Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
You never answered my earlier question, what do you do?

I'm gonna take a guess at VOSA wanker, or possibly traffic warden.

You still don't grasp the very simple premise that despite what you claim or think your behaviour was aggressive. If you were "calm" you would not have used lights, horn, or made hand gestures. Your own posts show that you bully others on the road. Show me a psychologist who would describe your behaviour as calm.

I dare say I am in a better position to judge how I am feeling than you are.

Then you are not applying it.


No, most of it was tragically dull, kinda like you actually. The skid pan element was quite good fun, although it was all about avoid and recovering a skid, and I'm more of a 'extend and enjoy the skid' kinda guy.

On a side note, I'd love to get a skid cradle, they seem to make even the dullest of volkswagens hilarious :D
 

trenchfoot

A few posts under my belt
Being calm and being aggressive are not mutually exclusive. Giving someone the bird, no matter how calmly, is plainly aggressive. You seem to think that because someone is travelling more slowly than you are that you have a right to act aggressively, drive extremely poorly and break the law. You are much more likely to cause an accident than the person you undertake.
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
Being calm and being aggressive are not mutually exclusive. Giving someone the bird, no matter how calmly, is plainly aggressive. You seem to think that because someone is travelling more slowly than you are that you have a right to act aggressively, drive extremely poorly and break the law. You are much more likely to cause an accident than the person you undertake.


Evidence? And not just a HC style 'its on the internet so it must be true' link - actual hard evidence.
 

darben

Well-Known Forumite
https://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/overtaking-267-to-269 although I agree a lot of people don't know the rules on lane discipline https://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/lane-discipline-264-to-266 which makes the overtaking rules difficult. Flashing your lights can also be really unnerving for other road users users as they have to predict not only what the slow person is going to do but what how the erratic angry driver who is flashing and gesticulating is going to react.

Evidence, a quick internet search finds plenty :
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Dri...tory-11457529-detail/story.html#axzz2pjngejif

http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/f...stice_at_last_for_our_wonderful_sian_1_435915
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
You do realise how silly that phrasing is?

Nope, enlighten me.

https://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/overtaking-267-to-269 although I agree a lot of people don't know the rules on lane discipline https://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/lane-discipline-264-to-266 which makes the overtaking rules difficult. Flashing your lights can also be really unnerving for other road users users as they have to predict not only what the slow person is going to do but what how the erratic angry driver who is flashing and gesticulating is going to react.

Evidence, a quick internet search finds plenty :
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Dri...tory-11457529-detail/story.html#axzz2pjngejif

http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/f...stice_at_last_for_our_wonderful_sian_1_435915

Who said anything about being erratic?
 

henryscat

Well-Known Forumite
I dare say I am in a better position to judge how I am feeling than you are.
The evidence so far is that you've described an instance of your driving that was unquestionably aggressive, yet you still keep digging and cannot acknowledge it.


No, most of it was tragically dull


So you regard driving properly as "tragically dull"; this attitude goes some way to explaining your aggressive driving (which probably only gets you to the back of the next queue 5 seconds quicker).
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
And back to examples of bad driving.....

I was coming round the 'new' bit of road past the Hough Retail Park to go down Riverway and the lights were on green. A BMW in front was turning left and came to a grinding halt half way round the turn because they had seen the red light on the Lichfield Road and thought they had to stop. The car behind the BMW (which wasn't too close in case anyone suggests it) had to swerve and slam its brakes on because of this. The BMW waited until the lights turned to green before driving off blissfully unaware what a balls up he or she had made.
 

ATJ

Well-Known Forumite
I saw a complete arse today. Coming out of the town centre onto the Lammascote gyratory they waited in the middle lane, for A518. Proceeded to cross in front of me to get into the lane for A34, then run a red light at the junction with A34 before speeding off past Asda. It wasn't a 'just turned red' either, it was a solid red probably in the middle of the cycle and they just went sailing merrily on through.

Dick.
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
Ah it's good to be home, been out and about the last couple of days, got some serious undertaking done.

The adjective erratic describes things that are unpredictable, unusual, and that deviate from the norm. i.e. Undertaking, flashing lights & gesticulating whilst driving.

Spend some time on our lovely motorway network, you'll see that all of the above occurs frequently enough to be considered the norm.
 

henryscat

Well-Known Forumite
"Norm" does not mean it is right, nor does it mean flashing lights, sounding horns and hand gestures are not erratic and aggressive driving.
 
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