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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(I'm talking about a specific camera, not in general there - i know what national speed limit means )

But the national speed limit changes depending on the type of road you are on.

doesn't change to 40mph though, does it :)

Yes yes!! People who go 43mph through the 60 zones, 43 mph through the 30 zones, 43 mph through the 20 zones...

Argh!!! Do they think they will average out at the right speed eventually? Or do they think they're allowed to speed through the villages because they drove so bloody cocking slowly on the main road??

To add to the list:

• Bellends doing three-point turns on busy city streets because they realise they're going the wrong way. Er, hello? Could you perhaps trouble yourself to turn around in a side street rather than hold up two lanes of traffic?

• The utter fuckwit who STOPPED in front of us in the inside lane of the M4 the other day, waiting to get into the queue for the sliproad. How we didn't die in a multi-car pile-up I don't know.

TheOne then it is normally signposted - if there are no signs, then it's 30 with streetlights, 60 without, surely? I hope that's right!! :o

I am sick of seeing cyclists pootling along without any safety gear on - and without any awareness of other road users. seems v. prevalent where I live, and utterly utterly stupid. If you cycle, and plan to live, then wear a fucking helmet.

Am also sick of the morons who shoot down the road near us at about 60 mph, weaving in and out of the dodgy parked cars, despite the road being home to no less than 3 infant and 2 senior schools. At 8 am this is terrifying to witness...

People driving on a country lane who think the correct way to overtake a horse and rider is to speed up and beep their horn. Morons.

But it's never 40, on any type of road - is it? (please tellme if it is?!)

True Jareth. I actually agree with you. I just wanted to point out that national speed limit is not always 60.

speed limits UK so it is 40 if you're an HGV on a single carriage way.

otherwise, 30 or 60 (or 70).

Bumperella - it's often 40. And, indeed, 50.

Indicators. I believe they are fitted to every car as standard!

It would be nice if people used them!

I know (I realise my point made it sound like I didn't)

Drives me BONKERS.

'Oh, what's the speed limit, there's a speed camera? Better slam on my brakes and make sure I'm doing under 40mph just in case. Oh.. it's caused a pile up behind me and buggered up the traffic on the roundabout? Never mind. '

Oh Kveta

Ooh, x-post!
Kveta, I agree wearing a helmet good idea, but it's up to the cyclist, surely? It's their head and it doesn't make them more likely to cause an accident.

Is it time to talk about school-run parking now...?

I meant it in support of your point Jareth - I doubt many of us are HGV drivers!!

and there is a difference between the national speed limit and sign posted speed limits herbaceous which is what we are getting at! if there is no signage, then it's 30 in a built up area (i.e. with street lights), and 60 in a not built up area. If there is signage, then that is the one to trust!

unless you're on the motorway and there are roadworks, and signs everywhere saying 50, because then obviously you should completely ignore those signs. If you are a moron.

Also some research was done recently to say drivers give cyclists more room if you don't wear a helmet.

Re cycle helmets, it is a legal requirement to wear them in Australia and when Aussie SIL was visiting here she was shocked at the no. of people who don't wear them and couldn't believe it wasn't illegal.

I know.. am in a daft mood.

Nomore amen to that! I swear people don't know what half the signs mean!

Is it wrong that I sniggered at "abreast"?

I realised that's what you meant about a nanosecond after I posted, kveta. Though I don't think I knew that particular rule - it was a long time since I passed my test, or even looked at the Highway Code.

YANBU

Each and every one of your examples irritates me.

Another annoyance is the type of driver who seems incapable of driving at any speed other than 40 everywhere.

Ambling along at 40 in a 60 limit on the open road in good conditions and then continues at 40 when through a narrow, twisting village street with a 30 limit and a school.

I also live in a place where there are tonnes of cyclists. All of them swerve into the middle of the road so I cannot overtake them. Get out of my bloody way! If they are riding two abreast then I think when I come along they should get back into single file - which half of them don't do! And don't get me started on motorcyclists that creep up behind you, then overtake you and then cut you straight up and brake so you nearly run into them. Grr!!

I disagree with the not moving up in a traffic jam.

People doing that drives me NUTS. People hooting at me or pulling a face because there's a full foot between me and the car in front IN STANDING TRAFFIC deserve my foot up their arse.

We're going nowhere. We're in a JAM. Traffic's stood still for as far as I can see. What's a fucking 12 inches going to do?