to be fed up with bad drivers grr!

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Every single day when I'm driving there is always:

-Someone who drives 20mph under the speed limit
-Someone who drives 20mph over the speed limit and hugs my bumper
-People who don't indicate at roundabouts/junctions
-People who do not know how to use a roundabout - you give way to the right therefore there is no need to just sit there when the right hand is being blocked by oncoming traffic therefore you can go!
-People who do not use their lights - hello? I cannot see you (especially in the fog we had the other week)
-People who don't bother to move in traffic and cause an even bigger hold up, when there is a huge gap in front of them. Please. Move. Up.
-Those big bloody 4x4 cars that always seem to hug my bumper
-People who drive all over the road/on the white lines/on the verge of the road - why can't you drive in the middle like everyone else
-People that cut you up - I'm sorry but you are aware that I am coming towards you, why are you pulling out which then requires me to brake from my 40mph to your measly 10mph whilst you try and build your speed up.

Tbh, I don't care if I'm being unreasonable - these things hassle me on a day to day basis and I am fed up!

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YANBU

I was once a bad driver. Speeding ticket for doing 36 in a 30mph zone. The drive aware course was very good and very effective! BUT the abuse I now get for adhering to the speed limit is terrible!

If people are sticking to the speed limit is it the rules to drive 2 inches from their back bumper? it must be round here. I think the speed limits are only for me perhaps.

I had 2 cars yesterday trying to overtake and undertake me on a roundabout (I was going straight ahead, so 2nd exit, and was in the correct lane according to the road markings). Couldn't believe either of the pillocks had passed a driving test - who overtakes or undertakes on a fecking ROUNDABOUT?!

Plus the usual fuckwits on the motorway who seem to have forgotten what an indicator is for, and what a speed limit means.

and the lorry drivers who try to overtake eachother uphill in rush hour on a 2 lane motorway.

basically 80% of other road users are morons.

oh, and YANBU

YANBU.

The speed limit is 'up to', not a mandatory driving speed.

YANBU. Why can't people drive at the speed limit. Do they not realise that going too slow is just as dangerous as going to fast?

I also agree that people don't seem to know how to use roundabouts. It's not that hard surely?

That's another thing, cars being in the wrong bloody lane then cutting me up!

*too fast

ohdearwhatdoIdonow- are you me?! I could have written that post word for word :)

YANBU

I really really hate people driving right up behind me when I'm sticking to the speed limit

I think we must all nlive in the same place..... It ASTOUNDS me how people just don't "get" roundabouts! If you're going to take turn right, then don't start off to the left.
OOH, and the IDIOT this morning who overtook a car that was slowing becuase he was TURNING RIGHT. The speed limit is 60mph and it's a long, flat, straight road. The turning car was going into a small farm track on the right. OF COURSE he needed to slow to make the turn.
And the total three-headed wierdo's who go round blind corners straddling the middle line. If you can't make the turn safely at the speed you're doing then slow down!!!! GAAAHHHH!!!
Re: speed limits, depends on teh road conditions and the road itself. We're on a single track road with plenty of blind corners, is national speed limit (60). Howevr you'd have to be suicidal to try, as you'd be gauranteed a head-on-collision at some point.

Argh. that bloody thing about a speed limit being a limit not a target

Yes, obviously. But that doesn't mean it's acceptable to do 30mph in a 50mph+ speed limit (unless you're a tractor or something)

Sorry x-posts, that wasn't aimed at you bumperella

There are plenty of reasons for driving slower than the speed limit

• As already stated it's a maximum not a minimum, or advised speed
• Road conditions/visibility
• Not familiar with road esp if bendy
• Lost/looking for somewhere to pull in/turn off
• Pedestrians/animals in road
• Generally busy/built up area
• Country lanes - national speed limit may apply but on most you would certainly want to be nowhere near 60mph
• Residential streets - limit may be 30mph but 20mph feels too fast on my street

Too much hesitation when driving can be dangerous, but driving more slowly is generally more safe. Except to the stress levels of the twat up your bumper, but that's their look out.

I tend to be quite forgiving of other drivers making mistakes though. I think we all do that from time to time. I am not so forgiving of deliberately/recklessly dangerous driving though.

YANBU.

In the last few weeks I've witnessed a motorcyclist being knocked off his bike by a lorry, a car driving smack into the back of another in a queue of traffic and a scary road-rage attack (in which the driver of one car started smashing the one behind with a walking stick and which the police told me wasn't a crime). What's happened to everyone?!

I also think people don't know how to cross the road. Either they wander out in front of traffic, or they stand for ages at the pedestrian crossing without pressing the button and then wonder why nothing's happening. We need Tufty to come back.

YANBU

-People who SLOW DOWN on slip roads leading to big roads (technical name?)

-people who drive really fast between speed bumps - then slam on and creep over them

-cyclists who ride two abreast so they can have a little chat

-people with really bright headlights - especially when they drive so close to you that your car is lit from the inside

• peopel that drive too fast on country roads, can't control the car on corners and come on to my side of the road.

• cyclists who ride two abreast so they can have a little chat

Cyclists can ride two abreast on non-busy roads though.

But on some more rural A roads you (and a string of 20+ other cars) can be stuck behind someone doing 40mph for 30 miles or more - someone who could very easily pull into a parking lay-by and let everyone past. Especially annoying if they do 40mph through the villages that are on teh road where the speed limit is invariably 30mph.
AND another thing: drivers (and passengers) who throw litter out of windows. They should just be shot.

I generally mean the people who pootle along at 35mph in a 50/60 limit, totally oblivious to anything going on around them when it's a normal A road with no obstructions or reasons to go slow.

Same people that do 45mph on the motorway

But they do it on a 60mph country lane/rat run with lots of twisty corners!

Especially annoying if they do 40mph through the villages that are on teh road where the speed limit is invariably 30mph.

Oh yes. People who don't vary their speed are one of my bugbears.

-argh - just remembered one. Cars/Motorbikes that overtake on double white lines or over blind bridges. ARGH! Just fucking WAIT.

ha, more xposting

I don't think some people know what the white circle sign with the black diagonal line through it means- taking into account all I've said about road conditions, mind.

NoMore - that leads me to another one. People who don't understand the national speed limit sign and think that they have to slam on their brakes so that they just skim 40mph as they go past the speed camera.

The limit is 60mph you dickheads.