People who stick to 40 on a perfectly good single carriageway A road, where you could do 60, on a day with good driving conditions. They hold you up for miles, but then what makes me especially mad is that they continue through into the 30mph speed limit still doing 40. It proves that they are just dozy and not paying attention to anything, rather than cautious. Probably become middle lane hogs on the motorway.
People who overtake you when you have paused and pulled in to give way to oncoming traffic.
Other people who think that they can drive your car as well as their own and offer you helpful headlight flashes, beeps and universally recognisable hand gestures, when you are committing some heinous offense such as not entering a box junction until your exit is clear, ONLY doing 70mph when OVERTAKING a truck, in the middle lane (speed may have been adjusted down here for legal reasons!), ONLY doing 30mpg through the town, not pulling out in front of that volvo from the side junction because everybody knows that he turns down that junction every day and thus does not need to indicate... :-)
Probably can be summed up as rude or just plain oblivious drivers.
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ONLY doing 30mpg through the town.
I know what you mean but I've just LOL trying to think up a hand signal for 'decrease your fuel consumption'!
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Ignoramuses who, when it is clearly not their right of way, will force you to swerve (possibly into the kerb) because they do not understand they should give way to oncoming vehicles when overtaking cars that are parked on *their* side of a narrow street. Happens so often, even when you are mid-manoeuvre. Have they never had someone read to them the Highway Code?
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4 wheeled drivers that get so close to the back of my scooter or motorcycle that I know for sure that if I came off they'd run right over me and the bike. Are they that desperate to end up in court or can't they see anything that doesn't have 4 wheels or more?
And..
Drivers that try as hard as they can to stop you filtering, common sense and courtesy of both drivers and riders should be the rule.
Steve.
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I was filtering up the M56 last month in the pouring rain, doing approx 15mph and this new Golf pulled left to block the gap, when I went to overtake him he pulled right to block me, he was doing about 3mph. I feinted left and then passed on the right as fell for it, and he sat there with a thousand yard stare not letting on. I wonder what makes these people tick.
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>>People who stick to 40 on a perfectly good single carriageway A road, where you could do 60, on a day with good driving conditions. They hold you up for miles, but then what makes me especially mad is that they continue through into the 30mph speed limit still doing 40. It proves that they are just dozy and not paying attention to anything, rather than cautious. Probably become middle lane hogs on the motorway.<<
Exactly, makes the "red mist" come down as far as I'm concerned.
VD5D.
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I had an absolutely award winning one of those a couple of weeks ago.
I join a dual carriageway and pull into the left hand lane, heading for the roundabout a mile and half away. Car behind me pulls around into the right hand lane and stays there until we get to the roundabout, not catching up with me at all.
At the roundabout, I take the second exit onto another dual carriageway, so does the other car, except they stay in the right lane for another two miles until we reach the next roundabout.
Again, I take the second exit down a slip road onto the A13. So does the other car, except they stayed in the right lane at the roundabout on what was effectively a left turn situation, and suprise suprise, said car stays in the extreme right of the slip road, and when we get on the A13 moves into the outside lane at the earliest opportunity.
And it still hasnt gained a yard on me from when we both joined the same road four miles ago.
We then drive, me in the inside and pulling out to overtake when required, other car in the outside matching my speed (60-70mph), for several miles until we reach the M25/Lakeside turnoff. By this time traffic has built up a bit and I'm at 60mph on the inside lane ready to take the turn for Lakeside and the Dartford Tunnel.
Well I'll be dammned if I dont glance in my mirrors and see the same car, who is now in the outside (3rd) lane, swoop majestically across two lanes of traffic with less than 100 yards to go to get onto the slip road to go to Lakeside.
Unsuprisingly, it then sits in the middle lane at the lights, takes the first left exit and drives up the outside of the slip to get on the M25 heading over the bridge, before deciding at the last moment to move to the inside and head for Lakeside instead.
The car?
Silver BMW 3 5-Series.
The driver?
Blonde middle aged woman with 2 kids in the back.
Say no more.
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The driver who sits in a side road waiting to pull out, then spots you 200 yards away. He's still got all the time in the world to pull out without blocking you, but just sits there. Then, when you're about 20 yards away, he decides he can make it after all! pulls out causing you to brake sharply, then pootles up the road at about 20 mph and turns into another side road a quarter mile further on.
Grrr!
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Just thought of another one...
When you see somebody joining the motorway from the slip road so you pull into the middle lane to allow them to join and then they insist on burning up the inside lane and undertaking you so you cannot pull in safely again.
(by the way, my use of the word 'ONLY' in the previous posting was highly ironic - I don't tend to speed through town as knocking down one's neighbours kids often offends!. That's whY I get narked when selfish ***s overtake me)
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Pedestrians crossing the road in front of my car just as the queue of 5 cars in front of me before the pelican crossing starts moving. They couldn't be bothered to walk that little bit extra to cross the road safely.
Mothers waiting to cross, standing on the pavement at the side of the road with their pram on the road. Who's going to get hit first?
Pedestrians crossing after the green man has started flashing.
Paperboys on push bikes at 7am on a wet winters morning with no lights!
Mostly pedestrian related I know, but everything else seems to have been covered.
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Talking of pedestrian crossings, a pet hate of mine is there people who wander up to the crossing, oblivious of what is around them, press the button then look up and see there is plenty of time to get across without waiting as the long stream of cars is just far enough away for the lights to have turned red before the first one gets to them.
This, coupled with people who crawl through green lights drastically reducing the number of cars that can get through on one cycle are the main causes of frustration on my daily commute...
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Joining a large number of people at the pelican crossing waiting for the lights to change, waiting a couple of minutes, then realising no-one has pressed the button. Helps the traffic flow though!
James
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Lollipop ladies (OK, one in particular) who instantly stop the traffic for every mum, kid and sundry others, oblivious to the fact that they have created a half mile traffic jam which is blocking the exits off the North Circular Road.
Brian
Still learning (I hope)
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I keep out of these thing once they're heading towards boiling point ;)
HF
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Mothers waiting to cross, standing on the pavement at the side of the road with their pram on the road. Who's going to get hit first?
Wally, do/have you ever pushed a pram about?
As a father who quite often pushes a pram I usually do not start crossing the road unless either a car has come to a COMPLETE stop or there are no cars around. I am not willing to risk the life of my kid as a result of some misunderstanding between me and a driver wh is apparently slowing down for me. How often have you started crossing a road thinkning that the driver has "let" you go when he hasn't?
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I think that's exactly Wally's point.
When the mother waits at the side of the road, about to step out with the pram, the baby is essentially the crumple zone.
(See Speed and a million other bad chase movies for proof).
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