Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

[MarkyD]

Also my more major gripe is with a scooter riders that hug the curb.. Please don't do this, ride in the middle of the rode or more towards the line so drivers can see you. People will only think you want them to overtake you, then when you suddenly switch lane you'll get run over. Even worse because you're hugging the curb people won't see you as they pull out of a side road because some bush or wall obstructs their view. Don't just rely on a Hi-Vis jacket...

 

[staffordjas]

Another classic happened the other day going up Radford Bank. Guy in-front of me thought it'd be really cleaver to just suddenly stop and pull up on the curb with out indicating to warn me. Then he decides to pull back out as I'm going around him then goes left at the roundabout and suddenly brakes again when there's no cars on the right hand side... Then he decides sits there for about 2 minuets with no traffic coming. So I pap my horn to nudge him on only to have him stall his car... Felt that vain in my head popping up slowly lol

Wonder if that's the same idiot who thought it would be funny to go as if to swerve around the wrong side of the pedestrian crossing on Lichfield Rd just past there by Knowle Road. Nothing was travelling down the side of the road going into Stafford so I walked over to the central reservation.Just as I was about 2ft off it ,this bloody idiot in a blue car thought he'd have a laugh with his mates and swerved onto the wrong side of the road towards me and then swerved back in right at the last second. He had a few other cars close behind him as well,pity one of them wasn't a plain cop car!

 

[Miss Red]

I was coming out of coop on tixall road and some dude coming from direction of asda turned right just before the met bar! Its a one way street doh! There was a lot of horns going lol

 

[Gramaisc]

I was coming out of coop on tixall road and some dude coming from direction of asda turned right just before the met bar! Its a one way street doh! There was a lot of horns going lol

Strangely, (and I'm assuming that things haven't changed) it's only a 'No Entry' - Tixall Road remains two-way, if you are the other side of the sign. The 'No Entry' arrangement is only about thirty years old, and many people in Stafford often drive to the road systems as they existed decades ago...

 

[ATJ]

Strangely, (and I'm assuming that things haven't changed) it's only a 'No Entry' - Tixall Road remains two-way, if you are the other side of the sign. The 'No Entry' arrangement is only about thirty years old, and many people in Stafford often drive to the road systems as they existed decades ago...

I was under the impression that it's a one way street from St Thomas Street to Tixall Road. It doesn't appear to be signed as such on Google maps but Hatherton Street has a 'left turn only' arrow on its junction.

 

[Gramaisc]

I was under the impression that it's a one way street from St Thomas Street to Tixall Road. It doesn't appear to be signed as such on Google maps but Hatherton Street has a 'left turn only' arrow on its junction.

The general idea is that people are supposed to assume it is one-way, but it actually isn't - there would be no need for this sign to stop you turning into St Thomas's Street if it was...

And there's another sign warning drivers to beware of cycles when driving the 'wrong way'. All the parked cars are facing the same way, of course, as it is only legal to enter from the St Thomas's Street/Dartmouth Street End. Driving the 'wrong way' along there is not for the faint-hearted, especially trying to negotiate the junction - best to treat it as a real one-way street these days, I suppose.

When exiting from the car-park at the rear of the Metropolitan Bar there is no sign suggesting that it is a one-way street, or that a left turn would be prohibited.

 

[Admin]

A bit puzzled as to why this thread was changed to something based on driving, when my initial point was about a pedestrian.....or was it 'cos of the way its developed?

Good point.

Sorry; it's because another thread was becoming derailed with 'poor driving' sentiments, so I wanted to move them to a more appropriate thread. When I searched for threads about bad driving, this one came up, but the title was something non-descript like "Unbelievable!!!" or similar, so I moved all the posts in here and re-titled it.

I have split the threads; you can find your original and applicable responses here:

Abuse at Tesco crossing in Stafford

Apologies for any confusion.

 

[Dabbler]

It may have been my comment about putting cameras at box junctions to catch those who block them in the Mobile Speed Camera thread, that took that thread off topic (sort of!) and got moved into here that started the derailment!!!

 

[Miss Red]

Big wave to the two old ladys in asda carpark who (when i was reversing out of space) didnt want to let me out even though i was moving before she got there! I know you dont have to let people out if you dont want to but seeing someone half way reversed when you get there, doesnt warrent you trying to shove your way past mouthing! Seems your momma forgot to teach you how not to be an ignorant so and so!!!

