Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

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kilmaccumsey

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Followed a woman in a grey focus turned left up side street by the Lamb pub no indication up a one way street !!then drove on to wilkinson s carpark turned right instead of left All at a great speed , got out of her car then got back in and drove off , red hair wearing a tesco t shirt , my husband had to be restrained !! They give women drivers a bad name
 
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Serendi

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While driving from Cannock saw someone slow down and squirt water at a women with a kid. He did it to two other people as well that I saw. I let the police know the reg in case any of them decided to report it as a crime. I know it's just a bit of water but quite cowardly doing it to a woman and child.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Serendi said:
While driving from Cannock saw someone slow down and squirt water at a women with a kid. He did it to two other people as well that I saw. I let the police know the reg in case any of them decided to report it as a crime. I know it's just a bit of water but quite cowardly doing it to a woman and child.
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I once had a full bottle of cola lobbed out of car at me by some youths racing around Wildwood Ringroad . Spoilt a good day out that we were returning from ,as it bl@@dy shook me up.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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staffordjas said:
I once had a full bottle of cola lobbed out of car at me by some youths racing around Wildwood Ringroad . Spoilt a good day out that we were returning from ,as it bl@@dy shook me up.
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A friend of mine once had a pint of orange juice chucked over him whilst out jogging on a sunny day. By the time he'd jogged home, the juice had dried and stuck his clothes to him - to the extent that he had to soak them off in the bath.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Whilst stuck in a huge traffic jam on a very hot day on the M1 20 years ago or so, I witnessed a lorry driver was throwing ice-cubes through people's sunroofs...
 
GraphicsMan

GraphicsMan

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Had a scare yesterday morning. I'd just passed Sainsbury's and was stopped at the traffic lights at the roudabout in the inside lane to go down Forgate street. There was a white pickup truck in the inside lane which I was wary of as it seemed quite close to me.

Anyway the lights change to green and we all set off and the pickup seems a little closer and I think it may be cutting in to my lane. Next thing I hear a horn blast and I assume it's the pickup so I hit the breaks. Probably saved my life as a massive truck came through the red lights at some speed and narrowly missed us all!

If I hadn't been wary of the pickup I would have been off and shortly afterward being cut out of a pile of metal.
 
Yalla

Yalla

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Out and about today on the Queensway near the new traffic lights - large white van following me and the lights changed to amber so I slowed and stopped - large white van overtook me and went through on red. On my return journey the lights changed at Gaol Square and the Nissan Qashqai in the lane next to me went straight through on red. Complete morons and unfortunately it's getting a lot more common.
 
ATJ

ATJ

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On the M6 today, on at least two occasions, lorry drivers came very close to flattening me. They seem to have decided that 'indicate-move' is the procedure for moving into the middle lane. The whole 'look and wait until its safe' thing has gone out of the window.

Not that they should be moving in to the middle lane anyway. Lorries overtaking each other should be banned.
 
Dabbler

Dabbler

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Saw a P Bartram & Sons lorry today driving over the 7.5t restricted bridge at Baswich. Not only was the truck over the weight limit for the bridge, the driver was talking on his hand held mobile phone...
 
Trumpet

Trumpet

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At the temporary lights this morning coming out of Great Bridgeford towards Chebsey a Range Rover went through a couple of seconds after the lights had turned red, no gripe about that as it just shortened the queue for us.
The danger is that as the road works are only about three car lengths long, as the lights at one end go to red the other end goes to green almost at the same time with very little overlap.
I was just musing, are the potential penalties for jumping temporary lights the same as for permanent lights? Thought I heard somewhere that they weren't, or is that when they have a man at each end with a red or green lollipop?
 
wildwood

wildwood

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ATJ said:
On the M6 today, on at least two occasions, lorry drivers came very close to flattening me. They seem to have decided that 'indicate-move' is the procedure for moving into the middle lane. The whole 'look and wait until its safe' thing has gone out of the window.

Not that they should be moving in to the middle lane anyway. Lorries overtaking each other should be banned.
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I saw at least 2 lorries on separate occasions over the last week - drift onto the hard shoulder, and not just a tyres width I mean half the lorry at 50mph+.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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wildwood said:
I saw at least 2 lorries on separate occasions over the last week - drift onto the hard shoulder, and not just a tyres width I mean half the lorry at 50mph+.
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They don't always drift to the left - http://www.staffordshirenewsletter....s-through-M6-central-reservation-17072013.htm .

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Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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I've just seen a woman in a 4x4 of some sort, forcing her way out of the wrong end of the Sash Street one-way section, whilst two cars were legitimately trying to get in..
 
Entropy

Entropy

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the amount of people that park & drive the wrong way up co-operative street is unreal......even on the Marston Road in the 1-way section.

unbelievable tekkers
 
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