'sunday drivers' 40mph everywhere

[angelos02]

Just had a weekend away in the countryside and at least half a dozen times got stuck behind people that shouldn't be allowed to drive. Doing 40mph in national speed limit zones & the same in built up 20 mph areas. Note to you Numpties...if there is big line of traffic behind you, you are probably driving dangerously.

Op do not ever come to jersey. Top speed limit here is 40. Most roads near me are 15/20

There's a woman on a moped who must live near me as I often come across her in the morning. She always does exactly the same thing. She overtakes the entire queue of traffic waiting to go through a narrow stretch of lane and turn onto the main road - the only reason there is a gap for her to pull into is because everyone else is avoiding queuing in the narrow stretch so that cars can come through the other way, and she just overtakes them and goes and sits in the middle of the road, blocking it as effectively as if she was a car.

She then proceeds to do 15mph for the entire 4 miles of main road until I turn off. This is a combination of 50mph and 30mph roads and it is almost impossible to overtake as the road as there are either bends or constant traffic coming the other way on the straight stretches.

A few other drivers have beeped at her when she's overtaken recently, and someone stuck their head out and shouted at her to wait like everyone else, so I'm assuming everyone else is getting as frustrated with her as I am.

Locals drove more slowly and carefully...they had seen it all before.

I call bollocks on this - it's the locals that think they know the roads and drive on them like they're empty that are the dangerous ones.

They're always having to swerve & brake when they come round a corner & are surprised there's someone coming the other way!

The flip side of it is those people that aren't confident enough in their car or abilities (or are distracted by kids, hangover, phone etc) drive much slower than they could & it can be incredibly frustrating - especially when they seem to have no comprehension of the queue behind them.

But this is MN so the car in front is always right!!

This isn't about people who just happen to be slow though. It's the fuckers who drive at 40 mph through perfectly safe NSL areas (fair enough, they might have their reasons) and then carry on at 40 when they get to a village. Fuckwits.

It's not always right but if you're keeping a safe sensible distance away from it, you should be able to anticipate and stop safely if it does something daft.

Not around here, you get people turning onto nsl roads and the car doing 60 has to emergency stop! I've had a few close calls and one friend has wrote off a car. Lots of the people around here shouldn't be on the roads.

poster angelos02 Mon 19-Oct-15 00:30:16
You say 'on the phone to someone' quite flippantly as if it is an ok thing to do when driving
No I didn't.

coffeeisnectar You say We were stuck in a line of cars doing exactly 32mph in a 50 zone all the way home tonight..

If your journey was ten miles that added 7m 5s to it, assuming you would have been doing 50 if it was not for Mr/Ms 32 at the front.

Is that worth getting worked up about?

Yanbu

And bollocks it is "not a target". There's a reason driving instructors don't teach people to drive dangerously slowly as a rule.

It totally depends on the road. 40mph on a motorway, wide dual carriageway or long straight road with a 60mph speed limit is dangerous. I get annoyed with 30mph drivers on a huge 40mph ring road.

We have a lot of country lanes round here which would be incredibly dangerous if you drove at the nsl. Blind corners where even if you know where the road goes you can't see if there's a combine harvester round the bend. Those sort of roads you have to drive more slowly.

Round my way, the slow drivers are school run Moms who once saw a sheep three years ago, driving shit Korean buckets with wheels that probably can't get to NSL within 10 mins.

runs away

I'm only half joking serious.

No one ever seems to want to do a sensible speed round here.

They're all either careering around the country lanes trying to do 60 on tight bendy lanes and driving up your arse, or crawling along under 30 all the bleeding way gazing around them at the view.

Getting stuck behind the 'I'm driving up the middle of the lane because i want to go slow so tough, you can too' drivers drive me bonkers. Who wants their journey time doubled there and back every time?

(i do resist the temptation to drive up their arses though. i don't want to be one of those bastards)

That entire post was a tease BTW.

The roads near my house are the type with mirrors on the dry stone walls, to get you round them in the first place, let alone at anything approaching speed. I drive a fast car that corners excellently, but even I'm pegged to 40mph, 20mph round those bends.

coffee We were stuck in a line of cars doing exactly 32mph in a 50 zone all the way home tonight..

Andrewoffogg who can say if "Coffee" was worked up or not, but I think the average reaction would be some form of annoyance, added to the concern that a driver who is so unaware or uncaring that they are impeding the flow of traffic is on the road.

The excessively slow driving seems to get worse in winter, as the nights get darker earlier. My suspicion is that there are a few people out there whose eyesight simply isn't good enough for them to still hold a license, but who insist on endangering all of us by continuing to drive. Hence why they continue at the same speed or even speed up, when they go into a more well lit built up area with a lower speed limit.

"Note to you Numpties...if there is big line of traffic behind you, you are probably driving dangerously"

YABVU

Check your Highway Code

Do people who often have a trail of cars behind them even notice?

Maybe you were stuck behind us, as my FIL gave us a lift from the airport yesterday :S

I've said this on other threads: if you are stuck in a queue with no intention to overtake, please leave a gap in front of you so others cars can do so. You're not obliged to, but it makes things easier.

I live in Brighton near The Downs, I've lived here for nearly 13 years, we frequently go to The Downs to walk or drive on country roads to get to National Trust properties or to the coastline further along. We're very familiar with these roads and many of them are NSL, there is no way you could go 60 mph on a lot of these roads. One in particular is very steep and winding- it frequently has cyclists on it, if you drove at 60 mph you would have quite a few collisions with them or other cars or 'walkers'. I have been driving for 21 years and passed first time, I'm very familiar with these roads and a competent driver, consequently I can justifiably say that anyone driving the NSL on some of the roads - like you are suggesting, would be driving 'dangerously' and lack good judgement which Is a prerequisite for 'good' driving! Conversely, a thoughtless pursuit of the NSL is not!

When I visit my Mum in Shropshire, the driving on country roads is mostly reckless- the tailgating, the dodgy overtaking at 70 mph as you're driving at 55 for good reason.

It's a limit, not a target.
No excuse for exceeding the limit though.

This. I'll happily drive up to and a couple over the limit if the road conditions permit it. I take into account upcoming sharp bends, poor weather, how dry the road is and who else is on the road/surrounding area. If I'm on a NSL road and I don't feel it's appropriate to be at the speed limit, I won't. Simple as that.

If that pisses off the person behind me and they're driving up my arse, they're welcome to overtake as soon as it's safe to do so. I'll even wave them off.

YANBU. Yesterday was also 'No Indicator Sunday' but I clearly missed the memo. I work a long day Sunday, driving around to patients. It is so annoying - we aren't all having a day off relaxing Sunday!!

Saturday and sunday drivers tend to be a bit slower, most of the time because they've had a drink the night before from what I see when I drive on the roads.

They may or may not still be over the limit but go slow in case, or perhaps because of a headache from it.

People who stick at one speed usually are bad drivers or over the limit, unless that speed is the speed limit.

I was behind one once which did 45 on every road, including 20 and 30, no speed deviation.

They had no observation or clue which made then very dangerous.

Some NSL roads should not be NSL though, I will go slow on some country one near here due to cars parking on, horse riders, cyclists and pedestrians.

Plus there are blind bends.

The numpties are the ones trying to hit 60mph and then almost causing accidents there.