle in a queue driven by someone who was too important to stay behind me on the road a few miles back.

People's perceptions of what is safe vary considerably. I had a chap get half-way past me on the Uttoxeter road the other day before being confronted by a speeding black Audi hurtling at him around the bend ahead. The bend was a left-hander, from our point of view, and the overtaker saw the approaching car before I did and hit his brakes fairly savagely, to drop in behind me, just in the nick of time. If it had been a right-hand bend and I'd seen the Audi first, I might have already been braking to let him pass, only to find that I'd closed him out. There was no possibility of them stopping before they collided.

The straight sections across the edge of Seighford airfield are a common scene of collisions.

 

[gilbert grape]

I've covered best part of 800 miles the last 2 weekends, following Rangers to Workington and South Shields so have witnessed numerous incidents of stupidity and downright dangerous driving. I try to steer clear of generalising on car makes and types but what was apparent on these trips, was drivers of small cars, and their behaviour. 107 and the like, seem to have a lot of space room around them, as they don't fit a motorway line, so they seem to weave side to side while looking ahead. Also the choice of younger drivers who seemed to be having animated chats with friends and taking their eyes off the road!
I'm also really not surprised at the number of accidents that shut the motorway, in our locality, when people have so little discipline, or judgement of distance, in narrow lanes while work goes on. We really don't value life and would rather do somebody out of being there two cars earlier!