to want to ram these people out of the way with my car??!!

[braveasweare]

I would never actually do this of course but since being able to drive, I've made efforts to be a patient, understandable driver as I remember how nerve-wracking it could be to be a learner etc but there are some things people do on the road that just irritate me so much!!!

The main one I'm talking about is when pulling up to a junction, those who are turning right stay smack bang in the middle of the road and don't allow any room for a car turning left to position themselves at the junction!!

I've noticed this a few times at a junction near to where I live. If you're turning left it's usually quite quiet and plenty of opportunities to go but if you're turning right there can be a lot of cars coming. This means the person sat waiting to go right is there for a while and the poor person wanting to go left could've just gone if only the first car had positioned themselves correctly!!! Sorry if I'm not making any sense LOL. Of course if someone's car is too big to allow for another car to pass by the side of it or there isn't enough room at the junction that's different!

What are your guys driving/parking gripes other than the usual middle lane hoggers?!

People who cut the corner when turning right into a junction.

We have a particularly busy one at the end of our road where you need to be positioned quite far forward to see if turning left.

I don't know how many idiots have nearly hit my car by cutting the corner to turn into the junction I'm waiting to pull out of

Yesterday I stopped at a GREEN light on a light controlled roundabout as there was traffic blocking the next exit- if I had driven through the light I would have been sat in a yellow box. The bloke behind me sounded his horn and gave me the sweetest of hand gestures- errr no mate not getting my self a fine (said roundabout has cameras and is a hotspot for this) or potentially getting side swiped.

People who don't use merge lanes then get annoyed when you use the lanes EXACTLY AS INTENDED. They're then fuming that you've "cut the queue" - you're supposed to zip at the end!

Agree! It isn't pushing in, you should stay in the lane until it ends (coned or red x) and then turn & turn again/ merge & merge again also called Zip as above.

• My biggest ever bugbear on the roads is people who don't wait when an obstruction is on their side of the road. They just carry on, driving in the middle of the road, taking up half your lane in the process and consequently either force you to stop, force you to duck in awkwardly or force you into the gutter to make room for them.

Do they literally not teach waiting when the obstruction is on your side of the road any more?*

Yeah, me too. Also, poor lane discipline at roundabouts, lack of indicators, people hogging lanes on dual carriageways and motorways.

People not moving over to allow traffic from adjoining slip road to enter dual carriageways/motorways.

People who have front fog lights on all the bloody time and dazzling you.

Alpha thank you for reversing in because its MUCH safer. People just aren't expecting it because it seems that most people would rather reverse out blind into a busy road than learn to reverse park!
Love the 4x4 karma stories.

The worst people on the road? Lane hoggers every time.

They join a dual carriageway, got straight into the overtaking lane and sit there for their entire journey. The only time their speed varies is when, after 10 miles, you get bored and pass them on the inside when they speed up massively to hug the bumper of the car in front.

you wont believe it what happened to op just happened to me-sorry to say ot was an old dear straddling two lanes at a junction also not indicating

when we got on the main road i over took her my dh said she looked petrified-i dont know why they force themselves to drive especialy at rush hour

I'm going to add drivers who dawdle. They see me waiting to cross the road and pass as slowly as they can (but too fast for me to cross in front of them). They see me waiting to turn into or out of a side road and drive slowly along. And if I stop to wait for them because the obstruction is my side they dawdle long enough for the car behind to catch them up so I have to wait even longer.

Worst:
People who do 40mph in a 30mph are and continue at 40mph in a 60 limit.

Next worst:
People who get in the right hand lane and indicate right at a roundabout, and then go.... straight on!

There seems to be a plague of both round here.

@Marymarg we had that recently. We were driving along a main road with a car right up behind us for several miles. We got to a dual carriage way so my dh slowed down to 50. The car stayed behind. He slowed down to 40. Its still stayed behind. He then slowed down even more to about 30 and it was still behind us! It started to worr me a bit, but then the car over took us and whizzed off into the distance! Didn't see him again. Most odd. (It was very quiet, just in case someone worries we might have caused issues by slowing down.)

One or our pet peeves is people using the wrong lane on roundabouts. We have one near us where the approach dual carriage way turns into three lanes at the lights. The roundabout has 6 exits. The left lane and the middle lane are for taking the first and second exit, this is marked on the road and on the signage. The amount of people who use the left lane for taking the 4th exit is unreal. We have had so many near misses.

Ooooo so many idiot drivers on the road it drives me mad!

1. As per pp, left lane twats people who don't understand that when 2 lanes merge the person in the right hand lane isn't pushing in THE LANES ARE MERGING !!!

