To wonder if they've changed the Highway Code and no one told me?

[Chicken4dinner]

Or far more likely when did drivers become so inconsiderate?

I've just tried to cross a fairly busy road at a zebra crossing. I stood with one foot on the crossing making it obvious I was trying to cross and five cars zoomed right past me.

I took one step forward, so I was 2 or 3 ft from the kerb and still no one stopped. When there was a very small break in the traffic I walked forward but was prepared to leap back if I had to. I made it across in one piece.

I'm a driver. I always stop when I see someone crossing on a zebra.

It was quite nerve wracking walking out before the cars had stopped and I'm a mobile forty-something. How elderly or less mobile people cope I don't know.

GETTING Oh yes. I was crossing a side road today and someone turned right into it from the main road and completely cut the corner. If a car had been waiting to get out they couldn't have avoided them.

I don't drive (in the Uk).

But my husband!!! It drives me crazy (one of the few things we argue about quit's frequently...) he likes to... stretch the speed limit!

And parking! Whaaat? There are parking regulations? 'No, my family lived here (at PILs)house for ages. Nobody ever checks....'
well, I don't care! There are rules, laws and regulations(and in the UK also a code, I've found out) and they're meant to be followed!

MIL is just the same.

I was in the left hand lane turning left, but some idiot in a small car pushed up the left hand side of me. turns out you can actually fit two cars in teh left hand lane.

Between my last post and this one I've been to the shops.

And what did I see? A bloody great 4x4 (the spotlessly clean sort that never sees a back lane, never mind a farm track, in its life) parked with a back wheel virtually on the drop kerb for the zebra crossing. I said to the woman who'd jet dumped something on the passenger seat, 'You do realise you're blocking a zebra crossing, don't you?'
I think the answer was 'So what?'
'Because oncoming traffic can't see anybody crossing, that's why.'
And even as she was saying something like 'Fuck off, busybody', a car saw me emerging from behind her tank and slowed quite sharply. The driver and I exchanged rueful smiles...

73.9a(i) When collecting children from school, parents can park wherever and whenever they want, including but not limited to
a) Residents driveways,
b) Pavements,
c) Junctions,
d) Keep-clear-markings (these have recently been rebranded as 'park-here-markings, but council road departments are dealing with a backlog of updating them)
Parent drivers have a responsibility at all times to ensure their children do not get wet, tired, or exercised and must park accordingly to ensure this.
73.9a(ii) The above circumstances also exempt parent-drivers from using indicators, seatbelts, and manners.

Keep left on the motorway unless over taking.
you see those three empty lanes to your left, what's wrong with them?
Bit difficult to move in at 60 m.p.h. when you've got a double-decker express bus about a micron away from your rear bumper blocking any chance of seeing what's coming up inside.

If driving past a cyclist, always rev your car very hard to make them super aware of how vulnerable they are.

Don't bother learning the different speed limits. 35 mph on a single lane, national speed limits road with few overtaking opportunities at 6.45 am when people are trying to get to the station is fine.

4 x 4s take precedence and smaller cars should move into the ditch to avoid inconveniencing them.

I had an older gentleman lose the plot

UnderTheGaydar

The driver's age is irrelevant

The Polish lorry driver headline was racist

Your comment is ageist

I'm disabled and walk with a crutch, there is a roundabout near us that nobody uses indicators on, so I'm trying to cross the road at the second exit, nobody indicating so I set off hobbling across the road only for a la

14.5. Traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. If you speed through a light as it's changing from amber to red, just as the green man is appearing on the pedestrian crossing, you may proceed onwards into the approaching pedestrians, sending them running.

28.2. Box junctions. If you are waiting behind a car that has stopped behind a box junction, you may intimidate, harass and bully the driver in front of you to drive into the box junction to allow you to proceed into a clear lane ahead.

30.1 Queued lanes of traffic. If the lane you need to be in is queued back but the adjacent lane is clear, you should drive along the clear lane until you reach the front of the queue and then force yourself in so that you do not have to wait in the stationary traffic. If queuing drivers fail to let you in, you may get irate and block the previously clear lane until someone lets you in. Remember that none of this situation is your own doing.

