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2 'road rage' incidents in 1 day! Am I a crap driver or were they?

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BubbleGirl01 · 06/02/2015 00:32

This morning, driving along a straight road, road is blocked on my side with parked cars so I am driving on the right at that moment, nothing coming towards me. A car approaches from the side road on the right indicating to turn right into the road where I am currently driving on the side that they would be turning into. I see the woman looking to her right to see that the road is clear, which it is as that is why I am on the side of the road so she turns straight into me. I emergency brake just she turns into me and she clocks me then hooting her horn frantically. We avoid a collision by literally millimetres. In fact I expected for an impact. She then winds her window down and say's it was my fault as I was on 'her' side of the road swearing away.

Later on, I am driving up another straight road approaching a mini roundabout which I want to turn left at. There is a bus in the opposite lane just before the mini roundabout stuck in stationery traffic. Seeing that the bus is waiting to go straight on and will not be turning right in the direction that I am going to go, I turn to my left at the mini roundabout. Suddenly a car jumps out from behind the bus, zooms into their right hand lane and turns right into the direction I am going so I almost collide with it on the mini roundabout. I beep at the woman in the car as I emergency brake. She had DC in the car and so do I and I am bloody furious as she was going very fast. We are actually going to the same place so we park up while she is giving me evils and I tell her she was in the wrong as we pass each other into the building. She insists that she had the right of way as she was turning right at the roundabout and it didn't matter that the bus was in the way. After 5 minutes of her telling me that I need to read the highway code again we agree to disagree!

I am starting to lose my confidence in my driving anyway due to anxiety so was I in the wrong on either of these incidents?

OP posts:
Dunkling · 07/02/2015 10:45

MrsGoslingWannabe
Just a question: if 2 of you are opposite each other at a mini-roundabout & one is turning left and other is turning right (so same exit), who has right of way?

The car turning right across the other cars path has right of way.

mysteryfairy · 07/02/2015 11:02

My DH was the other driver in scenario one and actually crashed into the other driver. He was at fault according to both her and his insurance company.

It was 17 years ago and he was coming out of the side street we then lived on the day we were moving house so in a bit of a rush and apparently not concentrating. I still use the incident as evidence of his crap driving.

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