To be sick of drivers not stopping at pedestrian crossings

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Just that. Wankers.
I want to go and get our lollipop lady and set her loose on all if them. She takes no prisoners.

We had this yesterday. Apparently you have to actually step onto the road before they have to stop. (However you also have to wait for them to stop before you start to cross)

I was on the crossing hence the utter rage.

Thanks for the recap wabbity

Yes and the ones who do stop but start moving again before you step onto the pavement cos they can't waste the valuable seconds waiting for you to get to the other side..

I know how you feel. Me and my DS were crossing a crossing the other day, and the first car stopped but the car behind was going to fast and chatting on her phone, went straight into the back of the first car. It was only lucky we hadn't been walking across the crossing.

People need to slow down!

Not all pedestrian crossings require cars to stop though do they.

oh I've had this on zebra crossings, have stepped onto it even been part of the way across and a car whips past...

I just do the wanker sign at them if I can be bothered...

My gran was once hit by a car on a crossing, the first car stopped, the one behind overtook it and hit my gran sending her flying in the air.

Not sure what crossings don't require cars to stop WaywardOn3?

you don't need one foot on the crossing, but your intention to cross must be clear. which to many motorists means foot on crossing.

Get a go pro camera, and hand the footage to the police,

Use it on your car dash, and never feel stressed again.

The culture of bad driving will kill someone you love eventually, fight back, and challenge yourself every time you drive not to add to it.

mousmous my intention to cross is BLOODY clear! How can they not see you if you're half way across....

this has only happened twice I think and in past year or so but still.... motorists not paying attention or not realising when/how you stop at a zebra crossing.

makes me

As far as I'm aware only zebra and the crossings with the green man require cars to stop for pedestrians? The pelican (little island in the middle of the road one?) doesn't

A few days ago some utter wanker was in crawling traffic and decided to go when the green man was on, and would have hit my pram if I'd not have stopped. I shouted at him, and he seemed to indicate he shouldn't have to stop and carried on! What's wrong with people. What a cunt.

Nothing gives me the RAGE more than this!

Pelicans are the ones on traffic lights, push button, wait for little green man!

Puffins are much the same but have a sensor which will hold cars if the pedestrian is crossing slowly - used by schools and homes, hospitals etc.

That should have been residential/old peoples homes.

Well said, quoteunquote!

My mum still recalls the day when she was watching me cross the road (at a crossing, green man and all that) and a car came belting round the corner and missed me by about 6 inches. I was 7 and had better road sense than that driver.

Fast forward 10 years - I'm crossing at the same crossing and another driver does exactly the same thing - straight through a pedestrian crossing, ignoring the red light/green man combo. Only this time I'm older and taller, so I reach out and thump the roof of his car as he passes. That's how close he was.
This infuriates driver, who screeches to a halt, jumps out and starts yelling at me for daring to hit his car and threatens to set the two large dogs he has in the back of the care on me. He doesn't care he was in the wrong because I dared to touch his car. and it doesn't seem to occur to him that hitting me would have probably damaged his car a whole lot more than a thump on the roof.

Now, this is happening in the middle of the high street, and two old ladies have seen everything and start in at him "poor wee lassie - you nearly killed her... it isnae right..." Eventually he slunk off as a crowd started to gather and started to let him know exactly what they thought of him and his driing
I went home, started shaking like mad and burst into tears.

Bastard wankers who don't stop when I am clearly waiting to cross
I just hope their engines fall out of their cars
And what is this business of pedestrians thanking car drivers who do stop?
Are pedestrians that inconsequential that we have to be thankful and tognoue forelocks at those in the cars?
Car drivers don't thank each other when they follow the highway code.

So what's the crossing with no lights/zebra and just a 'waiting area' in the middle of the road?

Car drivers don't thank each other when they follow the highway code.

Maybe you don't, but I do. If someone waits behind an obstruction on their side of the road I give a little wave or a nod of appreciation, and often get one from others when I'm doing the same. I even do a 'You're welcome' one to those who thank me, and I'm not alone!

Wayward, they are called a refuge crossing. They are placed on busy roads where people cross, but where there is not enough foot traffic to warrant the expense of a 'proper' crossing.

Yes, I'm with you in the GoPro.

I find the ones I don't thank, usually when my hands are full rev and speed off like belligerent little monsters.

I'm getting the rage all over again.

I see this every morning in Victoria on the way to school. Cars, vans, buses, bikes sailing through red lights (waaaaay red lights). Its bloody dangerous and I'm surprised I don't see many accidents - I do frequenly have to grab tourists or pedestrians who aren't used to our quaint London ways (cross at a green man without first checking that every vehicle has stopped? Bumpkins!).

Yes, I am the angry woman waving her fists and yelling 'THAT LIGHT WAS REEEEEED!'

I hate it also! I also hate non indicator users. So you see the driver hasn't got his indicator on and assume he is going straight or whatever, you step your foot out then they decide to turn off down your road :S The indicator on a car isn't just useful for other car drivers, it's good for pedestrians so we can see which way you turn! Bloody drivers!