1. Lane hoggers IF THERE IS NOTHING IN THE LANE TO YOUR LEFT, or YOU A DRIVING AT PRETTY MUCH THE SAME SPEED AS THE VEHICLE ON THE LEFT then you need to FUCK OFF INTO THAT LEFT HAND LANE!!

1. As annoying as tailgaters... the twat car in front of you that leaves TOO MUCH space between it and the car in front of it so EVERY FUCKING TRAFFIC LIGHT turns to red as you get to it.

1. Smug arse holes who clearly don't know the Highway Code but think they are the moral guardians of the highway by doing things like straddling white lines to prevent people from going down the OPEN right hand carriage way 800m before the road merges, cars who slow down and speed up to prevent the car behind doing a perfectly legal overtake

Oh I could rant all night about this !!

I hate it when people park up on the pavement not leaving me any room to get past in my wheelchair. Especially where we live with only pavement on one side and no dropped kerbs for ages and fast traffic who don’t drive with care round narrow lanes.

I live rurally and suffer the exact same. People in the village blocking dropped kerbs, parking on double yellows.

Then there's the older generation who think they are entitled to use the solitary disabled bay at the village supermarket, and the one at the doctors because they are old. DP is blind, im in a wheelchair, these same people berate us for parking in them. Then teenagers++ who don't give a toss, but you always get those wherever, still pisses me off though.

The thing with the merge in turn lane is that it seems to be an invitation to twats to speed up, using the 'extra' lane to whizz past traffic before pulling in. I will happily merge IN TURN, but I object to sad little racers seeing it as a chance to get one space ahead and then expecting to get to go first because they are driving too fast.

There are 2 junctions like OP describes near my house, at either end of a "bypass" type road which for whatever reason has no traffic lights to allow anyone to exit it. At busy times I go a different way to avoid that particular road.

People who drive at 35 (often in the middle lane) down the 50mph dual carriageway near me just because average speed cameras have been put in.

@HereBeFuckery they are not whizzing past they are using the open lane so if no one else is in it of course they are going to pass you.. they are actually in the right by using that lane! I think you might be one of the people I'm talking about.

@Mumphineasandferbmadea yes!! And people on the motorway who don't understand how average speed cameras work so will suddenly break in the over taking lanes when they spot an average speed camera... it's damn right dangerous

1 - Tailgaters
2 - those who travel on narrow country lanes over the wrong side of the road
3 - pushers in
4 - Same as your op
5 - people incapable of using a roundabout

People that travel at 40 on a faster road and then continue at 40 when they are in a 30.

People that wait and wait and then last second pull out in front of you as if you were a tractor and then tootle along at half the speed

Op don't become one of those impatient angry road ragers who thinks they can drive better than everyone else. Just accept there are all sorts of drivers out there and chill out. Life is too short.

Tailgaters

But also roundabouts designed to confuse non locals.

For months the awful one on my way to work (Scilly Isles) foxed me; only way to get across WAS to almost floor it and hope for the best.

Only now I “get” it will I drive there with kids in the back but still don’t trust another soul.

People who don't let you in, especially if the traffic on their road is going slowly anyway or they're approaching red traffic lights - you're not going anywhere so just let me in! But also can't stand OTT rude drivers. When I was a learner a motorist shouted disgusting things at me when I was waiting to merge at a busy junction. I hesitated a bit as it was busy so obviously not ideal but people need to be kinder to learners. I really wanted to get out and show this big man he'd just screamed at a young heavily pregnant girl.

The thing with the merge in turn lane is that it seems to be an invitation to twats to speed up, using the 'extra' lane to whizz past traffic before pulling in

But don't forget you are stationary, so anything moving will seem like it's going faster than it really is.

And you also had exactly the same choice to use that lane as well but instead chose lane 1. If everyone started using both lanes as was meant, this ridiculous situation will desist.

In a similar vein to OP's gripe, drivers who don't realise that they CAN enter a yellow hatched box area at a crossroads IF they are turning right. The hatch is there to stop drivers queuing straight across it and blocking a junction. So many drivers hang back when turning right thinking they can't enter this hatched area and thereby hold up motorists behind them also wishing to turn right on that set of lights.

Only if the exit is clear. You can enter to turn right if the exit is clear and all you are waiting for is oncoming traffic to pass. You can't enter if there is queuing traffic on your exit, whether it's left, straight on nor right.

From the highway code:

These have criss-crossyellowlines painted on the roads. You MUST NOT enter the boxuntil your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter theboxand wait when you want toturn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting toturn right.