To think you don't drive like a twat through a field of cows

[Wickeddevil]

And is there any point in ringing 101 to report it?

Youngish driver overtook me, beeped her horn as she rushed past and then roared off.

The road in question is next to a forest, has a cattle grid at the entrance and exit and has a herd of dairy cows wandering freely. Even at 8:45 in the morning, even if you are late to work, even if you have a family emergency; you show some respect to the cows and you drive with due care and attention. Don't you?

She even raced over the second cattle grid as she left, so evidently doesn't care too much about her tyres either.

One of the funniest thread titles I've seen!

Don't call 101. The next cattle grid might ruin her car with any luck. Karma will get her.

I agree. We have a similar country road near me. Only the cows are in fields and shouldn't have access the roads. One night my partner and I was driving down the road and as we turned a blind corner there was a big ass cow standing in the middle of the road (don't know how it got out of the fields) Luckily we was only doing about 25mph so could swerve to miss it. If we was going any faster though we would have certainly hit it.

Even if you had a family emergency? Don't be daft. You would be racing to get there. But I agree with you about the rest.

Twats drive like twats wherever they are. Near my mums house, there is a huge estate with deer park. There is a road that has cattle grid and runs through part of the park, it cuts off a chunk of windy country road but obv has a strict speed limit due to the huge herds of deer charging about. Every time we drove that way (during rush hour, on school run) some twat in a merc when racing through like a maniac. It's pure idiocy because think of the damage they'd do if they hit a great big stag (or in your case a great big cow!).

Thanks Eatdessert. I hope you are right about Karma. I'm Not even cross really, just really shocked. Have seen some bad driving in my time, but this example really stands out.

Jelly I actually have a work colleague who had an accident on a motorway because the car in front had hit a cow. I had the pleasure of hearing her on the phone to her insurance company, and have to say it was one of the funniest conversations I have ever overheard.

YANBU.

Even if you don't care about scaring the cows, you'd think that she'd consider the possibility that a cow might wander in front of her car. It'd be a nasty accident for all concerned if she hit a cow at speed.

YANBU

I live a stones throw from a national trust common, and cows graze there every year over the summer. The speed limit across the common is 40mph but the number of cars that exceed that boggles the mind. Along with the cows, there are dogs, walkers, horse riders......

Last year 12 cows were hit and killed and one woman died after hitting a cow.

Recently a boy racer plummeted off the edge of a steep turn/bank and his mum was in the local paper the next week doing the sad Daily Mail face and calling for 'action to be taken about this dangerous road'. The road is not dangerous (never been an accident there before) but driving like a dick is.

Yes that's it isn't it. It's not the road that's dangerous. It's the driver.

Lady Luck I meant that actually even if you were racing to get to a family emergency you still need to get there safely. A small car (? I think an Audi a2) vs a cow is not likely to end well....

you're right it wouldn't end well - hitting a cow in a car is like driving into a brick wall.

Well if anything did happen my sympathy would be reserved for the cow.

YANBU

Indeed Déjà vu. As air says it would like hitting a brick wall. But there is a part of me, and I am a mother of a young driver myself, that thinks the driver in this situation probably underestimated the danger.

So how to stop her putting herself / other road users / Ermentrude at risk?

What a dick.

I am seeing it more and more these days, drivers just not using the tiny brains they so obviously have. Undertaking, tailgating, overtaking on a bend, speeding. Twats.

I'm a believer in Karma, tbh I wouldn't call 101, though if I'd had footage of the incident on dashcam I'd probably forward it to the local PCSO.

I'll tell you a Karma story..
I was driving up to my Mums, 30 limit. I'm doing about 35 and up my backside is baseball cap wearing young lad in a corsa. I'm not about to speed up for him and he's getting VERY annoyed at the lack of overtaking opportunity.
There is a sweeping bend in the road and I know from experience that the other side of said bend is where local camera van likes to hang out, so, as I approach the bend I slow to bang on 30.
Lad is now apoplectic with rage, clutching his steering wheel, leaning forwards, shouting and driving inches from my bumper.

Had he not been so far up my arse he'd have seen the camera van up the road, as it was he didn't and as he moved to overtake at a rapid rate of knots AND on chevrons I couldn't help but give him a cheery wave as he and his dangling smurf on the exhaust vanished into the distance and towards an almost certain fine and points

Sisters - yea to him being caught and learning an expensive lesson. And yes similar Karma would be desirable.

PCSO might not be a bad idea as it happens. I have the registration and it is a distinctive personalised plate in a rural area where people know people if you know what I mean.

Oh god she had places to be and people to see and her life is like soooo busy and important.

Ithought. So she didn't just get up late then?

It's like these wankers who race over Dartmoor and act all outraged when they hit and kill a pony which has the audacity to dent their car. Twats.

''you show some respect to the cows''

love this

Yeah probably ... or she was a self important twat who thinks the world owes her a favour!

I guess you have to be fairly self important to beep at someone for going -the correct speed- too slowly