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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Agree Hecate! I was taught "tyres on the tarmac" ie you should be able to see the car in front's tyres on the tarmac. Sound advice, and you are protecting yourself from shunting the car in front in the advent of a shunt at the back!

Quite agree with you JustHectate.

So many people pull up far too close to the vehicle in front, even facing up a hill (really sily that).

The IAM recommends a driver should always be able to see "tyres and tarmac" between bonnet and bumper when stationary.

X post sorry ! :)

Yes. Although I suspect the OP is probably on about slightly larger gaps It just reminded me, that's all.

Car in front of me moves a foot. Traffic comes to a standstill again. Car behind me tries to make me move to close that tiny tiny gap and gets very angry when I don't see the point!

Wait until there's actually enough gap in front to at least do one full round of your bloody tyres

JustHecate Sorry but people like you make me fume. I just hate it when people don't close the gap. I know it is illogical really but there must be something hardwired about queues. I felt the same recently in the queue for the airport check in desk when there was one family group who always took ages to react when the queue in front of them moved forward.

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

Just keep the hooter going so they can't hear each other :o

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

Not on expensive German ones I note

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.

Ah no, anyone who has driven in UK cities knows they often stick little 40mph zones by cameras, and don't always conveniently put signs up nearby.

As already stated it's a maximum not a minimum, or advised speed

I find it very calming for me to sit on their bumpers with my hooter going and brights on :o

x-post. I don't get worked up about small gaps!!

5ft.

But what's the point, that's what I'd like to know.

There's a matter of inches the car in front has moved - where have we gone? we're now on the other side of that tree we've been looking at for half an hour

I promise that if the traffic actually starts moving I will move along with it, but I won't move up when it's inches. There's no point.

If you are stuck in a jam behind a fat red haired woman who's left a foot and a half between her and the car in front, give me a wave

oh, xpost now with you

Hooters!!

Funnily enough I was about to add to the list of bad driving about this even before I read Whatmeworrys post. Why can some pople not understand that the hooter is there for safety reasons when you need to let another driver know you are there. How many times do you hear someone hooting because:
a) Someone has made them angry and they want to show their rage
b) They are stuck in a traffic queue and seem to think the other cars will magically disappear if they hoot long and hard
c) They see someone they know walking along and they want to get their attention to grin and wave
d) They have gone to pick someone up and can't be arsed to get out and knock on the door.

It drives me mad. Don't they realise hooting is doing no good in these circumstances and is likely to alarm or distract another road user.

(When I was walking home last night I had someone blast on their horn for reason c just as they were level with me and it gave me a terrible start )

I drive at least 150 miles a day and bad driving has made me very shouty

Things I hate include:
-Lorries who indicate and pull out out at the same time on the motorway when there's clearly no room for them. I try mu best to get into the next lane but sometimes all I can do is slam on the brakes. If they just indicated to give me a bit of warning I would drop back a bit ans flash them.

-Bumper huggers. I stick to the speed limits which causes a lot of people to get angry and try tom intimidate me by sitting so close to me that if I had to break suddenly there's no chance they could stop. Ive had this before with a lorry in the (extremely busy) 50 zone on the m25. He was so so close, my heart was in my mouth. When I did manage to get away from him I saw him doing the same to other cars.

-People who cut the corner so badly on right hand turns they're on the wrong side of the road. I had this the other day and unfortunately I was driving down the road the woman was turning into. I have no idea how she missed me. It must have been by a few cm.

-People who ignore the white lines on roundabouts and just drift into your lane cutting you up.

-People who will do anything not to stop at roundabouts including almost driving into me when I had my pregnant cousin, 2 children and elderly nan in the car.

-People who overtake in 30 zones doing 50mph, on double white lines and outside an infant school. Ive seen it. Gr.

I think people like my mum are thr most dangerpus on the roads. She's so oblivious to everyone else around her that she doesn't notice that she's just almost caused an accident. Classic lines from her include "why are people undertaking me?!". She was doing 50mph on the m25 in the middle lane with an empty inside lane.

I woukd quickly like to add I have no problem with drivers who aren't very confident. I can spot them easily and allow extra time and space for them. It's the dickheads going too fast and doing stupid things that get on my tits.

What about the parking idiots? Yes you, stupid woman who so desperatley wanted my space when I was reversing out. That's fine, you're welcome to it, but you need to not be directly behind me otherwise I can't actually reverse!!

"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.

Ah no, anyone who has driven in UK cities knows they often stick little 40mph zones by cameras, and don't always conveniently put signs up nearby."

Pfft. The ones I'm talking about all have those pretty black and white signs right in front of them.

One day I am going to drive over there and paint '60' on the back of the effing thing and then maybe the A40 won't grind to a halt every afternoon (wishful thinking I know!)

On your driving test you can fail if you reach the speed limit for that road.
I think people should drive at speed limits if there is not a reason not to e.g country lane with tight corners etc.
I do not pay road tax to be sat behind someone going 20mph in 40mph road. If your not confident enough then they need to get there green P's back on there car or take some more lessons.

IMO

Ooh dangerpus... obv meant to say dangerous.

fail if you dont reach the speed limit for that road , sorry x

chocolate - I failed my first driving test for that reason. I was unsure of the speed limit so did 40mph in a national speed limit.

Never happened anymore though

oh god, traffic jam hooting gives me the red mist!

There's UMPTYMILLION MILES OF CARS IN FRONT - what is hooting going to do?

I particularly enjoy it when someone comes round a blind bend on the wrong side of the road because they are driving too fast to corner, and then hurls abuse at me/hoots at me / gestures at me because I am there. On MY side of the road. Where I should be and they should not.

It's not MY fault you're on the wrong side of the road, you TWAT

There's a big roundabout near me, it's quite rural, so normally quiet, never more than a few cars on it and often nobody at all. The number of times someone has gone the wrong bloody way round! Is it because they don't know what the great fecking huge white arrow on the blue sign means, is it because they think nobody else uses that road? I don't know.

I do know I was nearly killed by one such plank and have had to save several others my hooting like mad and waving my arm out the window and pointing to the sign.

Cars, motorbikes, one memorable occasion - an articulated bloody lorry!

And don't get me STARTED on supermarket car parks. You've driven there, so presumably you are a driver, with an actual licence. So why, for the love of GOD, step inches behind a reversing vehicle, or reverse out of your space into the path of a vehicle - someone actually bashed the side of my car because she pulled out of a space without taking a moment to check that there was not a car there!

chocolatebuttin Why would you fail for reaching the speed limit? You're not doing anything wrong. I don't know if it's something that's changed with the new tests but back in 2005, where appropriate, I sat on the limit.

X-post! It makes more sense now?

Drivers who brake THEN indicate. Yes, I'm psychic you utter DIV !

@ umptymillion.

Oh FFS, can you get liposuction for fingers? Please ignore the errant question mark in my last post.

My mum knew someone once who was a terrible driver. If she missed her exit on a motorway/roundabout she would stop and reverse back to her exit The roundabout one especially baffles me, where on earth did she think she'd end up if she carrired on going around the roundabout????

She's dead now, and no, it wasn't a driving incident.

GrittersWife back in the day when my mom who's 51 first learnt to drive my aunt her self used to the same on the motorway if they missed the exit, and there would also be about ten of us in a 5 seater car. Shocking i know how they got away with it i do not know!!!