Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

[staffordjas]

A few cyclists with death wishes last night as well when I drove down to town about 6pm. Dark and pouring with rain, yet these idiots were weaving in and out of the queues of traffic at quite a speed and hardly visible, especially the ones with dark clothing and no lights.

Also met a car head on as I was driving up Radford Bank yesterday morning. It was overtaking the whole line of stationary traffic heading into town. Don't know if he was a stranger and thought it was a dual carriageway (on the rare occassion there was nothing in front of me up Radford Bank) or a complete prat thinking he was being clever .

 

[John Marwood]

 

[Trumpet]

Cyclist number 2 heading into town by Freedom Caravans, again riding on the wrong side of the road, this time without lights. I was heading towards Radford Bank and I had to swerve to miss him otherwise I would have hit him.

These two obviously don't value their lives.

No lights, wrong side of the road, reckon you'd get away with it.

 

[proactive]

No lights, wrong side of the road, reckon you'd get away with it.

Yeah but then there'd be all the hassle of washing the blood off the car and getting the scratches fixed...

 

[Toble]

Get a crap car with a big engine and learn how to apply the brakes quickly

Careful now!

Buy a crap car and don't use the brakes. I got my shitty old Golf up in Preston and drove it back down here one night. I was followed by the police most of the way. They finally pulled me over outside the station to ask why they hadn't seen brake lights since Charnock Richard Services. I pointed out that at 3am unless some idiot in front of you does something really stupid then you don't need brakes, and that engine braking on a 2L diesel is enough.
(time number 4 on this story i think?)

 

[staffordjas]

Stooooopid F***ing cyclist on Lichfield Rd by Frankie & Bennie lights earlier. My lights were on green and I was going away from town-he was cycling the other direction and decides he wants to go back the other way so does a U-turn in the road right in front of me .

 

[tek-monkey]

Wasn't the 'usual' guy was it? Neon green cycling top?

 

[staffordjas]

Could well have been . Was a racing type bike.

 

[marky]

Stooooopid F***ing cyclist on Lichfield Rd by Frankie & Bennie lights earlier. My lights were on green and I was going away from town-he was cycling the other direction and decides he wants to go back the other way so does a U-turn in the road right in front of me .

Was,t steve bhatia was it? usually wears green and black, mentioned earlier in this thread, and 'you've had some characters'

 

[My Name is URL]

Not Stafford but still worth a watch:

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/n...ws/video-erratic-driving-near-schools-6655061

Got to love the comments from the police:

Cheshire police confirmed they were currently attempting to track down the driver of the vehicle but as the footage 'doesn’t show the whole story' they would only be offering advice to the motorist.

“Without speaking to them we do not know what happened. There could be a normal explanation for the way they are driving,” said an officer, who did not wish to be named, but said the driver could have been swerving to avoid an animal.

“It does not show the whole story of what happened, there is no evidence of foul play.”

Fair enough for the first swerve / crash it could have been to avoid an animal or whatever, but how does that then make them drive on the wrong side of the road a second time on the way back up? Crazy.

 

[tek-monkey]

DV13 HMA, thank you ever so much for realising not quite enough rainwater had hit me on my way home, and ensuring that the large amount on the ground got recycled in my general direction. Cheers.

 

[Sir BoD]

Well done to the colour blind Aero Brights taxi driver yesterday morning heading into Doxey. I can only presume that your colour blindness explains the extreme poor choice of colour for your car (electric blue) just as much as your inability to differentiate between red and green.

 

[Gramaisc]

Well done to the colour blind Aero Brights taxi driver yesterday morning heading into Doxey. I can only presume that your colour blindness explains the extreme poor choice of colour for your car (electric blue) just as much as your inability to differentiate between red and green.

He was behind me today, as I approached a red light on Gaol Square. I was daft enough to slow down as I was intending to stop, but, undeterred, he pulled out and overtook me, in order not to miss the opportunity to run that red light.

 

[proactive]

Well done to the colour blind Aero Brights taxi driver yesterday morning heading into Doxey. I can only presume that your colour blindness explains the extreme poor choice of colour for your car (electric blue) just as much as your inability to differentiate between red and green.

It's not mere coincidence that Aero Brights rhymes with shites...

 

[age'd parent]

Its only recently that I won a court case against aerobrights where the driver lied when she said that I pulled out and hit her, I was parked up at the time, she tried to pull in in front of me into a parking space that was too small, too fast and scraped her taxi from front wing to back wing!

 

[Hixon & MOD Fireworks]

is it me or has the highway code changed that allows cyclists to have extremely bright lights that are undipped and strapped to their heads and in most cases are a danger to an epileptic probably?

 

[henryscat]

I don't blame cyclists who want to be well lit up, it is to compensate for the amount of blindness/ in attention from numpty car drivers.

 

[tek-monkey]

is it me or has the highway code changed that allows cyclists to have extremely bright lights that are undipped and strapped to their heads and in most cases are a danger to an epileptic probably?

Whilst I agree that some cyclists are going a bit overboard, cycling at night is a nightmare. Oncoming cars even with dipped lights really mess up your field of view because comparatively your own lights suck, so your vision is drawn into their illumination instead. I used to get the same on my old 6v motorbike, when your lights are so much dimmer (comparatively) you lose the ability to see your own lit area once theirs starts to converge.

Personally I'd not use a head mounted light unless I was on trails, but I have nothing against using a decent cree to light up my way. I tend to use two, one focused but dipped on the road in front and the other set to flood fill and aimed a bit higher to give me some peripheral vision. That is when I'm making any form of longish journey anyway, if I'm just going home from work you'll often see me with just my knog markers and lit up wheels.

 

[Gramaisc]

is it me or has the highway code changed that allows cyclists to have extremely bright lights that are undipped and strapped to their heads and in most cases are a danger to an epileptic probably?

Unless you have a very good memory for the locations of the many potholes -and regularly update the database in your head - then cycling in the dark, against the often poorly adjusted motor vehicle lights, is likely to end in an unscheduled dismount....

 

[proactive]

Unless you have a very good memory for the locations of the many potholes -and regularly update the database in your head - then cycling in the dark, against the often poorly adjusted motor vehicle lights, is likely to end in an unscheduled dismount....

According to Henry Scat, potholes aren't an issue and can be avoided simply by not driving/riding into them. No need for extra lighting, no danger to anybody... Simples...