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Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!
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United57
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See my rant here about the Royal Mail Van drivers and postmen on bikes. http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/ind...ile-royal-mail-stafford-problems.5710/page-13
wildwood
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I see him every morning too - very erratic driving. He's a co owner of A1 motor services off the Wolverhampton road.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
They're the ones that charged my lad (MoD1982) for work to the brakes of his car, that wasn't carried out. I am so grateful to AA Silencers that they sorted it out.
gilbert grape
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Two pet hates at the moment -
In the dusk time at each end of the day, people who think that because they can see where they are going, they are as visible as they are on a sunny day! And quite shockingly, a fair number of taxi drivers are included in this list. People who drive for a living should surely have safety first rather than save the battery first, mentality?
Secondly, those white lines up the middle of the road are for a reason. On Chell Road tonight, somebody created their own lane (driving on the right) to get to the lights a bit quicker going from Chell Road towards Gaol Square. Anybody putting their foot down to come roound the feeder lane the other way (wrong also) would have hit them head on, or gone down the side. Similar incidents occur outside Couture where the right hand lane is for Friars.
Cyclist this morning riding along Queensway, in dark clothing, no lights, on the road, about 7.45....enough said!
I don't enjoy getting out of my car feeliong like a grumpy old git due to experienceing the behaviour of muppets putting peoples' lives at risk!
In the dusk time at each end of the day, people who think that because they can see where they are going, they are as visible as they are on a sunny day! And quite shockingly, a fair number of taxi drivers are included in this list. People who drive for a living should surely have safety first rather than save the battery first, mentality?
Secondly, those white lines up the middle of the road are for a reason. On Chell Road tonight, somebody created their own lane (driving on the right) to get to the lights a bit quicker going from Chell Road towards Gaol Square. Anybody putting their foot down to come roound the feeder lane the other way (wrong also) would have hit them head on, or gone down the side. Similar incidents occur outside Couture where the right hand lane is for Friars.
Cyclist this morning riding along Queensway, in dark clothing, no lights, on the road, about 7.45....enough said!
I don't enjoy getting out of my car feeliong like a grumpy old git due to experienceing the behaviour of muppets putting peoples' lives at risk!
Toble
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In the wrong conditions (dusk, raining, approaching Gaol Square) sometimes people mistake the tarmac seam down the middle of Chell Road for a lane marker as it is more visible that the painted markings. That means that suddenly, if you're pointing towards the windmill, you can get some numpty coming directly towards you flashing their lights as if they are in the right.
gilbert grape
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Personally I think that if you were familiar with the road you would know where the markings are, but if you were passing through you'd follow the flow. It's the regulars that take chances IMO. "I'll nip round cos I know where the lane starts" sort of thing.
Sadly I think it may take a few accidents to happen before they mark the road clearly.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
You can often mark roads as clearly as you like, that doesn't mean the people won't still just push their way through - there's plenty of examples round the town where markings that are quite clear enough are generally ignored - and, as you say, mostly by regular users that know they can get away with it..
gilbert grape
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All this and I didn't even mention my hatred of box junction blockers or those that glare at you because you havent' pulled onto a junction so they can follow you to jump a few yards more! I pulled through a junction today as there was room to leave it only for 4 more to follow me onto it! Ggrrrr
Gramaisc
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Beautiful example of that here, solid queue of stationary cars down to the chicane, blocking the junction - cop car coming towards the camera through the chicane, with a queue behind it, indicating to turn right - couldn't get through the blocked junction, but the queue couldn't move because the other queue behind the cop car was now blocking the chicane - ad infinitum...
photography_bloke
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I hate that road with a passion... you always end up getting blocked in somewhere down there as no-one thinks to leave any of the side roads clear so people coming the other way can actually turn into them...
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
The modifications to Corporation Street are amongst the most incompetent that you will ever see anywhere. There is virtually no improvement of any sort apparent for drivers, pedestrians or residents.
Don't hate the road - hate the fools that did it - with your money.
Toble
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I lived in that house on the corner for a while, the Gothic Villa. Due to my work at night/sleep during the day life pattern at the time it was a night(day?)mare. Horns blowing all the time, engines reving, the occasional crunch as the bollard got, erm, crunched.
Still, not as bad my friend who lived by the next set of "speed cushions". He was constantly awakened by crunching noises from large vehicles trying to straddle the things and failing.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
The original bollards on the chicanes were just small grey posts with a reflective band round the top. "What do you think will happen when the period of leaf-fall arrives and the chicanes are obscured? Will people notice your little grey posts whilst they are negotiating the humps, pot-holes, puddles, chicanes and oncoming traffic?", I asked a neat-looking chap in a brand new hi-vis jacket. He dismissed my concerns with the expected haughty 'professionalism'. Later that year they dug up all three chicanes to (belatedly) install the illuminated bollards that are there now. At least four cars were severely damaged before reality finally dawned...
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Many thanks to the guy in the Cockring (Audi) who slip-streamed me all the way from Newport to Gnosall this morning and showed me so clearly that 50-60 mph on that stretch of road just isn't fast enough. You could have overtaken me on the straights, as I slowed down a little for you to get past but as you were so close you couldn't react in time.
Still, I am in awe of your blast past me as we entered the 30 zone in Gnosall. You really showed me what a top-class driver in a powerful 1.6 disiesal can do.
Still, I am in awe of your blast past me as we entered the 30 zone in Gnosall. You really showed me what a top-class driver in a powerful 1.6 disiesal can do.
Withnail
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Cockring durch Technik.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Cockring dork Twatnik
littleme
250,000th poster!
To the 'Gentleman' in the dark blue BMW who followed me down the Stone Rd from Redhill Island (in the 30mph part, trying to make me speed) - thank you soooo much for driving so closely that you were nearly in my boot.....I felt much safer with you 'covering my ass', & I was quite upset when I slowed to 20 & you fell back....Arsehole !