32.4 Cyclists. Camouflage is key when cycling, especially after dark. Be sure to wear your darkest, least reflective clothing and avoid using lights if possible. Headphones are a particularly useful accessory.

Sorry pressed post too soon!

for a large 4x4 to come screaming off the roundabout towards me, he had to swerve to miss me and then had the cheek to tell me tha

FFS again!!

that a "fucking spastic like you shouldn't be allowed out on your own"! Charming 😡

If people are correctly using filter lanes to merge with traffic -where 2 lanes become 1, it's acceptable to speed up so the car can't merge correctly. It's also fine to straddle both lanes thus blocking the car using the merge lanes as they should be used

When driving along a country road at night, make sure you have your lights on full beam, regardless of whether there are any other drivers coming towards you.

Where I live a red and amber light means increase your speed now to get across the junction. A red light is no longer mandatory and it is perfectly OK to weave in among pedestrians who are crossing on the green man. Overtaking on the zebra crossing is also legal.

Use indicators randomly. This will keep pedestrians alert as they try to figure out whether your right indicator is signalling that you are turning right or, in fact, turning left into the side road they are trying to cross.

If you remember too late that the road layout has been reconfigured and the on way road you are pulling out onto doesn't go where it used to, drive down it the wrong way instead. You'll still be in the wrong place but it will be less of a detour. There's also the added bonus of being able to surprise pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers.

Love learning

I have ignored your pathetic remark and I'm not even going to explain myself.

Smooth down your uniform won't you.

Chicken4dinner You won't regret it- get a dash cam. Its incredible how very irate drivers will do a 180 when you smile sweetly and tell them you've got it all captured in glorious HD

I was not being homophobic on that last bit, by the way

If you've temporarily hitched up a trailer to do a tip run you don't need to connect the lights as it's day time. So what if the cars behind don't know you're braking?
It's also perfectly acceptable to overfill your car and hold the boot lid down by means of a piece of string attached to the rear wiper.
I have to admit, DH and I were having a bit of a laugh watching that wiper slowly bend out of shape.
This is one of my mums rules - when approaching a multi lane large roundabout, ignore all the carefully painted line markings and just go in a straight line across, so you've effectively changed lanes twice and then be very puzzled when you nearly hit someone and they bib you.

Just because a single track country lane with suicidal corners has no speed limit posted it means someone has surveyed it and allocated a national speed limit to it so you can hare along it at 60+ because it does not say you can't.
Especially if you have a humungous 4x4 which excuses you from ever pulling into a passing place.

They don't even stop for red lights in my village . I pulled someone up on their lack of indicators once, it was grandparents dropping their dgc off after school each day, the response was "well I know where I'm going"

The pushing to the front of the queue in the wrong lane is the one that gives me the most rage.

The best one I've seen was a load of secondary school kids at a crossing (presumably just departed a school bus home), crossing light was red but ambulance with blue lights on and sirens approaching crossing (v close to Hospital).

Kids kept going to cross the road. Cars waited for ambulance on other side, allowing a gap for it to pass through when lights changed to green but more large groups of kids STILL trotting across the road and the poor ambulance driver is just sitting at the green light to avoid having to scoop the little shits off the road and into the back. I was fucking astounded at the lack of common sense.

It does seem like way more people try their luck to just drive through zebra crossings rather than stop, really fucks me off.

Big long open road marked at 40, loads of signage and road markings on both sides, but so many people slow down to under 30 for the speed camera. Do they think it's some kind of trap?! They happily go over 40 once past it

Honourable mention to the middle lane hogs trundling along at 65 mph with nothing in front of them (or in the left hand lane), so you have to go all the way around them to not undertake.

Ooh, I've got one!

Make sure to stop at a green light on a crossing and wave pedestrians across, then get annoyed when they don't go because the drivers on the other side of the road have actually paid attention to the lights and aren't stopping. Because I should totally put myself and my child in harm's way to make you feel like a nice person

Also feel free to run a red light on another crossing, almost mowing down a small child, then stop after it to have a chat with your mate on the other side of the road. So much for the green man meaning it's safe to cross.