Probably being unreasonable - indicating to driver to slow down?

[Shedidnt]

I am 100% sure I'll be told that I'm an arsehole, but to be honest this day can't get much worse (not just for this reason).

So I was crossing the road. It's a long road - purely residential with 2 schools and one shop. But it's a very straight road.

Obviously, I'm presuming the limit is maybe 50kph. (Don't know as I don't drive here).

So I'm crossing the road and this BOLLOCKS in an SUV comes over the hill doing 80mph if not 90mph. I'm in the middle of the road, so being in bad fucking humour and feeling fucked off in general, I stood still in the middle of the road and waved him down (with the slow down movement). I then tootled across the road. The other small-pricked cunt of a bollocks hoots the horn at me (blasts it for 10 seconds) as he passes me by.

So, jury, which of us was the bigger lunatic? Me trying to direct traffic or the arrogant speeding bastard?

YABU I'm sure if he saw you and slowed down in plenty of time he probably wasn't going as fast as you think.

I think 80MPH in a built up area would be a fair struggle to begin with without accident for most

If you was 300M away he must have spotted you super early on to have stopped from 80MPH

Assuming road conditions were good, his tyres were good, his reaction times were spot on the stopping distance at 80mph is 120 meters.

Given the hilarious was 300 meters away, at 80mph he would have covered quite a lot of meters before you thought and decided to do what you did.

He would have hit you if travelling at that speed. Even with an emergency stop.

He was not travelling that speed.

It sounds as if the driver was going way too fast but I very much doubt that it would have been as fast as 80 miles an hour. It's impossible to judge from a standing position,

But either way, what you did was completely foolhardy, especially on 1st January, as was pointed out by another PP.

TBH you just want to justify it.

They were doing 90 in a residential area.
They came over a hill but you had a clear view of all the traffic around them.
They slowed from 90mph to avoid you but you wouldn't have had time to get out of their way.

It dosnt really make sense so maybe we cant know if you were bu.

That makes no sense. You cannot possibly judge by eyeball that he was doing 80-90mph vs 70mph. And if he couldn't have stopped while you were moving, how did he stop when you were stationary?

You were both arseholes and you couldn't fit a piece of paper between which of you was the bigger one.

I stopped to wave him down at about 200metres from me. He slowed down while I crossed, but if I wasn't flapping in the middle of the road he probably would have hit me.

Believe me, I know all about speeds.

While he was breaking the law you shouldn't walk into the road willy nilly to make a point....

Well, as you say, nobody died. But perhaps next time consider reporting arseholes such as him to the authorities . Like your protest, it probably won’t achieve anything but it’ll be a whole lot safer.

Well the RAC website says at 70MPH stopped distance would be 315 feet alone

Without thinking distance and actually doing it.

90mph in a residential area isn't likely. Narrow roads make speeds feel quicker to a bystander. I dont doubt he was going too fast, though, just not at those speeds.

Stopping in the road was crazy! You were the bigger looney, but he was an arsehole.

He only stopped because I stood still in the middle of the road. He showed no signs of slowing while I was walking across the road, so if he maintained his speed, he'd have hit me.

I didn't walk into the road willy nilly. There was nothing coming from either side while I started to cross the road, suddenly, this cunt is bearing down on me after cresting the brow of the hill in full flight. By the time I was in the middle of the road, he was 200 yards from me.

You can argue all you want about the Highway Code, but you can't argue with the laws of physics. As soon as you stood there in the road, you were taking it to another level. YABU. The whole point of speed limits is to reduce the likelihood of accidents, and in this case, two wrongs don't make a right.

He slowed down while I crossed, but if I wasn't flapping in the middle of the road he probably would have hit me.

How? Would he not have seen you if you hadn't flapped? If you had kept moving would he have just thought 'fuck it' and kept going?

Believe me when I say this dude was doing at least 80mph. I honestly wish there was a way to prove this.

Yes, he would have seen me crossing but was accelerating the whole time (I know from the sound). I know it sounds like I took some brave sort of stand, but I think I was actually terrified and froze.

You both sound bloody ridiculous. You seem to have had a lot of time to decide that he would have hit you if you continued across, so the better option would be to stand still in the road and flap your arms about.

It doesn't matter that you 'know all about speeds'. There is no way you could accurately judge his speed.

Anyway, I hope if the prick is going to crash that he wraps himself around a pole and doesn't kill anyone else. The speed he was doing was pure lunacy.

But he obviously wasn't OP!

You can't ask if your unreasonable and then tell everyone you wasn't unreasonable

I do believe he was an arse driving too fast

I also believe you was an arse for putting your life in danger facing a car at fast speeds when you was already in the middle of the road and could have easily moved to safety

You reckon he had travelled 100 meters by the time you got to the centre so surely you could have got all the way across without him even needing to break

It doesn't sound like a brave stand. It sounds like lunacy

Ok, he was doing 20mph? That make you happy?
I drive, I know what a car sounds like at certain speeds, bearing in mind the doppler effect which everyone knows, even if they don't know what it's called.

Believe me, I know all about speeds.

You dont.

You think he was travelling 40 meters per second. Nowhere near enough time for all this plus thinking time.

Obviously you are the reasonable one you're entitled to take a risk with your own life not with other people's like the speeding asshole did. I hate twats who speed because they think they know better.

I believe that you need to learn when that what you're trying to say is that 'you were' not 'you was'.

I think people are quibbling about the exact speed. Even if the car was only going at 60mph, that's still double the speed limit.

I live on a similarly straight residential road, recently reduced to 20mph, with kids often playing out in the summer (balls appearing in the road from behind parked cars etc.). It's frightening the speeds cars go, with seeming impunity. The limit is almost a provocation to a certain type of driver.

YANBU