Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

staffordjas

staffordjas

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Red car in front of me this morning , about 7.45 am, went straight through the red lights between TGF Pizza & the Island pub and nearly hit a man who was walking half way across on the pelican crossing .

Then some stupid old git in a silver car was reversing out ,into the flowing traffic as though it wasn't there,from the garage forecourt on Sandon Road (he had plenty of space to turn round on the actual forecourt) , then going back in, then out again..........last I saw of him in my rear mirror ,he was sitting stationary sideways across the Sandon Road.
 
photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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staffordjas said:
Red car in front of me this morning , about 7.45 am, went straight through the red lights between TGF Pizza & the Island pub and nearly hit a man who was walking half way across on the pelican crossing .
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Nearly got taken out walking to work this morning on the crossing outside Asda by someone sailing straight through the red lights, luckily I saw him coming...
 
shoes

shoes

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Just nearly been taken out by an oblivious woman in a Prius. Waiting in the hatched yellow box to turn right into the rear entrance at Asda, didn't even look and just pulled out in front of me. It had a private plate on it, G16 something I think.

Should have hit her really, would have been a good lesson in looking.

She should be named and shamed just for driving a Prius, let alone the driving standards.
 
PeterD

PeterD

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Some idiot on a bike not paying attention coming down Marston Road at 20 to 7 this morning, the wrong way. Was wondering where the alarm was coming from (Murco, see other thread) almost got hit.

Yeah it was me, I hold my hands up, normally bob on to the pavement if a car is coming.
 
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markpa12003

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At approximately 6.30pm tonight I witnessed an idiot jump two red lights. The male driver was travelling along the Lichfield Road towards the town centre. He jumped the red lights next to the car showroom on the Lichfield Road, thereby causing a number of vehicles travelling on the Wolverhampton Road going out of town to break sharply to avoid a collision. The driver then went through a second set of red lights causing vehicles travelling on the Wolverhampton Road into town to take aversive action. By chance we (brother and I) caught up with the driver outside of Tesco's. I was surprised to see that the idiot driver was approximately 50 years of age with 2 passengers in the car, whom I assume to be his wife and daughter.

This driver is a danger to himself and others, as such I hope he does everybody a favour and stops driving.

For your records the vehicle was a grey golf estate, registration FEW JMU.

A dangerous idiot that should needs to stop driving.
 
Dabbler

Dabbler

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Excellent piece of riding this evening by whoever was riding a moped with reg no BX57AEF. Not only did you travel down the left hand lane on Silkmore by the Esso petrol station and then cut a car up so that you could turn right, you then went through a red light on the Wolverhampton Road. With riding skills like that, I predict a visit to A&E in the near future.
 
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Sir BoD

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Abut an hour and a half ago I was riding my bike from the Sandon Road end of Beaconside and attempting to turn into the old Sandon road leading to, er, Sandon. I was wearing a bright green top, a bright blue cycle helmet and my bike is white and red. Oh, and I had my lights on too. I looked back to see if there was traffic coming; put out my right hand to enter into the filter lane and slowed down.

As I was turning into the junction, a large silver coloured estate pulled up from the old Sandon Road and attempted to turn right onto Beaconside whilst I was in the middle of my manoeuvre , making me have to take my turn wider and wider as I was trying my best to avoid wearing her bumper.
 
age'd parent

age'd parent

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Stupid driver pulled out in front of me when I was actually on the the browning st island:angry: making me slam on my brakes, how I laughed as a copper on a motor bike pulled round from behind me and pulled him over.:rofl:

Made my day to see the police actually get one of the idiots on the roads:clap:
 
Maryland

Maryland

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Hmmm. Not entirely sure whether this sort of vigilantism/snooping/judgement in ignorance of circumstances should be encouraged. I watched several of these before remembering I have a life.

