to loathe drivers who dont indicate?

[mummysgoingmad]

I hired out a car this weekend to go home to see family friends etc.

I'm appalled at the amount of people who either dont indicate or who completely ignore your existence as another motorist.

What is it with these people, surely they're not that lazy to flick the indicator on or look where their going?

Thanks Heartsea..

But surely if you're on the road, slowing down and signalling and a pedestrian starts crossing then they are the twat? (though they would technically have right of way)

Itsjustafleshwound, if you are turning right, you are supposed to indicate all the way round a roundabout. Start in the right lane, indicate right until you are passing the turning before your own turnoff, then change lanes into left and indicate left.

If you're turning left, you also indicate left the whole time you're on the roundabout (and before you go on to it).

If you're going straight ahead, stay in the left lane and start indicating left while passing the exit before yours.

"I kinda know to give way to the traffic on the right, but when it comes to miles, roundabouts, pelican crossings and UK signage I am at a loss!!"

surely if fleshwound can admit to this then there is something very wrong with our uk system

Coming from another country surely all drivers should be made to sit the uk theory test.. that covers roundabouts, signage, traffic lights etc

Its just not safe for people to be on the road when they dont have this knowledge.. either for themsleves or others

my pet hates are:

people who don't know how to use roundabouts

people who don't position themselves properly for a right hand turn delaying all the people behind them

people who proceed around parked cars when it is not their right of way if the parked cars are on their side of the road they should stop behind them

People driving aggressively in 4 x 4 s

Drivers of skip lorries and waste lorries - many appear to be reckless

That is what I thought Mamamary, but DH indicates left to show that he is entering the roundabout even when he is going straight or turning right!!

I agree that conversion of international licenses should involve some understanding of the laws and regulations - however, it was just a huge whack of cash and finding someone important enough to the DVLA to ensure we were who we said we were ....

Coming from SA, I have seen some things on the roads that beggars belief. I don't drive at all when I visit SA - just too scared ...

Our family yell is "Indicate - it's the one with the dust on it"

thanks, heartease

Got stuck behind someone yesterday who was doing 40mph the whole way - despite it being either 50mph or national speed limit. And, most bizarrely, you know those triangular signs that say "pedestrians crossing" - they seemed to take that as meaning there were pedestrians crossing right then and slammed on the brakes. There were no pedestrians anywhere nearby!

Also, talking about roundabouts my MIL keeps giving way to the left on roundabouts. I tend to keep my eyes closed when I'm a passenger in her car.

Kaloki, yikes! MIL sounds bloody terrifying!

One of my pet hates is people so busy indicating this way and that on a roundabout that they are in the wrong lane/ not keeping up with the traffic or generally being a PITA. If you are in the correct lane you don't actually need to indicate.

Every morning I drive up a main road with 4 sets of traffic lights, one after the other. 3 are pedestrian crossings, and the first of these is a 4 way control so you have to wait for ages. As a pedestrian I stand there like an idiot waiting for the green man. When I'm driving I can guarantee that some moron will step into my path just as my light goes green. When they additionally come from behind you on a diagonal you can't actually see them until they are in front of you- the two youths who did that to me the other day got a bit of a shock when they almost got run over.

"If you are in the correct lane you don't actually need to indicate."

I'm sure you do.

I actually thought our town had driving test of its own which didn't require the use of indicators it's so common here.It is also dangerous for pedestrians,nearly been knocked down a few times by drivers not indicating then turning at a junction.

kaloki- on a roundabout. You don't.

You do kaloki youre right.

I failed my first driving test because some dick one thought you didnt have to indicate.

£102 down the swanny. Cheers mate.

I'm not sure if people really want to read this, given the level of indignation of some of the posts.

However, I find UK drivers far better than the drivers in other countries I have lived and driven in (Spain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Africa).

There are some idiots, of course. But the reason they stand out and enrage the rest of us is that the vast majority of drivers in the UK are courteous and safe. There are not that many crap drivers.

Thank you, didn't think my driving instructor father had taught me wrong.

Also I reason that some lanes on larger roundabout can be for both coming off and carrying on to the next exit. Not indicating makes it a PITA for anyone trying to enter the roundabout.

Thinking about it, maybe I've met you on a roundabout before Elvis, I was probably swearing at the time.

MrsR you really don't need to be quite so patronising. I have managed to drive for 29 years without an accident or a speeding ticket so I must be doing something right.

I would far rather the drivers around me concentrated on staying in their own lane and managing to select the right one than faff about indicating. They seem to use it as an excuse to be in completely the wrong lane ("well I was indicating"), or indicate left when they aren't actually turning off.

Not indicating is far safer than indicating wrong.

"Not indicating is far safer than indicating wrong."

After the 3 near misses i had with idiots not indicating, i would have to completely disagree with you elvis.

YABU How do you expect people to indicate and text at the same time ?

Bit disappointed there is no comeback from the 25% or so of drivers who are clearly non-signallers.
There is that you-should-observe-then-only-indicate-if-you-have-to-you're-not-observing-properly-if-you-signal-all-the-time bollocks argument waiting to join this thread at some juncture.

MrsR
And I wasn't being patronising. I was being condescending

Priceless.

Angree
Two of my pet peeves are when there is only room for one car because of cars parked at the side of the road and you have the right of way, if out of kindness you let the car coming the other way through, and they don't thank you...GRRR

On the hand I get confused when, having traversed a line of parked cars which I had right of way for, the waiting car driver mouths "no thankyou"

I am generally very courteous, but I am at a complete loss at what I'm supposed to be thanking these folk for....

not driving straight at me and creating a head-on ????

It would never occur to me that I would expect thanks from a driver simply for correctly allowing their ROW.

I know you say you had ROW; but thats just confusing: if you genuinely have ROW...just take it. Surely ?