Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

[Glam]

I've had a few cars with the indicators on the right in the past.
Got me remembering back to my dad's old black car when we were kids. Can't remember ever going out on the road in it .But the vision of the orange indicator arm , that flicked out of the side of the car as we sat in my parents garage in it, has stuck in my head. Don't even know if it was operated by anything on the steering wheel ....

My dear old Dad had a Standard 10 which had indicators that 'popped out'. I'm sure there was a knob on the dashboard/facia that you either turned left or right.
I'm pretty certain my Uncle George (posh side of the family)had a Bentley with the same type of indicators.

 

[Noah]

Trafficators? Think that until some time in the 1950s the law was that indicators had to change the outline of the car, hence the sticky out semaphore indicators. The law was then changed so that the more visible flashing lights at the corners of the car could be used.

 

[Withnail]

Examples of poor indicator stick placement you have witnessed.

Roll up, roll up.

Me dear old Da had a Morris Malfunction - 1969 model i think it was - where the indicator was situated in the boot.

When we wanted to make a left turn he had to get one of us nippers to recline the back seat and twiddle his knob.

Them were the days, mind.

Not like now with all these forriners.

 

[kilmaccumsey]

Woman in a grey Qashqai thingy went straight through a red light By the town island just stopping short of hitting my sons car smack on the side , she was so unaware of what she was doing until he braked sharp. what is it with Red lights .some people just think they can go through them and the road ahead is clear.
its an everyday occurrence these days

 

[Trumpet]

A lot of that type had a "toggle" type switch in the centre of the dash. Some of the posh ones even had an orange light in the middle of the switch.

Austin A35.

 

[age'd parent]

"A lot of that type had a "toggle" type switch in the centre of the dash. Some of the posh ones even had an orange light in the middle of the switch."

Austin A35.

Bedford van, column change, engine between the seats to warm your chips on.

Edit... Dip switch on the floor

 

[Gramaisc]

Minor had wipers and lights in the centre, with a floor dip-switch.

On one memorable occasion, I was being the passenger-based intermittent wipe timer as we approached Milford from Tixall, over the river bridge on a filthy wet night. I thought I would give a wipe to improve visibility as we left the bridge and approached the bend up onto the railway bridge. Unfortunately, what I actually did was to turn the lights off - the old road down to where the level crossing was came in very handy as an escape road...

 

[Gramaisc]

Greasy snow in Ireland today, producing a big shunt requiring an airlift.

It also revealed that this sort of activity is coordinated by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council - or PHECC.

I imagine that people are working on the creation of organisations called GIRLS, ARSE and DRINK.

There is already a horse rescue charity called My Lovely Horse.

 

[Noah]

http://www.g-i-r-l-s-inc.org/
http://a-r-s-e.co.uk/
DRINK is more difficult.

 

[proactive]

Not poor driving as such but definitely dangerous.

Spent a 'happy' 90 minutes at Keele services waiting for the nice man from Tesla to arrive with a replacement, so decided to to play Spot The Crook. Amazingly of the 25 cars I identified as being dodgy and driven without a valid MOT Certificate or tax, 23 proved accurate!

I thought ANPR cameras were supposed to stop this sort of thing...

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Spotted last night 4.20pm travelling on Lichfield Road towards town (opposite the Spittal Brook) was a cyclist without lights on his mobile phone with no contact with the handle bars....

I'll defend cyclists to a point but this guy took the p1ss....

 

[Noah]

Spotted last night 4.20pm travelling on Lichfield Road towards town (opposite the Spittal Brook) was a cyclist without lights on his mobile phone with no contact with the handle bars....

I'll defend cyclists to a point but this guy took the p1ss....

Indeed, you can get perfectly good clamps which fit on handlebars and hold your mobile phone

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Front seated passenger in a BMW X3 doing 60mph just southbound of M6 J10A thought it would be a good thing this morning to unplug her seat belt and clamber to the rear of the vehicle to check on an infant who was in a rear facing child seat.....

 

[proactive]

Front seated passenger in a BMW X3 doing 60mph just southbound of M6 J10A thought it would be a good thing this morning to unplug her seat belt and clamber to the rear of the vehicle to check on an infant who was in a rear facing child seat.....

That's fine. You get a better class of person in a BMW, so they can handle it.

 

[Withnail]

Someone tried to kill me today.

Perhaps they weren't trying hard enough.

Thanks for that.

 

[staffordjas]

Someone tried to kill me today.

Perhaps they weren't trying hard enough.

Thanks for that.

My dad used to cycle to his school in Cannock. One time a car hit him by Pottal Pool, dad ended up on the bonnet hanging onto the windscreen wipers ,and the car driver kept driving for ages before dad eventually fell off fortunately to the side . The driver carried on. Dad didn't cycle again after that experience!.

 

[Withnail]

Your dad, like i, wasn't a cyclist.

He,like i, was a person on a bicycle.

We're all just trying to get somewhere.

 

[Gramaisc]

Lovely manoeuvre today - I was approaching the Redhill island, southbound in the left lane of the A34 - chap in the right lane suddenly became desperate to cut into my lane at the last moment and caused some quite sharp braking - at the island, he carried straight on into town down Stone Road, a manoeuvre that could quite legitimately been carried out from where he was in the first place.

 

[Cue]

Lovely manoeuvre today - I was approaching the Redhill island, southbound in the left lane of the A34 - chap in the right lane suddenly became desperate to cut into my lane at the last moment and caused some quite sharp braking - at the island, he carried straight on into town down Stone Road, a manoeuvre that could quite legitimately been carried out from where he was in the first place.

Just imagine how bad it must be in America, I believe they have a few roundabouts there but nobody knows how to use them

 

[Withnail]

Approaching the railway bridge @ Queensville, heading S before the bridge, one latches on to a chap on a bicycle in front of me.

He turned in from St Leonards, so had yet to gather a head of steam. I, rapidly catching up with him, slowed a bit to catch on to his draft.

If there is any part of the Staffordian cycle network that approaches the proverbial 'perfectly good' cycle path then this is it.

I catch on - drafting reduces your necessary input by at least 10% - it's a bit naughty, but it's not downright rude for short intervals.

Just after we crest the peak of the bridge - we have travailled our 'ups', and thus deserve our 'downs' - a large thing in front of my draftee drifts into the cycle lane. Not just drifting, like i was drafting, but seems to be deliberately 'swerving' into our 'perfectly good' cycle lane.

I actually blew my cover - i'm not sure he knew i'd grabbed his wheel - and exclaimed quite vocally a WTF! kind of utterance. Bringing up the rear, he was in much more danger than i was, and he seemed to calmly move into the RH lane to go down Silkmore Lane after what seemed to be a rather blatant attempt to kill him.

Please stop trying to kill us.

We are just people trying to get somewhere, just on bicycles.