To ask that you speed up a little.

[Dawndonna]

I live in a rural area. I have to go about my daily business, appointments, shopping etc. So, if you're visiting and admiring the scenery, please pull over. Do not drive at 20mph on a sixty mile an hour road upon which overtaking is either bloody dangerous or impossible.
Drives me fucking mental

:( thebody

how is your daughter now? That sounds horrific

it took me a long time to accept that speed is dangerous (I mean in cars not amphetamine) but the evidence is definitely there isn't it

Grockles drive us a bit bonkers every year. There they are, wandering along our fairly narrow pavements, gazing at the architecture, paying no attention whatsoever to the ever-lengthening queue of people who would like to just get to the bloody shop because we are not all on holiday, and some of us have other things to do , also just because the town looks old, doesn't mean that we don't have cars which use the roads, so walking is best done on the pavement just like in London. And no, we are not impressed that that's where you live. Quite a lot of us did too.

Thanks it was, she is doing fairly well now, issues with her back and suffering with PTSD as are most of her friends. One friend is very badly injured still.

Probably got a little too personal but it really saddens me when people speed, they don't seem to understand that their lovely car is a potential deadly weapon.

Of course understand the tourist ogling thing must be annoying to locals and agree but my point is still that speed kills. Not going a bit slower.

Jux- grockels?
Lincolnshire term I think. Having lived in Boston that's what the locals called tourists
My claim to fame in Lincs is being very nearly knocked off my motorcycle by none other than Jeffrey Archer ( when he was incarcerated in North Sea Camp open prison)
Only recognised him as I was reading one of his books earlier in the day

He did get a mouthful of abuse for failing to spot the Yellow Power Ranger. (me)

Haven't read all the thread but dawdling drivers imo are dangerous if they entice impatient drivers to overtake dangerously. I certainly don't do the latter but I do see it all the time (another rural driver). If you can't drive at 50 in a 50, or 40 in a 40, then don't drive! Also why do the 40 in a 60 persist in 40 in a 30: far more dangerous.

The dangerous one there is the idiot who overtakes dangerously though.

Yy agree but there is often not much thought into this: if there is 15 miles of difficult road, a slow driver should let others overtake and just pull over for a minute. Someone did this today in front of me (not for me btw). Made sense - otherwise someone will get silly: why provoke it?

thebody - it is personal though once something stops being hypothetical and becomes part of your reality I think? Hope your daughter goes on to recover as fully as possible, glad things were not even worse

Oh god this is hard I'm another one in a popular grockle area. I know where the deer cross at dusk on the main road so I slow right down I've been overtaken four times this year as I did so. Before anyone gets righteous three friends and one sister have had to take either themselves or their car or both in for repairs.

BrevilleTron, they're grockles here in Devon too!

Ah the land of high hedgerows and single trackedness.
I sound my horn when approaching blind corners on those. Has saved the front end of my beloved Victor on several occasions

Ah the land of high hedgerows and single trackedness.
I sound my horn when approaching blind corners on those. Has saved the front end of my beloved Victor on several occasions

Sorry for double post

Thanks alameda, 3 of then are all sleeping over tonight, have 4 pairs of crutches in the hall and a spinal brace!!

Wierd as they also all in crop tops and shorts!

All the parents have got used to this now.

We are lucky to have our girls..

Yes to the OP! drive your vehicles, if you're scared, get a bus. I live in a touristy area and can't go anywhere during summer.

Seethe.

Don't even get me started on drivers ineptitude.

Grockle central here in west wales...drive me bloody crackers with their bad driving and caravans and stopping to take pictures. But then I am grumpy and old.
Rarely get the chance to put my foot down these days- my main car is a 1969 morris traveller so I have to drive slowly as the brakes are shit and we have to pedal to get uphill :D I have stolen my OH's landy though but that only does about 3mpg so I STILL have to drive sensibly! Manage to get the moggie up to 70 with the wind behind me though....
Biggest bugbears for me are not bastard indicating and being a rude fuckwit ie if you are going to be causing a huge tailback then bloody pull in, or if you are on a single tracker then read the road and don't just sit there like a fuckwit expecting me to move when you have a layby right next to you.
See- as I said. Grumpy.

Some people think 60mph means you must drive at that speed. We used to live in a beautiful area and had to use a road where the maximum you could safely drive was about 30mph.

Sadly, the nutters who think 60mph means you must drive at that, kind of forced us to leave as we felt we were placing ourselves in danger every day using that road.

TigerdriverII - you sound like the kind of driver that used our road.

FutureNannyOgg - so what if someone stops on a "narrow windy road". You shouldn't be driving on that road if you are not prepared to stop for any thing you might come across. Your sort of attitude really riles me.

While we are at it, can I add that the duel carriageway part of the stafford road is the national speed limit, ie 70mph, not 40.

I think people are so impatient and disrespectful to other drivers on the roads, beeping, overtaking, gestures, tailgating etc - all of which are dangerous activities in themselves.

Sometimes slower drivers are not feeling that well, or their child needs something, or they are a bit old and not so fast, or perhaps even the driver might want to take in some of the scenery if its interesting or beautiful. I mean, how dare they!!! p.s. No-one is "enticed" to overtake dangerously, they are just ridiculously impatient and dangerous drivers, end of!

By the way I have experienced all the above whilst doing THE actual speed limit (ie. not under it) and it seems to drive a few drivers bonkers, esp. sports cars, BMW and Mercedes drivers. The fact that I have a small car seems to enrage them to begin with and the fact that I am actually driving at the speed limit and not over it seems to goad them beyond endurance ...... idiots.

And the evidence is there. Speed kills.

And agree, narrow windy roads are dangerous. The clue is in the name. You cannot see what is coming, lorry, car, sheep, child, tree fallen down, etc.

janelikesjam, I strongly feel that the driver should be concentrating on the road, and not take in some of the scenery if its interesting or beautiful.

If they want to look at the scenery, they should pull over somewhere sensible and look properly. Looking at scenery whilst behind the wheel is dangerous.

Sometimes slower drivers are not feeling that well, or their child needs something

Then you find somewhere safe to pull over. If your feeling so ill it is effecting your driving you shouldn't be driving, if your child is distracting you from driving then stop until they are sorted.