To ask you to share the worst examples of bad driving you have seen recently?

[Mycatsabastard]

I have witnessed some truly spectacular examples of bad driving in the last week.

The worst by far was the car on the outside lane of the M3 who realised he was going to miss the junction he needed. So he stopped. In the outside lane. Then indicated left. Everyone had to stop to prevent a mass pile up so he very calmly just turned left and drove across all the lanes of traffic and then across the chevrons onto the slip road (where cars were still exiting at high speed). I truly hope that was caught on camera and he's hammered with points on his license!

On the same journey on a normal road (with a 60mph speed limit) a police car came up behind with blue lights on. All the cars on my side were slowing and pulling over (but not stopping) except the car in front which panicked at the last minute and just slammed the brakes on in the middle of the lane which caused the police car to have to drive on the other side of the road and everyone else to have to stop as well.

Some people shouldn't have a driving license!

I had my transporter full to bursting with guides camping equipment and my step daughter. Signs above the carriageway said queuing traffic on slip road ahead. Traffic queued onto the carriageway by the time I got there. I had been checking my mirrors constantly to see if I could pull out bit couldn't. A rather large lorry that was behind me shot past me close enough to seriously rock my vehicle. He'd obviously not been paying enough attention to the traffic in front of me and couldn't brake in time. How us or anyone in the other lane was not crushed I'll never know.

Not bad driving but we were in New Zealand recently and there was a woman filling up her car with petrol pump in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other...

Cross junction with traffic lights at 3 sides (one road is 1 way). Car goes through the lights at green and is in the middle of the junction when the lights change to red,so he stops,blocking the traffic behind him (also went through on green) and the traffic at the next junction. He had no idea why everyone was beeping him. I was walking past and about to tell him to move when he went,pointing to the red light as if to tell everyone behind him that THEY were wrong.

Twat.

Tailgated by some idiot in a Jag tonight. The closer he got, the slower we got.

Also in the narrow, twisty country roads round here, a young lad driving towards us at a stupid speed, and like many young men - totally incapable of taking a corner.

I realised as he went past it's the son of a woman over the road. Just a handful of years ago, he was waiting for the school bus with my kids (who are still at school). Now he's got a driving licence!

Stupid idiot on his phone driving a smallish van on 20 road going faster as the kids are leaving school (school had just finished) and all the idiots that drive esp on the motorway while on a phone!

Happened a few years ago but always shakes me up as I drive past the same spot.

Dual carriageway 70mph. Long lay by on the left as you come down the hill. Car in the lay by decides to pull out with me in the inside lane doing 65mph and a steady stream of cars in the outside lane doing more. I slam on my brakes and my horn as there's no way I can swerve into the outside lane hoping they've heard or seen me and will duck back into the layby (pulled out from the middle of it. Wide clear view of the traffic coming down the hill behind it) Nope. Doesn't even begin to speed up to try and match the speed of the traffic so I end up stopping - yes they're going so slowly still by the time I get to them that I'm forced to do an emergency stop - in the inside lane with the cars on the outside lane flying past at 70mph and the cars behind me having to swerve out into it to avoid me and the dangerous driving car.

With my few months old DD in the back. Really shook me up. It's like it happened in slow motion. I couldn't believe they were doing it.

Now my DD is 3 and asks me what's happened when I use my horn. Today it was a brow of a hill on a 50 mph road and a people carriers comes over the hill on my side of the road. I obviously slammed on my brakes and used my horn. It's close to my house and I know the road from the opposite direction well. It's a totally totally blind brow which banks steeply when you get over it so I had very little time to spot the car. I know cyclists going slowly on 50 mph roads is annoying but they've got every right to be there, every right not to be swerved into and given plenty of room when being passed. If the car had waited once you get over the brow of the hill it's a really clear view so can overtake easily. People are just thoughtless and impatient.

Forgot to say the people carrier was overtaking a cyclist that's why it was on my side of the road.

On a dual carriage way, in the left hand lane going straight over at the roundabout. A bloke next to me in the right hand lane turned left. From the right hand lane. Nearly drove into me. Then beeped at me as if I had done something!

DH and I were pedestrians waiting for the green man on a side road. Green man appears, car immediately turns onto the side road and drives through the red light narrowly missing us. The great thing was the car behind them was a police car which immediately turned it's siren on and the policeman rolled his eyes at us in sympathy

The number of near misses I've had as a pedestrian with black cabs in London is frightening. It's usually either when crossing a side street and they're turning in, or walking across a pedestrian crossing. The worst example of the former was when I started to cross a side street near Bank station and I could see a taxi coming up the main road (still some way away), and he wasn't yet indicating to turn left. When I was about halfway across the side street, he angrily ACCELERATED down the road and round into the side street towards me, stopping literally an inch away from me. Because I had the audacity to cross a road he eventually wanted to turn into!

Plus I had another taxi driver actually follow me down the road absolutely hurling abuse at me after he got impatient at a zebra crossing and started to drive off towards me and I shouted at him. Luckily as he was crawling alongside me I had plenty of time to get his registration number and he got reported to TFL.

Oh and then there's the time I was nearly taken out by a bicycle who sailed straight through the red light at a pedestrian crossing - he hurled abuse at me too!

I've just remembered a really odd one from a couple of years ago. DP and I were in the car locally and there are three lanes of very slow moving traffic moving down to a roundabout. Car in front of us and a car to the left. Clearly something has happened between the two cars and the car on the left, opens driver window and throws a bottle at the car in front of us.

When we next slow to a stop the driver of the car in front, gets out, goes to the car on the left and opens the door and starts punching the driver in the head.

There was a police car two cars back from us who saw the whole thing and thankfully they chased down 'punching driver' and stopped him.

Inthesandpit If you are in Belgium, it's the twats on the Ring who use the hard shoulder as a lane when there is a hold up, or who see the safe distance from the car in front as an overtaking opportunity for them. I also love the I've indicated so I'll manoeuvre ploy, they just leave out the looking to see if anything else is around.