Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

[Glam]

Anyone who buys a 4x4 to use on the road because they think it will help them in the snow an ice is a clown.

Firstly because a decent set of winter tyres will make most normal cars perform well in adverse conditions.
Secondly because you can only go as fast (or as slow) as the car in front and if that's a RWD car with fat tyres and worn down tread then that isn't going to be very fast. And if the traffic ahead is stationary then so will you soon be.

Which brings us back to keeping the foot on the brakes when stationary. Happened again this evening in Eccleshall. Stopped at the zebra crossing and the woman in front kept her foot on the brake. If I hadn't put the handbrake on, and I'd been nudged from behind, little Johnny on the crossing could have been squashed.

 

[kyoto49]

Nowadays 4x4 isnt designed to go off road. Theyre designed for wives of rich blokes to run around chelsea in. Same with the range rover. They aint made for farmers to drive across their fields in with 24 inch alloys and luxury leather interiors, theyre designed as a prestige vehicle. Its just another bastardisation of american culture thats infiltrated british society.

I wish they'd f*ckin stay in Chelsea. They are only ever driven by morons.....or worse. People who couldn't give a shit about anyone or anything but themselves.

 

[Rikki]

Which brings us back to keeping the foot on the brakes when stationary. Happened again this evening in Eccleshall. Stopped at the zebra crossing and the woman in front kept her foot on the brake. If I hadn't put the handbrake on, and I'd been nudged from behind, little Johnny on the crossing could have been squashed.

Sorry but I would actually guess in that situation having your foot on the brake is better than having the handbrake on as the handbrake is usually only the rear wheels and the footbrake is on front and rear.

 

[Glam]

Sorry but I would actually guess in that situation having your foot on the brake is better than having the handbrake on as the handbrake is usually only the rear wheels and the footbrake is on front and rear.

But, if you were to be shunted up the back end, there's a good chance that your foot would come off the brake. Therefore shunting you into the car in front, or the pedestrian walking in front of your car.

 

[Gramaisc]

But, if you were to be shunted up the back end, there's a good chance that your foot would come off the brake. Therefore shunting you into the car in front, or the pedestrian walking in front of your car.

True. The mass of your leg will, in the event of a sudden forward impetus, result in the inertia of your leg reducing, or removing, your pressure on the brake pedal. It's not a good idea for that and many other reasons.

Pressure the brake pedal hard, should you see somebody approaching in the mirror at speed, whilst also having the handbrake on, may have some beneficial effect, in certain circumstances.

 

[Floss]

Get right off that bloody high horse! I have a tatty old Ford Puma, It int no bloomin sports car, but it is low. No, I'm not Stirling Moss, but I do drive it like I'm the Stig at the Top Gear track.
My point is. folk look right daft driving a 4x4 if they aren't using it for the purpose it was made for. Taking the kids to and from school is not quite what I think the designers had in mind.
If I lived out in the back of beyond, like my sister does, then yes, I would buy a 4x4, I don't. I live in town and even with the worst snow fall, there is no need of a gas guzzlin, fume emitting 4x4.

I agree I have a mini and it's small but I'm not exactly tall, it's not the first mini I've had and I've changed to different sized cars to suit lifestyle/family at the time, but recently went back to the mini because 90% of the time there is only me in it and I can park it easy it fits in small spaces ( something these bigger cars don't do, particularly in multi storey car parks) it's nippy so I can pull out quick and it's easy to clean, I had a country man previously and used to have to stand on a stepladder to clean the top of it. We also have an evoque which is the oh's he does a lot of motorway travelling, but if we are going far at weekends or holidays we use this because you can get more in it, but for tootling to town and back we use the mini, let's face it you're only sat in traffic for most of your journey anyway! (We walk also if just ambling into town to meet friends for coffee or drinks) I couldn't imagine trying to get about town in a 4x4 particularly if I wanted to turn around half way into town because of traffic or if I had to move out the way to let an ambulance passed particularly somewhere like oxford gardens where I do have to visit regularly.

 

[Really?]