 

[Trumpet]

Don't wish to generalise but I very often find older folk to be the rudest and most ignorant in those situations.

 

[age'd parent]

Big wave to the two old ladys in asda carpark who (when i was reversing out of space) didnt want to let me out even though i was moving before she got there! I know you dont have to let people out if you dont want to but seeing someone half way reversed when you get there, doesnt warrent you trying to shove your way past mouthing! Seems your momma forgot to teach you how not to be an ignorant so and so!!!

I hate that, they seem to think that Pedestrians have right of way, It's a CAR park dammit, would they walk in the road and expect right of way!!
I, being an older Intelligent gentleman, always give way when walking in a car park, and nar na na nar nar to Trumpet.

 

[db]

I hate that, they seem to think that Pedestrians have right of way, It's a CAR park dammit, would they walk in the road and expect right of way!!

once again, paging henry scat to this thread for urgent derailment duties

 

[The Stafford Beast]

The general idea is that people are supposed to assume it is one-way, but it actually isn't - there would be no need for this sign to stop you turning into St Thomas's Street if it was...

And there's another sign warning drivers to beware of cycles when driving the 'wrong way'. All the parked cars are facing the same way, of course, as it is only legal to enter from the St Thomas's Street/Dartmouth Street End. Driving the 'wrong way' along there is not for the faint-hearted, especially trying to negotiate the junction - best to treat it as a real one-way street these days, I suppose.

When exiting from the car-park at the rear of the Metropolitan Bar there is no sign suggesting that it is a one-way street, or that a left turn would be prohibited.

In that case, it is also legal for you to make a U-turn/3-pointer just before Hatherton Street and go back up Tixall Road.
I remember when St Thomas Street was 2-way!

 

[Gramaisc]

In that case, it is also legal for you to make a U-turn/3-pointer just before Hatherton Street and go back up Tixall Road.
I remember when St Thomas Street was 2-way!

I believe so. It is still a two-way street, but it cannot be entered from Weston Road - or Hatherton Street, except to turn left and exit onto Weston Road.

A lot of streets that are now one-way used to be two-way within living memory - like Co-operative Street, for instance..

 

[Miss Red]

from st thomas street up to where tixall joins weston its one way only. It was hatherton street that this car went down, ive never seen anyone do it before, plus it was made slighty more dangerous in the fact he just swung round in front of the cars pulling up to the junction (from tixall to weston heading towards asda).
Surely it cannot be legal to right turn into hatherton......imagine the chaos in rush hour! lol.

 

[Gramaisc]

You can't turn right into Hatherton Street from Weston Road without first turning into Tixall Road, which is a 'No Entry', from either direction..

 

[United57]

Don't wish to generalise but I very often find older folk to be the rudest and most ignorant in those situations.

I agree

 

[Miss Red]

You can't turn right into Hatherton Street from Weston Road without first turning into Tixall Road, which is a 'No Entry', from either direction..

thats what i said

 

[The Stafford Beast]

from st thomas street up to where tixall joins weston its one way only.

I disagree. You can drive either way out of the Metropolitan Bar, the car park at the back of the cottages and also do a U-turn in this piece of road legally.

It was hatherton street that this car went down, ive never seen anyone do it before, plus it was made slighty more dangerous in the fact he just swung round in front of the cars pulling up to the junction (from tixall to weston heading towards asda).
Surely it cannot be legal to right turn into hatherton......imagine the chaos in rush hour! lol.

But yes, I agree.

There is a road layout near Walsall that has the same layout, but you ARE allowed to enter the equivalent of Weston Road->Tixall Road->Hatherton Street. The layout is complicated by the fact that people driving to Barns Lane now have the right of way, instead of people going all the way up Winterley Lane.
On the map...

Winterley Lane/Barns Lane = Weston Road​

Winterley Lane = Tixall Road​

New Street = Hatherton Street​

As you can see, it is a bit of a nightmare if you're in a long vehicle and wish to turn right from Winterley Lane/Barns Lane->New Street. This would be the same scenario Miss Red is describing here.

 

[Miss Red]

but if you turn out of met bar car park and go left........there would be accident from traffic coming up surely.....perhaps we should inform the middle of the road drivers of this!!
TBH the whole of stafford road system is a bit of a confusing mess...........the road coming from asda to gaol island by new look........two lanes to go up past sainsburys - nobody uses the feeder lane - so they all pile onto the yellow box and beyond! I use it and get some proper raa horns lol....but if its not there to use, why is it there at all!