To think some drivers shouldn't feel like they own the roads?

[AmIWhatAndWhy]

I've had a shit day anyway and just been down the road to the post box.

The roads here are brilliant, every junction has those bobbled bits and black posts with yellow stripes (not sure what they mean but I'd assume it's caution)

We were crossing a dead residential street just alongside a road with traffic at a standstill as we crossed a car started to turn in towards us and the woman was honking her horn like crazy (with full headlights blaring at us) I had DD in her buggy and DS was waling and they both got really puset and DS threw himself on the floor. The stupid woman kept honking, then revved her engine as I tried to pick DS up with one hand whilst holding onto the buggy with the other. I really felt like shouting at the awful woman.

yes - i own the road.

we own the roads as we have tax discs,

Yeah thanks for your input when you clearly haven't read the post.

nastiness abound today.

That actually sounds quite scary! What a stupid cow she was.

it was your right of way. Stupid woman hasn' t read her highway code. Tax disc is actually vehicle excise duty and gives you the right to operate a large machine on the road. Not to own it.
Bloody drivers.

It was scary, DS was on the pavement when we crossed for at least 5 minutes before I could coax him into walking and I could almost feel the people in the traffic jam staring at us.

Do those poles mean right of way for pedestrians then needmorecoffee?

no idea about the poles but if you are crossing a minor road then its your right of way over cars turning into it from major road if you are already on the minor road

Advive given to me when I was learning to drive: pedestrians always have right of way!

I've noticed that drivers are still going when the lights turn red. At least 4 or 5 cars go through every time now. Didn't used to be this bad.

They should address that sort of thing them nmc rather than installing speed bumps and speed cameras on roads where it is just not neccesary.

Round here, it appears that traffic merging onto a major road now has right of way (despite the road markings), and that if you don't immediately move into the other land or slow down do an emergency stop and let them in, you run the risk of being peeped at, being tailgated and having the finger flicked at you.

Is this a national thing? Has there been a change to the highway code recently?

lane not land

Some years ago now, I was walking the ds's home from school, when a driver decided he didn't want to wait in the traffic queue to turn left (there was one car ahead of him and the lights would have changed very shortly), so he tried to drive round the lefthand side of the car in front of him - over the pavement and right in front of my children!

He was quite surprised when I jumped in front of his car, banged on his bonnet and forced him to back up onto the road!! I also shared with him my thoughts on his driving, and told him to belt up his lo, who was in the back of the car unrestrained.

I'd have speed cameras on every road and fine any bugger who broke the speed limit.
And anyone who refused to stop at a zebra crossing. ffs, some days I wait for ages just to cross and they are meant to stop!

I would too, needmore. I don't have any sympathy at all for people who complain about being fined or having points. If you don't want them you know what to do.

I get so wound up about bad driving. There's what - approx 3000 people killed on our roads every day (including my 17 year old cousin, thanks to the woman who pulled out him front of him at a junction, not looking or slowing down), but we as a society seem to take a very blase attitude to speeding/talking on mobiles/tailgating/etc. A car is a machine that kills in the wrong hands.

every year, not day