Other drivers

[Desperatetime]

I've noticed that everybody seems to he in a rush and some have a attitude I'm sick of people up my rear end when I'm doing the speed limit and hovering to overtake.
Last night around 11pm I had somebody up my rear flashing and blowing thier horn at me when I was doing the speed limit maybe just under aibu to think this behaviour is getting worse.

The idea of "the fast lane" is half of the problem.

Just move over. It's safer for everyone.

Not just safer. It’s a legal requirement.

Around here, we don't really see much aggressive/speeding driving. Our problems are dawdlers, people driving below speed limits for no reason (probably don't even know the limit), pulling out without looking, general lack of awareness due to looking at their phone, not noticing road markings/traffic lights, etc. So more general incompetence than aggression/speeding.

There've been loads of near misses and crashes, mostly low speed, so not particularly serious although we've had two head on collision fatal accidents, both involving women drivers in their 80s who just crashed into each other at pretty low speed, apparently in both cases, both were all over the road and just didn't notice the other doing the same, so ending up crashed into each other!

I think it's because our village has a big primary school, so lots of parents on the school run not concentrating, along with an aged local population, so lots of OAPs who don't have a clue.

Indicators seem to have vanished. The drive from my home to supermarket is 7 roundabouts, drove it the other day and didn't see one car indicating
It's like I'm meant to be a mind reader
If I'm going straight across then I indicate at the junction I'm coming off at, so then drivers coming the other way know what I'm doing too and can cross the roundabout but nobody else seems to do that?

Yesterday I was approaching a mini roundabout, single lane, queueing cos school run. Some daft lass tried to overtake everyone else by going onto the wrong side of the road, then looked flustered when a car coming the opposite way, off the mini roundabout nearly wrote her off.

Old people not looking as they pull out or at junctions.

Mums on the school run distracted by kids in the back.

Men being impatient, aggressive and aggy.

People not driving to the speed limit (30 in a 60, new straight A road with excellent visibility) or doing ridiculous speeds down winding country lanes loved by cyclists and horse riders.

It's not just men, all demographics seem to have deteriorated the last few years. DH drives about 80 miles a day and most days comes in chuntering about idiots on the motorway. And I do about 10 miles a day and at least once a week see alldastupid.

I think what's happened is that people are driving less since the pandemic, so you have those that dawdle as they're not particularly in a rush to get somewhere. Also people are just damn ignorant.

I leave enough time that I don't need to rush or speed but even I get fed up or frustrated with people who won't move over but are doing below the limit (I do a lot of motorway driving). They sit in the middle lane meaning I have to go across two lanes to get past the lorry in front of me. The worst are those that get past the lorry but don't move over so there's a line of cars wanting to get past a lorry and it's spray.

I've also been a passenger in a 70mph crash so I'm also a careful driver and leave enough space to stop in an emergency but the amount of people who see it as a space to go into meaning I have to brake and slow down frustrates me and don't sit on my bumper because I quite like my life and am in the correct lane for my exit.

See, I totally agree with moving over, get yourself out the way of the idiot and less likely then to be involved in anything stupid they choose to do, that's common sense, but, it's them that chooses to do anything stupid, saying it's caused by someone else just offloads the responsibility away from the person choosing to be an idiot in the first place doesn't it?

I leave enough space to stop in an emergency but the amount of people who see it as a space to go into meaning I have to brake and slow down frustrates me

This!! People drive far too close and seem to have zero understanding of how much space they should leave between them and the car in front. Especially on motorways. I always try to leave a decent space but some car almost always pulls into it and I have to brake and then drop further back. My uncle and cousin were killed when a lorry went into the back of their car on the motorway (there was an accident ahead and the lorry was driving too close to them and although they stopped in time for the accident ahead, the lorry behind them didn't).

I just ignore them. But I've done advanced driving so I know they're the problem.
I've been flashed and had bad drivers up my backside for 25 years. I can read numbers and speed limits and manage to stick to them. Their points and blood pressure is their problem.

This happens a lot where I live! Recently I was stuck behind someone doing 30 in a 60 for 2 miles, who was overtaken by 4 cars in a row on the straight section. He beeped and flashed at every one 😂 clearly like many drivers on MN he believed his driving was fine and it was everyone around him with a problem…

I also got beeped at by someone in a 4x4 trying to leave a (very large and clearly lane marked roundabout). I was in lane 1 to exit, he also should have been in lane 1 to exit but inexplicably joined lane 3 (probably because there was no traffic there) then tried to cut across and beeped at me for having the audacity to exist in his road space…