For the life of me I can't see what exception he (oh yes it is a he) took to the van leaving the services. Was it the slight waver before changing to the inside lane? Did he fail to indicate when joining the m6? In the former case, might I suggest that the van driver may just possibly have been confused by the typically appalling and dangerous road signage within the services. Or he may have been confused and then alarmed by the sight in his wing mirror of a car apparently about to whiz past him on the nearside. Or he may have been stung by a wasp.

Dashboard cam man doesn't know, but it's apparently still OK to stick this person's vehicle details up in a public place and invite ridicule or worse. I thought we'd done away with this sort of homespun judgement of others around the time that stocks, ducking stools and lynch mobs began to be regarded as quite possibly not entirely impartial. And the camera does lie, not infrequently, which is precisely why this sort of unregulated surveillance of ones fellow citizens is on YouTube and not in CPS files.

That having been said, I'm all in favour of more of the constabulary equipped with Police ! Camera! Accident!-style kit cruising the public highways. They never seem to be around when some knob deliberately tries to cause a rear-end collision, or tries to pretend to side-swipe another vehicle, or attempts some other sort of aggressive stupidity they've seen in the telly being performed by someone who really can control a vehicle and gets paid for it.

Also, could cam-man please come and haunt the Stafford to Newport road and film the brainless twats who can't understand why driving up the arse of another vehicle at 60mph on a narrow twisty road is stupid and dangerous? Or the spaced-out who drive at a steady 40mph whether the speed limit is 60 or 30? That would be good.
 
Laurie61

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Video cam person is not without fault either, on ov12 dzj middle lane hogger video they fail to spot the danger with a car on the hard shoulder next to slip road at 15 sec in. This puts the car in lane one in a position where, should the hard shoulder vehicle attempt to get back in to lane one, they would have to break or swerve in to lane two. Instead of pursuing lane hogger they should have moved into lane two and then sat back, behind vehicle in lane one, until past the car on hard shoulder. Video car then proceeded to cover the distance between j 13-j 14, 5.3 miles, in around 4:10 sec which is about 76 mph. So two fail's in 4.5 min.



 
Maryland

Maryland

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Well, he's driving a grey/grey-green/blue-grey car. The bonnet has a broad indented strip running from top to bottom. He has a satnav screen - or possibly something connected to his camera, which would suggest a mind not fully on his driving at all times - stuck onto the dashboard. The windscreen air vent is below the central third or so of the screen, and there's only the one. And he does like to break the speed limit in pursuit of his hobby when it suits him - the motorway sequence noted above isn't the only one where he speeds up noticeably in order to get behind whoever he's stalking at the time.i reckon if you sat in the carpark of that Aldi outside Stone all day for a week, filming every car of that colour, you'd get him. But that would be a bit creepy, wouldn't it, filming somebody going about their business filming unknown others going about their business without their knowledge. And then putting it on a website.

That chap who cycles around London got up like a silly thing with several cameras strapped to his person did what he does in front of me at a bus stop the other day. He has a very loud air horn which he uses to attract even more attention to himself, and then proceeds to lecture the victim of the moment. In the case I observed, the woman he was having a go at very sensibly refused to do his bidding and lower a window so as to experience the full majesty of 'traffic droid's' self-righteousness. This caused some amusement at the bus stop, to which he was entirely oblivious.
 
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cj1

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whilst i agree with the points raised above i do believe the dash cam has its place
1 its a great interdependent witness in the event you have a crash
2 if you get in a situation where you have to take avoiding action you can play the footage back on a PC to see if you missed any warning signs of the hazard developing.its great being able to review an incident and take away any lessons that make you a safer driver.
one thing we often forget is that every vehicle on the roads is operated by a human. humans by there very nature are prone to make mistakes so its best to drive defensively
 
Laurie61

Laurie61

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cj1 said:
one thing we often forget is that every vehicle on the roads is operated by a human. humans by there very nature are prone to make mistakes so its best to drive defensively
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Too true, this is Stafford car video persons, foreign cousins, dash cam tape.

 
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