to get the rage when people go the wrong way in carparks

[letmehaveyoursoul]

does my head in, you round a corner and there's a car in the middle of the one way system going the wrong way. you wouldn't do it on a one way Street!

Big bastard too, scared the shite out of me.

Count your blessings. Can you imagine being one of the poor beggars who has to live with dickheads like that? Not minimising your upset but you got to drive away that day but someone has to deal with that ridiculous behaviour at home. How awful must that be?

Oh for goodness sake. it's hyperbole and lighthearted. I didn't think I needed to point that out...

what I do wonder though is where insurance stands with this? if I round a corner and hit someone going the wrong way head on, who is at fault?

Both of you. Due to the fact that, even though you shouldn't necessarily expect a car to be there, you absolutely should expect that there may well be pedestrians so you should always be driving slowly enough to stop.

Yabu. Ive done this in car parks i dont know. Its very easy not to see any signs and the signs are confusing. One car patk i visit has a entrance and exit in but the other side only an entrance. If you come in via the enteance exit you have to go the wrong way around as there is no other way of doing it.

I live in a one way street where the signage at the entrance isn't that clear and people do regularly come the wrong way up it. However, the road is wide enough for people to get past, and in fact at one point there is a large area where people can, and usually do, pull in so that they are right off the road to let people past. The reality is that it therefore causes virtually no inconvenience or danger, and I don't really understand why it is one way. However, if someone comes up the wrong way you can rely on the fact that every time some self-righteous smartarse will go to all the trouble of stopping and shouting at the the driver concerned, even though that delays his (and it always is a his) journey much more than would have been the case if he'd just shrugged his shoulders and carried on.

The moral of all that is - YABU. It just isn't an issue that's worth raising your blood pressure for.

You don't live in The Midlands and have been festering for several years do you OP?

Couple of years ago DH drove wrong way around a supermarket car park, wide enough for two cars, he pulled over to the left and woman pulled along side and really let rip. DC learnt a whole new vocabulary that day. We were completely stunned that anyone could get so worked up - all she had to do was move over slightly. Decided she must've been having a really bad day!!

As for insurance, surely if you drive around a corner so fast you couldn't stop it would make little odds what direction other car was facing - assuming it wasn't doing the same?

Oh and YABU regarding 'the rage'.

Clearly hyperbole to you, but if you'd had nutters screaming at you in carparks about it you might not be so lighthearted.

Meh, it doesn't usually give me the rage, but it did once, when a middle aged woman stood in a parking space at our local hospital, and her husband drove the wrong way round to park in it, when I was going the right way, and would have got the space if she wasn't standing in it! Karma was on my side that day, however, as when I eventually found a space, a lovely lady gave me her parking ticket which still had two hours on it, and when I came out, I passed it on to someone else as there was still an hour and fifteen, so one person's selfish behaviour ultimately benefited two others!