'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.

Some of us live in the countryside - I share your pain.

Try driving the A9 any day during summer, though.

My FIL lives in the countryside. He will today have been driving slowly to and from church.

I live in the countryside. I met a 20mph driver today. Grrrrr!
I'd much rather be behind someone doing 40 than fecking 20!

I was always taught that you should aim to do the speed limit of the road unless there were prohibitive circumstances, eg, bad weather

The A9 is a fucking nightmare, those average speed cameras are inevitably ignored by some twat in a German car who doesn't realise that slowing to 50mph the minute you see the camera means you still got fucking caught!

Every day is Sunday to my mum. She lives in the country, she drives a decent nippy car, she won't go over 40mph and likes to check the brakes every 500 yards or so.

Or, in the countryside, the road is narrow/twisty/has high hedgerows/risk of loose farm animals in the road/untreated potholes (because naturally, country roads get less investment than routes more frequently used, by higher concentrations of traffic)...

The road I use to join the nearest A road is national speed limit, but you'd have to be a complete fucking moron or my farming neighbours to drive it at 60mph.

Oh fucking hell those people do my TITS in. It doesn't matter whether it's the straight wide rural bits or the windy-through-the-middle-of-the-village bits, it's 40 all the way.

I'd rather be stuck behind a tractor because at least they're providing a useful purpose than one of these cars, but unfortunately it happens at least once a fortnight.

I find those who do 55-60 on the A1 fucking irritating. So I use the right hand lane to overtake at 70, you know, the speed limit, and get some idiot flying up behind me at 80+. Why does nobody just drive at the fucking speed limit? Occasionally you get a time when they all actually do and traffic flows nicely with no speeding up and slowing down every so often.

The A1 is at least dual carriageway, so those going slower should not be an issue. And the speed limit is 60 for certain vehicles such as those towing caravans or lorries.

Ahem

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2490129-sunday-drivers-40mph-everywhere

I was driving at 40 with some idiot right up behind me, taking on a blind bend to come up behind someone in a mobility scooter. I had to brake hard because of oncoming traffic and it being a narrow road. The driver behind me stayed well back from then on.

A week or so ago I came across a bull roaming loose in the road.

Just because the speed limit says you can go faster does not mean that you should.

CantAffordtoLive

Driving too slowly can be just as dangerous as driving too fast.

An ex-colleague of mine drove everywhere at 40mph, A roads, B roads, past schools, motorways. He was a nightmare.

I was behind a woman in a clapped out puergeot yesterday who found impossible to go above 45mph on a busy 60 road, but found it perfectly acceptable to speed through a 30 zone
Luckily for the sake of my sanity there was a nice clear opportunity for me to overtake...others behind me were not so lucky. I'm not sure if they ever reached their destination....they could still be stuck behind her now

There's a NSL road near me. Built in the 80s, wide, well cambered, decent visibility. Drivers typically do 50-60 mph on it. Very good.

It also attracts the Sunday driver mentality. 35 to 39mph, excessive slowing on the hills.

Mysteriously when they get to the 40 mph zone near the end, they speed up to 45-50 mph, sailing past the pedestrian traffic lights past the speed limit.