Get right off that bloody high horse! I have a tatty old Ford Puma, It int no bloomin sports car, but it is low. No, I'm not Stirling Moss, but I do drive it like I'm the Stig at the Top Gear track.
My point is. folk look right daft driving a 4x4 if they aren't using it for the purpose it was made for. Taking the kids to and from school is not quite what I think the designers had in mind.
If I lived out in the back of beyond, like my sister does, then yes, I would buy a 4x4, I don't. I live in town and even with the worst snow fall, there is no need of a gas guzzlin, fume emitting 4x4.

Interesting, you are the one being critical of others' personal choice but I am the one on a High Horse. You have no idea why they have a 4x4 or what they use it for but it's ok for you to moan about them because you have a "tatty old Ford Puma" and make wild assumptions based on your one eyed view of other peoples' life. It must be very hard to be so perfect

 

[Glam]

Interesting, you are the one being critical of others' personal choice but I am the one on a High Horse. You have no idea why they have a 4x4 or what they use it for but it's ok for you to moan about them because you have a "tatty old Ford Puma" and make wild assumptions based on your one eyed view of other peoples' life. It must be very hard to be so perfect

I am far from perfect, ask anyone who knows me. And how did you know I have 1 eye? You my ex husband?

 

[marky]

Awful driving by, tattoo place just past Sun inn, 8.20 this morning, ford fiesta DX63 clearly went through the lights on red

I don't drive, and I know red means stop
, or does it?

 

[stoofer34]

Guilty!!!!! 4X4 owner.... only an old one?

S

 

[Gramaisc]

I don't think this is a 4x4, but the fence post might be.

 

[Rikki]

My wife had to avoid a motorbike riding along the pavement on Riverway earlier as they couldn't be bothered to que in the traffic, she had a pushchair and dog at the time.

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Whilst walking our daughter back from St Leonards during the week a white van driver decided to cut the corner on the roundabout at the Hough retail park coming out of ranshaw drive and went right at the roundabout as there was traffic blocking the normal view....

 

[Floss]

My wife had to avoid a motorbike riding along the pavement on Riverway earlier as they couldn't be bothered to que in the traffic, she had a pushchair and dog at the time.

Shame she didn't get a pic or their reg, although I doubt very much the police would have done anything.

 

[proactive]

Shame she didn't get a pic or their reg, although I doubt very much the police would have done anything.

Oh I'd imagine they'd find some way or prosecuting @Rikki's wife for animal or child neglect because she was using a camera. That would be much easier for them than pursuing the driver.

 

[proactive]

A very nice lady backed into my car on Lidl car park this afternoon. Then she backed into it again, having not realised that she backed into it the first time. We exchanged details as my front bumper is now scrap and her rear bumper is the same. I'm just taking a pic of her car and registration as she leaves when she backs into it a third time.

How some people manage to dress themselves in the morning, never mind pass a driving test is beyond me.

Still, should keep Bodymatters busy.

 

[Gramaisc]

Lidl's car park has become a little more fraught in recent months, as people that should really still be going to other supermarkets have been told to go there by whatever newspaper it is that they read - I usually try to park right round the side at the back - but, of course, this facility will be destroyed by the new road, I presume. The nearer that you park to the door at any supermarket, the more likely you are to get your car bashed.

 

[markpa12003]

Over the last couple of days I have lost count of the number of taxi drivers and bus drivers that I have seen jump red lights, don't indicate, speed and generally drive like idiots.

I would have hoped taxi / bus drivers would be better drivers given that's their profession - sadly on my experience that's not the case.

 

[PeterD]

Well on monday I let out an audible chuckle, waiting at the lights to cross over by cafe nero, to my left traffic backed up to the hash box, arriva driver believes its his turn so pulls forward and grinds to a halt on the hash box, second arriva driver pulls forward to the edge of the hash box and more importantly for me, across the crossing, couldnt see any set of lights. Muttered things under my breath and gingerly crossed going round the rear of the bus.

 

[Gramaisc]

I would have hoped taxi / bus drivers would be better drivers given that's their profession - sadly on my experience that's not the case.

You're on a loser there, I think - the amount of piss-poor driving by cops these days is rather depressing.