Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

[Vault_girl]

Does anyone else regularly have to go down foregate street towards town then along queensway towards asda? I make that journey every day and because of queensway being 1 lane they've done some fiddling with the lanes - it was working quite well up until recently where they've changed which lane is closed along queensway and put up a sign on foregate street - now it's all gone to pot!

basically the right hand lane of queensway is closed but the sign on foregate street says go into the middle lane at the junction of foregate street and the roundabout if you want to go along queensway and the left hand lane is for turning left up Gaol Road only. The middle lane feeds into the middle lane on the roundabout and then would become the right hand lane along queensway but the right hand lane on queensway is now closed (hope you're all still following). basically half the people are ignoring the sign on foregate street and getting into the left hand lane then staying in the left hand lane on the roundabout and following it round to queensway - which means the people who do follow the sign are cut off once they try to start going down queensway because there are people in the left hand lane.

I've already seen so many people cutting other people off and loads of near misses as people just switch lane without looking and now it's dark at rush hour I can see there being some accidents. They could do with closing off the middle lane and just making people go down the left hand lane at the foregate junction.

 

[Gramaisc]

Does anyone else regularly have to go down foregate street towards town then along queensway towards asda? I make that journey every day and because of queensway being 1 lane they've done some fiddling with the lanes - it was working quite well up until recently where they've changed which lane is closed along queensway and put up a sign on foregate street - now it's all gone to pot!

basically the right hand lane of queensway is closed but the sign on foregate street says go into the middle lane at the junction of foregate street and the roundabout if you want to go along queensway and the left hand lane is for turning left up Gaol Road only. The middle lane feeds into the middle lane on the roundabout and then would become the right hand lane along queensway but the right hand lane on queensway is now closed (hope you're all still following). basically half the people are ignoring the sign on foregate street and getting into the left hand lane then staying in the left hand lane on the roundabout and following it round to queensway - which means the people who do follow the sign are cut off once they try to start going down queensway because there are people in the left hand lane.

I've already seen so many people cutting other people off and loads of near misses as people just switch lane without looking and now it's dark at rush hour I can see there being some accidents. They could do with closing off the middle lane and just making people go down the left hand lane at the foregate junction.

Better off going down Gaol Road - they've closed off one lane at the Gaol Square entry and so there's no ambiguity..

 

[shoes]

Last night someone in an mx5 lost grip going around the darlaston inn roundabout and ended up skidding most of the way around the island.

Oh, wait, that was me

Perhaps time to put the mazda into storage for the winter, it seems diabolical in the wet.

 

[Gramaisc]

Perhaps time to put the mazda into storage for the winter, it seems diabolical in the wet.

 

[joshua]

Whoever was driving that large black saloon which collided with the lamp post in front of the royal tandoori on forgate this morning and sheared it off at the base. (having said that i hope nobody was harmed)

 

[shoes]

ah i heard on the wireless forgate street was closed, I guess that's why!

 

[United57]

Whoever was driving that large black saloon which collided with the lamp post in front of the royal tandoori on forgate this morning and sheared it off at the base. (having said that i hope nobody was harmed)

Yes the car was still there at 1.30. Police, recovery and AON. I guess they are waiting for AON to make it safe.

It baffles me how it could happen.? The car was certainly damaged !

 

[joshua]

Yes the car was still there at 1.30. Police, recovery and AON. I guess they are waiting for AON to make it safe.

It baffles me how it could happen.? The car was certainly damaged !

Yeah that was a hell of a dent in the bonnet, traffic light gp perhaps ?

 

[rbellamy]

Thank you to the white van driver, who insisted on keeping his front bumper about 2 inches from my rear all the way from Rugeley to the Queensville retail park roundabout this evening. I managed to escape briefly at the weeping cross junction, but after a short time he was speeding up behind me, and regained his position rather as if his van was attached to my car by a length of elastic.
May you be visited by a plague of locusts...preferably on your testicles.

 

[proactive]

Last night someone in an mx5 lost grip going around the darlaston inn roundabout and ended up skidding most of the way around the island.

Oh, wait, that was me

Perhaps time to put the mazda into storage for the winter, it seems diabolical in the wet.

The only way any man should be seen driving an MX5 is...

 

[Toble]

Last night someone in an mx5 lost grip going around the darlaston inn roundabout and ended up skidding most of the way around the island.

Oh, wait, that was me

Perhaps time to put the mazda into storage for the winter, it seems diabolical in the wet.

So how many cars do you have?

 

[henryscat]

Last night someone in an mx5 lost grip going around the darlaston inn roundabout and ended up skidding most of the way around the island.

Oh, wait, that was me

Perhaps time to put the mazda into storage for the winter, it seems diabolical in the wet.

Or drive it more sensibly according to the conditions?

 

[shoes]

So how many cars do you have?

Two BMWs, a mondeo and an mx-5 at present.

Or drive it more sensibly according to the conditions?

Where's the fun in that?

 

[shoes]

The only way any man should be seen driving an MX5 is...

Lol yeah I know - want me to book you in for a cut and blow dry?

 

[Gramaisc]

I know somebody who had a blue one. One day, not long after the birth of her first grandchild, I spotted a blue MX5 stuck in the traffic in Eastgate Street, with the roof down. As I got closer, I shouted "Oi! Granny!", in what I felt was an affectionate manner. Unfortunately, it wasn't her and I fear that I may have caused some offence to the unknown lady driver.

Apologies if it was you.

 

[proactive]

Lol yeah I know - want me to book you in for a cut and blow dry?

I normally sport a quiff, if you feel you are up to that?

 

[shoes]

Bit of gel and a fast ride with the roof down - no problem!

 

[Alesto]

Does anyone else regularly have to go down foregate street towards town then along queensway towards asda? I make that journey every day and because of queensway being 1 lane they've done some fiddling with the lanes - it was working quite well up until recently where they've changed which lane is closed along queensway and put up a sign on foregate street - now it's all gone to pot!

basically the right hand lane of queensway is closed but the sign on foregate street says go into the middle lane at the junction of foregate street and the roundabout if you want to go along queensway and the left hand lane is for turning left up Gaol Road only. The middle lane feeds into the middle lane on the roundabout and then would become the right hand lane along queensway but the right hand lane on queensway is now closed (hope you're all still following). basically half the people are ignoring the sign on foregate street and getting into the left hand lane then staying in the left hand lane on the roundabout and following it round to queensway - which means the people who do follow the sign are cut off once they try to start going down queensway because there are people in the left hand lane.

I've already seen so many people cutting other people off and loads of near misses as people just switch lane without looking and now it's dark at rush hour I can see there being some accidents. They could do with closing off the middle lane and just making people go down the left hand lane at the foregate junction.

I know exactly what you mean! But unfortunately, the only way I got round it was to keep in the left hand lane, people were just not reading the sign about getting in the correct lanes for queensway and I had a couple of near misses. But I do let anybody in the middle lane filter in safely.

 

[PeterD]

I repeat what I said earlier in the thread, stafford more than any town I have come across has a real problem with people jumping the lights. Consistently drivers go through lights, from bikes to buses and everything in between the lights are treated only as a guideline. Also this habit in the town, if traffic is bad on the island near new look, and a car hasnt moved, when the lights change the driver feels it is their right to go anyway, after all it was their turn. I really wish the police would set them selves up outside new look with a camera for an hour on a saturday and issue fines.

 

[Jonah]

Had a woman pull out of Porlock Avenue right in front of me yesterday evening. She looked straight at me and still pulled out. Had to jam the brakes on and come to a complete stop otherwise I would have hit her. I blasted my horn and all she did was give a stupid little wave to say "sorry". Stupid cow.